Patent ID: 8216678

Claim:
A system for providing temporary durable protective coatings onto fragile and/or high-gloss surfaces of building construction elements and for controllably removing said temporary protective coatings, the system comprising: a coating composition comprising a first component comprising a film-forming carboxylic-acid-containing polymer, a second component comprising a plasticizer chemically compatible with said film-forming carboxylic-acid-containing polymer, a third component comprising a grafting polymer suitable for forming cross-linking bonds between the first and second components, a fourth component comprising a solvent chemically suitable for solubilizing therein said first, second and third components, a fifth component comprising a surfactant, and a sixth component comprising a short-chain alcohol selected from a group consisting of methanol, ethanol, propanol and butanol; and a stripping composition for dissolving said temporary durable protective coatings, the stripping composition comprising: (i) a monoethanolamine, (ii) a glycol ether selected from the group consisting of ethylene glycol butyl ether, diethylene glycol methyl ether, diethylene glycol ethyl ether, ethylene glycol phenyl ether, diethylene glycol phenyl ether, diethylene glycol monobutyl ether, and dipropylene glycol methyl ether, and (iii) an ethoxylated alcohol.