Removing Bitumin flashing

[Barlidge]

Hmm, whats the best way to remove this old flashing, I know white spirit dissolves it but its going to end up running down the wall, I did thing of angle grinder with wire brush but thought that might just smear it around. Was also thinking heat gun might help to get the worst of it of.

Hoping for something magical I haven't thought of

 

[cheb]

Cut or scrape the bulk of it off and then heavy duty absorbent paper and a clothes iron? Much like you remove wax, but bigger and dirtier.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Hmm, whats the best way to remove this old flashing, I know white spirit dissolves it but its going to end up running down the wall, I did thing of angle grinder with wire brush but thought that might just smear it around. Was also thinking heat gun might help to get the worst of it of.

Hoping for something magical I haven't thought of

Heat gun to soften and a sharp scraper maybe to get the bulk off.

 

[brightspark]

if its cold it may come of easier using a 1inch wood chisel and elbow grease then slowly try a twisted wire wheel on an angle grinder https://www.google.co.uk/search?sou...wiz.....0..0j0i131j0i10j0i8i13i30.wIihNNJeLAc no matter what you do the face of the brick will not get back to original colour .the only way would be to knock the bricks out and put new ones in to match the rest .even that would be slightly noticeable till they weather

 

[Barlidge]

Thanks, so I made a start on it, tried the scraper but found the 1" wood chisel much easier to get the bulk off, Using the hot air gun didn't help much - had to be very careful not to much too much heat in as it just turned to goo so just scraped at ambient temp. Surprisingly after getting bulk off with wood chisel the pressure washer got a lot of the bits out of the brick pattern then a quick brush over with white spirit and another pressure wash and its not coming up too bad. May well go over it with brick and patio acid to try and take the shadow off. Also going to try and do some scraping first thing AM when its colder, needs to be done in the next week or I'd wait till Autumn.

The first bit is scraped, pressure wash, white spirit & 2nd pressure wash and above the door is just scraped and pressure wash.