Bartoline 55878765 2.5L TX10 Paint and Varnish Stripper

You need to allow time on paint as it not like old paint strippers that had stronger chemicals but worse for voc and environment. Did the job eventually.

The best paint stripper I've ever seen, easy to use, doesn't smell horrific, took the paint off and ancient door no problem. Only thing is follow the instructions and only leave it for an hour, left the first lot over night, as that's what I used to do with the old stuff, this stuff if left turns to a gloop that's hard to remove. But you can just apply more paint stripper, then your scraper will slide right though the paint/gloop.

It might take a couple of applications if it's paint which has been smudged in as opposed to paint which has just been applied normally but it will shift it. I've been really pleased with how well it's helped clean up my stairs that I'm slowly renovating. As I have cats I've covered the stairs with baking paper taped down whilst it's been left to work and just popped the heating on to help the process but it does work. I used sugar soap and a wire brush and scraper to remove it, the wire brush just helps shift the last hold out areas and then I've sanded the stairs down after to give everything a nice smooth finish. I'm not done yet but I am happy with the results so far. 4 stars because it has taken a couple of go overs on some of the stairs.

Apparently this has it's limitations. It does strip SOME paint but it's very weak. They are misleading in their description of it's implied effectiveness. Whatever the paint was that I wanted stripped resisted this stuff almost completely. It clearly has more effect on some paints than others... I feel they are obliged to make this clear yet they choose not to. I cannot recommend this product.

Used on a metal garage door where the paint had started to peel. I was not too hopeful that any paint-lifting product would be effective on metal paint or, if it were, that the removal of the resulting softened paint would be arduous. I followed the instructions for a small test area but didn't really leave enough time for the second coat to work. I was impressed - but still had to work a bit in scraping off the residue - although it got easier towards the end of the task as time had passed. For the remainder of the door, I left the first coat to work for a full 90 minutes before adding the second coat and leaving it for a similar time. I was frankly amazed at how completely the paint was lifted! In many cases I was peeling off a full square foot with ease. I didn't even need to follow up with sandpaper - it all came off like the skin off a rice pudding. Pictures show the door after the second coat had been given time to work - and the final result about an hour later!