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- From: smedley@newton.ccs.tuns.ca (Prof. Trevor Smedley)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
- Subject: Stripping and Painting Old Iron Radiators
- Summary: How to get the paint off?
- Keywords: radiators, paint, sandblasting
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.161541.16097@newton.ccs.tuns.ca>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 16:15:41 GMT
- Organization: Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax, N.S.
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- We have an old house with hot water heating using those big old iron
- radiators. Like everything else in the house they have been poorly
- painted half a dozen times, and the paint is flaking and peeling quite
- badly. What are the options for getting the old paint off and new
- paint on? A couple I've thought of are:
-
- 1) Strip them with paint stripper, a wire brush, sandpaper... The
- problem with this is that it's difficult to reach a lot of the
- radiator (near walls, nooks and crannies, etc.).
-
- 2) Remove them and send them off to a sandblasting shop to be blasted
- clean. Although this would certainly work well, I'm not too keen
- on ripping out 5 radiators, at about 200 lbs each.
-
- 3) Sandblasting them in place. I could build a temporary booth around
- each radiator to try to keep in the sand. The worry I have with
- this is the potential for filling the house with dust. I'm don't
- know how much dust is generated by sandblasting.
-
- Comments, suggestions?
-
- Trevor Smedley -- smedley@tuns.ca
- Technical University of Nova Scotia
- School of Computer Science
-