Citri-Strip QCG73801T Paint and Varnish Stripping Gel, 1-Quart
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Product Details
Manufacturer: Citri-StripModel: QCG73801T
Product features:
- A powerful, industrial-strength remover
- Easy to use because it stays wet and active for up to 24 hours, allowing stripping of multiple layers
- Contains no methylene chloride, is non-caustic, and is safe for indoor use
- Special orange stripper has a pleasant citrus scent and is biodegradable
- Wide range of applications, remove latex and oil-based paint, varnish, lacquer, and more
Tools and Hardware Reviews of Citri-Strip QCG73801T Paint and Varnish Stripping Gel, 1-Quart
Customer Review: Not for everything - certainly not concrete blocks!
Summary: 2 Stars
Citristrip Gel - Smells good, easy to apply, sure does loosen the paint up. But be forewarned: I don't care what it says on the label - this is NOT for use on masonry. I repeat NOT FOR MASONRY. Not because it won't take the paint off the masonry, but because once it's free of the masonry you can't get it off.
Let me explain. I bought Citristrip to take a single layer of latex paint off of a section of basement wall (concrete cinder block) so I could seal it with a hydraulic cement coating. I applied Citristrip and found it to be easy to use, easy to apply, and low-fuming, just as advertised. I came back 4 hours later, and it had sure loosened the paint right off - if it had been on wood, or some other kind of surface, I'm sure this would be golden. But it's not.
As soon as I touched it, I smacked myself on the forehead for being dumb. Concrete is porous. Full of tiny little holes. This is a gelatin product, and when it has finished dissolving the paint, what you end up with is a toothpaste-like goop that is sticky, thick, and impossible to remove - it loves those little holes. The Citristrip makes the resulting paste/goop caustic as well, so you can't really touch it either. You can't wash it off readily without using something that will kill you with fumes - so that benefit is out the window. You can't wire brush it off the concrete because the goop gums up the brush, and the brush pushes it into the pores. The best you can hope for is to try to take something like a Red Devil scraper and kind of pull/scrape the top half of the goop off. You are left with essentially a thin layer of paint/stripper that is stuck in the pores of the concrete - exactly like the paint you started with, but now you can't touch it with your bare hands. And you can't paint over it. And it's sticky and funny looking and smells like orange Kool-Aid.
The good news is that after about a week (yes a week - 7 days of creamsicle air) it dries into a weird orange/pink/white powder crust on the wall. You can then wire brush/vacuum it off. Don't breath it - whatever you do. The powder turns back into stripper in your lungs. Go ahead and ask me how I know this. After ANOTHER week, the rest of the vapors etc will have entirely dried out of what's left in the pores of the concrete and you can wire brush most of the rest of it out.
Summary and Lesson: Citristrip is a good product, but NOT FOR MASONRY. Put it on masonry and you're looking at about 10 - 15 days of playtime in orange smelling air. If you're trying to work cinder block for something, either paint over it, or get a sealant that will seal through pre-existing latex layers.
Citristrip is not what you're looking for.
Description of Citri-Strip QCG73801T Paint and Varnish Stripping Gel, 1-Quart
QT, Citristrip Paint & Varnish Stripping Gel, Fresh Orange Scent, Contains No Methylene Chloride, Strips Multiple Layers, Stays Active Up To 24 Hours, For Both Indoor & Outdoor Use, Effective On Wood, Metal & Masonry To Remove Most Paints, Shellacs, Polyurethanes, Lacquers, Epoxies & Varnish, Thick Enough To Use On Vertical Surfaces.Paint Strippers & Removers Tools
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