Editorial Product Review:

Amazon.com Item Description:
The Warner 1,000-watt radiant heat paint remover provides concentrated heat in a 6-1/2-by-3-1/2-inch heating surface to soften nearly 23 square inches of paint at one time. It features an open shield to get under edge of siding, a flip-over resting stand, plastic handle, and a three-wire ground cord. Wire support is provided for the tool when not in use. This 120-volt electrical paint remover is recommended for extreme and exterior use only.









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Customer Rating: - works but has disadvantages and quality problems
This product works more or less as designed (it is a large heater element, with a cheap metal reflector/cover and handle). THe nuts that hold the cover in place come loose as you use it and WILL fall off when You're not aware of it, so you would have to hunt through paint scrapings or grass or ? whatever is in your drop cloth to find it and probably won't be able to. The cover is actually a functional part of the device so you need to keep it in place. If it slides out of alignment, the element will be able to contact the surface of your house or other object you are scraping paint from and ignite the paint or wood more easily (and burn divits into the wood very quickly.) I would guess that Warner knows about this problem - there is no locking washer or other hardware to retain the nuts so they have probably been falling off and getting lost for as long as the company has made this item. Other problems are that it heats somewhat unevenly (right side hotter than left?) and that it is much too easy to ignite the paint, wood siding, or melt things (like wires on the exterior of your house - old houses have a lot of these for some reason). Be very careful while using this tool.

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Customer Rating: - Not sure about this product....
This product is basically just an element encased in some metal. I am used to using a heat gun, so this product kind of makes me nervous about hurting myself. It didn't work too well on the trim / woodwork I wanted to strip and I ended up going back to my heat gun rather than using this. Hopefully, I will be able to use it in the future for different projects.

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Customer Rating: - This electric paint burner
This is the second one I have owned, the first one I lost. Far as I know there is no substitute for this item when it comes to removing paint from wooden house siding or for garage doors(this is what I used my new one for). Heat guns just don't do the trick and are too slow.

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Customer Rating: - It works!!!
I bought this tool and had really high hopes for it. After donning a respirator mask, goggles, gloves, etc. and getting to work with this thing, I was somewhat disappointed. The paint bubbled and became a sticky mess, bleeding its way into the wood grain. Albeit the paint layers dated back to at least 1937 and there might have been an original coat of varnish under everything, but I had hoped for extreme makeover results.

I put the heat tool away and broke out a dremel tool with a fan sanding bit and started working the surface and it came clean...looking brandy spanking new.

A few weeks later I attempted a second window frame. This time I hit paydirt! There is a trick to using this thing, that I wish I had known. Listen closely...first...make sure your scraper is clean, no clumped up messes on it. Make sure it stays that way throughout the process. If you have to have multiple scrapers, or you have to stop partway through to clean it, do it. Trust me, its worth the effort. Second...do not overheat the paint. At first signs of bubbling, you will see a little smoke rising up, shift the heater away from your target spot slightly to begin the heat transfer process. As you move the heater down your surface, stick the corner of your scraper into the paint and lift it off of the surface, actually picking the paints surface and pulling it away from the wood and towards your body. DO NOT SCRAPE! The scraping seems to mash it into the wood. I was able to pull entire strips of paint right off by picking and lifting, making sure to gradually heat the surface and pull it slow.

I would suggest practicing this on some junk areas first. I wish I had known. Now I have a few hours of sanding ahead of me to fix my first attempt.