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Professional Painters => Professional Painters and associated Trades Forum => The Good, The Bad & The Ugly => Topic started by: RTQ on February 03, 2008, 07:36:34 PM

Title: Stripped paint off eaves
Post by: RTQ on February 03, 2008, 07:36:34 PM
Before:
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After:
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Title: Re: Stripped paint off eaves
Post by: Lynjowoman on February 03, 2008, 10:15:22 PM
Boy what a difference a good paint job makes.  :)

Lynjo
Title: Re: Stripped paint off eaves
Post by: rmichael on February 03, 2008, 11:57:19 PM
BTW What type of stripper did you use, looks like it really did the job...  ;)
Title: Re: Stripped paint off eaves
Post by: RTQ on February 04, 2008, 04:27:57 PM
Most of it was stripped with Multi-Strip. Towards the end I picked up some Citrustrip; both seemed to work equally as well but the Citrustrip smells like you just peeled a dozen oranges. Nonetheless I recommend wearing a good respirator.  The trick to these strippers is getting them on THICK. Couldn't use a roller because it would spread it too thin and too thick a product to put through an airless. If you put it on thick enough and let it sit all day, it turns the paint into a rubbery goo that in many places falls off the wood under it's own gravity. The problem is the places where it doesn't fall off, usually where the stripper didn't get on thick enough. Then it's scrape-a-rama.  You can put more stripper on, but it seemed to leave a stain if it was applied to bare wood. all in all it was a huge pain that I wouldn't want to do again. The stripped paint made a huge sticky mess which I tried to catch with plastic. The rest I sucked up with a shop vac.  Learning as I went it took me just around 150 hours, a case of sandpaper, seven gallons of stripper at $60 per gallon and five gallons of acrylic polyurethane at $40 per gallon. It was satisfying to finish it and make the homeowners happy.