DaveR wrote:
What's the best way to remove paint from red bricks?

Go back in time and throttle the fool who painted the brick.

Is it a reasonable DIY project or something for a professional?

Time travel is best left to the professionals, but you can do your part by
making sure no one you ever encounter thinks that you would ever approve
of painting brick. It's essentially permanant, tho you can, with huge
amounts of patience and diligence and effort and luck, get a whole lot of
it off: usually it's easier to knock out the bricks and start over if you
really want to get back to a bare brick finish.

What I have seen done that works fairly well is to paint the bricks brick
color. That is mix up some grey for the mortar lines, some dark red for
the brick face and try to match the surrounding brick or a pleasant enough
brick color. You can get real fancy by fisrt painting a slightly darker
shade and then going over it lightly with a slightly lighter color to make
the effect really be convicning, but you still have a painted surface to
maintian anstead of the maintenance free brick surface.



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