Professional Paint Stripper for Concrete or Brick

Selecting the best paint remover

Removing paints, adhesives, and mastics can a daunting task for homeowners and professional contractors alike. It can turn a rather simple do-it-yourself project into a nightmare. To make matters worse, paint removers sold in stores are often ineffective and difficult to use, particularly on heavy paints used on concrete and masonry.

Our contractors have searched far and wide for a concrete paint stripper that is:

• Effective on the whole range of paints found on concrete, bricks, and masonry.
• Strong enough to remove multiple layers of paint, including primers, at once.
• Effective on hard-to-remove adhesives and mastics.
• Easy to apply.
• Suitable for both floors and walls.

We have selected Lightning Strip Paint and Mastic Remover. It removes all paints and adhesives. It also cleans the pores in concrete surfaces, allowing subsequent sealing of the concrete with our penetrating sealers.

When tested against other strippers on the market, Lightning Strip comes out as the #1 paint remover for concrete because compared to other strippers, it works fast. It penetrates through multiple layers of paint and its slow evaporation allows it to strip large areas at once. Unlike many other strippers, it leaves no chalky residue on the surface and is easily neutralized with water.

Lightning Strip has small molecules that penetrate through the paint and make it rapidly swell and expand. As the bottom layer of the paint expands, it weakens the paint's adhesion, separates it from the substrate, and makes removal with stripping tools easy.

Lightning Strip is more cost-effective than the conventional brush-on paint strippers sold in stores because it a) works and b) strips an area about twice as large per gallon:

Approximate Coverage (sq. ft. per gallon)
	paint 1–2 layers	150
	paint 2–4 layers	75
	mastic	75

Uses of the stripper

Lightning Strip is so versatile that it can be used to remove a variety of paints, adhesives, and contaminants from many different substrates, including concrete, bricks, and stones. It is also great for stripping wood and furniture. (It is labeled as a stripper for wood, its most frequent use.)

Paints:

Lightning Strip removes both water-based and oil-bases paints, latex, acrylic, epoxies, urethanes, lead paint, enamel, primers, stains, varnish, shellacs, and graffiti, be it one or six coats. It gels on contact and clings to vertical surfaces.

It also strips the widely sold "waterproofing paint" for basements, which is a latex-based paint. But it does not remove silicon-based sealers (silicones, silanes, siloxanes), cementitious coatings, and metal paints.

Floor adhesives and mastics:

Easily removes water- or oil-based adhesives, as well as the thick, tar-like mastic under old asbestos or vinyl tiles.

Tar and asphalt:

Dissolves black tar. Re-spray to keep the tar moist until it turns to liquid. Then, blast off with a pressure washer.

Lightning Strip is suitable for both indoor and outdoor applications.

User-friendly stripper

Non-aerosol spray-on stripper – applied with a hand-held squeeze sprayer (included) instead of a brush.

Like with all industrial-strength strippers, good ventilation is required. Lightning Strip contains methylene chloride. It is nonflammable. Unlike other paint strippers, it does not contain caustic, lye or acids. Will not harm wood, aluminum, chrome, metal, or glass.

The stripper residue is cleaned up and neutralized with water instead of chemicals. If you have a good pressure washer, it will make the removal of paint residue fast and easy.

STRONGLY RECOMMENDED:
Lightning Strip does not work like common strippers! Make sure to read Paint Stripper Application Instructions for detailed instructions, applications tips, and to view a demonstration video. We suggest that you first get a gallon of the stripper to test how well it works and what coverage you get for your paint or adhesive.

Price and shipping

Not sold in stores but delivered directly from the factory to your door. Orders received by 1 PM ET are normally shipped the same day and delivered by courier (UPS) within 2 to 5 workdays.

Lightning Strip Paint & Mastic Remover

Size	Price	Shipping
1-gallon can with a sprayer	$44	$9
1 case with 4 cans and sprayers	$154	$32

Based on shipping by courier (UPS) to the lower 48 states. This product cannot be shipped by air.

Commercial topics

Returns: Unopened product in salable condition can be returned within 30 days of receipt for a refund of the product price less a 15 percent re-stocking fee. The purchaser is responsible for shipping. The return must be marked "CONSUMER COMMODITY ORM-D" and with your name and address.

Disclaimer: Read the product label, instructions and MSDS prior to use. The purchaser shall determine the suitability of this product for the intended use or varied methods of application. We do not provide any warranties regarding the suitability of the product and shall not be liable for any injury, loss, direct or indirect, or consequential damages arising out of the use of this product. In any case, our liability is limited to the cost of the product. Test the product on a sample area first!