5 Best Deck Strippers For Removing Stains, Varnishes, Dirt, and Paint – Buying Guide & Reviews

This stripper comes in powder form, and once diluted with water will make enough to strip between 500 and 1,000 square feet of exterior wood. This formula is biodegradable, though grass and plants should be covered before application as direct contact with the wood stripper will burn foliage. You can also wet your plants and their soil, as then, any product that reaches them will be diluted, and this won’t cause any harm.

The stripper aims to remove most oil and latex-based sealers, varnishes, transparent or semi-transparent stains, along with dirt, mold, and mildew. The manufacturer recommends that the product be applied with a pressure washer or garden sprayer for maximum success. Particularly tough stains may require two applications, or alternatively, you can use less water when mixing to create a more heavily concentrated solution.

This stripper is not for use on solid paints or acrylic-based stains. It is recommended for use as the first step in a series of wood refinishing steps and should be followed up with a wood brightener to neutralize the pH of the wood.

Users of this product found it to be very impressive, working better at removing stains than other similar products they had tried. Some users expressed the belief that a garden hose would not be strong enough to remove the product and that a pressure washer really was necessary to complete the job. Users also found this product to be extremely caustic and recommended covering every part of your body before using the stripper to ensure that no splashes will reach and burn your skin.

Several applications of the product were needed to remove some tough stains completely, but this is not unusual, and considering that the powder makes up to five gallons of solution, there should be plenty to go around. Users also love how cost-effective the product is, working out at around $7 per gallon once diluted to the recommended concentration.

s did agree that the Woodrich customer service was top-notch, even in instances in which the product did not perform well.

This paint stripper is designed to remove almost any coating from interior or exterior wood, metal, plaster, plastic, concrete, glass, brick, and stone. It works on paints that are water-based, latex-based, oil-based, acrylic, urethane, and even old lead paint. The stripper is a paste that needs to be generously painted onto your surface and left for between 3 and 24 hours before being scraped off. It won’t dry out during that time, and upon scraping, you should find the stripper along with the paint peels off in large dry sections.

The stripper is water-based and odor-free, with no VOC’s. It is biodegradable and pH neutral, so you want have to follow up on the application with a wood neutralizer. The formula is safe for the environment, containing no toxic substances. It is safer for you and your family to use, being noncarcinogenic and noncaustic. The manufacturers of this product state it will remove up to 15 layers of paint in one application.

Users of this product love how well it performs on even decades worth of paint, as well as how mess-free the clean-up is. Some users recommend that the product is best left on for the full 24 hours for best results, before scraping away the paint with metal scrapers or wire brushes. They found that although lots of manual hard work was needed to reach the desired results, this stripper was able to remove layers of paint that other strippers didn’t even come close to. Users also recommended painting on the solution very generously, as a thin layer of stripper would not work. If you have a large deck to strip, then this stripper could work out to be quite costly, as lots of product is needed.

This wood stripper from DEFY is intended to remove clear or semi-transparent stains from any type of wood. It will also remove weathered sealers and varnishes. It comes ready to go and does not need to be diluted. You simply use a garden sprayer to mist the product all over damp wood and then wash it off, ideally with a pressure washer. If you don’t have any special equipment, you can work in small areas and apply this stripper with a paintbrush and then wash it off with a hose. The formula works to lift of the previous stain which can then be washed away with water.

Users of this product love the company’s customer service. After contacting DEFY’s parent company, SaverSystems, users of this product were delighted with their quick and helpful responses, in some cases receiving free products to continue their wood stripping projects. While some users did note that several applications of this stripper were required to achieve the desired result, they found that this stripper worked better than alternatives they had tried.

Users commented that the application process was easy, though time-consuming on large areas of wood. Some users found that the product performed better when applied to heavily soaked decks, rather than lightly moistened decks as per the stripper instructions.

This wood cleaner and stripper is designed to remove any type of stain or paint from wood, including mold, mildew, wood stain, wood sealer, semi-transparent, and solid paint. It comes in powder form, which has to be mixed with water before use, and then applied directly to the wood with a garden sprayer or mop.

The product should be left on for up to 30 minutes but not allowed to dry, so it is best to perform the application on a dry but overcast day, and you may need to apply further product before washing it off just to keep it wet. Once the time is up, you should wash it off with a pressure washer or hose. Being heavy-duty, the formula is highly toxic and should be washed off thoroughly and kept away from the skin as it is caustic.

Users of this product experienced mixed results. Some users were pleasantly surprised by how much paint or stain it removed from their deck. Many users found that some particularly tough spots needed a second application, or even to be sanded afterward to achieve a flawless result, but the stripper did a great job at removing the majority of the stain so that only minimal sanding was required. Some users found that this product did not work at all, and believed that pressure washing alone without the product would have produced the same results. However, users did agree that the Woodrich customer service was top-notch, even in instances in which the product did not perform well.

This wood stripper comes ready to use and requires no diluting, with one gallon covering between 100 and 150 square feet of deck. It removed the weathered sealer, clear, or semi-transparent stain. To use it, you can spray it on with a garden sprayer, or alternatively, use a mop or large paintbrush. After the solution has had 30 to 60 minutes to penetrate the wood, wash it off with a pressure washer. You’ll have to ensure the solution isn’t allowed to dry during this time, so ensure you save some of the stripper to top it up to prevent from drying, and ideally complete the application on a cool day so that the sun doesn’t dry the solution even quicker. This stripper will also remove dirt, algae, mold, and mildew. It will not work on paint or solid colored stains.

Users of this product love how easy it is to use, requiring no scrubbing, simply spraying on and spraying off. Users found that in order for the stripper to work successfully, it had to be applied very generously. Use several coats of the solution when spraying on, or paint the stripper on very thickly with a paintbrush or mop.

Users found that the use of a pressure washer to remove the stripper was absolutely essential, as a hose wouldn’t have been enough to lift off the stripper and the old stain. Many users found that if you had more than one layer of stain to remove, you would need to repeat several applications to remove it, as the stripper did not perform to a heavy-duty standard.