On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 06:08:12 -0400 Nolan Penney <npenney@mde.state.md.us> wrote:
> I sanded and repainted my cedar clap board house last year. I used a
> 4.5" side angle grinder and a number of sanding discs.
a high speed grinder? i have a ~10,000 rpm makita grinder which i could
fit sanding discs to, but i want to be sure that the speed won't cause
a problem.
> Getting into the
> corners and such was impossible with this unit, but I was able to cover
> about 95% of the surfaces with the sanding disc and strip the paint off
> with it. Several gouges, but not too bad. The rest was done with a
> hive tool. Do understand that you will never get all the paint off, or
> out of the wood. That which is down in the cracks and crevices isn't
> coming out, nor is that which is well soaked into the wood.
i'll jump off that bridge when i come to it.
> You sure you want to stain and expose this wood? Cedar, staining and
> weathering make for an interesting combination that pretty well ensures
> the colors won't look like what you expect.
i've already cautioned my wife to expect 10-15% of slop in the selected
color.
> It pretty much limits you
> to dark colors, which are hot in the summer. You're also going to get a
> rather splotchy appearance owing to what paint is soaked in, and what
> you cannot grind out.
it's splotchy now, with mildew and weathering on badly applied white paint,
it can't get much worse.
richard
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