They were all painted shut and contain about 6 layers of paint.
A lot of the detail on the casing has been lost because the paint is SO thick on there.
I'd also like to remove the paint from the channel(?)(the part the window actually slides up and down).
It has aluminum guides, but above and below it's painted and I'd like it to match.
I read somewhere that heat guns can cause fires behind walls and now I'm slightly paranoid about burning my house down
...I'd never hear the end of it and my husband would want our next house to be a brand new build
Stripping this paint with traditional stripper is excruciatingly slow, expensive, and messy. I ruin more stuff with stripper than Im saving, if anything
How likely is it that a heat gun will burn a house down?
It's normal to use a heat gun on window frames, sills, aprons, casings, and the like, right?
What precautions need to be taken?