Rubber
19th May 2006, 04:42 PM
I want to paint my Queenslander but on 2 exterior walls the paint is peeling badly (north and west sides) and it needs to go back to bare timber approx 70m2.
The house was built in the 1920's and the bottom layer is lead based. I had a quote to sand these 2 walls by a subbie with a special vaccum sander for nearly $4k!! As I could reclad the wall (don't really want to) for $1800 this seems excessive.
I did a thread search and people have been talking about Bahco scrapers. Will the scraper remove the paint back to bare without a heatgun? I assume the heatgun is also bad for the user when lead paint is involved.
I had also planned to wet strip, but after trying a small area it would take many many hours to do this. Is there a stronger stripper on the market other than the bostik gear sold by Bunnings?
thanks
The house was built in the 1920's and the bottom layer is lead based. I had a quote to sand these 2 walls by a subbie with a special vaccum sander for nearly $4k!! As I could reclad the wall (don't really want to) for $1800 this seems excessive.
I did a thread search and people have been talking about Bahco scrapers. Will the scraper remove the paint back to bare without a heatgun? I assume the heatgun is also bad for the user when lead paint is involved.
I had also planned to wet strip, but after trying a small area it would take many many hours to do this. Is there a stronger stripper on the market other than the bostik gear sold by Bunnings?
thanks