Tim Watts wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:31:18 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
wibbled:

Tim Watts wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:18:08 +0100, "Dave Liquorice"
wibbled:

Need to repaint the outside of the house, the old masonary paint is
flaking off, though some bits are still sound. Manually scraping or
wire brushing two windowless, 8m wide, two storey gable ends and
another 10m wall doesn't appeal...

I'm thinking that a compressed air driven needle gun is the way to
go but not sure how vicious (or not) such a device is. The
substrate is stone and the pointing may well need looking at and
chasing out in places before repainting.

So is the needle gun a good idea or is there something better out
there?

Would a pressure washer work?

Even a big bugger would only take the flakey stuff off.

Isn't that's all that's needed - he's repainting it?

As you're the man, can you get extra long lances on the for-hire big
machines for this sort of job?

Fixed lances go to about 2m. You can get telescopic lances up to 7.2m
http://www.gandspenrith.co.uk/produc...&productid=102


They do take a bit of hanging on to :-)

Doubt if many hire shops would have them though.



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