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When the neighbour buys a fence paint sprayer....
« on: June 14, 2016, 01:44:10 pm »
Hi all , just picked up a new custy. He neighbour a few weeks ago kindly sprayed his fence panels with paint and sprayed the windows/ door and frames at the same time.
What is best to remove the paint? turps ? Ball ache of a job?

Also he wants all pvc restoring and doesn't mind the cost , what's best for this?
Cheers 👍

Ian Lancaster

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Re: When the neighbour buys a fence paint sprayer....
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2016, 04:01:14 pm »
Hi all , just picked up a new custy. He neighbour a few weeks ago kindly sprayed his fence panels with paint and sprayed the windows/ door and frames at the same time.
What is best to remove the paint? turps ? Ball ache of a job?

Also he wants all pvc restoring and doesn't mind the cost , what's best for this?
Cheers 👍

Find a gullible local shiner and sub it out ;D

Depends what the paint was, if it actually is paint then after a few weeks it's going to be well cured.  Turps won't touch it, if it was on timber you would have to use paint stripper.  Don't know what that might do to uPVC :o

If it's just timber preservative it might come off with some sort of solvent, but again you'd need to be very careful - try it on a bit of plastic where it won't show if the plastic melts.

andyM

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Re: When the neighbour buys a fence paint sprayer....
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2016, 04:51:55 pm »
I would try some cif on a damp cloth.
There's a good chance it will be water based paint I reckon and if so shouldn't be too hard to shift.
One of the Plebs

Re: When the neighbour buys a fence paint sprayer....
« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2016, 04:56:49 pm »
Thanks 😃

M & C Window Cleaning

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Re: When the neighbour buys a fence paint sprayer....
« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2016, 05:04:27 pm »
I can't get my head around the fact that some people can't see or don't care what will happen when you spray paint, wood preserver or timber oil around in a garden.  I've seen this a number of  times with customers and have experienced it three times myself with neighbours.  On the first occasion I had to 'T Cut' one entire side of my car after someone did a touch up job on their's on a windy day. I never did discover who it was. On another occasion, my mother in law almost had her year old patio door frames destroyed by her neighbour spraying his fence with Cuprinol, which is like re-branded creosote.  It was tough enough to get off the glass and near impossible to get off the frames by the time we discovered it. He managed to get a window fitter friend to come round with some sort of solvent that removed it.  They are white again but the nice finish has gone so they now look smeary even when you've cleaned and buffed them.

Smurf

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Re: When the neighbour buys a fence paint sprayer....
« Reply #5 on: June 14, 2016, 05:53:40 pm »
Don't you just love the diy tool geeks... got to have their man tools for the job . Oops! ;D ;D