Removal paint from wood
how to prepare wood for a new painting
Removing the old cracked paint from a window or furniture is an operation you may face.
We can use different strategies, simply use sandpaper and scrapers or use specific chemicals.

In the case of chemicals:
- With a scraper we remove the already detached parts of paint
- We clean well from dust
- We apply the special paint stripper
- Let's act and then with the scraper we remove the detached paint
- We repeat the operation for the parts not completely detached

In the case of sandpaper:
- We eliminate the already detached parts
- Using a sander we remove the still-attached paint using thinner glass sheets
- We can help in the separation with a special hot air gun

Hot air gun
It's a sort of very powerful hairdryer with metal nozzles.
The different thermal expansion of the paint compared to the layer to which it is applied helps detachment.
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