Bartoline Paint Predator Heavy Duty Paint and Varnish Stripper 500ml - High Performance Paint Remover - 1876 Professional Range

Worked well on glass paint but not on oak wood polish . Ordered to makeover dark polish to natural wood but so disappointed with the results even after 4 applications

Have put off stripping a 90 year old solid oak front door for the past 30 years. Finally got around to it. Used a heat gun first on about ten layers of paint but it still left a lot so bought this stripper. Did as it says on the tin and applied a thick coat as recommended in the instructions and left it for an hour. Within fifteen minutes I could see it was working so left it for an hour and applied a second coat. Again I left it for about half an hour and I was greatly impressed that the paint had gone to a paste that I could scrape off before it dried. I then used detergent and water on it and it had worked a treat, ready to be sanded. The smell was ok and all in all I found it good value and good quality.

It works but you need to leave it on for over an hour at least and it’ll only strip one coat off at a time. Not as effective as the old type of paint strippers but it does work eventually. I had to do 4 applications to strip some heavily overpainted copper pipes.

Very grand, they did their job well, removed paint on the metal in an hour.

Very good and patience needed as it seems to strip paint in layers, so 9 bottles have been bought to do a flight of 13 steps.

So, I did read the testimonials, but thought it was still worth giving it a go. Can't be that bad, can it? Well, it's not very good at handling a tough lacquer/varnish on my wood conga drum. The best it would do after leaving overnight was to soften the coating, making it reasonably easy to shave off. I'm sure it will work fine with paint but bear in mind that when I say it it softened the varnish, I don't mean bubbled and blistered. I really do just mean softened, hence the 'shaving' description rather than scraping. A sharp blade was needed. That's it, really, just a word of caution if its varnish you need to strip.