Smart Strip Advanced

This stuff works like Magic! I’ve never used anything better. We are using it to refinish the wood walls in a Midcentury modern home we purchased. There is A LOT of wood to refinish, with layers and layers of oil, dirt, and assorted finishes to be removed. (Dating back to 1950 when the house was built.). We have tried Klean strip premium- which claims to be effective within 15 mins. Also tried the citrus strip. Neither of these products has come even remotely close to the result that smart strip has provided. After an easy wipe down, the wood is very clean. The other products left the wood in a sticky, gross and unmanageable mess! As a last ditch effort we decided to try smart strip and for the first time, it feels like we will definitely be successful! We initially tried sanding, but even that wasn’t working! This truly has been the answer. We hadn’t tried the dumond paper or Saran Wrap, but are going to incorporate that now as well! Either way- the smart strip alone has proven itself. Thank you!

This product was amazing and really works! It has virtually no odor and is relatively easy to use. 1000 times better than the first paint remover I used from the big box store.

Lid is a nightmare. Who came up with this design? Super hard to get off, then the product is all over your hands, the edges, the lid. Then when you need to put it back on you have to hammer it and clean around the whole container. A twist off lid would have been much better. I had to buy a separate container to store it in. Annoying. But, I love the actual paint remover. Super low fumes, removes oil based and water based paint much better than other “low fumes/voc” strippers. Happy with the product.

I used this to strip multiple layers of paint from my driveway. It works very well. However, you do need to put a fair amount down to cover the paint. Approximately an 1/8" to 1/4" of product on top. Let it sit for at least five hours. Also, it's important to stay within the 24 hour window. I let some sit for longer than that and it became less effective. I pressure washed my off which worked fine.

Having tried both products, I regret purchasing Smart Strip rather than Peel Away for my latest project of removing multiple layers of paint from a stair railing. One coat wasn't sufficient for the job, that rapidly turned into a gooey mess. Decided to use Bahco premium scrapers, also available via Amazon, on the other parts of the railing. They made a quick job of removing the paint (that definitely wasn't lead-based, considering the build year of the home) down to the wood, with blades available for varying contours. Although the wood must still be sanded (due to pore closure) prior to staining, the scrapers were superior for that particular job.

This works wonderfully even stripping painted hardwood floors. I had been sanding the floors by hand, but decided to finish up the sanding with getting rid of the paint first with this product and to my amazement it works wonderful, and I didn’t even have to buy their paper that goes along with it, which is an additional great cost. I first tried wax paper because some people had tried wax paper, but honestly saran wrap has worked wonderfully! You kind of scrape and fold the paint onto the saran wrap as you’re going. There’s no smell and it was easy to use and the stickiness you have to wash off when you’re done stripping but it’s very durable! A note of importance, I put this down at 77° for an hour, and it lifted off perfectly and a plastic scraper that I used was a little harder point than a little rounder that comes with it! One photo shows the amount of paint that I used in the saran wrap, the second photo is showing the paint gone with just the finish on the hardwood floors, which is a little reddish! So you can see it it’s lifted beautifully.

This one doesn't work well. Used this exactly as directed, then tried again with a plastic-wrap cover to prevent drying (as suggested elsewhere). I left it for 3 hours and it barely removed the top coat of paint (there were only 3 total paint layers). I then put more on and left it overnight and it turns into a sticky glue-like substance that is very hard to remove, and the paint remained intact. To make sure it wasn't user error. I did a side by side with a different but similar product and treated both the exact same. I left them both overnight covered in plastic on similar sections of the same door. That product worked easily and well, this one did not

Why did you pick this product vs others?: I've used over a quart of this product now and it really does a nice job without the toxic chemicals and fumes of the traditional paint strippers. Pay attention to the dwell time and clean the stripped surface with denatured alcohol when you're done. I'm using it to restore a Lane cedar chest that had been spray painted with black automotive paint many years ago. It slicks it off easily with no damage to the veneer.