A little Halloween project gone awry. Red paint splatters on flagstone.
Wife unhappy. How to get it off? I tried paint thinner - no effect.
Then I tried Circa 1852 paint stripper followed by hot water from a
garden hose. It lifted some of the paint but left most. Do I keep
going with the paint stripper or is there a better product/technique?

If it is "latex" paint, why not try some hot water of a pressure washer?

Mark

"hhk" wrote in message
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A little Halloween project gone awry. Red paint splatters on flagstone.
Wife unhappy. How to get it off? I tried paint thinner - no effect. Then
I tried Circa 1852 paint stripper followed by hot water from a garden hose.
It lifted some of the paint but left most. Do I keep going with the paint
stripper or is there a better product/technique?

hhk wrote:
A little Halloween project gone awry. Red paint splatters on flagstone.
Wife unhappy. How to get it off? I tried paint thinner - no effect.
Then I tried Circa 1852 paint stripper followed by hot water from a
garden hose. It lifted some of the paint but left most. Do I keep
going with the paint stripper or is there a better product/technique?
Let the other junk evaporate. Spray well with Formula 409, let it soak
and not dry for about an hour. Scrub with firm brush. Rinse with hot
water. 409 got dried acryllic off wood, formica, for a neighbor of ours
who gave his painter too much beer. Not much will get paint OUT OF (not
off of) concrete or stone. Good luck.

Get Goof-Off. There are a couple of products that use this name. Check the
Home Depot or Lowes paint department.
There may be some changes in the formula. I have an old can of it and it
will take of dry latex paint. In fact, they used to say that was how you
could tell if an old paint job was latex or oil. The Goof-off will remove
the latex but not the oil based paint.


Charlie

"Mark" wrote in message
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If it is "latex" paint, why not try some hot water of a pressure washer?

Mark

"hhk" wrote in message
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A little Halloween project gone awry. Red paint splatters on flagstone.
Wife unhappy. How to get it off? I tried paint thinner - no effect. Then
I tried Circa 1852 paint stripper followed by hot water from a garden
hose. It lifted some of the paint but left most. Do I keep going with the
paint stripper or is there a better product/technique?

"Norminn" wrote in message
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hhk wrote:
A little Halloween project gone awry. Red paint splatters on flagstone.
Wife unhappy. How to get it off? I tried paint thinner - no effect.
Then I tried Circa 1852 paint stripper followed by hot water from a
garden hose. It lifted some of the paint but left most. Do I keep going
with the paint stripper or is there a better product/technique?
Let the other junk evaporate. Spray well with Formula 409, let it soak
and not dry for about an hour. Scrub with firm brush. Rinse with hot
water. 409 got dried acryllic off wood, formica, for a neighbor of ours
who gave his painter too much beer. Not much will get paint OUT OF (not
off of) concrete or stone. Good luck.


After trying several cleaners and paint removers if there is still some
paint left stuck in the pores, you will need to etch it out. Since the
stone sounds like it is outside and thick and probably not sealed anymore, a
diluted mixture of muriatic acid (or some kinds of toilet cleaner with HCL
in it). This will dissolve a thin layer of the rock surface leaving a fresh
new clean rock in its place and all the remaining paint will fall off.

Don't use too much acid and flush with lots of water when you are done. HCL
will generally neutralize itself quickly on the ground due to the abundance
of stuff to react with.

hhk writes:
A little Halloween project gone awry. Red paint splatters on
flagstone. Wife unhappy. How to get it off? I tried paint thinner -
no effect. Then I tried Circa 1852 paint stripper followed by hot
water from a garden hose. It lifted some of the paint but left most.
Do I keep going with the paint stripper or is there a better
product/technique?

For Latex, try a product named Goof Off.

http://www.valspar.com/val/resident/goof-off.jsp

Paint thinners are typically for oil based paints. The old paint
stripper stuff likely was as well. The pressure washer idea wasn't a
bad one either.

--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

hhk wrote:
A little Halloween project gone awry. Red paint splatters on flagstone.
Wife unhappy. How to get it off? I tried paint thinner - no effect.
Then I tried Circa 1852 paint stripper followed by hot water from a
garden hose. It lifted some of the paint but left most. Do I keep
going with the paint stripper or is there a better product/technique?

I was pretty sure Goof-off only works on non-porous surfaces but I'm
willing to give it a shoot.

