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UK General Cleaning Forum => General Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Ged on June 10, 2006, 11:24:40 pm

Title: removing paint from block paving
Post by: Ged on June 10, 2006, 11:24:40 pm

anyone got any suggestions as to the best way to remove old gloss paint  from block paving?
 
Ged

Title: Re: removing paint from block paving
Post by: Liahona on June 11, 2006, 09:15:46 am

High pressure alone should clean it ok but if not then add high heat to it as well. Sometimes I would

use a spiked roller to penetrate the surface of the paint and then it should fly off. What are you using

to clean it with now? Hot or cold and at what pressure? Best, Dave.

Title: Re: removing paint from block paving
Post by: Ged on June 11, 2006, 09:38:27 am

Hi

Using cold water machine 250 bar 16 litres a minute. tried cleaning with turbo, hit or miss sometimes does it most times only removes some .

Ged

Title: Re: removing paint from block paving
Post by: Liahona on June 11, 2006, 11:09:05 am

If you are using 250 bar, isnt that around the 3500 psi mark? I didnt know there was such a machine.

If that is the case you should be able to clean just about anything. At the moment I am using 1200 psi,

 very hot and clean most everything even if it takes me a little longer. Again try to break the surface of

the paint and you should be ok. At 3500 psi you will I am sure take off the top layer of the brick so the

paint should just vainsh along with it. Best, Dave.

Title: Re: removing paint from block paving
Post by: John Kelly on June 11, 2006, 04:13:34 pm

A little Nitromors brushed in and left for 20 minutes will shift it.

Title: Re: removing paint from block paving
Post by: keith b on June 11, 2006, 10:47:53 pm

Ged

Go to www.decoratingdirect.co.uk and look for "Peel away 1"