[Closed] Best paint stripper?

One of those aerosol air fresheners, apparently.

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Some places will do it for you by dipping (in caustic/sodium hydroxide) but you risk damaging the door. If you are doing it yourself then I'd go own brand paint stripper. read the ingredients and match them up. Nitromors is pretty much the same as Wickes own brand from memory.

depending on how much detail there is you may be better of with a chunky sander. This might be an approach to clean the flat sectinos anwyay then strip the details. Just be careful of the dust as older paints (underneath) will likely contain lead.

Nitromors is useless these days as the main ingredient was outlawed for public consumption. Find your local trade paint supplier. They can still get the good stuff and it'll be much cheaper (from personal experience) than whatever is in BnQ.

I got a litre of the stuff for a fiver and it makes the paint shrivel up and fall off.

Cougar - have you been on the pop already? :0)

Jonba - its a mirror so sanding isn't an option - it is carved nearly all the way around so will definitely need some kind of chemical stripper

Heat gun?

Shark - I was thinking I might need something caustic based which is what nitromors used to be I think - though as you say, that's not the case anymore.

molgrips - not to sure about a heat gun because of the glass.
Don't want to take the mirror apart.

Peelaway has been good for me , bit like cream cheese . Paste it on and cover with special paper stuff to keep it moist and slow down drying out , leave 12 24 48 as long as its still moist and the paint still on leave it some more . If you are lucky you will peel it away and DA DAAA if not re-apply where needed.

Paramose but not available for public use. Need to find a friendly trade supplier.

Damn, Cougar beat me to it.

I was thinking I might need something caustic based which is what nitromors used to be I think

Nitromors used to have dichloromethane in it. As of 2011 it doesn't. Bloody EU regulations.

Nitromors used to have dichloromethane in it. As of 2011 it doesn't. Bloody EU regulations.

Blow torch 😉

Always been a bit dubious, as my old man burnt the roof off our house she I was a kid...

That said, I've used them on boats, doors, inside and outside. The benefit is the level of control you have - you give it as little / much heat as necessary or as it can take

Don't want to take the mirror apart.

Any chemical stripper that will take the paint off the frame will probably strip the silvering off the back of the mirror too if it comes into contact (or at least the coating of paint thats sealing/protecting the silvering) - so take the mirror out of the frame if you can. If it really is victorian the 'silver' might be mercury too incidentally

Dichloromethane was banned, but as there really isn't an alternative it's still available. Synstryp from Starchem is methylene chloride[dichloromethane] based and works fine on car paints, I pay about twenty quid for five litres. I would give the Paramose stuff a miss, I bought a can, it had written on it "contains no nasty solvents, but has the appliance of science". Nope you want nasty toxic solvents.
Basically, don't breathe the vapor in and don't splash it all over yourself.

I knew a kid who worked in a junk shop on saturdays, they had most of a row of old empty shops. The shops were all full of old wooden doors. They had a big water tank full of heated caustic[a hot tank], it took the paint off, but it also took the soft grain back on some woods and took the glue out on some doors. My mate used to spend his days bodging up damaged doors so they could flog them.