Remove Siding With Lead Paint

Your contractor may opt to wet sand surfaces and must use an electric sander equipped with a high efficiency particulate air hepa filtered vacuum.

Remove siding with lead paint.

Consumer paint has not contained lead in decades however anyone working in an older dwelling built before 1978 may encounter old lead based paint. While lead based paint does not present a hazard when intact i e. Undisturbed lead paint that s in good condition doesn t pose much of a risk on its own particularly if additional top coats of lead free paint are holding it in place. Or if the cost is high replace the old wood with brand new wood whether it s siding trim window sashes or entire windows.

If you re just worried about looks the simplest and least expensive solution is to fasten 1 4 furring strips vertically over the existing siding and into the studs and attach the new siding to those with 1 1 4 in. But part of any good paint. That gets the lead out of the house. Inform your neighbors in advance about the painting work you will be doing on the exterior of the house.

You may mitigate the problem at a lower cost through enclosure or encapsulation. Exterior lead paint removal cost stripping paint from siding and trim can cost up to 8 to 17 per square foot. You can remove painted trim and window sashes and send them out to a professional paint stripper. Grinder paint removal for instance grinding using power sanding disks or clapboard sanders is very efficient on siding that s in good shape but it generates lead laden dust.

Set up the work area properly so that lead dust and paint chips don t get into. Do not paint over chipping or peeling paint or the new paint will chip off with the old paint. A variety of approaches are used to remove lead based paints such as wire brushing or wet hand scraping with liquid paint removers. Roofing or siding nails.

In some places you have to remove lead paint before re siding.