Paint Removal

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Repainting the interior surfaces of a home is one of the basic jobs in any effort to update or refresh. Particularly on doors and woodwork, after a number of coats of paint, those wood surfaces need to have the old paint removed before more is applied. For any items with layers of paint applied before approximately 1978, the presence of lead in the paint adds safety and disposal concerns. Although our focus is furniture, since we have an immersion stripping system which handles not only wood finishes but paint, we offer a complete paint removal service for any architectural items that can be brought to us. We have removed old paint from doors, mantles, columns, crown molding, shutters, filigree, stair rails, cabinets, balusters, louvers, windows, baseboard, steps, vent covers and more. Lest we mislead, we do not promise to remove 100% of the paint. We do remove better than 99%, but there may be a little left in corners or recesses.

Paint removal is much more difficult and time consuming than stripping old wood finishes and is consequently more expensive. For people who intend to repaint the items we strip, we do offer at a reduced price our paint removal service without the cleaning tank steps. We do not advise this for items which will be stained and finished because the wood may be discolored and stain unevenly. Although paint removal is more expensive than removing wood finishes, it is nevertheless well worth the extra expense and in some regards is economical. After spending many long hours using large quantities of stripping supplies with very unsatisfactory results and a mess of hazardous waste to deal with, many people have brought items to us to finish up. After seeing how clean items get with our process and how quickly they are completed, they have commented that our service was enormously time saving and not that much more expensive than the true cost of doing it themselves.