Remove Paint From Wood Siding
If you rent a pressure-washer to clean up your house exterior, you'll likely get a warning from your hardware store that if you use the wrong pressure level or nozzle, the pressurized water stream from the machine will take off the paint from whatever you're cleaning. For peeling old wood siding, that "problem'' becomes a solution. Scraping wood siding in preparation for painting can be a hard, dusty, messy job if you're using a standard metal paint scraper, but the right pressure washer can do it just as well and much easier.
Instructions
1. Hook up your pressure washer to your garden hose according to the instructions it came with. Hook up the nozzle.
2. Starting from the highest point on the siding, hold the wand and nozzle about 6 inches from the wood and hold the trigger in to release the water stream.
3. Move the wand in slow, steady motions with the shape of the wall (horizontally for lap siding, or vertically for some some styles of veritcal siding). You should see bare wood appearing under the stream as the paint is peeled off.
4. Adjust the distance of the nozzle from the wood as you work, pushing it in closer if it doesn't seem to be getting most of the paint off, and pulling it back farther if it starts gouging the wood.
5. Let the siding dry in the sun for at least a full day before repainting.
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