Sunnyside Corporation Sunnyside 65832A Ready-Strip ADVANCED Paint & Varnish Remover, Quart

I have been using this to strip a dresser I got on marketplace. It had a layer of stain and 2 to 3 layers of paint on it. I have put it on 2 times to get all of it off. Works well paired with a carbide scraper. Not a super strong smell to it.

Best paint remover I’ve ever used and I’ve used a lot. I don’t understand how it says it’s frequently returned unless it’s because of the spray. Spraying doesn’t work well. I unscrewed the to and poured in a container. I give this product 5 stars.

Pros: Water clean up, relatively skin safe, doesn’t eat through thick nitrile/rubber gloves very fastCons: Takes MUCH more than advertised to get job done, SMELLS awful1) NOT low odor. I’m working in a single car, detached garage with the overhead and entry doors open at opposite ends, and a box fan running to encourage cross breeze, on a beautiful 70°F, sunny, breezy day, and I was getting overwhelmed by the odor. I would absolutely NOT use this stuff inside.2) Does NOT remove 12 coats of paint. I have >60yo wood doors with 4 coats of paint on top of what I think is a pigmented varnish, sent as part of a bet between deities as to who can make me give up and go live as a mountain hermit. The paint took 2 thick applications to remove (the 1st - overnight covered in plastic). The single layer of varnish took another 2 applications (again, overnight covered in plastic).Pro Tip: mist it with water when you scrape it off.3) 2 sides of 1 interior (4-panel style) door has taken 3/4 gallon, and I only did a 4th application on the detailed/inset/hard to sand molding parts.I’ll finish the gallon on the next door, but will not repurchase.

I purchased this to remove the paint and numbering from a couple vintage steel milk bottle I had purchased. The actual stripper worked very well. It's extremely thick and sticks well to the sides of vertical surfaces. I put it on the stainless steel bottle and left it for a few hours, the paint came right off. I also used it on an older fully painted non-stainless milk jug, that worked well too. In fact, when I realized I hadn't purchased enough to do the second milk bottle, my husband bought some "CitriStrip" from our local home improvement store and that didn't work nearly as well as this, but it didn't make sense to buy more of this until I used that up, I wish I could have.That said - the spray bottle was a mistake. This stuff is super thick, so every time you squirt with the spray bottle, a little bit comes out, then it takes *forever* for the handle to pop back out to spray again. I ended up giving up and just taking the top off and squeezing it onto the surface and spreading it around with my (gloved) finger. I had some disposable nitrile gloves to protect my hands - this stuff will affect the gloves, in that they tear more easily after its been on it, but it doesn't eat through immediately or anything. Note to the manufacturer - this probably wouldn't be an issue if the spray bottle top/tube was sized correctly for the thickness of the fluid.Overall, I would definitely buy this stuff again, but I would just get a half gallon instead of the sprayer. Took 1 star off for the crappy sprayer. Otherwise, a good buy.Note: This review is for "Sunnyside Corporation 68532 Hi-Speed Ready-Strip Citrus Paint & Varnish Remover, Quart Trigger Spray, Assorted", which I purchased in the "Hi-Speed Ready Strip" / "Quart Trigger Spray" style on 4/6/2022.

We bought this to help strip detailed areas from our kitchen cabinets for a refinishing. The product worked a little bit, removing most of the varnish. We used a brushed to remove as instructed in the directions since it was not a flat area. Afterward, there was a sticky mess that needed to be sanded off parts of the cabinets/doors. At this point I can't say if this saved time from hand sanding the detailed parts or not. It was probably the same arm motion and same amount of strokes to remove with a brush as it was to sand. Also, the solution is too thick to spray evenly, so there was a mess that needed to be spread out. Maybe it was a bad sprayer on my bottle, but it doesn't seem like the product is sprayable. In the end, the areas of the cabinets and doors where this was used did not fully stain through and needed extra work anyway. Maybe it should've stayed on longer than an hour. In the end, I feel like I did the same amount of work spreading it out, removing, and sanding away the gunk left behind than if I just sanded with only sand paper.... and wouldn't have spent money on this product.

It made it so much easier to scrape. We counted 6 layers from before 1980. It did not take everything off, but it was so much easier to scrape. The photos show results of using a paint scraper knife only. We will still use the drill metal wire brushes to fully clean it up, but this has saved so much time. Makes it faster to finish the fence panel without having to make so much noise with the drill bit. We only use the drill from 10-3 pm so not to bother the neighbors with so much noise. Also I can work on the fence and scrape it before 10:00 am or after 3pm since it makes no noise and get the panel ready for the drill for the next day.Great on the fancy "flower" for lack of a better word, a lot of the paint came off. Will have to do a second coat on that one, but it was much easier to clean up.Glad I tried it.