Nitromors - The Video They Don’t Want You to See 

Ha Ha. Good one.

It's sure a wallet stripper😁

It sells, that’s all that matters. Nobody is going to take them to court because it’s inadequate. As you say, it’s a nice little earner.

When they changed it, I phoned them up and complained. The person on the phone apologised profusely and conceded that the new version was next to useless.

How to make your own Nitromorse. One packet of Hot Water Lap, ( this is a starch based wallpaper past that uses Hot Water ) and a packet of Costic Soda. Mix Costic with hot water and add wallpaper past till thick. Apply to area to be stripped and cover with plastic sheeting for 45 minutes then strip with scraper.

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Me too 😂

Or a heat gun !😊

​@@ruthgadders8437 or maybe avoid huffin lead fumes an just get the new door.

Exactly. Heat gun takes ages aswell...

I agree with you re the 80’s. What a time to be alive!

And what most people don't know is that you could neutralise Nitromors with white spirit.

If it doesn't have an orange square with a black cross, it's no good.

Father Ted should be the basis of a philosophy degree

You wouldn’t say that if you had any idea how dangerous methylene chloride is.

It is banned in the USA too. But hey if snorting dichloromethane turns you on then you should be allowed to in my opinion.

@@executivesteps humour isn't your strong point .. 🙄😂

Ring 3M and read the MSDS and they'll tell you the one to use.

It doesn't do anything against a virus either, they are surgical masks to stop doctors contaminating an operating theatre with spit and cough droplets. That's about as much use they have.

@@Geo-vw9oz the same spot and cough droplets that covid uses as a medium. You might want to think,(think being the operative word here)about what you just said(wrote).🤔

Hes in the open air,"adequate ventilation"is being applied here me thinks. Just an informed opinion I guess.

@@Allencorgan4951 a cough droplet is made primarily of water, covid has a lipid bilayer meaning it doesn't stick to cough droplets. (Think = Oil and water doesn't Mix). Covid will pass through the mask but droplets won't. The N in N95 means Not oil resistant and a lipid is a fat or oil. Meaning covid will even pass through an N95 mask, so it will certainly pass through a surgical mask.

The same has happened with so many once-good products. The new 'safe' Hammerite paint is another one that is absolute rubbish compared to the original.

Yep, the original disintegrated the paint in no time, and your hands if you weren't careful. New stripper needs loads of coats, it just tickles it off after about 4 coats. Useless unless it's the only option. Prefer to burn it off now.

@@V8PropaneBurner so true worked in heavy engineering, use to have very effective degreaser, now the new environmentally products, are bloody useless and have to use a lot more of it.

@@V8PropaneBurner Hammerite is white spirit based now which is definitely not as good as the Coovar which is still based on the old school Hammerite, dries quicker.

Remember going into B&Q a few years ago for some weedkiller. Nothing on the shelves. No pesticides, fungicides, weedicides etc. Sales guy said they had been instructed to clear everything due to new EU health and safety rules. The stuff they sell nowadays is about as effective as vinegar. You may do better at an agricultural suppliers (if they're prepared to sell it to you).

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The higher the price does NOT necessarily mean the best 🤔🤔🤔🤔

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@@tof3275 Certainly not now .

Like B&Q’s masonry bits, twice the price, twice as shiiite.

But how did she get paint off? Perhaps I shouldn't ask !

@@thetessellater9163 paint is the least of your worries if shes called Jasmine.

haha funny guy....

How did she smell though, did you need a mask?

@@Martyfartini Yes a leather one with a zipped mouth 🤐

LMFAO ...

@@lukee.fokker6715 its funny but that's my first instinct for removing paint, 40 grit sand paper and let the grinder's weight be the only source of pressure, then go over again with a 120 grit wheel.

@@BType13X2 Use a festo unit .

I've seen that attempted on a fibreglass speed boat. Not the best results.

