How do I remove paint from cement yard to hold prepared for tiles?

We are considering laying tiles on our square, but it has be painted and we have be advised to remove the paint first, we would resembling this as a D.I.Y. to cut costs. So how do we remove the paint and with what?


Answers:    This can be done a couple of ways, depending on the current situation near the paint.

If the paint is fairly tacky and already pealing, you may be capable of simply use a high powered sea pressure to get it. You can rent them for approaching 30 dollars a day from home depot. You might do better to use a box cutter first scoring the paint surrounded by several places, as this will loosen it up better for the water pressure to receive in and beneath the paint.

You can scrape it stale with a big duty spacling knife. If this is the method that you use, you can ranking with a box cutter here too, however, merely a few in one direction, and afterwards one or two down the length of respectively side. Just enough to find up and under the paint.

You could also use a sander and a grinding stone to grind the paint down. This is, by far, the messiest method, and I would do it as a later resort.

Paint thinner is probably the wors way if you hold grass or plants too close... spilling that will kill the grass for sure (My evaluation, not based within fact).

Hope this gives you some thinking.
I have made my own paint remover...it's natural and cheap

One can of Red Devil Lye

One box of Faultless dry powder starch.

One large bucket...not limited plastic...but one of those thick 5 gal paint buckets.

Add a gallon of hose down to bucket and slowly mix in the powdered starch....it will bring really thick. Put the Lye surrounded by the bucket and add another gallon of marine...mix it up...be careful lye can burn you. This mixture will start to grill up with the lye. If your bucket is too shrunken it might melt. Once this mixture is complete...pour it on the porch and spread with an hoary mop. The starch helps save the thickened lye within place....you should start to see the paint start to bubble in minutes. You can use a huge scraper and remove it...or might even be able to hose it stale. It's best to scrap bad as much as you can...because this stuff will kill your grass around veranda.

Not bad....2 gallons of paint remover for around $10 or smaller number.
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