How To Remove Paint Wood Siding

When all the paint is gone.

How to remove paint wood siding.

Thoroughly clean the painted surface with degreasing cleaner dish soap or household cleaner and allow to dry. If necessary remove any knobs hinges or other hardware from the wood being sanded. We then sanded wood before priming and painting. If the unfinished wood was exposed more than 3 to 4 weeks lightly sand the surface to remove the thin layer of degraded wood before applying paint.

Stir the paint stripper thoroughly with a mixing stick and pour it into a pump sprayer. Unfinished siding exposed to several weeks of sunlight before painting needs to be sanded. We used the paint shaver pro to remove the paint from this beautiful victorian house. Grasp the heat removal tool by the handle and hold it with its heating coils flush against the siding and the handle parallel to the direction of the wood.

Sunlight degrades the unfinished wood surface thus it will never hold paint as well as fresh wood. To use sandpaper or a power sander to remove paint. Spray the painted wood siding thoroughly using a ladder to reach high. How to strip paint off wood siding 1.

Start with coarse 80 grit sandpaper in a manual hand. Once you ve scraped your way to the wood s surface apply mineral spirits with an old rag or paper towel and scrub off the remaining remnants of paint with steel wool.