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Scrape and Sand Loose Paint

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How To Paint A House. Powerwashing, Prepping, & Painting a House. DIY tools & tips for painters.

What happens here

Following power washing, any remaining loose or peeling paint on the siding is removed manually. A wire brush is used to scrape off flaking paint, especially from the bottom edges of the 'glorified cardboard siding'. Afterward, a medium sanding sponge is used to smooth out any rough or 'fuzzy' areas, ensuring a uniform texture for subsequent priming.

Goal: Remove all loose and peeling paint from the siding.

Tools and materials

  • Medium Sanding Sponge — Smoothing rough or 'fuzzy' areas after scraping
  • Wire Brush — Scraping off loose paint

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This is Chris in Boise. In this video, we're actually working on prepping an exterior of a small home. And as you can see over here, the siding after power washing has a lot of the paint that actually has come off. And it's not an actual wood siding. It's just um a wood material. It's basically just a glorified cardboard sighting is what it is. And where all this this um missing paint is where it's all come off, we're actually going around and we're wire brushing it and using medium sanding sponges and get all the loose paint off. Just going along here, wire brushing the bottoms of them. And then we're going back and sanding all this with our just like that with our medium sanding sponges to smooth it out. Make sure it's not all fuzzy. And then we've got primer and we're using Sher Williams super

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