How To Clean Old Wood Before Painting
It is the primary tool to clean the woodwork.
How to clean old wood before painting. The hand brush will get rid of rough pieces and bits. Use a palm sander or a random orbital sander to quickly strip away imperfections and previous layers of stain to reveal the underlying natural wood. Also the brush fibers could clean dust from tricky holes or corners.
If you have an oil based paint on your wood then Id clean them with TSP if you intend to repaint that wood. Following the drying of the wood its time to clean and sanitize it. Constantly move the flame so as not to burn the wood.
When youre satisfied with the woods. But there is no point whatever in cleaning bare wood with TSP or latex painted wood with TSP. Best way to scrape paint off old paint on wood siding is first having a dried surface to work with.
There are few steps to follow to ready the wood for painting once you are done with sanding. Work efficiently by starting with a coarse sandpaper in the 60-100 grit range and gradually switch to finer sandpapers rated closer to 150 grit. When the paint softens clean it with a scraper curly scraper.
The more brittle easier paint can be lifted up scraped chipped away. Scrub the wood down using soapy water or a combination of detergent bleach and water to clean the wood. Do not heat old produced before the 1960s paint which may contain lead.
Clean the wood surface thoroughly. Always remember to protect yourself with proper safety equipment from the fumes of the cleaner and any mold spores. Once exterior siding thoroughly dried paint will be much easier to scrape off being much more brittle.
