Can I safely burn paint off brickwork?

Evening all.

For a while now I've been meaning to tackle the awful masonry paint on the back wall of my house, but I've been putting it off because it seems like a lot of work. Trouble is the garden is finally turning into a garden so we're spending more leisure time out there now, which means the awful wall is more apparent than before.

Today I bought a cheap weed wand copy (basically a butane powered flame lance). Then an idea struck me. Could I safely use that to burn the paint off the back wall off the house?

Or will the heat damage the brickwork?

 

NO I Would Say!!!

bricks can Explode under Heat

Ziggy is Probley The best to Advise on this

Id Go for a Good Paint Stripper and Wire Brush & JET Wash Hard Work Elbow Grese BUT WELL WELL WORTH IT FOR THE END RESULT

 

No other Dave, the bricks will take the heat away before it softens the paint. You need Tavek 501 or 2 but it only comes in a silly amount

 

Thanks chaps. I guess I'll just keep on with my regime of absent mindedly picking at it whenever I'm near it

Sooner or later, if I can make enough holes in it, the weather should surely get under it and lift it.

 

I'm doing the same with the door at the bottom.

 

Don't you believe it! Had the same problem - judiciously picked away at the back (where it was relatively easy to reach) and the wretched stuff steadfastly refused to budge, conversely the front of the house, where you needed a ladder, was like the Forth Bridge ... almost the minute you finished, paint would start flaking off and needed re-doing

 

A neighbour got a specialist contractor in to steam remove masonry paint from the brickwork but it didn't shift it and they gave up.


P.S. Googling for some info I came across 'Steam Cleaner for Windows' - do not use this on your hard disk!

 

A Doff machine will shift it, they use superheated water, not steam, but even then i've seen the chap using it pasting some chemical on first.

 

How about a sand blaster, or a power sprayer, the kind you use to clean wooded decks with. The only thing is the stuff then flys everywhere.

 

I used a belt sander, worked well