This one was ugly and thick. Took two strips and major defelting afterwards.
You know it will be tuff when part is shiny and thick:
and other parts are dry and flakey:
But don't let the flake fool ya as ya still have to disolve it to get underneith it. The above light brown sections of acrylic still took two strip.
I threw hydroxide, gylcol, and butyl at it and let dwell 10-15. Helper kept it wet throughout as acrylic luvs to go back solid.
Scraping through the gunk with a stick to bare wood lets me know when it ready:
Got to be ready for piles of goop.. This one filled a fiver:
You know ya got it all, or close to all when the wood turns dark from the water and chems getting in the wood:
Downside to such aggressive acrylic stripping is likely furring of the wood:
Here is after we countersunk the nails with palmnailer and defelted with low speed swing buffer:
I won't kid ya none, this job was tuff and there was a tad collateral damage. Lost a little of the solid trim at the house as it was inset lower than deck and the first foot of plants at edge received some goop as well as some needed trampling in order to get in there and stain. Oh and no we did not strip it all off the verticle fascia boards. AC stain followed and worked out for both verticles and horizontal.
