Ready-Strip.. Anyone Used?

JohnDucan

Boss man once again taking jobs doing stuff we normally don't do and passing it off to me to just get done. Customer has some Base and crown molding in a study that they have had pulled down and want to strip off the previous owners paint job and just repaint white. I guess there is matching trim on all the built-ins so they want to reuse this if they can.

The carpenter on our current job told me about ReadyStrip, and said he used it and it was great. He said he used the Pro verison that he picked up at SW. Said no smell, and other than a mess it worked very well.

Curious if anyone has used it, and their thoughts. Not that I don't trust this guy, but his opinion of it working well might be different from a painters.

Thanks guys

JohnDucan

Hm.. Ok I guess no one has used Ready-Strip..

Any recommendations on a decent stripper then? Got a chance to see the trim. Looks it is Latex over Oil..

JMGP

Ready Strip is good... use the pro vrsion or higher...

slickshift

As the labor to (take down and) put up stripped primed and painted molding is the same as putting up new primed and painted molding, and the cost of the new molding is almost always less than the cost of stripping it (with historical or odd custom molding excluded), it's almost never worth the effort/expense to strip it

If I had to strip it, for whatever reason, I'd drop it off at a (furniture) strippers
They'll dip it and be done with it
Well worth paying them to do it

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Originally Posted by ModernStyle I have never used this crap before and I pray to the paint gods that I never have to use it again, I would rather use Behr