Exterior Painting

[idlehands]

I just moved into an american four square home built in the 1920's a few years ago. The first level has some horrible cracked, peeling,bubbling and gone paint, and the second level is brown stained shingles.

My plan is to send the wife and newborn away on vacation in May, and take a week off of work and scrape the house.

While surfing the web i just found a link http://www.paintshaver.com/
has anyone tried one of these? for 600$ for the cheap one and given the videos it better work, and might work awesome.

 

[instone]

looks like a good tool doubt u could go anywhere near timber shingles with any kind of heat gun! so your options are good old elbow grease with heaps of sand paper .

 

[idlehands]

I wasn't going to bother with the shingles, they are stained and just look like stained shingles. ITs all the bubblling and missing paint that i need to tear up. I wasn't going to use a heat gun. The thing i'm actually thinking about to justify the paintshaver is not only for the outside paint, but the house was totally painted white at some point i think. There's lots of nice wood molding around the windows and the base molding that might be nice to scrape back to its original wood look.