How To Remove Paint From Metal Door Hinges

Don t worry about taking a door down or boiling hinges in vinegar or harsher chemicals.

How to remove paint from metal door hinges.

Good painters remove or cover door hardware before they paint. For example start with all the top hinges. 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. 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. Then re install all the top hinges and remove the middle hinges next. It took me the better part of a day but eventually all our hinges were beautiful and shiny again.

This simple trick will remove paint from hinges in a snap. Required tools for this how to remove paint from metal project. The paint may contain lead so catch all the sludge and throw it in the garbage. The paint will harden as it cools so scrub the hardware as soon as you pull it out of the water.