Remove Paint From Slate Fireplace

A stained slate hearth can ruin the look of your fireplace and living room as slate is a porous type of rock that easily absorbs stains.

Remove paint from slate fireplace.

Holding a plastic scraper at a 45 degree angle remove paint from tile starting from an outside edge and working your way in. There is a stone facade over block. If you re just trying to remove a few paint spatters heat scraping and slate safe solvents are all options but if you re. There is a product in the uk called home strip which works really well i have used it to remove paint and varnish from stone fireplaces.

Sand the mantel lightly with fine to medium grit sandpaper. If stripping paint from wood is tedious stripping it from a brick or stone fireplace can only be described as more tedious. Often it will lift off quickly in satisfying strips. Remove as much paint as you can without scratching the slate.

Be careful not to sand through the bottom most layer of paint as any. Be patient when. Keep slate clean by understanding the proper way to take. Stone facade over block hearth with some of the paint removed with a gel stripper.

The mantel is the same material as the hearth. It is popular. That can make paint removal problematic because the metamorphic rock is too soft to clean with a pressure washer or sand blaster which are go to remedies for removing paint from brick and concrete and it scratches easily. I am concerned that there will be a residue of paint leftover.

The discoloration is where the brass doors had been. I believe the mantel and hearth are slate. If this us product is the same it should work and it is non toxic. We have used a stripper on the hearth and have had some succes.

Heat can also quickly remove paint from wood but not from stone.