Find your dream home is often difficult. Get your new home to look perfect even more difficult, especially if the previous owner painted the fireplace in a very disgusting color. The former owners may have painted and painted the brick fireplace in your home into layers of different colors. But there is no reason to panic as removing old paint from the brick chimney has been simplified. Try one of the methods proposed below to get the red brick home of charm and grace of your living room.
The most common methods to remove paint from brick chimneys. Some of the most popular methods to remove paint from brick chimneys are as follows.
Sand / Grit Blasting
Sandblasting is the most common of all paint or other substances used in brick or other surfaces. The process works the same way as sandpaper. The only difference is that the blasting is mechanized. It involves the use of sandblasting equipment, which blow up the solid particles from the surface of materials at high speed to leave them a smooth, shape and cleanliness. Previously, this method involved the use of only sand. Today, it works really well blasting balls of metal, steel grit, glass beads, dry ice, walnut and coconut shells, etc. This method is very effective, but can be very confusing because of the layers of dust settling in every corner of your home. So make sure you cover all the furniture and goggles before beginning this process.
Heat Guns
Heat guns should be used with caution as they tend to work better with new bricks, and can be harmful if used on bricks and mortar, more than three decades. Heat guns generate large amounts of heat, which can easily melt the paint surface. The liquid coating can then be easily removed from the surface to reveal the underside of the brick home. Be careful not to concentrate the heat gun nozzle at a time too long, it does not damage the surface.
Paint removers
There are chemical solutions or biodegradable paint removal that are readily available on the market. The most popular are made from naturally grown soybeans, chemicals or lemon are known for their effective properties of paint removal.
Procedure for the use of paint strippers
* One of the painted surface is perfectly clean with soap, water and a brush before you start. Make sure the surface is completely dry before applying the solution.
* Current techniques require removal of the paint to apply a new coat of paint stripper for each coat of paint on the original surface.
* When the layer of solution is applied, one of which is connected to a widescreen resolution level. Leave the fabric's surface for the prescribed number of minutes. Later, the tissue can be removed to reveal brick below the surface.
* Cloth to remove most of the pictorial surface. However, you may need to use a wire brush to paint in some corners of the patch, or some rough plaster.
* Be sure to use the neutralizing solution on the surface of a chimney, when it was removed all the paint. These neutralizing agents are available supermarket near you.
Artificial Brick Watch
This method may seem a bit ironic, but it is chosen by many people who want an original look for their brick chimneys. You can actually paint their homes by the color of brick home.
To save a lot of expenses, first try the method chosen by you in a way not prominent, less sensitive area of the chimney. This will help you understand how the method works. And my last suggestion to you is to go to a method that is safe and economically viable.