I am starting the process of preparing my cedar clapboard house and have a few questions. It is a two story garrison colonial type house and is peeling pretty badly.. It was not prepped correctly (by the contractor that painted it) before the last paint job. I’ve started scraping and am wondering if there is a better way. With the money I am saving by doing this myself I am wiling to invest in a power tool to help with this. Do you have any recommendations?
Also the clapboards are not flat, they are slightly bowed. Any power tool I use is going to either not contact the center of the clapboard, or make the clapboard flat. Is this a common problem? How do you deal with it?
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There are probably a dozen different power tools sold for this duty, from simple sanding disks to flapper type sanding wheels to whirring surface planers to various types of power scrapers.