1 Heavy Duty Paint Remover - Removes Up to 30 Layers of Lead, Oil & Alkyd-Based Coatings - Complete Removal System Under the Lid - 1 Gallon

It works if used right. First if your not sure what your dealing with, buy the dumomd sample kit, and test patch (it comes with 3 small tubes of different strippers). My home is 1905 is lead, enamel, and multiple layers of paints. So thick you can't even see the details in the door frames because it was so thick. Pit the stripper on thick (1/8 inch or more) and wear gloves, it can cause chemical burns. Thicker is better, if you want this to work in one coat. Cover it with their wax paper and get out all the air and seal with masking tape. Then let it sit for 2 to 3 days. It should start to feel firm but not hard, don't let it dry out completely. Then remove with putty knife, use some scour pads and brushes for the cracks, and clean up with soapy water. Then neutralize after it has dried. It's messy and expensive, but it works for me.

I have a love/hate relationship with this stripper. I love that it takes off paint from my brick exterior but I hate the mess and don't have the stamina to do much at a time. I bought the test kit first to determine that this would be the most effective stripper. I left Peel Away on for 2 days and then scraped, sprayed with a normal hose, and brushed. I'm probably not great at getting a good consistency of the paste and I may need to leave it on for 2.5 days or 3. A pressure washer would also probably give better results. I figure other methods would be just as messy.

I watched several videos and read the instructions in great detail. Attached the thick paste to the wood and covered it in the wrap...waiting the max 48 hours to make sure it fully adhered to the wood....when I went to remove it there was barely any paint removed. I ended up having twice the amount of work with removing the wrap material and then using a heat gun to get the thick layers of paint off. Honestly a complete waste of money and time.

I have used every stripper under the Sun and have always been very disappointed with the results. Even when using a Marine grade organic stripper that was more expensive then Peel Away. Six years ago a friend that has restored many old homes recommended this product. I was very skeptical because of my past experiences but when another friend offered it to me for free, I thought, “What do I have to loose? It isn’t costing me anything.”When I opened the bucket I found that it had thee look and consistency of Drywall Mud. I applied it with a cheap hog’s bristle brush, which gave a very uneven coat and covered it with a plastic sheeting that wasn’t what was provided by the manufacturer. Mistakes one and two. The third mistake was not taping it down on the edges to seal it up to prevent air from getting under the plastic to stop in from drying out. The fourth was trying to scrape it off after letting it sit for 24 hours. The directions on the can say 12-24 hours so I felt that I had allowed enough time for it to work.The results were rather disappointing. Where the material was thicker it almost took off the multiple layers of led based paint on the 126 year old door. To get that result it required a lot of passes using a putty knife. Where there was less density of the product it only removed a few layers of paint.So I reread the the reviews here on Amazon and found one that said they went to the manufacturer’s website that recommended leaving it on for 72 hours for good results. Also read that forcing as much air as possible from the areas that the stripper was applied to and the plastic was crucial as well as tightly taping down the edges of the plastic. I followed all of these suggestions, this time using the provided plastic and the paint easily came off. There is still some small areas that have very slight paint residue but that came off with using a nylon scrub brush and water. I also used a small Dry Wall knife to apply about a 1/4-1/8 inch coat to one of the 4 raised panels on the door. The other tip is to apply it in small sections at a time and cover and tape it as soon as possible. You want the product to be as moist as possible. It sounds like a lot of product was used doing it that thick but it wasn’t when looking in the pail. If you want it to be completely paint free, a second coat might be required. I’m repainting the door so some light sanding with 120 grit sand paper will be sufficient for my purposes.To sum it up, It’s a bit pricey, most of them are, but it works. Once you’ve used up the special paper up, I read that wax paper works just as well. Buy it it, it’s worth it !!!

As other users have noted, stripping old paint just sucks. I'm using this on my porch ceiling, which is old beadboard with 80+yo paint either stuck for eternity or falling off. My choices are either scraping lead paint directly into my eyeballs, or using peel away. It doesn't all magically come off, but after it sits for 48hrs it's easy to get the paint out of the crevices. I also bought a roll of paper that's about 14" wide, rather than the 38" square nightmare that comes in the tub.Speaking of the tub: I loathe the way this stuff is packaged. I would much rather have all the extraneous stuff taped to the top, rather than have it sitting on top of a piece of molded plastic squished down into the actual stripper. It is a flaming, messy pain to scrape the stripper off that piece if one doesn't want to waste it, and it's a lot.

Worked great on 120+ year old door. Followed instructions from the manufacturer's WEBSITE that said to leave on for at least 72 hours and wrap tightly in the paper. Took off almost all of the paint the first time, it just peeled off in sheets. I did a second round where I hit the spots that did not come off the first time, wrapped it up and scraped it off the next day. I used Behr wood brightener to clean it off (not recommended anywhere, I just did it because I wanted the wood cleaned and brightened, and it was spotty after I did the second coat. Used the sander on it to finish removing spots. Total time spent would be about 10 hours, an hour or so to coat it and wrap it on a Sunday, and 9 hours the next weekend. Not a speck of paint left on it.