Here's probably an hour of power washing plus another two hours of scraping. Yeah, I'm tired. But there's very clear progress made. I'm really debating renting a good powerful power washer (mine is electric and only 2000 psi. A lot for electric, but according to the internet, 2500 is the minimum for removing paint). It's something I'm thinking about, because if I could get this all done in a day or two, that would be FANTASTIC. This is hard on my arms, hands (carpal tunnel), back, and neck (I definitely need the ladder for the top two rows here. I can reach the second to the top row, but I have to be looking up, and my neck has been wrecked too much for that). But on the rows that have most of the paint removed, the stuff left on doesn't scrape off easily. The bare parts the paint just peeled off--in large chunks, usually. It simply is not stuck to the wood at all. It was kinda like a piece of plastic covering the garage than paint adhered to the garage.
I also power-washed the South side of the garage for a few minutes. It's harder to do because I need to have tarps there to catch the paint, since the garage is right on the property line, and the paint flies all over my neighbors lawn. I really need more tarps put up next time. It would just be nicer to have a nice powerful pressure washer that would take the paint off easily. Because this represents, I dunno, twenty minutes of power washing?
I'm thinking I also need to get up and clean these gutters, and actually crawl on the garage and trim that tree there, because it's resting on the garage, and that's not good for the shingles, and frankly, I'd rather wait to shingle.
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