How to remove paint from the wall in the bathroom?

Before decorating the walls of the bathroom, you need to get rid of the old paint, of course, provided that the walls were originally painted. You can’t leave paint on the walls, as it begins to peel off over time. The risk is great that the new wall covering will disappear along with the old one, and much earlier than the owner of the house would like. And if we take into account that the mass of paint loaded with a new coating increases significantly, then the likelihood of peeling, respectively, also increases.

Removing old paint is much easier if the repair was done long ago and the finish began to peel on its own. If staining was performed recently, then you have to tinker with the order. Sometimes it bothers people that removing old coatings from a wall involves a lot of noise and building dust. In fact, there are so many cleaning methods that it remains to choose the most suitable. So, consider the most common ways to remove paint from a wall in a bathroom.

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Low noise

This method is suitable for those who are overly nervous neighbors who love silence. And the owners, if they do not have the opportunity to temporarily move to another apartment, excessive noise will not add comfort. How to clean the wall of oil paint? You can remove the coating from surfaces without unnecessary noise in the following ways:

• Using acetone or another solvent.
• With the burning of paint by fire.

Despite the fact that these two methods are fundamentally different, they have common positive and negative features:

• The plus is the complete absence of noise.
• The downside is in the danger and harmfulness of both methods.

Important! The use of both a burner and a solvent requires extreme caution. Otherwise - you are threatened with a burn, not thermal, so chemical. Therefore, you need to work in a mask respirator and in protective gloves. In addition, the solvent does not always allow you to effectively remove paint from the wall, and the burner, if handled carelessly, can damage the walls.

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Dust - a minimum, costs - also

This method will allow you not to unnerve your neighbors with excessive noise, and it will not require large expenses. So, before you clean the wall of paint for tiles, you need to purchase:

• Spatulas.
• Ax (it’s probably not necessary to buy it, in many houses it is available).

The use of a spatula is intuitive. The compact dimensions of the device make it possible to penetrate even the most inaccessible corners of the walls. However, saving-saving, but this method requires a lot of time and no less patience.

The use of an ax is associated with a lot of noise, but still it is less than when working with power tools:

1. First you need to make frequent notches (while the coating swells).
2. Then, in the “top to bottom” direction, remove the paint from the walls.

Compared to a spatula, the coating is removed much faster. But it must be remembered that the ax requires a certain physical strength, as well as caution in use.

Important! You cannot use an ax if the coating is applied to a thin coat of primer or directly to concrete. In addition, the instrument must be very sharp, otherwise, no effect can be achieved.

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“Speed ​​and onslaught”: how to quickly clean the wall of old paint?

This method is acceptable for those who can not take into account the noise factor, and remove the paint from the walls in the bathroom as soon as possible. In this case, modern electric tools (a puncher with a set of special nozzles or a grinder) will help.

The advantages of this method are obvious. You can cope with work in just a couple of hours, and it can’t be called laborious. It does not require physical strength, but the ability to work with power tools.

However, this method is not without certain drawbacks:

• Non-observance of safety precautions can lead to even more disastrous consequences than inept work with an ax.
• A large amount of construction dust.
• A strong noise that will not please either neighbors or household members.
• With a grinder or a puncher, you cannot reach hard-to-reach places, so with a complicated pipe configuration, cleaning paint from the walls under the tile will be difficult.

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Acrylic water based paint

How to clean a concrete wall from old paint? The peculiarity of this coating is that it has good adhesion, which means that none of the listed methods is suitable for removing paint from walls. However, there are no hopeless situations, therefore - to work!

1. You can not wash off the acrylic dye with water. And soak the coating with warm water to such a state that it will easily give in to a spatula - it is quite realistic. In this case, it is important to have time to remove the soaked paint. Otherwise - having dried, it will harden again.
2. Acrylic waterproof dye can only be removed with a power tool. As they say, with all the ensuing consequences. If the coating is applied in a thick layer, burner burning can be used.
3. There is another interesting way to clean the walls with a water-based coating. Paste them over old newspapers. As the connecting layer, you can use wallpaper glue, PVA or ordinary paste. After the glue dries, you can tear the newspaper from the wall with the paint.

Important! The softened water-based paint regains its coloring properties. Therefore, make sure that the cover that you are not going to dismantle, and plumbing items are protected from particles of material.

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How to remove water-based paint from walls in a bathroom - a chemical method

It turns out that you can wash off the coating with the help of special substances - effective, but less dangerous than a conventional solvent. Here are a few options:

• There are special washes on sale. The instructions describe in detail how to use these substances.
• Self made wash. Dissolve 200 ml of iodine in 10 l of water and apply on a water-based coating. At the same time, do not forget about the toxicity of iodine: even its evaporation in high concentrations is harmful to health.
• Soap foam mixed with salicylic acid helps to quickly get rid of acrylic dye.
• Soap foam with chloroform or dichloroethane rinses latex paint well.

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Is it necessary to remove the dye?

If you have planned wall decoration with plasterboard panels, then you do not need to get rid of the old coating. The same applies to suspended ceilings. It is another matter if paint or ceramic tile is chosen as the finishing material. In this case, you cannot do without removing old paint.

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We told you about all the ways to remove paint from the wall in the bathroom. And to remove the old coating on their own or to hire professionals - everyone decides this question for himself.