Ready Strip Paint Remover Works Great when Refinishing Furniture

I love yard sales. They are great places to find furniture, and when you live on a budget like we do, every chance you get to save a little money is great. Last summer I found this wonderful bedroom dresser that matched the design of the furniture we had in our spare bedroom. At least it appeared to be similar in design. It was hard to tell with the layers of paint that had been applied to it over the years. Deciding that I had to have it I payed the couple having the yard sale for it and borrowed a friends truck to pick it up.

When I got it home my husband looked at it and decided I had wasted money on something that would never be salvageable. I of course told him to have a little faith and proceeded to attempt to refinish the dresser. After purchasing a paint stripper from the local hardware store I made a very ill fated attempt at removing the paint. Let's just say I didn't have much luck at all. I knew that under the paint there had to be a beautiful piece of furniture but getting to the original finish was going to be harder than I first thought.

I remembered hearing an infomercial a few months before this all happened for a product that claimed it could removed several layers of paint from furniture or floors with hardly no trouble at all. Since I was only half way listening to the infomercial the name of the product did not stick in my mind. I decided after that horrible attempt at stripping the dresser that I had to find that product and give it a try. Luckily it wasn't hard to find.

The product known as Ready Strip arrived to my house in a big pail and I could not wait to try it. I expected when opening the pail that I would smell those fumes associated with all paint strippers but there was literally no fumes. For someone who gets headaches from smelling even bleach this was great. I wouldn't have to worry about that. Already I was loving this product.

As directed by the label I applied a coat of the green Ready Strip onto my paint covered dresser and prepared to wait. After a while the green paste started to change color. I was worried that I had done something wrong and that now I would never be able to use this yard sale find in my home. I realized after reading the label a bit more carefully that the green paste would turn to white when it was ready to be removed. Breathing a sigh of relief I found my scraper and prepared for a lengthy scraping session. Boy was I surprised when it tool little effort for the paint and the Ready Strip paste to come off the dresser. In no time I had stripped all the paint off the top. I'm sad to say that the color of the original wood was not what I was hoping for but with a bit of staining it was salvageable.

I loved the ready strip and can't wait to find another piece of furniture at a yard sale to try it on. It's easy to use, fume free and cleans up with water. What's not to love about that?

Ready Strip can be purchased online from www.readystrip.com. They even have a product demonstration showing how the color turns when it is ready to be removed.