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Preparing the Damaged Wood Siding for Paint

Bob meets painting contractor Brian Giblin at the Florida cottage and discusses prep options on the badly weathered exterior wood siding.

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Preparing the Damaged Wood Siding for Paint

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" They we gave you up freshly power washed the side here last weekend you've got a lot of work already tell you about it if it the first thing it was. Frightening -- outside of the structure yet like -- after that. What we're doing now the more intensive work on the south side has been. Exposed to something so long it's good -- more work as one of the situations where we are -- lot of it but some of that paint build up just wouldn't come off right right we got a couple of choices after we got it down this far. We -- used a a burn methods with which we try to do more because of safety factor the heat. That's also what labor intensive yes using a blowtorch up again incidents like that idea. Yellow thing we couldn't withstand blessing tires side you were talking lot of money yet. And it really damages the woods so what does the options what we're using here is an exterior grade what are they spackle. And you see how it's turned out. From the original. Would hear this mess. To spackle to think which is applied in lightly sanded. Then prime tour finished product not bad at all Heidi but still fun Michelle it. This straight out you can and then you have to mix -- right -- it can't consistency. But it's not interior dates back over an exterior exactly can't use -- has yeah -- battle -- but without fairly easy. And again this cry lightly sanded -- it anything. There's -- need a second -- if you've got a small area to do it's very cost effective but if I'm hiring -- I've got a whole facade what do you figure is going to add to the cost of the project for his entire senate since then -- about four mandates. Does that make that commitment just yet okay okay I'll see -- later Bradley barn over here on this side of the house we have some rotted -- this is that the bottom -- it's called the water table and now has cut it away here to replace it with a new piece of pressure treated lumber. Which show up Brian is already primed. And then overhead you can see we've got a brand new roof racket up there that was made the shot at around the corner the paint is not really quite as bad to maybe you'll just get away with a couple coats of a fresh paint."

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