How To Scrape Paint Off Your House (The Basics) 

Doing my first job on someone's patio so thank you!! This was awesome

I was given a 1/2 inch scraper at 7 and told to scrape an entire house this this 60x60 feet. Top to bottom, middle of summer, and no shade. I will never forgive my parent for this when they knew it could be done faster with other methods. They put siding on after I was taken away by DCPS.

Best video on RU-vid on prepping for painting.

After the scraping, you should sand a bit to feather the edges of the remaining paint. Otherwise, peeling is more likely to occur.

It seems like the painting industry adopted a pressure wash and spray methodology because it saves time. If you tried to blast off that paint I'm sure some would come off but if you just gave it a glancing blow then paint over it, the customer would never know. In other words scraping is usually necessary and you can't just pressure wash and go. I like to use a 3" "chisel" style putty knife. Paint comes off like skin from a bad sunburn. Then sand the area back and feather with 80, prime then paint 2 coats. You are right, 99% of people would never notice a good job from a half assed job. I'm also a fan of peel bond type primers for the south side of the house, door frames, wood deck rails etc. Good video.

Bought a house from the 1920s, it had so many layers of old paint there are places where it was 3-4 mm thick. We opted to simply re-side based on the amount of labor that would have gone into painting. We had quotes to paint that were essentially the same as re-siding.

Very informative! I’m doing a house tomorrow! Specifically the fascia board…which has peeling paint. Thank you!

Oh, you’re the only one that said how those bubbles form! Thank you very much. I always assumed water was in them, but you explained it clearly thank you.

Thanks guys. 👍🏼 Also it’s good to see an Ann Arbor residential street again.

You helped me thanks, im about to redo a shed on my own

hi.. thanks for your sharing. i wonder if we can use ‘sand blaster’ for this peeling methods

Great video. Thanks for posting.

I tend to youtube videos and move on and that's it, this one however was very informative and actually gave it a thumbs up.

Thanks you sr for this video

The paint on our new to us old house has very thick paint. The edges of the paint underneath under the recent pain are thick and obvious. The thick areas are bonded well. If I don't remove it, it will be unsightly. I don't want to sand the paint for safety reasons. Can I build up the low areas with something like a putty to even it all out?

what should I do if I already tried to scrape hard enough from different angles but when I apply new paint the old paint decided to go flaky and ruin the paint job? do i just scrape again and just apply new coat of paint

Great video guys! I’m a first time homeowner and a ton of our exterior paint is flaking off the wood in large pieces. There’s also what appears to be thin plaster peeling off with it - I can’t tell if it’s plaster or if the paint was just applied waaaay too thick. Is there another product I should be using before primer + paint? Clearly the last guys did a poor job (the paint isn’t super old) and I don’t want to make the same mistake. Thank. You!

Great Video! Very informative.

Try the hand scraper Sandvik. It has a carbide blade and shaves your paint real nice.

good .thanks guy's

If you wait days and it rains after peeling the paint, would more areas pop up do to weathering. Did a house and a week later after days of rain and extreme heat, there was more peeling than first seen when checked. It's like the edges came up and started peeling again

Thanks.

What about using a pressure washer? Clean first then use a 0 degree spinning fitting? Seems to be much faster at removing the bulk of the paint before scraping.

Do you skim it with something or paint over it and call it done

So I’m a first home buyer and my house has some wood painting chipping. So once I scrape it off it’s only the spots that have paint problems ? Not the whole board ?not sure how the color will match the old paint around those spots

Thank you

Going to start scraping Cedar shake siding this week. Wouldn't be bad if it weren't all extension ladder work. Thanks for saying that it's going to take some time. About a thousand sq ft. I have all summer. Using a two in one DB dura clean. Same color over color (wineberry dbAgedBeauty). Did this twenty years ago...fell off the ladder (removed those rocks since then) Thought I'd give it another go and nobody would come out to bid a job this small. The two keys #1 it will take a long time to scrape. #2 accept the fact of long hard work. Peace and thanks

Is there such a thing as a scrapper on a reach pole for getting your roof fascia board ?

