Bartoline Paint Predator Heavy Duty Paint and Varnish Stripper 1L - High Performance Paint Remover - by 1876 Professional Range

Even with multiple thick applications, some sitting for over an hour, I got zero satisfaction removing old polyurethane from wooden doors.

Specatularly ineffective. It struggled to remove the top level of paint from a village noticeboard I am renovating, let alone several layers. Expensive too at 1lt per sqm, so even if it worked it would be very poor value for money. After doing a bit of research on-line, it turns out that the chemical that used to be in paint stripper to loosen paint has now been removed for health and safety reasons. So, regardless of their brand or name, all domestic paint strippers are the basically the same composition and are pretty useless. The same research suggested using a heat gun which I'm now doing - saves mess, time, money, and it actually works.

After lots of research I was hesitant to order but glad I did ! Does exactly what it says and made stripping a much loved bench an easier task than anticipated. Would recommend.

It works. ok, I had to apply it 3 times to some exterior wood that was primed and had oil based paint over it. i also left it overnight for best results. in the morning the paint was wrinkled and flaking. i scraped off what i could and applied the paint stripper again. i will still have to wash the wood down then sand it but this has helped a lot. don't expect miracles but this will get you 3/4 of the way there.

Ease of use and removal, no strong lingering odours

This stuff is brilliant, I have a house full of floorboards covered in Woodstain. Black paint and grey paint!! I’ve painted this on, left for an hour and paint scraped it off and washed and the beautiful 1930s floorboards are back. A sanding man wanted £900 for the same job