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My flooring fitter finally resurfaced. His decorator had gone quiet and rather than tell me he just went quiet too. Anyway, back on course.
Decorator reckons the paint on the stairs will take a long while to strip and has plumped for nitromors. @Airhead Is this the sort of thing an infra red heat gun would make short work of...?
Plan is to strip and repaint the stairs, then have runner down the middle.
duncs-
That looks like my stairs - we chipped off the thicker paint with a scraper, pulled out/pushed in any nails and staples, sanded the steps to smooth them out then just painted over what was left. It looks ok from a distance but the wood wasn't great to begin with.
Sanding took ages. -
Yes it's exactly the kind of thing it does well. Scraping with a carbide scraper is an option but it's physical and takes a knack.
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to add to this, any decorator worth his salt would use an IR gun
nitromors is just dead time (for which you may be charged)
Dramatic_Hammer
Airhead
rive_gauche
The absolute best way to strip paint from wood is with an infra red heat gun. Nothing else comes close.
If you want to do it another way (god knows why) use a carbide scraper blade to remove as much as possible by hand then use a chemical paint stripper (Tensid is probably my favourite). Just don't do that though, buy an infra red heat gun you will not regret it. I have stripped paint using every method known to man over 30 years and I wish I'd had one 30 years ago.