Dear James: I need to paint my house, which has wood siding. The paint is in pretty bad shape. What is the proper way to scrape and prepare the wood surface so the paint will stay on longer and look ...

“Like watching paint dry” might be an idiom to describe something tedious and boring, but in reality, removing or stripping paint might be even worse. For something close to 30 years, I’ve owned ...

When you think of paint stripping as merely removing a coating from a base material, it sounds very simple. However, in reality, this process can be messy, time consuming, expensive, and can leave a ...

A MUM has shared her “life saving” hack for stripping paint in seconds. Vicki Townley, 52, from Derbyshire, wanted to remove old paint from her stairs handrail but couldn’t find her paint scraper.

If you have never used a hot air gun you will be surprised at how quickly a heat gun will remove layer upon layer of paint or varnish. Although it’s a messy job, a dropcloth will make cleanup easier.