Hi, maybe this needs to go in a different forum, but I'll start here.
We live in a 1935 bungalow in Georgia. We really need to re paint the house! But don't have a lot of money to do so. It's not a large house and feel like it is something we can handle.
The problem is the age of the house. I was concerned that the paint might be lead paint, so I purchased I lead testing kit and tested the siding and the front porch.
The print porch has about 3 layers of paint and the bottom layer tested positive.
The siding only seems to have one layer, it tested negative. But parts of the wood was coming up positive.
My though is that at some point the paint was removed, but maybe some was left behind in the wood?
The plan was to power wash the whole house. Remove all looses/ old paint, Fix areas to be fixed, caulk, prime and repaint. the paint is so bad, it just chips off big chunks, so will be pretty easy to remove for the most part. The front porch will take a little more scraping...
Does this sound do-able? Should I worry about the wood siding and lead?
I am worried about dealing with the front porch. Parts of it I can just replace, if need be. But not the main columns and door/ window frames.
What are your thoughts?
Thanks!!
We live in a 1935 bungalow in Georgia. We really need to re paint the house! But don't have a lot of money to do so. It's not a large house and feel like it is something we can handle.
The problem is the age of the house. I was concerned that the paint might be lead paint, so I purchased I lead testing kit and tested the siding and the front porch.
The print porch has about 3 layers of paint and the bottom layer tested positive.
The siding only seems to have one layer, it tested negative. But parts of the wood was coming up positive.
My though is that at some point the paint was removed, but maybe some was left behind in the wood?
The plan was to power wash the whole house. Remove all looses/ old paint, Fix areas to be fixed, caulk, prime and repaint. the paint is so bad, it just chips off big chunks, so will be pretty easy to remove for the most part. The front porch will take a little more scraping...
Does this sound do-able? Should I worry about the wood siding and lead?
I am worried about dealing with the front porch. Parts of it I can just replace, if need be. But not the main columns and door/ window frames.
What are your thoughts?
Thanks!!
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