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Hi, I've built an extension and an outside wall is now inside. I want
to paint the wall white. The wall has been painted by the previous
owners with some thick black bitumen paint.

Trying to remove some using a wire brush on a drill or a 4" grinder
does remove some of it but leaves a smear that can be removed quite
well with a rag and some petrol!

There is a quite alot of this wall so:
do I need to remove this stuffbefore painting?
if I do, is there a quicker/better way than wire brushing?

Thank you

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Hi, I've built an extension and an outside wall is now inside. I want
to paint the wall white. The wall has been painted by the previous
owners with some thick black bitumen paint.

Trying to remove some using a wire brush on a drill or a 4" grinder
does remove some of it but leaves a smear that can be removed quite
well with a rag and some petrol!

There is a quite alot of this wall so:
do I need to remove this stuffbefore painting?
if I do, is there a quicker/better way than wire brushing?

Thank you


Job from hell. Nitromors type strippers work well, and aren't that dear
if you buy in bulk from a trade supplier, but the fumes will kill you
indoors.
ISTR that pliolite paints have reasonable adhesion to bitumen but you'd
need to check with
http://www.johnstonestrade.com/
or similar.
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On 3 Aug, 10:36, nafuk wrote:

Hi, I've built an extension and an outside wall is now inside. I want
to paint the wall white. The wall has been painted by the previous
owners with some thick black bitumen paint.

Trying to remove some using a wire brush on a drill or a 4" grinder
does remove some of it but leaves a smear that can be removed quite
well with a rag and some petrol!

There is a quite alot of this wall so:
do I need to remove this stuffbefore painting?
if I do, is there a quicker/better way than wire brushing?

Thank you


Almost nothing sticks to bitumen, so you need to either remove it or
blind it. Paraffin dissolves it, so if you can wipe it off ok then
paraffin's your thing.


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Hi, I've built an extension and an outside wall is now inside. I want
to paint the wall white. The wall has been painted by the previous
owners with some thick black bitumen paint.

Trying to remove some using a wire brush on a drill or a 4" grinder
does remove some of it but leaves a smear that can be removed quite
well with a rag and some petrol!

There is a quite alot of this wall so:
do I need to remove this stuffbefore painting?
if I do, is there a quicker/better way than wire brushing?

Thank you


Coat the stuff in paraffin and immediatly use a power washer on it,you might
have to repeat the process a couple of times but it takes the pain out of
doing it rigoressly.


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Hi, I've built an extension and an outside wall is now inside. I want
to paint the wall white. The wall has been painted by the previous
owners with some thick black bitumen paint.

Trying to remove some using a wire brush on a drill or a 4" grinder
does remove some of it but leaves a smear that can be removed quite
well with a rag and some petrol!

There is a quite alot of this wall so:
do I need to remove this stuffbefore painting?
if I do, is there a quicker/better way than wire brushing?

Thank you


Coat the stuff in paraffin and immediatly use a power washer on it,you might
have to repeat the process a couple of times but it takes the pain out of
doing it rigoressly.


Should be fun indoors


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George wrote:
"nafuk" wrote in message
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Hi, I've built an extension and an outside wall is now inside. I want
to paint the wall white. The wall has been painted by the previous
owners with some thick black bitumen paint.

Trying to remove some using a wire brush on a drill or a 4" grinder
does remove some of it but leaves a smear that can be removed quite
well with a rag and some petrol!

There is a quite alot of this wall so:
do I need to remove this stuffbefore painting?
if I do, is there a quicker/better way than wire brushing?

Thank you


Coat the stuff in paraffin and immediatly use a power washer on it,you

might
have to repeat the process a couple of times but it takes the pain out

of
doing it rigoressly.


Should be fun indoors


I'm going on the assumption of as he has just built the extension it will be
still the barebones of concrete floor and bricks and mortar. :-P


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George wrote:
"nafuk" wrote in message
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Hi, I've built an extension and an outside wall is now inside. I want
to paint the wall white. The wall has been painted by the previous
owners with some thick black bitumen paint.

Trying to remove some using a wire brush on a drill or a 4" grinder
does remove some of it but leaves a smear that can be removed quite
well with a rag and some petrol!

There is a quite alot of this wall so:
do I need to remove this stuffbefore painting?
if I do, is there a quicker/better way than wire brushing?

Thank you

Coat the stuff in paraffin and immediatly use a power washer on it,you

might
have to repeat the process a couple of times but it takes the pain out

of
doing it rigoressly.


Should be fun indoors


I'm going on the assumption of as he has just built the extension it will be
still the barebones of concrete floor and bricks and mortar. :-P



Hope so. It's going to get quite messy by the sound of it :-)
I once stripped a whole gable end wall with paint stripper (15 litres in
all IIRC), which was much faster and easier than I thought. The paint
came off cleanly in 4" strips and could just be swept up dry at the end
of the day.
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On 3 Aug, 19:39, Stuart Noble wrote:
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George wrote:
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Hi, I've built an extension and an outside wall is now inside. I want
to paint the wall white. The wall has been painted by the previous
owners with some thick black bitumen paint.


