I am looking for a product to remove latex paint from my fireplace. No harmful vapors and quick acting.?

It has to be 100% safe to use without a mask and inside the house. Please respond ONLY if you have used a product described this way and had excellent results.I am looking for a product to remove latex paint from my fireplace. No harmful vapors and quick acting.?
According to the brochure I've been saving in case I ever get motivated to strip paint from my fireplace.... you'd want Peel Away 8. The company seems to welcome questions: (212) 869-6350.


Some people say to use a heat gun and scrape it away.





Sorry I could'nt find more.I am looking for a product to remove latex paint from my fireplace. No harmful vapors and quick acting.?
I absolutely agree with Les. As a paint professional, I have NEVER seen a product remove paint from brick that was worth a darn. all you get is a huge mess and a very nasty looking fireplace. If the paint absolutely must come off, sandblasting is your only option. Call a sandblaster in your area, you never know, they might have a solution for you.


Your other option is to repaint the bricks to look like brick again. This works GREAT. I've done it twice. Ask Home depot for color suggestions to get the look you want. You'll need at least 3 colors in a flat/matte finish; a base coat, a slightly different (lighter or browner) accent color and a darker color for texture and grout lines. Paint the whole thing with the base coat. Then dilute the accent color by 50% with water or glaze and dab it on with a rag or brush. Go back and remove some of the accent color with a rag so it has a mottled effect. (try out different methods and tools for applying and removing to see what you like best BEFORE you begin the project!) If you're really trying to simulate brick, it's better to accent a few bricks at a time. Let dry. Now apply the darker grout color (also diluted 50%) to the bricks with a paint brush and wipe it off with a rag to darken the pits and low spots in the brick. Let dry. Apply it to grout areas with a sponge applicator, dabbing with a rag or terry towel to keep the grout lines from looking too artificial.





If you choose your colors carefully; practice on a few bricks beforehand to get the effect you like, and remeber to dilute your accent and grout colors (diluting the paint lets the ';brick'; color of the base coat come through well, and accents the natural texture of the brick) You should get a great effect for the price of a few quarts of paint.


Good luck on your project.
Goof off is a good product but it does smell.





Having been doing odd jobs for years I have never see or heard of any thing that is 100% safe that will do what you want.





So are just a little better than others.
GOO GONE or GOOF OFF
Orange-based paint stripper. I used it on my kitchen cabinets and never missed a meal. Home Depot, Lowes, etc.
Once brick is painted, it is pretty well destined to remain painted.





There is no chemical product that will remove latex paint with no fumes, and even then the paint inside the millions of pores in the brick will not come off.





Sandblasting is the only way to restore painted brick, but that is out of the question if this is an occupied dwelling.
mineral spirits
oops! product made to remove dried latex paint or the best and quickest BUT smells a little is a paint deglosser called Wil-Bond and that will eat it up quick. Good luck Les the painter.
Get your self abottle of GOO GONE it smell good and works on alot of things and stains