Fortunately any knob escutcheon plate or hinge can easily be made to shine again without the need for noxious chemicals expensive tools or uncomfortable gear.
How to remove paint from metal door hinges.
The other kind of painter just slops it over any exposed metal and ruins the door s appearance.
It took me the better part of a day but eventually all our hinges were beautiful and shiny again.
The paint may contain lead so catch all the sludge and throw it in the garbage.
Remove them and scrape the paint from all those hinges.
Save yourself time and energy with this simple and easy hack to removing paint on door hinges.
To avoid removing the doors systematically remove one hinge from each door.
For example start with all the top hinges.
Required tools for this how to remove paint from metal project.
This simple trick will remove paint from hinges in a snap.
The paint will harden as it cools so scrub the hardware as soon as you pull it out of the water.
Good painters remove or cover door hardware before they paint.
Then re install all the top hinges and remove the middle hinges next.