How do i remove old paint form wood?

i dont have paint remover wondering if there is another wayHow do i remove old paint form wood?
You can buy a quality scraper; get one with a replaceable carbide blade. The blades are expensive, but are the only kind that I find cuts the paint well. [I scrape a lot of old paint!] The scraper I use most has a blade about 2'; long and the blade is 2-sided, so you can flip it over when one side has dulled. And when scraping, try different angles at which to hold the scraper; the angle at which the blade meets the paint, makes a difference!





You can also use a heat gun. Some will caution you about paint fumes, but it's not to worry about. Even with lead paint, the danger comes from dust particles [which, of course, you'd get with the sanding process and should in that case wear a suitably safe mask].


A heat gun works wonders. They cost about $35; it's basically just a [hotter] hair dryer. The heat literally lifts the paint off the wood, while you scrape it away, moving small sections off at a time. I like it better than chemical strippers because it is less of a mess and it takes more of the paint off in one application. It doesn't work very well, however, on latex paint, only oil based paint. In conjunction with the heat gun, use a flat blade scraper [not the paint scraper as mentioned above].





Of course it depends on how much paint you've got to remove, but unless it's just a very little bit, the only kind of sander that will really remove much will be a belt sander.How do i remove old paint form wood?
You can sand it off.
Depends on how many coats of paint there is. If there is only one coat you can sand it, if there is multiple layers, I would use a heat gun and scraper. If you sand multiple layers, all you do is clog up the sand paper, that could be expensive. Or you can go chemical and use paint remover which can get messy.





If you don't own a heat gun you can rent them or buy one. They cost about $60.00
sand or scrape both work well just becarful not to damage the wood by working to long in one spot.