Hello all,
I'm hoping some of you experts can help with an issue that has bothered us for some years?
Our daughter's house has white (manufacturer's coating) aluminium windows and doors which look like new, and work perfectly well, but have lots of smears of dark grey masonry paint on the exterior of the frames. It seems the person who first painted the outside of the house didn't know much about cutting in. They were in this condition when she bought the house a number of years ago and we thought the paint would come off with some elbow grease. We were wrong! We tried scraping but stopped because it started to damage the white coating. Then we tested chemical stripper but again it started to damage the surface. A hot air gun worked to some extent but left a yellowish tinge (scorched?) to the area.
As I said, the windows and doors are otherwise fine but we would just like to get the dark paint off them as it now looks even worse because we managed to repaint the exterior during the 'heatwave' last week.
Any tips?
Thank you
Maggie
I'm hoping some of you experts can help with an issue that has bothered us for some years?
Our daughter's house has white (manufacturer's coating) aluminium windows and doors which look like new, and work perfectly well, but have lots of smears of dark grey masonry paint on the exterior of the frames. It seems the person who first painted the outside of the house didn't know much about cutting in. They were in this condition when she bought the house a number of years ago and we thought the paint would come off with some elbow grease. We were wrong! We tried scraping but stopped because it started to damage the white coating. Then we tested chemical stripper but again it started to damage the surface. A hot air gun worked to some extent but left a yellowish tinge (scorched?) to the area.
As I said, the windows and doors are otherwise fine but we would just like to get the dark paint off them as it now looks even worse because we managed to repaint the exterior during the 'heatwave' last week.
Any tips?
Thank you
Maggie