That's reminded me of a mate who bought an old farmhouse. The place needed a lot of work, and one of the "Round tooit" jobs was that all the solid wood doors needed stripping and repainting. There were something like 25 to 30 of the damn things (called "Z brace" doors IIRC?), and they'd been over painted for generations, without ever being taken back to bare wood, So they looked like they'd been liberally smeared in lumpy porridge by that point. :D He ended up taking them down and carefully dismantling the doors one by one. He kept/straightening all the old hand forged nails he could, Then shoved the planks through his thickness planer before reassembling them (Using the original nail holes as guides) and giving them a coat of decent paint. The planks on the doors started out probably somewhere near 1.5" (About 35mm) thick, and ended up being a little under 1" (25ish mm) thick afterwards, But as things like the locks and hinges were all surface mounted, he had very little trouble reassembling them all to fit again. A few door frames eventually needed adjusting to fit the thinner doors, but most just had draft excluder strips fitted to take up any gaps, and to get a much tighter fit than they'd had before. I thought he was mad when he told me about how he'd done the doors, until he pointed out that it took him 2 days of sanding and refinishing to get the first door looking "OKish", but by dismantling and using the thickness planer he was easily getting 5 doors a day done, They looked brand new, AND he didn't finish the day covered in a shedload of (Possibly) toxic lead filled paint dust. :D

I'd call this new stuff sh*t, but the residual stomach acid in sh*t would probably do a much better job of stripping paint than modern Nitromors. :D

Same thing happened to me a few years back. Happily trekked back from B&Q with some Nitromors and then it worked about as well as putting porridge on the paint. Was desperate for a while until I went on line and found out about the new formulation.

Absolutely. Life's too short for such nonsense

Agreed, with the single exception that, if you buy an new door, you have to fit and hang it from scratch. Having said that, working on the 'time is money' principle, it is probably still worth it as I get older.

Absolutely agree with this. And don't buy some crap door from BandQ - get something decent and you will find it's actually a plaeasure to paint awell made, brand new door.

I agree!! Paint strippers are a total waste of time, however, I'm pretty sure I could also strip the paint off that door with my belt sander in roughly the same amount of time that it would take me to go shopping for a new door and whatever else I'd need to do to prepare the door to be hung. I did a similar door last year with it, took a couple of hours, but next time I would place the door lower, I had it at workbench height and leaning over it wasn't very comfortable after an hour!

@@jehorigby8778 there is no such thing as ..quarter of an afternoon...in the building game. I was a general builder for 15 years. To get that properly sanded prepped and knotted. Then a coat of sealer, then undercoat maybe two, then two top coats ....is going to take the whole day.

Dichloromethane will actually break down epoxy resin,albeit slowly,so it’s got to be pretty powerful stuff!

@@MrJTJINX I

1950's we used to go to the chemist for sixpence worth of carbon tetrachloride to clean my Hornby Dublo model train tracks and contacts. Was actually recommended in the instructions. Same stuff as was in those brass fire extinguishers. Slight problem was that it released a deadly poisonous carcinogenic gas so not that good an idea.

@@MrJTJINX He meant Dichloromethane!

in my first flat i stripped all the old gloss with a blowtorch and scraper worked really well but stunk winter too so the windows werent open.... what a pillock i was

Me too.

Do they work for lacquer as well as paint?

You can buy a little lead paint test kit from decorators merchants

@@SkillBuilder cool ta 4 info,😀👍

If its time consuming then it is pretty useless .

At 106 getting a semi with stripper is a result 👍😂

@@stepheng8779 under rated comment here. Bravo sir.

​@@stepheng8779this is 2 years later and this is still a brilliant comment 😂

Godzilla?

Agreed, also it's easier, quicker and cleaner to work from the top to the bottom as you scrape downwards, so gravity assists the removal process when the paint starts to peel away as you work your way down the door/frame.

@@giotto4321 Been years since I last striped a door (got some that desperately need sorting out, but I've been procrastinating for the past month, or thirty). Anyhow, I've only ever done doors horizontal and never even thought about how working top to bottom on a vertical door would have made my life easier. So thanks for the tip. Might even manage to do them before the end of 2025 with this motivation to try it out.

Confused are u refering to a heat gun to use or the paint remover? Pls confirm.

I do like the sound of that, but how?

@@bluewanderer9903 I put in oak doors, frames , skirtings and stair handrail and spindles and used Danish oil. Id be lying if I said I did it to eliminate painting. I just like the look of natural wood and the relative ease to which you can achieve a good look.

Same here. Used Osmo wax-based oil. Amazing stuff but a bit pricey.