I did that to the back wall of my house last Spring/Summer season. The set up was exactly as shown in the video. Same type of tongue and groove boards. What a nightmare. You do have to remove it all, especially the paint from under those lips where the tongue meets the grooves. What a hassle. If you don't remove all the old paint, it keeps popping up, especially, as in my case, it takes you more than a day to scrap it. What happens is that overnight heat or humidity ends up getting underneath the bit you just scraped, and if you left paint behind, that paint will end up lifting and start pealing. I was scrapping for days. Take it all down to plain wood, or you are just wasting time and money. No other way around it. If you "gauge" the wood, get a good wood-filler such, fill in the spots you need to fill in, wait a day, sand it. Be prepared to scrap paint until the day you are ready to paint. Most likely, if you didn't scrape it all, you will still have stuff to scrape as you are painting it. Don't believe me? Try it!

Thanks for the video. The subject was easy to understand. :o) Do you have any videos on how to handle (powered) chalking paint? I'm 71 years old and I am going to have to paint my single story house. Where I live has very extreme heat conditions during the summer months ( up to 117F ). The paint that is on the house is over 17 years old and the colors are fading fast. I am going to paint it all just one color (white). I'm tired of humping up a tall ladder to paint the blue trim on the house, I'm too old for that. I am going to use a Graco magnum Pro x17 airless pain sprayer. I need to handle the (powdered ) chalking paint before I paint it. Is there anything that can be run through a pressure washer that would help wash off the chalking? I'm painting my own house because where I live you can't get anyone out to give you an estimate. They are not interested in a single story house that isn't large and cost big $$ to paint it. Like I said, I'm getting to old for this stuff. lol Thanks again for a great video, it was very helpful.

If any lead paint is not removed, then the surface will be uneven when painted over, as the new paint will layer over the leftover old lead paint. How does one fix this? By sanding?

Do you need to sand for primer to stick

🤔don’t you sand it after ?

after scraping for a day by myself i have a terrible muscle pain between my thumb and index finger. I hate scraping

Nothing about removing the dust or particles from the wood before painting?

great music.

What do you think of the primer/paint in one for exterior paint?

Is there a chemical you can apply so that scraping becomes easier??

Do you scrap then sand paint edges then spot prime ? Do you pressure was before or after ?

Brother I have scraping paint for 2 years with no proper protection #rip

Do I need to prime whole house or just where I scraped?

Look at the paint job that’s on the house now..you can clearly see the diffrnt levels in the paint…it’s not seemles..I don’t like how u can see where it was scraped and then just paint..diffrnt levels

Ah the dreaded 1920s home-can be very nice looking, but from the era where lead paint was thought to be amazing and this fabulous material called asbestos could prevent your home from catching fire if you just put it everywhere.

If at all possible, do not wait until your house is peeling to repaint! The amount of time it takes to remove the peeling is labor intensive and costs more and if you are the one painting it, you will hate yourself for letting it go too long.

never just use the "primer paint" on raw wood! oil base primer for sure. then your latex top coat paint. And probably some sanding just after scraping. with a dust mask 😷 of course. I would have a hard time wearing those rubber gloves though! doesn't it get all hot & sweaty!?

Thank god there are more informative videos. Scraping a hole house with a blade? Welcome to the era of electricity my man, just use proper tools. And lead is dangerous if ingested only, you don't need to work in full PPE with tape around you wrists like you are going to inspect Tchernobyl. A respirator is what you need

Don't you ever sand those edges to make it level with the existing paint and boards? My mother and I painted her house 18 years ago and she had me getting rid of the loose paint but sanding all those edges down, so when paint is applied you cannot see all those rough weird edges, if you don't you still wind up with a crappy looking paint job because you can see all the areas that chipped off through the new paint. This is the most laborious and frustrating part of the entire job, but has to be done or anything else you do is just a waste of time and effort.

We should have at leat 100000 subs tho

You'll see all the ridges of left over paint?... you don't just remove and prime

Power washer

Funny

This guy could use a professional paint eater? Is he a pro???

…mmm. 🤔 my sisters house was worse then this ! Buy a right angle grinder and stop by Harbor Freight and buy their WARRIOR abrasive disks 👍🏻 ! It’s 100 times faster and you can easily feather / sand down the edge of the paint to the wood to make a smoother looking surface !

Are you kidding? You're scraping all that paint off of all that surface area lol that would take forever... Smh

What about sanding bloke???? You’re a hack if you don’t sand.