Stripping Paint From Walls

There are several layers of chips, paint alligatored on the plaster walls of our bathroom. Aside from paint, plaster seems to be in good shape.

How do I remove old paint without damaging the plaster?
What is the best paint to use to avoid this happening again?

Do not use spackling or something like camouflage.

Get a heat gun (hairdryer industrial) and a 4 "metal putty knife. Hold the gun of 3" -5 heat "away from the paint and when it begins to bubble, scrape. The trick is to drive the knife with the gun so that you are heating and scraping in one movement.

Once you've scraped all the paint, you may need to use some patching to smooth out the gouges or dings that are presented.

When you are ready for painting, finishing a good base oil would be best, then one of Benjamin Moore paint or bathroom Sherwin Williams.

Old paint finally dried enough that he just got out of plaster ... each layer of paint helped a little in the statement.


Good luck ...

Instead of trying to strip the paint, which sounds like a really miserable, and may well expose you and others to lead, perhaps there is a sort of spackle can be smoothed over the entire surface, the level sanded, primed and painted. So many people just get the thinnest sheetrock available and just install right over the plaster, the first and paint. Sometimes you have to think about what your time is worth vs. materials.