Stripping paint from house for painting prep.

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chad_dorr

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I had a lady call the other day asking about stripping paint from her house to prep for painting. I have never done one of these and was wondering if anyone had some tips or pointers that they could suggest. I have all the tools. Is it one of those jobs that is done more by the chemical application or done with pressure. I have a rotating turbo nozzle. Also what would your charge or is this a job that you put in more time than its worth. I am going to go look at it but would like some suggestions on where to start. Thanks,
 
search paint prep and you should find some good info about TSP. This is not something I do regularly however it usually involves TSP
 
If you take a turbo tip to a wood sided house, I'll come up there and beat you stupid! Wood cannot take that kind of abuse, even if you're going to paint back over it!

If it's getting new paint anyway, stripping may not even be necessary. If you're not familiar with wood, you may want to refer this out and tag along to learn.
 
CarolinaProWash said:
If you take a turbo tip to a wood sided house, I'll come up there and beat you stupid! Wood cannot take that kind of abuse, even if you're going to paint back over it!

If it's getting new paint anyway, stripping may not even be necessary. If you're not familiar with wood, you may want to refer this out and tag along to learn.
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Damn good advice....
 
thanks for the posts. I am aleast going take a look at it and see what she would like. Are these jobs worth doing or are they more time consuming than whats its worth. Doesn't hurt to look. anymore advice would help
 
If you know what you're doing, they can be profitable. If not, you can lose your butt.

If you want to email some photos to us, we'll help as best we can :)
 
Thanks. I let you know and see what the house looks like when I take a look at it. Really appreciate the help.
 
I've done a bunch of these I approach them knowing you will not remove enough of the paint to keep from sanding it.It will still need sanding.I use a regular house wash mix with some tsp thrown in to degloss any paint that will be staying.

In saying that The contractors that I prep for all know paint prep is what it is sometimes it removes a lot of it,sometimes it doesn't.They know you can only go so far and then you start tearing the wood up.
 
In the late 80’s we removed all of the paint from a Victorian Style house. The building had lap siding on the lower floors and cedar shake siding on the upper peaks. It had over 20 coats of paint in some places!

We used a potassium hydroxide based paint stripper. If I remember correctly we used over 200 gallons of stripper!

The house looked neat all bare wood. Then they painted it in traditional Victorian colors! It must have had 8-10 different colors when it was all done!
 
That is quite a project Dave.:eek:

Watch the complete stripping of the house with lead based paints and such you may have some serious environmental concerns.

Celeste had it right no turbo nozzle on wood unless you want to pay for new siding. You should be able to clean the existing surface with a good house wash to remove the oxidation and give it a good painting surface and a general wash should remove any loose paint. There may still be some scraping though, you don't want to get too aggressive on the surface.
 
WHAT is growing on that house? Did you do that job? Where are the after pics????
 
LOL...Yea! Not one of my proudest moments. One of the painters I do work for had given me this one. The owner received a letter from the city to paint the house. He also owns 3 others on the same lot. This one was the worst one. The paint on the house was sooo thick and curled up in spots that I could literally snap it off with my finger. I was instructed to just remove whatever loose paint that I could and that the painter would get the rest. REAL CHEAP cover up job. No sanding,,, No nothing. He eventually hit it with a primer and 1 coat of paint. The final product actually came out pretty good. I was surprised. By the way, These were the afters. Like I said, not my proudest moment in Pressure Washing history but this is what they wanted so this is what they got.
 
Yes Paul you are right, but back in the 80's folks did not pay much attention!

The owner of the house was the President of the local neighborhood restoration society and his neighbor ran the local garden nursery and neither of them had any problem with letting everything hit the ground. The nurseryman just cautioned us to keep our bucket truck far away from the base of the trees so we did not compact the soil!

Dave
 
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