none wrote:
Hi

My yorkshire-stone, terraced house has a wooden front door with a stone
'pillar' on each side of the door and a stone slab above the door to
prevent rain falling on the house owner when he is trying to lock/open
the front door.

The previous owner has painted both stone 'pillars' with a gloss paint
to match the colour of the gutters. In places the paint has peeled off,
in other places a little bit of crumbly stone has burst through the paint.

I would like to remove this paint as I dont think it is good for the
stone. Can I use a blow torch or should I wait for it to fall off
naturally? The bottom foot of paint has fallen off but the rest looks
pretty well stuck on 8(


Gloss should lift easily off stone with a blowtorch but I'd avoid the
gas type which can "bake" things on and make them more difficult to
remove. Can you still get paraffin blowtorches other than in antique
shops?