Removing paint from brickwork

[Rebecca611]

Hi,
The previous owner of our house painted the window, door frames and soffits really shoddilly. Instead of painting within the boundaries there is paint on the brickwork of the house. It looks very messy and I would like to clean it up. I've used nitromores, which does not budge the paint. Also if I try to scrape the paint off the yellow colour of the brick comes off and the red brick colour emerges. Doe anyone know what I can use to take the paint off without ruining the brickwork?

Thanks, R

[Toleman]

maybe brick acid? its used to remove cement from the brickwork. Its basicly hydrochloric acid and is available from travis perkins or probibly and good builders merchants.