In a way, I’m thinking it’s really a good thing that so much of the paint is coming off, especially if this continues as they scrape & sand. This was especially noticeable on the siding above the sunroom where the paint was peeling really badly before the house was washed and where a ton came off as a result of the pressure washing. It’s hard to say if that was the original color or if it aged over time, but we definitely found some cream paint under all of the layers of bright white.Īlso, it looks like, even though the previous owner put a fresh coat of paint on one side of the house each year, it probably hadn’t been primed in a really long time. First off, it looks like the house was once painted a much creamier shade of white. There were a couple of things that kind of surprised me after seeing the results of the pressure washing. They also pressure washed the areas of the garage that could be reached from the ground and the paint came off there even more than the house. I guess sun must be harder on paint than moisture. It surprised me that the paint in the back (north side of the house) actually held up better than the front (south side of the house). I don’t have before pictures of the rest of the house, but here’s what the other sides looked like after power washing: It looks bad, right? We knew that some of the paint was in bad shape and we expected a lot would come off with scraping, but I was surprised how much just the pressure washing step removed. Here’s a pre-pressure washing photo of the front that I took a month or two back:Īnd here’s what it looks like post-power washing: Even though they stuck pretty close to the ground, though, I was amazed at how the paint just fell off the house. The plan will then be to clean up the other areas of the house (that they weren’t able to hit as well with the pressure washer) as part of the sanding/scraping step. Since the house is so tall and climbing a ladder with a pressure washer just isn’t too safe, they really focused their efforts more on the areas they could reach from the ground or a porch roof. The weather forecast wasn’t great (the weather man was calling for rain starting around 1:00), but their first step was to pressure wash the house and that was able to be completed in just a few hours, so it worked out well. On Monday, the painters came out to officially start work on prepping our house for fresh paint.
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