Over the weekend, the painter we hired (one of those unfortunate friend-of-a-friend situations) came over, started painting, I left to run an errand and returned 45 minutes later to no painter, paint sprayed extremely thick over the windows, brick, door, hardware, and dripping down the siding. After discovering the painter passed out drunk in the neighbor's driveway, I ripped him a new one and told him to get his "stuff" off of our property NOW and ran to the other neighbors' house to get his pressure washer. I got off as much as I could (saved the brick and windows but the door and siding are a drippy, sloppy mess). I have tried scraping and sanding but the large, thick drips and rough edges are not budging. We have Masonite siding and I am windering if there are any relatively non-caustic paint strippers that can safely be used on Masonite siding.

The full story is detailed on the home dec forum if you need more detail (or you just enjoy a REALLY ridiculous story). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.