I'm going to rent an industrial strength pressure washer first. If that
doesn't work, I'll let it dry and then try the 409, then the Goof-off
and the muriatic acid last.

Thanks a bunch.

"hhk" wrote in message
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A little Halloween project gone awry. Red paint splatters on flagstone.
Wife unhappy. How to get it off? I tried paint thinner - no effect. Then
I tried Circa 1852 paint stripper followed by hot water from a garden hose.
It lifted some of the paint but left most. Do I keep going with the paint
stripper or is there a better product/technique?

Turn the stones over.

Steve ;-)

Latex paint does not respond to paint removers very well. On a
latex enamel removal job I had much better success with straight
lacquer thinner. It will soften it up enough remove. You might
need and old toothbrush or similar to get it out of the pores and
a final cleaning with a pressure washer.

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"hhk" wrote in message
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A little Halloween project gone awry. Red paint splatters on
flagstone. Wife unhappy. How to get it off? I tried paint
thinner - no effect. Then I tried Circa 1852 paint stripper
followed by hot water from a garden hose. It lifted some of the
paint but left most. Do I keep going with the paint stripper or
is there a better product/technique?

hhk writes:

hhk wrote:
A little Halloween project gone awry. Red paint splatters on
flagstone. Wife unhappy. How to get it off? I tried paint thinner
- no effect. Then I tried Circa 1852 paint stripper followed by hot
water from a garden hose. It lifted some of the paint but left
most. Do I keep going with the paint stripper or is there a better
product/technique?

I was pretty sure Goof-off only works on non-porous surfaces but I'm
willing to give it a shoot.

I'm going to rent an industrial strength pressure washer first. If
that doesn't work, I'll let it dry and then try the 409, then the
Goof-off and the muriatic acid last.

Pressure washer is the way to go.
You don't need industrial strength.
I'm sure my 1750PSI electric would do it.

clipped

After trying several cleaners and paint removers if there is still some
paint left stuck in the pores, you will need to etch it out. Since the
stone sounds like it is outside and thick and probably not sealed anymore, a
diluted mixture of muriatic acid (or some kinds of toilet cleaner with HCL
in it). This will dissolve a thin layer of the rock surface leaving a fresh
new clean rock in its place and all the remaining paint will fall off.

Don't use too much acid and flush with lots of water when you are done. HCL
will generally neutralize itself quickly on the ground due to the abundance
of stuff to react with.


I would paint over it before I would use muriatic. A neighbor in our
condo stained some furniture outdoors in a covered atrium, concrete
deck, dark brown stain. The condo board was rumbling, so I got out my
craft paint - acryllics in little $2 bottle from craft store, many
colors. The trick was to vary the color, not apply thick coat, and
feather it so it blends. Used a stencil brush, two colors, a base and a
lighter, to imitate concrete coloring. It's been pressure washed since
and it still hides the brown stain )

Alcohol is latex`s remover, a rag soaked with alcohol left to sit on the
paint will soften it then scrub with a brush and wash. then any low
pressure power washer will do. Goof off is expensive.

On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 14:18:56 -0500, hhk wrote:

A little Halloween project gone awry. Red paint splatters on flagstone.
Wife unhappy. How to get it off? I tried paint thinner - no effect.
Then I tried Circa 1852 paint stripper followed by hot water from a
garden hose. It lifted some of the paint but left most. Do I keep
going with the paint stripper or is there a better product/technique?

Portable sand blaster, if outside of course!


Oren



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and a natural deficiency in moral fiber, and that I am therefore
excused from saving Universes."

A little Halloween project gone awry. Red paint splatters on flagstone.
Wife unhappy. How to get it off? I tried paint thinner - no effect.
Then I tried Circa 1852 paint stripper followed by hot water from a
garden hose. It lifted some of the paint but left most. Do I keep
going with the paint stripper or is there a better product/technique?

Portable sand blaster, if outside of course!

That's where I'm headed. Today, I borrowed a pressure washer and it did
nothing. My neighbour across the street who restores planes came over and
said calmly, "I have a sand blaster in the shop you know." Great neighbour.
Gonna try that tomorrow.

Did you ever get it off? I don't have any idea if it will work or not, but
I would try a propane torch. Make darn sure the stone is dry or it will
likely shatter.

Product shill site. But thanks anyways.

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