Preparing roadside railing - controlling dust

FazyLucker

Hi all,
I am about to re-introduce paint to a front railing which hasn't seen it in 40+ years. The railing itself is in relatively good condition (especially considering the lack of care it has received) but I need to properly strip back the railing and what remains of the old(er) coats of paint.
I'm intending using a small angle grinder to clean it back. My main concern is the absolute mess this will create, I don't want to destroy the footpath and every car nearby in the process (footpath about 3-4ft wide then parked cars)
Does anybody have any thoughts on how best to control the dust that this will create?
If I could get an industrial hoover which would control the dust, would that be sufficient if I had it right beside the part of the railing I was stripping back?

Calahonda52

given your moniker, leave it as is

listermint

Brass/steel brush on the end of a power drill. Leave the grinder aside.

kadman

Use a paint stripper.

standardg60

Hose it down before starting or do it when it's raining

FazyLucker

listermint wrote: »

Brass/steel brush on the end of a power drill. Leave the grinder aside.

Those things are useless. I have used them before. I might use one on the end of an angle grinder, but they are useless on a drill.

standardg60 wrote: »

Hose it down before starting or do it when it's raining

That's a recipe for a messy disaster all over the street and possibly adjacent cars. And I'll be using an electric grinder.

listermint

FazyLucker wrote: »

Those things are useless. I have used them before. I might use one on the end of an angle grinder, but they are useless on a drill.



That's a recipe for a messy disaster all over the street and possibly adjacent cars. And I'll be using an electric grinder.

****e drill :P


Use the grinder either it. But don't be bothering with grinding anything good brush is better for this task.

nick 56

I would suggest you use a gas torch and a scraper. the best scrapers for this job are the ones with a triangular head.

Brass brushes just polish the paint and an angle grinder damages the metal and is difficult and dangerous.

nick

policarp

If you are using an angle grinder or con saw
don't let the sparks fly towards windows.
.It will damage the glass.

Car99

Get a soda blaster .

TheChizler

Did this myself recently. Wire brush on the angle grinder didn't result in too much dust, nothing noticeable on the neighbours cars. Just use cardboard to protect against flying chips.

I had a bigger problem with noise and the brush wasn't as effective as you'd think so ended up doing most of it with a set of chisels and mallet, painful but it took every bit of paint off.

MrMusician18

Paint stripper.
If it's old paint there is likely lead in it which would eliminate any dry abrasive methods tbh for the diyer

MrMusician18

TheChizler wrote: »

Did this myself recently. Wire brush on the angle grinder didn't result in too much dust, nothing noticeable on the neighbours cars. Just use cardboard to protect against flying chips.

I had a bigger problem with noise and the brush wasn't as effective as you'd think so ended up doing most of it with a set of chisels and mallet, painful but it took every bit of paint off.

Ah that's where your moniker came from