Home and Garden Blog

I understand that everyone out there doing their homes up will want to know the best way to strip down wood work ready for repainting or to have it stained and varnished. There are many ways to do this including using the services of a trained professional who use large vats of acid to remove the layers of paint left over the years.

More often than not the traditional methods included using a blowtorch and scraper to get the thicker surface layers off and then sandpaper of varying quality to show through to the wonderful grain underneath.

In today’s DIY conscious environment, we are introduced to many more chemical applications which may not have been available all those years ago. Much time and energy has gone into creating paint strippers that offer unbeatable performance when applied to your woodwork.

Quick efficient and affordable, products such as Nitromors and similar chemical strippers can be applied, left to work and then easily scraped off leaving very little residue and mess. However one of the main benefits to sending your wooden doors, skirting boards, tables etc to a professional paint stripper is that you won’t have to put up with the strong smelling agents and chemicals.