@@paul756uk2 good stuff, I would love to try something like that. I have only used danish oil once on a pao red deal timber on a work bench and garage shelving, managed to do it right the first time and it looks great. Must try it on more serious timber.

I can't stand the sauna look tbh but each to their own

Good advice

It's a good thing to mention, some people have the impression a mask is a mask; or worse, realise there are different types but can be bothered to use the correct one with the logic a wrong mask is better than no mask. I've seen plenty of you tube videos with people using an incorrect type and / or very poor fit. Once your health is damaged it's too late.

Know that feeling ….. knocked me bandy!

This is scare mongering. As long as you are reasonably careful you won't, as an adult doing DIY work, ingest amounts of lead into your body by stripping lead paint with paint stripper or by handling lead, which will cause you harm. What is not a good idea is stripping lead with a heat gun - if you do, take the item outdoors or open a window and set up a fan to blow air over the work towards the window. Similarly, try NOT to sand lead paint, if you do, vacuum the dust as you're going BUT you will need a vacuum that will filter the dust properly (generally expensive ones) - cheap vacs will just expel dust into the air, which will makes things far worse. It's a good idea to wear a PROPER mask that will filter fumes, not a cheap paper mask. Lead is most dangerous to children, and they should be kept well away. Remember that lead was added to petrol for about 80 years and consequently sprayed out into all our cities, towns and countryside. Get the danger into perspective BUT remember that once lead is in your body it's VERY difficult to get it out. Always WASH YOUR HANDS after handing lead, and preferably wear gloves. Lead was in paint because it protected the wood really well and gave a shine to paint that is impossible to reproduce today.

@@johnblanning2500 not going to day you are wrong or right all i do know is lead position put me on my arse sir

Yep, A2 P3 vapour and particulate is what you want. I started getting neurological symptoms after using Butanone Acetate upvc cleaner for 15+ years so vapour filters and good ventilation are a must!

100% chaps. I work in the respiratory protection industry, only one set of lungs look after ‘em

Also, don't touch the mask with your dirty gloves; especially if it's a paper one.

Came to say the same. These "surgical" covid masks are egress filters; won't stop much, least of all organic solvent fumes getting in.

@@dougsaunders8109 Not just the lungs... heart, brain, kidneys, liver too. Chemicals can get in anywhere!

Yeah, crushed walnut shell media works really well at getting varnishes off, but it can apparently dull any detail on intricate carving work underneath. An older relative of mine used to collect/restore antique shotguns, and I remember years back, him seeming annoyed when the quite ornate wooden stock for one project came back from the place he used for specialist blasting work. It turned out that the varnish on this one was so resilient to abrasion that as soon as they got through a patch of it, the walnut media would instantly start to scour the softer wooden edges of the fish scale carving beneath it, and round off all the "Crisp detail" it had. He acted all annoyed, but I'm pretty sure he was quietly happy to have an excuse to get out his tools and spend a week re-carving the details on the stock to his own exacting standards. :D He was a laugh. Half grumpy old git, half perfectionist tinkerer who couldn't do a hash job of anything if he tried. :D

Excellent video!

Especially if you're relying on completely the wrong breathing apparatus, like the pointless rubbish he's wearing in this video.

I was going to mention the fire risk but forgot so thanks for that. Let's hope people read the comments.

Or near glass

Or sash window frames, the weight box's act like a chimney!

Pin this comment to the top. Safety first.

I trained as a house painter & decorator in the 70s. Gas blow lamps were considered expensive and we still just about had parafin blow torches. Every summer I'd see a story in the local paper of a roof catching fire when people burned off at the eaves. I have never ever burned off at the fascia and soffits in forty years. Not worth it. And any burning off around window ends an hour or more before going home just in case something was smouldering quietly. We also carried a fairy liquid bottle of water to squirt just in case a bit got too hot.

Was ok on thick parts of your skin but any getting on your wrists/arms face etc really miffed you off!

I’ve still got half a tub of the old stuff that’s going on eBay now 😂

@@MrStella1976 Would be interesting to see a side by side comparison video. I was sat here watching the video thinking "What are the chances I could find somebody with a tin of the original stuff that'd sell it to me so I could do a comparison?"

