Shileding carpet when using a stripping gun

[Coaster]

Earlier this year, I painted the whole wood interior fittings of the house in the usual manner. sandpapering, cleaning, then gloss paint over the top using dulux gloss.
In the space of a month the Dulux paint, yellowed so much it looked terrible, so re-painted over with Crown bu still shows through.
Dulux tested the paint, then gave a crumby voucher for all the trouble their paint caused It fell far short considering all the work i'd put in.
I even had to pay to post a paint sample.

Anyway, the problem is I had carpets fitted before I realised there was a problem.
Is there any way of stripping the paint off the skirting board and adequately shielding the carpet using a gun as I'm not keen on using chemical stripper or painting over it yet again

anyone got any suggestions?

would a bricklayers trowel give adequate shielding?

 

[elrobbo82]

no need to strip. did you used oil based paints as since the voc restrictions oil based white glosses especially dulux tend to suffer from this yellowing a lot faster than they used to?
sand down with a fine sandpaper to establish a key and try using a water based paint system as this tends not to yellow. water based undercoat and water based gloss.

 

[Robbie uk]

Stripping wont wont help. As mentioned just recoat after keying, and possibly use a water based gloss.

 

[opps]

would a bricklayers trowel give adequate shielding?

No. It would conduct the heat and possibly melt the fibres.

I hate WB paints but the advice given is sound.