How To Clean Siding Before Painting

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How to clean siding before painting.

Lightly sand glossy finishes to remove the sheen called scuff sanding but sand scrape or cut into the surface only as much as is necessary to correct problems. Replace or fill badly damaged areas. Buy a lead testing kit from a home improvement store. The best way to apply them is with a plant sprayer.

How to prepare aluminum siding for repainting. A typical cleaning procedure would be to wash the siding once with the pressure washer and then spray it with a bleach or detergent solution and. How to manually clean your siding. You need to scrape off peeling and flaking paint and then chisel out any old caulk lines and apply new ones.

Some exterior paints such as those used on aluminum siding intentionally chalk for self cleaning. Place a drop cloth over your plants that sit close to the house to protect them from chemicals in the water you re using to clean your siding. Wipe the surface with the palm of your hand. Use a 300 degree steam cleaner a rental item or scrub the siding with a very hot detergent solution.

Apply bleach solution to mildew areas if. Before sanding scrape loose and flaking paint from the siding. This cleaning mixture can be easily applied on exterior before rinsing off cleaning exterior walls before painting. Use a scraper to remove loose paint from the siding working from every direction.

With the siding dry remove large pieces of debris with the wire brush broom and even a shop vacuum. Choose one side of the house as your cleaning project of the day and stick with it. Work a paint scraper from every direction keeping the blade flat against the wood so you don t create gouge marks. Spray off the major debris using the pressure sprayer rinse the siding with plain water no cleaning solution working.

Instructions protect landscape plantings and utilities where foundation shrubs or other plants are blocking the siding protect them. Also you ll be very pleased this will not harm plants or vegetation. It helps to mentally cordon that side into half or thirds as. If the paint color comes off on your hand the paint is chalking.

Mixing small amount of oxi clean in a 5 gal. This is usually a small stick that you rub against.