Moved into an 1870´s house. Removing the paint (masses of coats) froma window frame and have encountered a blu tac like product which issticky when heated with a hot air paint gun but is brownish black andhard otherwise.A real problem to remove.What is it?How do I get rid of it easily?Adrian the exasperated!

I had this stuff on my soffit boards, under about 6 layers of paint, on my1939 semi.The advice given is good, use a straight scraper, I used a 2" wide one, heatup the work and get scraping. The trick is to have something available youcan clean the scraper with after each pass, as it builds up on the scraperand sets rapidly. I fancied it was some sort of undercoat, it doesn't lookas if it was ever transparent, but just a sort of dark brown glop; whoknows. Sand it afterwards to get a smooth finish.Andy.

In article , Rob Morley writes1. NT's Google posts have no References: headers, so are treatedcorrectly as new threads.2. Look at my headers: if you think Turnpike is broken, you're wrong.

What is this stuff under the paint.

Dec 10, 2004 26 Replies

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Tim S 21 years ago

Had this in a mid 1900's house. Or something that sounds very much like it.

Along with what others have recommended, I found that Ronstrip (or similar caustic soda type paste stripper[1] ) removed mine reasonably well, with the proviso that such stripper may raise the wood's grain.

[1] Made my own Ronstrip for the job from caustic soda (careful when adding that to water - it *can* blow up in your face as the act of dissolving caustic soda is *highly* exothermic. Go slow and check the temperature and wear goggles) and builder's lime. Not as good, but very cheap.

Timbo

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Mary Fisher 21 years ago

Didn't you know that he knows everything?

Or thinks he does ...

Mary

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N. Thornton 21 years ago

I would not be too quick to follow the advice given so far. Pine resin based wood treatment is especially effective, and any that is still sound I would want to leave in place.

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Mike Tomlinson 21 years ago

In article , N. Thornton writes

Could you please stop using Google Groups? It's seriously broken; your posts are showing up as new threads in my newsreader. A very good free news server can be found at .

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Rob Morley 21 years ago

It wouldn't matter so much if you weren't using a broken newsreader ;-)

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Mike Tomlinson 21 years ago

In article , Rob Morley writes

NT's Google posts have no References: headers, so are treated correctly as new threads.
Look at my headers: if you think Turnpike is broken, you're wrong.

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mike ring 21 years ago

Mike Tomlinson wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@jasper.org.uk:

Mine too, (Xnews) and if NT is a recent refugee from btinternet newsserver like me, individual's the place to go

mike

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