Removing Matt Acrylic Paint

[Deleted User]

Some eejit has painted the pvcu front door on my house (social housing) with matt acrylic paint. I like upvcu to look nice and shiny and white, not a dull matt badly painted cream.

Looked online for how to remove it and seen advice saying use nail varnish, methylated spirits etc but these are all ways to remove solvent based paints which this definitely isn't. Just on the off chance, I tried nail varnish and white spirits and that definitely didn't work. Upvc restorer does remove a very very thin layer but would probably use a whole bottle and not make much progress lol. Somehow I suspect the advice is for gloss type paints rather than acrylic matt paints.

I'd rather not scrape it off if I can avoid it. I've got this problem on a number of gloss painted doors covered patchily with matt acrylic but I don't mind sanding them down. Not wanting to do this to the pvcu door.

Any ideas?

Furts

I suspect it was painted because it was marked, damaged, or yellowing with age. If so, removing the paint is not going to reveal a pristine door. But also be realistic. Upvc is a cheap building material which rapidly looses its shiny white finish - it goes dull and matt. Which means you will not achieve a "nice and shiny and white" finish.

bspm1

deannatrois wrote: »

Some eejit has painted the pvcu front door on my house (social housing) with matt acrylic paint. I like upvcu to look nice and shiny and white, not a dull matt badly painted cream.

Looked online for how to remove it and seen advice saying use nail varnish, methylated spirits etc but these are all ways to remove solvent based paints which this definitely isn't. Just on the off chance, I tried nail varnish and white spirits and that definitely didn't work. Upvc restorer does remove a very very thin layer but would probably use a whole bottle and not make much progress lol. Somehow I suspect the advice is for gloss type paints rather than acrylic matt paints.

I'd rather not scrape it off if I can avoid it. I've got this problem on a number of gloss painted doors covered patchily with matt acrylic but I don't mind sanding them down. Not wanting to do this to the pvcu door.

Any ideas?

Buy a new door

[Deleted User]

buy a new door and fit it.., out of my skill range and budget so not an option. I'd rather remove the paint lol. If necessary I will scrape it off but as already explained, I'd rather not.

Sorry but its not yellowing (the front is unpainted) and I use UPVC restorer so it soon cleans up and goes shiny again. Anyone with similar DO NOT buy Wikes UPVC restorer, it does nothing. Thompson's UPVC restorer works very well. Vim not recommended either, it just scours (had loads of people tell me about it lol).

Any ideas on how to remove (if its possible) matt acrylic paint?