Metabo - A Strippers Dream Machine!
I have been posting about the renovation adventures I have been having in my house. There have been a lot of goings on around here and my latest alteration that I am in the process of doing is repainting the weatherboards on the house.
Paint Stripping
Now, after many years, 20 at a guess, the paint has been exposed to some fairly hot summer days and has started to crack and blister. Now I thought it should be a fairly straight-forward process, give it a sand, remove the raised parts and the cracked stuff and re-paint. But alas, my brother the professional painter came and had a look and informed me that it needed to be stripped right back to bare board as the old primer had cracked and was causing the top coat to flake.
So I started on the rear section of the house using a specialised scraper and a heat gun to take the paint off. It is a very time consuming process:
- Heat the paint
- Scrape the paint off
- Sand the boards back to bare
- Scrape the tricky edges as well
- Brush down the wall to remove any dust
- Paint the boards with an oil-based grey undercoat
- Finish with 2 coats of top coat
Adding to the difficulty is that I only have a ladder to work from and the house is actually 2 stories high.
Progress So far
I have half completed the back of the house and need to do the top section:
Now it comes up really good, however, the scraping of the paint part takes forever. That was until I acquired a nifty little machine from a mate that cuts the scraping component down to just a few hours.
It is a modified angle-grinder with an attachment that spins around and removes around 0.2mm of surface.
It is a dusty machine and requires the use of a face mask to keep the paint from continually smacking you in the face. It makes a real mess and only about 20% of the dust is actually captured by the attached vacuum suction. It also tends to grip into the weatherboards sometimes if you are not diligent and some sections will require a light sand.
The side wall of the house is progressing well though and instead of a week of scraping, most of the wall is now done after just a few days.
This was after just 1 hour of using the stripper.
So hopefully, I can have the whole wall stripped, prepped and painted over a couple of days.
Thanks for reading.
That's a Big Job! Glad you're Finding More Efficient Methods.. Makes Me Feel Silly for Complaining About Sanding/Painting My Kitchen Cabinets, lol!
That looks like some hard, dirty work there mate. I'll take face brick and mortar anyday. You've done a great job on your house! Good going.
Thanks it is hard and dirty work but needs to be done so I will soldier on!
That's dedication man, I would have just painted right over it or something, but that's why my wife forbids me from doing project like this, she doesn't like me quicker/half-ass approach.
Upvotes for effort there mate!
This sounds like a terrible way to spend your holidays!
I love painting but I hate the prep work! Only thing worse than stripping paint is trying to peel up vinyl flooring, it's ridiculous! Good luck, the progress so far looks great!
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