Cutek Wood Stripper - Coating Remover by Cutek

Cutek Wood Stripper is a powerful, user-friendly paint and coating stripper. It is perfect for DIY projects, requiring no professional experience to achieve great results.

Cutek Wood Stripper effectively removes multiple layers of common wood coatings, including latex paints, stains, varnishes, linseed oils, acrylics, and other film-forming finishes. It is also effective for removing coatings from metal, brick, and masonry surfaces.

As a safe yet powerful alternative, Cutek Wood Stripper is the smart choice over conventional strippers that rely on hazardous chemicals like methylene chloride or NMP.

Powerful Wood Stripper: Removes old surface coatings from wood, metal, brick and masonry surfaces
Smart Alternative: Does not use dangerous chemicals like Methylene Chloride and NMP
Safe and User-Friendly: Safe to use on your DIY project, no professional experience necessary

Documents

Technical Data Sheet Safety Data Sheet Brochure

Directions for Use

Preparation

It is important for the user to determine the suitability of Cutek Wood Stripper for its intended application. ALWAYS test product on a small test area. The coatings to be stripped can vary significantly, testing will enable you to accurately estimate the working time, and amount of Cutek Wood Stripper required to complete your project.

NOTE: Cutek Wood Stripper may need to be applied more than once to thick paint or film form coatings with many layers.

Safety and Precautions

Before you begin to Prepare and Protect your wood, note the hazards and precautions and ensure that you have obtained and know how to use the correct safety equipment as detailed in the Safety Data Sheet.

When using Cutek Wood Stripper, all adjacent surfaces and vegetation must be adequately protected. It is also important to be aware of the potential for wind drift into areas with cars or pedestrian traffic when rinsing. Water flush all equipment, vegetation, paths, concrete, asphalt and other adjacent surfaces before and after contact.

Coverage

Spreading rate is approximately 3 m²/L or 120 ft²/US gal.

NOTE: this can vary significantly depending on the type and thickness of the paint or wood coating being removed.

Application

Cutek Wood Stripper should be used as supplied. Stir/shake well, then apply Cutek Wood Stripper evenly with a brush, roller or paint pad applicator to dry wood, rubbing into the grain. Reaction time is approx. 30-60 minutes. Keep area wet and activated by applying more Cutek Wood Stripper or by agitating the application area with a brush or roller for the duration determined by testing.

Test periodically with a paint scraper to determine when the old coating is stripping cleanly off the wood. When this happens, the stripped surface is ready for rinsing. We suggest that you try to strip only 1 m² or 10 ft² first.

Removal

Rinse off thoroughly, using a pressure washer set to approximately 50 bar (750 p.s.i.) with a fan jet pattern. REMOVAL WITH A GARDEN HOSE IS NOT SUFFICIENT.

CAUTION must be used to avoid damage to the wood fibre and ‘furring up’. Adjust your cleaning process by reducing the pressure or your operating distance from the wood. DO NOT use “turbojets” on wood.

Clean from the lowest point and work upwards methodically using long even strokes in the direction of the grain. If cleaned from the highest point first, the product below can become sticky and difficult to remove.

After stripping the wood, clean it with Cutek Wood Reviver to remove residual Cutek Wood Stripper and rejuvenate the substrate and enhance the grain. See Cutek Wood Reviver for instructions.

Certain types of wood surfaces may leave a raised grain effect after stripping is completed. Sanding or poly pad scrubbing may be required to smooth out this condition.

PROTECT WITH Cutek EXTREME

Following the restoration of your wood with Cutek Wood Reviver, it is important to complete the restoration process by protecting your wood with Cutek Extreme.

Designed for and proven to work in the harshest of American environments, Cutek Extreme penetrates and diffuses deeply into the wood core to protect against liquid and gas phase moisture and extend service life.

Cutek Extreme is a High performance penetrating oil-based wood stabilizer with a unique self-healing effect that highlights the natural beauty of wood and controls moisture to improve dimensional stability and minimize cupping, warping and splitting.
Maintenance with Cutek Extreme is simple, easy and cost effective. Simply clean and recoat – no need to sand or strip.

Not protecting your wood with Cutek Extreme after cleaning will result in water damage and a faster weathering/graying process when exposed to the weather.

Specifications

Classification	Wood Restoration
Brand	Cutek
Size	3.78 L
Sold Since	April 11, 2026
SKU	WS-1GAL-CDN
UPC	857558006301
Coverage	3 m²/L (120 ft²/gal)
Dilution	Do not thin
Storage	Cutek Wood Reviver can be stored for many years after initial use. To store correctly, store in a cool, dry area out of direct sunlight; lid must be airtight. Keep from freezing.
pH	8

FAQ

What steps should I follow when removing an existing coating?

Cutek Extreme must be applied to bare, clean and dry wood. This allows the oil to freely penetrate/diffuse into your wood. Wood previously coated with a film forming product such as stains, linseed oil, paint, polyurethane, water-based oils, etc. can inhibit this penetration/diffusion and must be removed using the following steps:

Remove previous coating using Cutek Wood Stripper. It is safe and user-friendly and is suitable to remove multiple layers of most commonly used wood coatings. Restore the colour and enhance the grain with Cutek Wood Reviver. Cutek Wood Reviver will bring weathered and stained wood back to life.

After removing the previous coating, it is important to protect your exterior wood with Cutek Extreme to repel and displace moisture, and extend service life.