Trying to remove some using a wire brush on a drill or a 4" grinder
does remove some of it but leaves a smear that can be removed quite
well with a rag and some petrol!


There is a quite alot of this wall so:
do I need to remove this stuffbefore painting?
if I do, is there a quicker/better way than wire brushing?


Thank you


Coat the stuff in paraffin and immediatly use a power washer on it,you

might
have to repeat the process a couple of times but it takes the pain out

of
doing it rigoressly.


Should be fun indoors


I'm going on the assumption of as he has just built the extension it will be
still the barebones of concrete floor and bricks and mortar. :-P


Hope so. It's going to get quite messy by the sound of it :-)
I once stripped a whole gable end wall with paint stripper (15 litres in
all IIRC), which was much faster and easier than I thought. The paint
came off cleanly in 4" strips and could just be swept up dry at the end
of the day.


Thank you for the replies. It is still bare bones. Does anyone know if
there is a paint stripper that will deal with bitumen paint? Otherwise
it the angle grinder wire brush and paraffin, and a lot of time.
Cheers

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On 3 Aug, 19:39, Stuart Noble wrote:
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George wrote:
"nafuk" wrote in message
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Hi, I've built an extension and an outside wall is now inside. I want
to paint the wall white. The wall has been painted by the previous
owners with some thick black bitumen paint.
Trying to remove some using a wire brush on a drill or a 4" grinder
does remove some of it but leaves a smear that can be removed quite
well with a rag and some petrol!
There is a quite alot of this wall so:
do I need to remove this stuffbefore painting?
if I do, is there a quicker/better way than wire brushing?
Thank you
Coat the stuff in paraffin and immediatly use a power washer on it,you
might
have to repeat the process a couple of times but it takes the pain out
of
doing it rigoressly.
Should be fun indoors
I'm going on the assumption of as he has just built the extension it will be
still the barebones of concrete floor and bricks and mortar. :-P

Hope so. It's going to get quite messy by the sound of it :-)
I once stripped a whole gable end wall with paint stripper (15 litres in
all IIRC), which was much faster and easier than I thought. The paint
came off cleanly in 4" strips and could just be swept up dry at the end
of the day.


Thank you for the replies. It is still bare bones. Does anyone know if
there is a paint stripper that will deal with bitumen paint? Otherwise
it the angle grinder wire brush and paraffin, and a lot of time.
Cheers


Any stripper in a metal can should do it. Whether it will lift in quite
the same way paint does I'm not sure. Get a small can from one of the
sheds and try it.
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On 3 Aug, 19:39, Stuart Noble wrote:
George wrote:
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George wrote:
"nafuk" wrote in message
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Hi, I've built an extension and an outside wall is now inside. I want
to paint the wall white. The wall has been painted by the previous
owners with some thick black bitumen paint.
Trying to remove some using a wire brush on a drill or a 4" grinder
does remove some of it but leaves a smear that can be removed quite
well with a rag and some petrol!
There is a quite alot of this wall so:
do I need to remove this stuffbefore painting?
if I do, is there a quicker/better way than wire brushing?
Thank you
Coat the stuff in paraffin and immediatly use a power washer on it,you
might
have to repeat the process a couple of times but it takes the pain out
of
doing it rigoressly.
Should be fun indoors
I'm going on the assumption of as he has just built the extension it will be
still the barebones of concrete floor and bricks and mortar. :-P

Hope so. It's going to get quite messy by the sound of it :-)
I once stripped a whole gable end wall with paint stripper (15 litres in
all IIRC), which was much faster and easier than I thought. The paint
came off cleanly in 4" strips and could just be swept up dry at the end
of the day.


Thank you for the replies. It is still bare bones. Does anyone know if
there is a paint stripper that will deal with bitumen paint? Otherwise
it the angle grinder wire brush and paraffin, and a lot of time.
Cheers

Pressure washer?


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replying to nafuk, plasterken wrote:
diesel oil melts it, then use low odour white spirits to mop up ( when diesel
is spilt on roads it turns it to sugar effect a0

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On Friday, 3 August 2007 10:36:09 UTC+1, nafuk wrote:
Hi, I've built an extension and an outside wall is now inside. I want
to paint the wall white. The wall has been painted by the previous
owners with some thick black bitumen paint.

Trying to remove some using a wire brush on a drill or a 4" grinder
does remove some of it but leaves a smear that can be removed quite
well with a rag and some petrol!

There is a quite alot of this wall so:
do I need to remove this stuffbefore painting?
if I do, is there a quicker/better way than wire brushing?

Thank you


Hire a sand blaster.
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On Wednesday, 17 August 2016 01:14:03 UTC+1, plasterken wrote:
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diesel oil melts it, then use low odour white spirits to mop up ( when diesel
is spilt on roads it turns it to sugar effect a0


I suspect after 9 years he wouldn't need this advice.
Do yourself a favour:
http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php/Home_owners_hub


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replying to tabbypurr, Heather wrote:
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huh?
Good old home shower fclub foot and its lack of quoting and dodgy dating
strikes again.
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On Thursday, 31 August 2017 17:14:06 UTC+1, Heather wrote:
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What kind of paint stripper did you use please?

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