Is it on the ground? If so is the ground stained?Removing interior high gloss paint from the garage floor?
The methods you have been given will work -sorta. The problem is that the removal process itself will leave a mark of some kind. I'm assuming that the concrete floor is unpainted.
Try this:
Look at the paint can to see if its water-based. If the clean up instructions say to use soap and water to clean up; its water based. If they say to use a chemical thinner, then it is oil based.
First, use mechanical methods (scraping, mainly) to get off the thick crud whether it be water or oil based.
If the spill is a latex or other water-based coating, then come back over it with ';Goof-Off'; or similar aggressive solvents, which often say, right on the can, ';cleans up latex paint spills'; or something similar.
If you're fighting an oil base, you can start out using gasoline, which may work fine. PURE gasoline -not the stuff that has oil mixed into it. The worse that can happen (assuming you're not smoking at the time) is nothing.
No good? OK, try this trick, after scraping. Spray the affected area with clear gloss laquer. Sounds all wrong, I know. But what the laquer will do (when this works) is to suck up the paint from the pores in the concrete and trap it on the top -a lot of it, anyway. Now come back with sandpaper and/or steel wool to remove the dried laquer. The laquer dries FAST, so in 10 minutes you'll know if this approach was effective. If it was effective, you can do 2 or 3 more treatments.
Otherwise, or additionally, come back with toulene or MEK or similar solvent -a consult at the paint department will guide you. Apply it, then cover the area with paper towels and put some weight on them -just enough to assure good contact and let the towels suck up the solvent and paint. Let that sit there for a day and then pull everything away. Repeat if you like.
After you fuss with this for awhile, no matgter what you do, you'll see the paint has been removed for the most part, but you'll also see a halo where the paint, and then the solvent, were applied. What's happening here is 1) the paint and solvents were sucked into the pores of the concrete and have reacted chemically with the concrete. You can't reverse that; and 2) the concrete at the spill site is now ';too clean'; compared to the area around it. You can't reverse that, either. But, you can continue cleaning around the site -maybe the entire floor. Don't make a big deal out of this -just use TSP or something similar and give the place a good cleaning.
Your other ally is TIME. In time, the spill site will become less evident and a blending with surrounding areas will take place. It will never go away -but it won't stick out like a sore thumb, either.
It is important to understand that any scrubbing or application of force is likely to make both spilled material and the solvents penetrate even deeper into the concrete -so ';gentle'; is good.
The heat gun approach may be helpful as part of the scraping process. Just make sure you heat it enough to soften it. Don't let it burn or become so fluid that it goes deeper.
I hope this helps.
If it's latex paint:
http://home.howstuffworks.com/how-to-rem鈥?/a>
If it's oil-based:
http://www.extremehowto.com/xh/article.a鈥?/a>
strip ezs use rubber gloves put on with brush let sit for few min scrape up it will bubble and very strong so open garage pls best there is.let me know
Paint remover? DUH.
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