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From: kolling@magic.DEC.COM (Karen Kolling)
Newsgroups: net.rec.wood
Subject: question: how to prepare house surface for painting
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Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 14:59:35 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  4 14:59:35 1986
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Last weekend I started painting my clapboard house.  I know about normal
surface preparation (cleaning, light sanding), but the east and west walls
are VERY badly alligatored, peeling, etc. and I suspect that I could make
my life easier if I knew more advanced surface preparation techniques.
The house was painted a few years ago with a dark brown latex paint plus
some bonding agent, over one or more coats of oil-based yellow.  The two
bad walls peel right down to the bare wood, so the bond between the latex
and oil-base paint isn't the problem.  I'm inclined to believe the theory
that brown paint heats up from the sun.  Anyway, I have this scraper tool
(not a spatula) from the paint store that easily takes off the loose
paint.  Problem, it then leaves me with a very uneven (huge, sigh) surface
where the chips of paint still tightly bonded to the house remain.  So, I
can spend a portion of my life sanding this by hand, but.....  Is there a
better way?  I have an electric drill, do I want a sanding attachment?  Or
what?  Thanks for any help.

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