#9. How to remove old paint on a wooden porch?

Question

How to remove old paint on a wooden porch as painlessly as possible?

Answers

• Strip it.
• Rent a large random orbital sander from Home Depot or any hardware store for one day.
• Have you checked your lead paint before sanding?
• IR paint stripper. Safe option if this is in fact lead paint, which I would definitely check before hitting it with an orbital sander.
• Rent a belt sander. Chemistry ain’t gonna get that.
• I had the same thing. I used a power planer to clear the sticky grey bs. Then sanded down and used Thompson’s WaterSeal.

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