Removing paint from osb.

[Gaogier]

Although I still need to find and install cladding to my mini workshop on the doors and one side, (it’s no bigger than a bike shed), we have painted the outside so the weather keeps it from rotting. However I wanted to keep the inside natural wood, except I did not communicate this to the person who painted the outside (my mum) and she started to paint the inside too.

So, now I am getting ready for some summer projects, I wish to get my work area sorted out first, so yesterday, I decided to use my belt sander to get rid of most of the paint, coming behind with a smaller sander to get into the corners easier. It’s actually looking okay, but as osb is not uniform in smoothness, there is quite a few areas my sanders can’t reach…

How would you remove this?

I am going back out now to try and remove as much of the bulk as possible, but do I turn to a wire brush on a rotary tool, wrap sand paper around a pencil, paint stripper?

 

[foxhole]

Pointless task .

 

[Tigercubrider]

I’d buy some more OSB and cut it to fit inside.
You will be ages sanding and a belt sander is likely to dig into the OSB.
You could try paint stripper.

Personally, I’d paint the inside white

 

[Wayners]

Peel tec paint remover but more trouble than it's worth reading about your project?

 

[Gaogier]

Pointless task .

Yeah, just something that’s annoying me, but pictures show improvements.

I’d buy some more OSB and cut it to fit inside.
You will be ages sanding and a belt sander is likely to dig into the OSB.
You could try paint stripper.

Personally, I’d paint the inside white

Was thinking about putting a new osb cut to fit, also painting a more mild colour like white, but the belt sander did a good job, just 50% left to sand down now, with the deeper bits maybe wood filler?

Peel tec paint remover but more trouble than it's worth reading about your project?

What do you think now pictures are here?

What that picture shows is taken when I went back outside, with an extra 2 hours of cleaning and sanding to come. I will try and get more photos tomorrow but most of the green now looks (where I have sanded) is more like the highlighted area

 

[foxhole]

I like green

 

[Why Not Indeed]

I think from now on whenever someone asks how to do something that is fiddly, laborious and pointless, we can say to them "but that would be like trying to get paint off OSB!"

 

[Gaogier]

I like green

I like green too, just wanted everything to be a natural wood colour inside.

I think from now on whenever someone asks how to do something that is fiddly, laborious and pointless, we can say to them "but that would be like trying to get paint off OSB!"

Most definitely… such a pain removing it… I have just under 50% left to go, but putting it off… as it’s not clean a thing… and I like clean.

 

[foxhole]

I like green too, just wanted everything to be a natural wood colour inside.



Most definitely… such a pain removing it… I have just under 50% left to go, but putting it off… as it’s not clean a thing… and I like clean.

You could always take up spaghetti knitting .