Few pieces of furniture are every bit timeless as well-made wicker. Wicker is a pliable blazon of wood, yet it stands up to the elements longer than most regular wooden pieces. Near types of wicker are painted at the manufactory they were produced in with either a coloured paint or a clear varnish that brings out the wood colours. Removing this paint, and particularly years of excessive paint, is not an impossible task. Recoloring or revarnishing your wicker afterwards stripping it can transform it to look like a brand new piece of piece of furniture.

Place the piece of wicker you will be working with in a well-ventilated area, such as a garage with the garage door half open.

  • Few pieces of furniture are every bit timeless too-fabricated wicker.
  • Place the piece of wicker you lot will be working with in a well-ventilated area, such equally a garage with the garage door half open.

Lay the paper on the floor where you volition be working on the wicker piece. Make sure enough newspaper is laid down so that whatsoever splatters volition be covered, or about 2 feet across the wicker piece on all sides.

Place the wicker furniture on pinnacle of the newspaper. Weigh down the corners of the newspaper if wind or airflow moves the paper.

Cutting the bristles of the 1-inch paint brush with the scissors so only ane inch of bristles remain.

Put on the gloves and safety goggles. This volition continue your easily and eyes rubber from any splashing or spilling chemicals.

Wipe away equally much paint as you can with the shortened paintbrush if the paint is already chipping. Only concentrate on pigment chips that are already loose enough to remove easily.

  • Identify the wicker furniture on top of the newspaper.
  • Wipe away every bit much paint as you can with the shortened paintbrush if the paint is already chipping.

Dip the 2-inch paintbrush into the paint stripper, and apply it to the wicker. It is all-time to outset in a unmarried surface area and work your way around the wicker rather than just coating the entire slice all at one fourth dimension. Allow the stripper at least twenty minutes to start loosening the pigment.

Use the shortened 1-inch brush to remove every bit much of the stripped pigment equally possible. Experiment with different brush strokes to remove the paint as much as y'all tin. Beginning with a circular scrubbing motility, and then a perpendicular up and down scrubbing. Finding the best way to scrub the stripped paint is a sort of learning process and varies past each different slice of wicker.

  • Dip the ii-inch paintbrush into the paint stripper, and apply it to the wicker.
  • Experiment with different brush strokes to remove the pigment as much every bit you lot can.

Use the toothbrush to scrub away the stripped pigment in corners and modest crevices. Over again, experiment with different scrubbing techniques to observe the one that works all-time. Repeat all the stripping steps until as much pigment has been removed from the entire wicker piece as possible.

Let the wicker to dry for at least 48 hours once all the paint has been removed before refinishing or repainting.

Endeavour a multifariousness of scrubbing instruments to remove the stripped pigment if the paintbrushes are not doing the job. Make sure you are very gentle with the wicker, every bit it volition soften and become very supple and pliable when the stripper has been applied. The wicker will tighten and harden when it dries.

It may exist impossible to remove all of the paint from a piece of wicker, especially if the pigment is newer or completely intact. Many wicker pieces are painted or varnished at the factory. Removal of this pigment, depending on quality, may be very difficult. Wicker will "soak up" many colour pigments of paint, particularly if information technology was never varnished or given a clear coat before paint was practical. Repainting the piece may be necessary to cover whatsoever colour-stained spots.