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Stripping

ecowash nz

New member
Hi guys we are based in New Zealand. We do a lot of general washing but our main line of work is timber restoration. When you guys are talking about stripping is it a chemical stripper or a surface cleaner that you are using to remove a stain? If the house has a stain and the client is requiring a oil application we chemically strip the old stain totally of the house. When the timber just silvered off over time we use a surface cleaner. What I would like to know is how do you guys apply the stripper, we use a pressure pot.
 

Florin Nutu

New member
Hi guys we are based in New Zealand. We do a lot of general washing but our main line of work is timber restoration. When you guys are talking about stripping is it a chemical stripper or a surface cleaner that you are using to remove a stain? If the house has a stain and the client is requiring a oil application we chemically strip the old stain totally of the house. When the timber just silvered off over time we use a surface cleaner. What I would like to know is how do you guys apply the stripper, we use a pressure pot.

Whats a pressure pot?
When you mention surface cleaner... are you talking about some type of solution or an actual concrete surface cleaner?

We use a shurflo pump setup or downstream to apply depending of the type of stain. We use F-18 or HD-80 wood strippers which are a sodium hydroxide based products.
 

The Cleaning Doctor

Contributing Member
A pressure pot allows you to set a bucket in it and you pressurise it with an air compressor and then you can spray from the spray gun. I have seen one used for spraying deck stain. Sweet setup.

The stripper is applied via a dedicated pump like Florin said and some even use a pump up sprayer.
 

Terry Miller

New member
Ecowash nz,
To answer your questions. Stripping is the chemical or physical removal from a substrate for re finishing or painting. We normally use a chemical stripper applied by pump us sprayer. Some more caustic then others. Some cleaners as F-18 may be downstreamed on concrete. It depends on what products we use. A few of us here are painters. Therefore most would not use a pressure pot. I hope this helps.
 

Damaris Sutton

New member
I was using ACR's products as well as a few others, but did not find it to work as well as I had liked to. It was not bad, but it just did not fit my mold. What I did was start some testing on some woods I have at home to kind of dial in my ratio numbers to get the outcome I liked.

The only time I ever used a pressure pot was with my HVLP. It worked out well for the kind of finish I was performing on high end new construction.

As far as applying strippers, if I can help it I will be DS it all the way, but ofcoarse every job has different issues to deal with. Can not apply the cookie cutter scenario to everything in this industry.
 
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