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   cliffp | Jul 02, 1999 01:29am | #1

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   Martha--

   I think you're stuck. A skim coat of plaster is 'bout the only way I can think of.

   Just look at it as a chance to work in a new medium...

   Depending on your decorating bent, you may want to look into the ancient Swiss (actually Romanisch) art of s'graffito. That is the practice of scratching designs through the skim coat of stucco on the exterior of a building. And it's where we got the word graffiti. S'graffito is actually very attractive (in the right environment).

   Good luck.

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   Frank_LaPiana | Jul 07, 1999 08:33am | #2

   *Plaster - at least in my house - is darn hard stuff. I had fiberboard pannelling glued and nailed to plaster-over-brick. With a lot of paint remover, sanding, and scraping it all came off with very few gouges in the plaster.

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   Bob_Karrow | Jul 08, 1999 06:31pm | #3

   *Martha -I had good results stripping paint off of old plaster using a wallpaper stripping blade. I don't know the manufacturer, but both the ACE and True Value hardware stores in our town carry them. It is a metal handle about the size of a hammer handle that ends in a T. The T holds a wide (5 1n. ?) replaceable blade for stripping.I found I needed to hold the handle close to the wall, actually resting my knuckles on the wall, to get the right angle for stripping without biting into the old plaster. A pair of leather gloves was a real hand-saver.I directed the tool with my left hand and pushed with the right. Worked great on multiple layers of regular paint.

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   Martha_Goepel | Jul 08, 1999 06:31pm | #4

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   I have 100 year old plaster walls coated with sand texture paint. What is the fastest and easiest way to remove this paint???