Remove Paint from Borrowed Lights above doors

[jonwestuk]

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone has any top tips on removing gloss paint from borrowed lights above my internal doors. Someone has previously painted them, several times, and I would like to get rid of the paint.

I have tried several methods, scraping with a glass scraper, heat gun (can quickly lead to cracks), white spirit (didnt really do anything).

The problem with scraping is that the paint is so thick that it wont cut directly down to the glass so the process takes 5x longer than it would normall.

Any tips you guys have would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jon

 

[misterhelpful]

Paint removal is irritating and time consuming at the best of times, let alone standing on a stepladder with nothing working! Would it be worth removing the glass and replacing it - not that expensive, quicker and a guaranteed perfect finish??

 

[Grenage]

I'm with misterhelpful,

Having removed the glass panels and tried giving them a clean, I'm buying new glass - they were a little damaged anyhow.

Had the glass been fine, I'd probably have removed the panels, pasted them with paint-stripper, then rubbed it all off in the garden.[/i]

 

[geraldthehamster]

An opportunity to put some nice stained glass panels in.

Cheers
Richard