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READY-STRIP

Description: The 1 gallon container of Ready-Strip covers approximately 50 square feet (enough for a large dresser). Ready-Strip is capable of removing up to 5+ layers in a single application and the unique “Color Change” feature signals when the paint or varnish is ready to be removed.

Reviews (4):

Will not come off !!!!
Reviewer: Ken Cote Baltimore 02-14-2005
Used this product for masonry. Followed all the directions and the product tuned eggshell just like the directions said, however, it hardened and cannot be removed! I've tried water, scrapping, and even bought wire brushes but still no results! Now I'm told to buy more and not let it dry to remove itself! Another 2 gallons! What a ripoff!

False Advertising for Ready-Strip
Reviewer: scrabbler VA 10-30-2004
This product did not work as advertised. I am stripping paint off a 60 year old front door and it has taken three applications on the front of the door so far and still no wood. I don't think there are more than two or three coats of paint on the door so this should not be difficult for a product that advertises "capable of removing up to 5+ layers in a single application." It also says one gallon ($40 including s&h) will strip an area of 55 square feet. I have less than a fourth of the gallon left and the door is only 42 square feet. I still have at least one more coat on the front of the door plus what I expect to be numerous coats yet to go on the back of the door. An application requires a thick layer of the stripper for each coating so what's left will probably be enough for the front of the door only.

I had used citristrip prior to this product for numerous coats so the door already had a head start. Although the stripper has very little odor I wouldn't go so far as to say odor free. Less odor than other strippers but not odor free.

It's a very expensive product, does not remove more than one layer in one application, and is *very* expensive. I've been taken for $40.

Ready Strip ROCKS!!
Reviewer: K. Groome detroit, mi 07-21-2004
I bought an antique cedar chest with two layers of paint on it. Ready strip took both layers off and now I have a beautiful coffee table. There were no fumes and I washed the application brush with my bare hands in my kitchen sink. My hand is fine and there is no corotion in my drain. Seriously, this stuff is great and worth every penny.

Useless waste of time and money for gloss paint, at least
Reviewer: K. Groome Van Nuys, CA USA 09-18-2005
I purchased Ready Strip after having read a variety of reviews and preferring to believe the positive ones - and I have paid for my error in judgement.

First - my project was to repaint a couple of sliding closet doors - wood, with multiple coats of what I assume is oil-based paint in glossy finish. The house is 50 years old, and the previous owner apparently used some pretty high quality paint in his day. I say that because on other trim items, similarly painted, I have had to strip the paint down to the wood when I discovered that the primer I applied after sanding and "roughing up" the painted surfaces simply did not adhere - it would peel off like sunburnt skin. In fact, these very doors had peeling paint, where the top layer was starting to peel off the underlayer purely from age.

I peeled off what would strip away with my fingers, and then decided to try the chemical approach rather than my tried-and-true method of blowtorch and scraping (which I've done to other woodwork in the house). So after reading about Ready Strip, decided to give it a shot.

I live in SoCal - ambient temperature yesterday about 75 degrees, low humidity - and applied the stripper to the surfaces after having removed the doors and laying them on the ground. This way, the goop would not have the inclination to run to the bottom.

Indeed, after about 4-5 hours the color did change to an off-white (it starts as a booger-green color), so I took my trusty scraper and went to work (the instructions warn against letting it stay on too long, so I figured this was the right time). And I got precious little for my efforts - the chemical actually caused some peeling and cracking on the paint over perhaps 10% of the surface, mostly all it did was dry to a new hardened coating of its own. So I scraped off what I could, and was left to break out the blowtorch and burn off.

Bottom line, I wasted 5 hours (well, I did do other things - didn't just watch this stuff dry) and $30 (1/2 gallon plus $10 s&h - 50% for transport from the AsseenonTV outfit - but that's another story). And still had to go through the traditional burn approach, which was made a bit harder since this dried goop acts as a sort of protective layer!

Perhaps if you have latex based and/or matte finish painted surfaces to deal with, Ready Strip might work. But if you're dealing with high-gloss oik based paint (or maybe either) run, don't walk, away from this stuff.

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