©2008-9 www.architectural-antiques.info All Rights Reserved. Web Design By F.T.W Productions : Part of the Y.K.I.A.C. Group. Hosted by vodahost.
ARCHITECTURAL-ANTIQUES.INFO
07976 254 982
0845 3984 364
Welcome to architectural-antiques.info
Hold down, Ctrl and D to add us favourites
Find
Pine Stripping, Shot blasting, Floor sanding
and Metal polishing etc, in your local area.
Click Here
Pine Stripping, Shot blasting, Floor sanding
and Metal polishing etc, in your local area.
Click Here
There are two main ways to strip paint from your architectural fittings, one is to do it yourself, the second is to have it professionally done.
If the items you want stripping can be removed or aren't fixed to the house, it's probably easier to take them to the pine strippers e.g. doors, and replacement cast iron fireplaces etc.There are companies that do in-situ paint stripping these are quite rare and they have to charge you by the hour and paint stripping is very labor-intensive.
On this page I'll talk about the two main types of professional chemical stripping:
The first one, and the most commonly used is caustic soda in a tank, lots of people say the stripping tank is an acid bath, in fact it's totally the opposite, caustic soda is an alkaline, it still burns like hell, as it's highly corrosive, but it's not acid, therefore it doesn't eat your doors.
You can strip all types of metal in the caustic soda tank, cast iron, steel, Copper, brass etc, Metals can be stripped in a cold tank, there is no risk of damage as these metals obviously aren't porous and the heating only accelerates the stripping process. Please note you can't strip any aluminium alloys with a caustic stripping tank, it will damage it.
Pine doors, windows, furniture and woodwork also stripp really well, but these must be done in a hot tank, or there is a good chance the items will be damaged.
One of the most common asked questions is: does it loosen the joints or warp the doors. The answer is no, not if it's done properly, the only problems you may find is that on some furniture, the wooden blocks they used in the construction were glued with animal glue, and these can come off through the temperature of the liquid, also if the wood has lots of woodworm or rot and is soft, it may take forever to dry out, saying that, if it has a average amount of woodworm, it will kill the woodworm and prevent re-infestation.
If the items you want stripping can be removed or aren't fixed to the house, it's probably easier to take them to the pine strippers e.g. doors, and replacement cast iron fireplaces etc.There are companies that do in-situ paint stripping these are quite rare and they have to charge you by the hour and paint stripping is very labor-intensive.
On this page I'll talk about the two main types of professional chemical stripping:
The first one, and the most commonly used is caustic soda in a tank, lots of people say the stripping tank is an acid bath, in fact it's totally the opposite, caustic soda is an alkaline, it still burns like hell, as it's highly corrosive, but it's not acid, therefore it doesn't eat your doors.
You can strip all types of metal in the caustic soda tank, cast iron, steel, Copper, brass etc, Metals can be stripped in a cold tank, there is no risk of damage as these metals obviously aren't porous and the heating only accelerates the stripping process. Please note you can't strip any aluminium alloys with a caustic stripping tank, it will damage it.
Pine doors, windows, furniture and woodwork also stripp really well, but these must be done in a hot tank, or there is a good chance the items will be damaged.
One of the most common asked questions is: does it loosen the joints or warp the doors. The answer is no, not if it's done properly, the only problems you may find is that on some furniture, the wooden blocks they used in the construction were glued with animal glue, and these can come off through the temperature of the liquid, also if the wood has lots of woodworm or rot and is soft, it may take forever to dry out, saying that, if it has a average amount of woodworm, it will kill the woodworm and prevent re-infestation.
You hear all these horror stories about pine stripping, if it was that bad, why would you have hundreds of antique dealers up and down the country using this method. To have a good paint stripping tank, you must keep your caustic fresh and heat your tank really hot and keep it that way, and this costs a lot of money, but the doors aren't in the tank for long periods at a time.When you get a recession or so called "credit crunch" it seems that every builder, plumber and who ever hasn't got a lot of work on, sets up a tank in his shed, after a while the caustic is old, he's getting a bad name and not much work coming in, and can't afford to heat the tank properly so the doors are submerged in the tank for half a day or even more, and the doors are ruined. At the end of the recession, they get back in their Transit van with a bish, bash, bosh, "loads of money" attitude, and we're left with "doesn't it loosen the joints and warp the doors".
