All rights reserved. Question about Peel Away Tags: Painting. We are using Peel Away 1 to remove about nine layers of paint some lead from the woodwork in our 80 year old house.
It is working like a dream - removes all the paint down to bare wood in one application - but how meticulous do we need to be when removing residue? We are following the directions, i. Any suggestions? You should have no problems with the paint peeling. Providing you also use a quality paint, preferably from a pro paint store. I used peel away and didn't remove all the residue or somehow I didn't neutralize it properly but when I painted on top of the wood a liquidy substance leached thru the paint.
Not sure why it happened but thought I'd share that with you. Yes not cleaning the residue properly can pose problems, it is a paint stripper. If you are still concerned after following the directions properly you can use water and a fine steel wool to remove any questionable residue. Be sure to wear dishwashing gloves as the steel wool can leave a tiny splinter or two. Chip, Thanks for the advice. Glad to help, let us now how it turns out.
An acrylic primer will compensate for any higgher level of pH that might still be left and will allow the surface to breather if there is still a little moisture inside. Hi, I really need help here, I have used peel away 1 on my staircase, worked a treat, ive washed down and removed all the peel away, lightly sanded, and primed the surface, and just finished putting on the second coat of satin wood paint, but have a patchy areas that look a yellow colour, then realised I hadn't neutralised, how can I fix this with out stripping the stairs again, will a stain blocker spray help????
I did the same thing! Wondering if I apply vinegar over the oil base primer and add another layer of acrylic primer will this work? It seeps moisture out every time it rains. It is awful.
To compound problems, this is on a wedding venue so we only have 5 days between events. We now know we should never had used peel away Any more tooth than that and you may find yourself having to fill and fair the bottom by troweling on epoxy and some sort of filler.
That means a lot of work, both in application and in sanding. It is possible to scrape the paint off with a good quality scraper. Occasional contributor Bill Seifert says he can clean the bottom of a footer in one day with a 1 Red Devil scraper. Scraping may be worth at least an experiment. If the paint sheds easily with one pass, perhaps youll go for it. But if it resists, as do the two oldest layers of bottom paint on Viva, our Tartan 44 test boat, wed resort to sanding at that point.
In any case, round the corners of the scraper so as not to gouge the hull, and keep a file handy for frequent sharpening. Which brings us back to the strippers. Still, this is a significant savings over a professional shotblasting. But youll pay the difference in sweat and hard labor.
There is no easy way to remove multiple paint layers; either you do the work, or pay someone else to do it for you. The others are opaque or colored gels.
All were applied with a disposable brush, though as mentioned, some can be sprayed. These in turn were taped into smaller sections. Each stripper was applied to the squares within its rectangle. After 30 minutes, we scraped the first section in each rectangle and noted the results.
Subsequent sections were scraped at 1 hour, 2 hours and at the maximum time duration specified for each product, which varied from 3 to 36 hours. The Results None of the products did much in the first 30 minutes. After one hour some paint was removable and after two hours a bit more. The results are noted in the accompanying chart. Some of the strippers began to harden after about four hours, making removal of the dried-out gel difficult.
They will, however, sand, but not always easily. Better to scrape away the stuff before it hardens and save the step and cost of an extra product. All of the strippers removed the three to four layers of black bottom paint on top, but not uniformly. None of the strippers penetrated the well-adhered blue and green bottom layers. A second application was required to get to gelcoat.
Part of the reason we believe is that Peel Away is by far the thickest paste and least likely to drip off. Both of these products require that you plaster a cellophane sheet provided over the product to keep the solvents from flashing off.
This keeps the paste from drying out and allows it to remain active longer. The other three do not provide a plastic film, nor would you want to with Dolphinite or Interstrip E as they should only be left on the hull a few hours and will still be moist at the end of that time.
After 24 hours, the Peel Away was still wet and active while the West Marine stripper had unexpectedly hardened under the plastic sheet. Because Peel Away removed the most paint and was the easiest to apply, it remains our winner.
Napier believes that if we had sprayed its product, as recommended, it would have performed better. Performance varies with ambient temperature and most stripper labels stipulate a minimum such as 50F. In our experience, and from what weve learned from other users, its much better to apply in temperatures of at least 65F and higher. Our test was conducted in 75F weather.
Gelcoat Damage? Just as we were beginning these tests, we noticed the owner of a neighboring boat using Peel Away on his newly purchased Nordic The bottom required two applications, and we winced as we watched him slather the paste onto the boats big bottom.
He had the stuff slopped all over him. Our first thought was that the gelcoat had been damaged earlier and hidden by bottom paint. What a sad surprise for the new owner! At this same time, we were testing yet a sixth stripper-MDRs Strip Away-sent to us by the company in response to a PS Advisor about removing cured varnish from non-skid fiberglass decks.
The Strip Away didnt work on Cetol which splatters horribly , but was somewhat effective on cured varnish. It didnt appear to harm the gelcoat but when we noticed some bare spots a few days later, we got nervous. This got us to thinking again about our neighbors Nordic 44 problem. Next time we saw him, we asked if the Peel Away had possibly eaten his gelcoat. He figured it had been damaged earlier and simply painted over. But I had some areas where the Peel Away had a tough time removing the paint, so I got some real nasty stuff and that did appear to damage the gelcoat, he said.
Checking Vivas hull again, we were disturbed to see that most of the strippers had continued penetrating the paint even after a liberal water rinse at the end of the test. He confirmed that in several places the gelcoat had been penetrated. Again, we were thankful not to have treated the entire hull. The damage was limited to areas no larger than a dollar bill and were not deemed serious.
Back at the office, we obtained a two- or three-year-old hatch cover, marked it off with tape, and applied all six strippers-the five tested on Vivas bottom plus MDRs Strip Away. Easy and safe to use: has very little odour and naturally degradable. Safer to use than traditional Methylene Chloride paint strippers.
The unique paste formulation works effectively on the most intricate projects. Effectively removes paints from woodwork, plaster, bricks, masonry and metal. It is non caustic and does not burn skin in the event of accidental contact. Test on unskimmed drywall. Always carry out a test patch first. We can not state enough how important it is to carry out a test patch before general use. The size of the test patches will depend on the subject matter, but as a guide they should be from 75 x 75mm up to x mm.
Rub gently to remove air, pierce bubbles where necessary. For areas involving different elevations several test patches should be applied to accommodate the possibility of different coatings and the effects of weather on exterior surfaces. To remove, the spatula should be inserted into the paste and a section gently lifted away. If the original surface is apparent, the test patch can be removed and the surface wiped with a damp sponge.
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