Removing dried paint from wood effect flooring...help needed

[350Wedge]

A friend of mine has moved into a new place and discovered that the painters were'nt particularly careful when it came to doing the walls and skirting boards.

They have wood effect flooring, looks to me like plastic type rather than actual wood laminate flooring.

We've tried stuff like white spirit to remove the blobs of paint but this is having little to no effect whatsoever!!

Other than trying to sand it off which would be very time consuming and possibly do more damage than good are there any other methods we could try to remove the offending paint. Its been there for some time though, not just a day or two !!

[mgtony]

If they are blobs,your only option really is to use a scraper to gently remove them, but this risks damaging the floor surface. The other option would be a rug.

[J500ANT]

Credit card? It'd be a bit more flexi than a scraper. Or T cut?

[350Wedge]

Thanks for the suggestions so far....

This may be a silly question would paint stripper work ok? or would that be too strong for the flooring, if used sparingly of course with a small brush...!

[J500ANT]

Probably, but I would say its a last resort really.

[350Wedge]

J500ANT said:

Probably, but I would say its a last resort really.

Cool thanks. I know how damaging the stuff can be on cars, so as you say may be a last resort option !! I'll try a scraper etc first. I've actually got a metal credit card scraper for de-icing car windows so will give that a go first...

[robinhood21]

If it's on laminate, I would pop along to B&Q or a paint shop and purchase a window cleaner. When I say window cleaner, I mean one of those little plastic things that hold a Stanley-Blade and are used for removing paint spots from windows. Then damp the area to be scraped with water (to make it slippery) and gently scrape away the paint.

[J500ANT]

I'm sure Kim & Aggie used WD40 to get paint off a window, might be worth a try.