Today, I tried out my pressure washer again. I hooked up my cheap hose--that's more prone to leaking--because my better hose leaks all sorts of water at the faucet, and it's just annoying to have water all over my patio. Let me remind you what the garage looked like before this:
After 15 minutes of pressure-washing, it really wasn't working much better than scraping, it was damaging the wood a bit in places (that wood really needs to be replaced!), and it was bothering my carpal tunnel anyway. This is what it looked like:
Not much different. I got out my gloves and my putty knife/scraper and went to work. This was done mostly with my left hand. I think I just need to tone things down a bit. No more working for hours per day. Just 30 minutes. Because after 30 minutes, this is what it looked like:
At least there was progress, if you look down towards the east side of the garage (the other side of the window). But this scraping can go pretty fast. It just peels off, literally.
This area came up just sticking the putty knife under it and wiggling it along, and then tore right off in that huge of a section. Clearly, the paint didn't bond to the wood at all. Probably half of the garage will peel off like this. The problem will come with the other parts that don't peel off this nicely. That will take more work scraping. Slow progress. I have a feeling it's not going to get done before winter, only because I can't work on it more than I already am.
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