@@damionlee7658 I have roof purlin ends to strip I’m going to give one of those a go with it

@@damionlee7658 you can still buy it, sysnstrip. The 'banned' product was dichloromethane. thats what was in the original nitromors.

Ooo that doesn't sound safe 😂 but would definitely be easier to deal with.

I have a bucket of Klingstrip that I got years ago on a conservation job, great stuff that actually works and a lot nicer to use than Nitromors.

Or just cover them in sticky back plastic?

@@thetessellater9163 Damn, beat me to it.

That makes me laugh. The E.U is less effective in France than it was in the U.K

@@SkillBuilder to be fair, France has always been a bit of a law unto itself when it came to the EU rules and regs that their government didn't fully support. Not always a bad thing, not always a good thing.

When we were in the EU I said to a Portuguese friend who was saying they did something in Portugal which was unlawful according to EU regulations - I said " you can't do that, the EU have banned it so it affects Portugal as well as the UK" . The response was "yes well you take notice in the UK. We don't take any notice in Portugal" .

@@MrJTJINX Just go very easy with it. It's seemingly very easy to blast the face of the brick off and then you're screwed and you'll be back to painting it forever.

What doubts? nitromors works fine too, each tool got its own purpose and may be handy in areas sensitive to the heat. if you use heatgun you have to be careful being near the carpet etc. Probably cleanest way.

Good tip, I will try it

I've used the no nonsense stuff and it works. Niromors is a lot more money and doesn't always work much better - really dependent upon the paint. You do need to work it in to the paint as the layers start to come off as it won't usually go through more than one or two at a time but its cheap enough to just lash on. I have discovered on very old heavy oil based paints that it turns it to a sort of melted chocolate mess. Best way I've found is to work that well and then use a good detergent to cause it to clump a little and then rinse well with a stiff bristle handbrush - the latter will go in the bin as you'll never get it removed. Heatgun inside with old paint that may have lead in it isn't always an option....

@@guffermeister I wonder if scoring through the paint would improve its results, especially on multiple layers. Risks leaving score marks on the underlying wood if not careful, which might be a concern.

You can still buy methelyne chloride from specialist trade centres but not from DIY outlets. The trade outlets presume you know what you are doing.

@@SkillBuilder - something like that, anyway - methylene chloride, or dichloromethane.

Well it took until 2000 to make asbestos illegal and they knew it was toxic in 1930

Yeh, completely agree as the home I live in had a hot air blower system to circulate heat had asbestos as a protector, before i moved in they had to be removed. After I wanted to make a feature of the placements but needed to be checked for any remaining pieces but fortunately was cleared.😀👍

And dangerous!

@@jack1d1XB yeah so dangerous we all died from using it... One of my fav evil trucks back then, a light coating on the palm of the hand, then slap someone on the back of the neck where there's more sensitive skin so they would feel the burn.... Grabbing them by the wrist worked too.... (If doing this remember to really wash hands before a trip to the toilet...) Oh the fun of the old days....

I know a Romanian guy working in a farmyard who does it, or to be more precise he gets his wife and kids to do it.

@@SkillBuilder Hee hee! I also do know someone that is still doing it , but all a bit hush hush! Stay safe cheers

Love the smell of creosote 😃

@@jimh4072 so many product that are really bad for us smelt so good... Barely anything smells as good now as it did several decades back. But maybe that's not a bad thing... I definitely wasn't as careful about breathing in fumes when opening containers as I should have been.

In my experience strippers don't take too kindly to the suggestion of putting a plastic bag over their head.😆

@Hazels88 Yes , but not much better ... have used both recently ...

To be fair it's doing a fairly good job of protecting the painted surface from him 😂 Maybe it's part of his controlled experiment.

Yep, been doing that way for years. Hard work but the results are worth it.

I know your brother locNess

It is a covid mask to protect you

Maybe he doesn’t with to be protected from the fumes!!! I think Richard was a raver back in the day.

Casper I knew that it was useless but I thought I would make the gesture.

@@SkillBuilder Thanks for the reply Roger. I presumed that you knew it wasn't doing anything, it just doesn't seem like a good idea, someone watching this who knows nothing about masks might think that they are going to be protected when stripping paint. Look how many people think that a bit of paper is going to save them from Covid 🤔😁

@@casperme6552 - you can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink.