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mim
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Username: Mim
Post Number: 392
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 10, 2005 - 10:07 am: | 
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Alas, it's that time again. The last time our house was painted, I wondered if the contractor didn't prep a little TOO thoroughly. I was worried that there wouldn't be any clapboards LEFT!
Is this a legitimate concern on my part? If so, are there painting contractors who don't grind your house to a nub before picking up their brushes?
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Michael K. Mc Kell
Citizen
Username: Greenerose
Post Number: 521
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 - 8:45 am: |
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Unfortunatley they all seem to do this. Some better than others. We worked on a home where the painter butchered the siding and had to replace it. I would only guess that it all depends on the individuals doing the work that day.
Who was the painter? |
Bobkat
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Username: Bobk
Post Number: 7186
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 - 8:49 am: |
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Mim, we had our house painted a year ago and had it sanded. After 90 years it needed it. However, I view this as something you can only do once. The next time it needs to be sanded you are probably going to have to, as Mike says, replace the siding.
If the painters did a good job the first time you shouldn't have a lot of pealing paint at this point.
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mim
Citizen
Username: Mim
Post Number: 393
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 10:20 am: |
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Bobkat, if you can only do this once, who do you call NEXT time your house needs painting? -- especially if, as Michael McKell says, 'they all seem to do this'?
This suggests that homeowners must alternate between painting and replacing all siding every few years!
Our house has been standing for 80 years, and must have been repainted uneventfully many times over the years. If another paint job is going to mean replacing all the clapboards, point me to the aluminum siding! (No, only kidding.)
Isn't there another solution? -- a responsible painter?
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Bobkat
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Username: Bobk
Post Number: 7209
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 10:30 am: |
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The "only once" is my opinion based on how much wood was removed with the sanding. A freshly sanded house shouldn't need much prep when it is painted again. The old standbye of scrapping and hand sanding should do the job.
The painters we got quotes from quoted with various amounts of sanding for prep. |
amandacat
Citizen
Username: Amandacat
Post Number: 753
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 11:32 am: |
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Only in Maplewood do all houses seem to be sanded to bare wood before painting; as I understand it, the usual accepted method of housepainting practically everywhere else is to scrape off any loose or peeling paint where necessary, and then just paint a new coat or two over the old. Easy Peasy. Don't know why Maplewood is different . . . |
kws
Citizen
Username: Kws
Post Number: 95
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 1:08 pm: |
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You can only have so many layers of paint before it starts to split and/or alligator on you. Thus the need to have it sanded. Now that my house has been taken down to the bone the last time, I
am hopeful I can get by for at least the next several house paintings with just a moderate amount of sanding. |
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