Browse Forums Finishing Touch 1 Dec 10, 2010 12:32 pm Hi folks, I’ve got a 1950s weatherboard house (the house is about 10x10 metres) in Hobart that’s had a few external paint jobs, but not for at least 15 years. I’ve had four painters quote on the job. They’re all about $10k and all say the obviously aging paint needs to be completely removed before painting, which I agree with. 3 of the painters propose using gas burners and scrapers etc. The fourth painter was the only member of the Master Painters, and he said his insurance wouldn’t cover burners, and that peelaway was the safest and most effective way to go. When I mentioned this to another painter, he was sceptical, saying it wouldn’t work very well. Does anyone have experience in choosing which way to go Cheers, B Re: External painting: needs complete strip – peel away or b 2Dec 21, 2010 1:07 pm No experience with burners but we gone through a few tubs of Peelaway stripping all our windows and about 15 layers of enamel from a brick fireplace. I can tell you that it definitely works, but it's pretty expensive - and messy. I'm shocked you got it quoted for the same price, as I hate to think how many big tubs you'd need for a whole house! Have you checked out the website? They are using Peelaway to take many layers of old enamel paint off brick. I'd think weatherboard should be easy peasy. Re: External painting: needs complete strip – peel away or b 3Jan 06, 2011 9:55 am the problem with burning it is your burning lead based paint and that is more harmful than smoking cigarettes, itll kill you ! . you got 2 ways of removing the peeling paint... 1. using paint stripper, however it will take multi able applications and when you start to peel it off its all gooie and stick to everything and the stripper burns into you like hell , it'll eat through your glove within 4 hours of using it and if your doing this project by yourself you'll probly have 5 - 7 day of preparation so thats alot of gloves lol. the up side of this method is that it does get its all off, however its time consuming and costly as paint stripper is expensive, 4L may be cheap but you'll be needing 200L because it has to go on thick as. 2. you can attack the weatherboards with linbide scrapers, these are razor blade scraping hook things that take the paint back to bear. its hard work but it works. the only problem with this is containing the lead shavings when they fall to the ground. you'll have to tarp to surrounding ground to catch the droppings. after you have scraped the guts outa the house set up again and sand it all down with electric sanders. id be using 80 grit to feather out areas so it all blends in nicly. then dust him down and ur ready to use an all purpose primer. you can get paint that is self priming but i believe that on older homes you need a thick coat of full body primer, it gives a higher membrane build and fills things alot better. after than go around and use some timber filler to fill the weather board dents etc . now this may seem silly because its outside but if your gunna use a gloss or low sheen finish you'll have to go nuts with the timber filler because the shine from the paint will show everything id suggest a Matt finish. so its up to you and how much work you wanna do to the place, but id atleast recommend going gangbustas with the timber filler on the front of the home and the back of the home. hope this helps glenn I am not a brick expert, but rendering would be 1 option, it would be costly to do the entire house though.... 2 6672 I've got a challenge here. Background is the builder has cut too deep for the slab and the slab is now below the very substantial retaining wall. It's failed occupancy… 0 18373 |