Removing plaster of a little baroque castle in Bohemia

Are the original paintings required to show? If so, then it will be a long delicate job, and you'd be well advised to consult with conservation experts. In Britain, medieval wall paintings are often subject to preservation orders, and you can get grants to help conserve them, and can be in real trouble if you're found damaging them, even accidentally.

You might want to speak to the local equivalent of our National Trust, or even our National Trust, as they own many properties of this age, and I've found them friendly in the past.

The OP isn't a native English speaker, I wondered whether "paintings" means "paint". Whether it's paintings or not, at that age, surely what's been put on top will be some sort of lime wash (although it may have all sorts of things in it). The answer to removing multiple layers of lime wash IME is to get it very very wet, and eventually it falls off.

In message , bicbic writes

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Well, he's asking the same question in a different way in another thread now, and implies there that he wants the original paint to remain.

Lots of water and a scrubbing brush will get limewash off, but he doesn't say what type of paint he's trying to remove, it could well be modern emulsion or gloss. The problem with water and scrubbing is that it may well take off the original paint as well.

Thanks for the replies I am the artist restorer so all that is taken care of . When the layers of paint which range from white wash to oil based have been removed only a shadow of the paintings are left .ie. when the first coat was done they gave it a good rub down and so that which stained the plaster is all that is left . I need an electric painrt scraper so please anyone out there with experience do let me know which are the best . There are some fairly cheap ..about 45 quid ..on ebay . Would these do the trick as I only want to go quite slowly.

Agreed

Ah yes, the big boy's angle grinder

:-)

May have changed model numbers around but Bosch is the next big name competitor to the Fein Multimaster , tools are pretty much interchangeable between all the oscillating multitool brands by use of adaptor plates.

Cheers Adam

The Fein offering, or the Bosch, can hardly be described as paint scrapers - they're more cutting tools.

For accurate work you can't really beat a combination of a 1" scraper and a holder for various scalpel blades - oh - and lots of loving time.

Forget electrical gadgets, which just take away the necessary artistic skills!

Give me a break..if you saw how much i have to do !! Please give me a list of tools that would do the job