Sunnyside 65732A Multi-Strip ADVANCED Paint & Varnish Remover, Quart

This is a pretty good product, I’d decided to pain my shower tile but chose the wrong paint and wanted it gone. Left it on over night, next day it was easy to scrape. Applied to the rest of the shower room and use a scrubbing net and brush. Some areas I had to go in twice. I also had a bit of paint on the skin and that came off within a few minutes. So I think depending on the surface and paint layers outcomes will differ but overall the product does the job.

It made it so much easier to scrape. We counted 6 layers from before 1980. It did not take everything off, but it was so much easier to scrape. The photos show results of using a paint scraper knife only. We will still use the drill metal wire brushes to fully clean it up, but this has saved so much time. Makes it faster to finish the fence panel without having to make so much noise with the drill bit. We only use the drill from 10-3 pm so not to bother the neighbors with so much noise. Also I can work on the fence and scrape it before 10:00 am or after 3pm since it makes no noise and get the panel ready for the drill for the next day.Great on the fancy "flower" for lack of a better word, a lot of the paint came off. Will have to do a second coat on that one, but it was much easier to clean up.Glad I tried it.

This does what it says it does. That being said it has pros and cons.Pros are that it works well in stripping multiple layers of old paint, including paint that contains lead. I selected this product in searching for a dust free solution to remove 12-15 layers of 100+ year old paint from this door and frame as safely as possible and it did get the job done. It did not create a sticky mess as did other paint strippers and it does clean up with water. You DO have to CLOSELY follow directions. This result required two THICK coats over two days with a partial removal in between. I used a stiff putty knife and a multi blade paint scraper to get it off.The cons - it took a LOT of work - about 12 man hours total to get this result. Granted there is a lot of detail inlaid trim that required extra attention, but it still required a lot of scraping. It was NOT as easy as the description made it seem. Also, because it is water based and it contains acid, no matter how careful I was it resulted in damage to the wood; there were tons of peelings and splinterings and curlings as a result of the softening the product caused so be careful how you use it. Also I would advise covering each application with taped plastic to hold moisture in to prevent evaporation; it dispersed into the air quickly which caused me to use more than I would have liked. I used 2/3 of a gallon just on this one door, making this an expensive option for extensive projects. I need to strip about 100 sq ft of trim in the same room and due to the cost I will not likely be using this product considering the cost and man hour factors. I can accomplish the same results with a paint removing heat gun for far less cost and time in good ventilation and still have a heat gun when I am done.Over all, I can give it 4 stars because it does do what it claims but I have to withhold a star because it is just too time and money consuming for the end result.

Pros: Water clean up, relatively skin safe, doesn’t eat through thick nitrile/rubber gloves very fastCons: Takes MUCH more than advertised to get job done, SMELLS awful1) NOT low odor. I’m working in a single car, detached garage with the overhead and entry doors open at opposite ends, and a box fan running to encourage cross breeze, on a beautiful 70°F, sunny, breezy day, and I was getting overwhelmed by the odor. I would absolutely NOT use this stuff inside.2) Does NOT remove 12 coats of paint. I have >60yo wood doors with 4 coats of paint on top of what I think is a pigmented varnish, sent as part of a bet between deities as to who can make me give up and go live as a mountain hermit. The paint took 2 thick applications to remove (the 1st - overnight covered in plastic). The single layer of varnish took another 2 applications (again, overnight covered in plastic).Pro Tip: mist it with water when you scrape it off.3) 2 sides of 1 interior (4-panel style) door has taken 3/4 gallon, and I only did a 4th application on the detailed/inset/hard to sand molding parts.I’ll finish the gallon on the next door, but will not repurchase.

I give this a 3.5 out of 5. I am a big fan of Sunnyside Multi-strip, but I wanted something faster. I tried Jasco and Klean Strip's "safer" strippers, but they smelled awful and barely took off 1 layer. So, I tried this one. It is faster, but it is not nearly as thick as the other Sunnyside strippers, so it does not "cling" to vertical surfaces. I think it would be a lot better on a horizontal surface, but I am working on a door frame. Because it is not drip-free, the coverage is not even; lower sections that caught drips showed more progress than sections closer to the top. What I started doing was covering the stripper-brushed areas with wax paper to "hold" the stripper in place, which seemed to help. The stripper does stay wet longer, as I noticed areas where I had stripped last night were still a little wet this morning without the wax paper. Again, it does work, and I will use it, but unlike its fellow Sunnyside stripper products, it's penchant for dripping does not make it the best option for vertical surfaces. However, it does make it possible to strip in 4 hours instead of the normal 8 hours for the multi-strip.