Remove Paint From Sandstone Fireplace

Tools for my fireplace refresh.

Remove paint from sandstone fireplace.

If your interior sandstone surfaces are not on the floor such as if you have a sandstone counter top use a dry towel or a small hand held brush to wipe. Chemical paint removers can cause health risks and lead based paint is a hazardous waste. Heat can also quickly remove paint from wood but not from stone. Here s how i restored this fireplace to its original beauty for just 300.

Paint may be exceedingly hard to remove from porous stone types especially where thickly applied historic paints have been used. Remove everything from the fireplace and from around the work area such as fireplace screens and tools and any decorative items. Determining my course of action for removing the paint from my fireplace took hours of online research. If stripping paint from wood is tedious stripping it from a brick or stone fireplace can only be described as more tedious.

Continue scrubbing until all paint is removed. Prepping the stone fireplace for painting is probably the most important part of doing the job right. Rub the surface of the stone with the steel wool to remove any residual traces of the paint. Removing paint will always cause some damage to the stone carry out a test patch first.

If you have a sandstone hearth or sandstone tiles on your floor sweep them off before doing a deep clean. After spending hours on google we concluded that removing paint from the fireplace was indeed possible. These strippers normally contain caustic soda or lye. Scrape away the softened paint with a scraper.

I find it easier to peel sections after a few days of rain but once it has started to dry out a bit then it seems to come off easily off the stone. My sandstone is quite old and crumbly so as time is going by it is getting easier to peel the paint but i am finding that the stone in generally is crumbling away a bit more. Rinse the stone by dipping a sponge into clean water. With will get rid of loose debris on the surface and will make cleaning easier.

Continue scraping the paint until most has been removed. Use painter s tape to mask around the mantle or any adjacent area that you want to remain paint free. Dip a piece of steel wool in the paint stripper. Sweep all loose dirt and debris off of the surface.

Paint strippers can etch the surface of the stone. Re polishing may be necessary.