Always go to an established company with some history !
Check out our directory of established pine strippers here.
What can be caustic stripped:
Metals: strip really well especially fireplaces, gates and ornate items as the caustic liquid can reach everywhere, but caustic doesn't remove rust.
Pine: strips great, such as doors, chest of drawers, cupboards, chairs, skirting boards, architraves, window frames and floorboards etc.
Beech: strips really well, mainly used for chairs.
Oak, elm, walnut: strips well, but does tend to go slightly darker than the wood in it's natural state with a greyish tinge, but when sanded and stained, looks great.
Satinwood: normally very good.
Thin plywood and veneer: it's down to you and the stripper to decide, it can be done but you have to keep an eye on it all the time as it can start to lift off.
What can't be caustic stripped:
Modern water based acrylic paint.
Modern acrylic primer: the topcoats of paint strip off ok, but the undercoat doesn't strip off, so you may have to sand it off with a palm sander.
Some modern acrylic and two pack melamine based varnishes.
Aluminium alloys: starts to age it, then goes furry and then makes pitts in it, then you have to scoop it up in a ladle. Oops!
Mirrors: only if you want it to become a peice of glass.
Ornate architectural mouldings made from plaster or guesso: porridge any one ?
Chipboard and hardboard: these will disintegrate.
Always go to an established company with some history !
Check out our directory of established pine strippers here.
What can be caustic stripped:
Metals: strip really well especially fireplaces, gates and ornate items as the caustic liquid can reach everywhere, but caustic doesn't remove rust.
Pine: strips great, such as doors, chest of drawers, cupboards, chairs, skirting boards, architraves, window frames and floorboards etc.
Beech: strips really well, mainly used for chairs.
Oak, elm, walnut: strips well, but does tend to go slightly darker than the wood in it's natural state with a greyish tinge, but when sanded and stained, looks great.
Satinwood: normally very good.
Thin plywood and veneer: it's down to you and the stripper to decide, it can be done but you have to keep an eye on it all the time as it can start to lift off.
What can't be caustic stripped:
Modern water based acrylic paint.
Modern acrylic primer: the topcoats of paint strip off ok, but the undercoat doesn't strip off, so you may have to sand it off with a palm sander.
Some modern acrylic and two pack melamine based varnishes.
Aluminium alloys: starts to age it, then goes furry and then makes pitts in it, then you have to scoop it up in a ladle. Oops!
Mirrors: only if you want it to become a peice of glass.
Ornate architectural mouldings made from plaster or guesso: porridge any one ?
Chipboard and hardboard: these will disintegrate.
CAUSTIC PAINT STRIPPING
Hold down, Ctrl and D to add us favourites
Another way of paint stripping is a lot easier for me to explain, as I've never used it or don't know a great deal about this process, most people call it power stripping. This process uses a pumping system, the items to be stripped are placed on the work area and a paint stripping chemical, similar to that of Nitromors is pumped through a hose onto the item through a brush, the paint and the excess stripping chemical is reclaimed and filtered through a reservoir tank.
What can be power stripped:
Most items:
Thin plywood and veneer
Pine, Beech, Oak, elm, walnut, Mahogany, Satinwood, Aluminium
What can't be power stripped:
Doesn't remove rust.
Mirrors: only if you want it to become a peice of glass.
Ornate architectural mouldings made from plaster.
Most items:
Thin plywood and veneer
Pine, Beech, Oak, elm, walnut, Mahogany, Satinwood, Aluminium
What can't be power stripped:
Doesn't remove rust.
Mirrors: only if you want it to become a peice of glass.
Ornate architectural mouldings made from plaster.
Hold down, Ctrl and D to add us favourites
PAINT AND PINE STRIPPING
Cast In Style
have an offer on !
If you click on the banner and buy
enter this code:
AFWIN
at the check-out
you will get 10%
off all orders
or AFWIN5 for:
£5 off any order
over £50
Valid until
2009-12-30
have an offer on !
If you click on the banner and buy
enter this code:
AFWIN
at the check-out
you will get 10%
off all orders
or AFWIN5 for:
£5 off any order
over £50
Valid until
2009-12-30
Check out our directory of established pine strippers here.
