What is the best way to remove my mistakes?

What is the best product for cleaning up overspray and mistakes when using water base paint?

Drips and small whoops I use black upside down marking paint in a handle applicator. Even though it's temporary paint designed to fade it seems to bond to the permanent paint. The black over spray fades and the paint cover remains. It's usually best to avoid mistakes but then I guess you realize that every time you make one.

Nearly everything here is on concrete, so the black out does not work so well.

Not much you can use on asphalt that won't damage it, just mist some black over it. For sealcoat you can just brush a little more sealcoat over it. For concrete you can use paint remover and dry sand.

We carry a wire brush and a porter cable battery operated grinder with a wire brush on it. Use before paint is completely dry and works good. we use even when we can black out as it works better and old mistake won't reappear as black wears of.

We use all of the above as little as possible ha. But I also found that on new asphalt a torch and a scraper or shovel take it right off. It does not damage the asphalt if you are careful you might see a little color difference right away but it goes away fast.

stripe guy 2 wrote on Dec 28, 2014:Go to #3

Nearly everything here is on concrete, so the black out does not work so well.

a wire brush is what id try first, if that didn't work I think pressure washer probably would esp on concrete.

For concrete: "Jansen?" paste type paint remover and wire brush.

I have use paint stripper that is in the aerosol can with wire brush for small overspray areas but would recommend pressure washer for bigger overspray areas on asphalt and concrete. Wally world sells it for like $5 bucks for a tall spray can.

Black dabs of paint to hide mistakes are way soooooo ugly.

I use oil so I always carry extra xylene, wire brush & rags