Remove Paint From Cedar Shake Siding

Remove paint from cedar shingles but if your home is sided in traditional cedar shingles you re stuck doing it the old fashioned way.

Remove paint from cedar shake siding.

It won t come off. Cedar is a soft wood and the force of a power washer while it will take the paint off easily enough will also very likely damage the wood and drive moisture deep into it causing your future paint job to peel off later. The existing paint on most of the south and east sides is very cracked and quite a bit of peeling. If the stripping compound has enough time to finish its work it will prove easy to pull the paint away from the cedar siding.

Once the surface is clean and primed you can start applying the paint. Removing paint from rough cedar shakes jml posted in construction techniques on april 27 2009 08 03am i am going to repaint a house that has an interesting challenge in that the siding is rough barn shakes lots of uneven texture and nooks crannies. If necessary use the wire brush to remove the paint and paste. The siding is a 12 vertical cedar shingle.

You will probably need at least two coats of high quality paint to do the job. Cracked or peeling paint can occur on cedar siding for a number of reasons according to william feist of the western red cedar lumber association. So my first step was to pressure wash to try to remove this portion of bad existing paint.