Recently I was contacted regarding a failed job. The home owner had hired a company to remove the paint from the south side of their home. Unfortunately a neighbor happened to be around during working hours and discovered the company literally setting the home on fire with propane torches. In the industry this is known as the 'burn off'. This technique is no longer used because the heat from open flame is sufficient to release lead as a vapor from the preexisting coating. The correct way to 'burn off' these days is to use infrared heat pans which soften the paint but at a low enough temperature to not vaporize any harmful heavy metals.
So this is the point at which we came in. After allowing the wood to breath and reaquire any moisture pulled out by the heating process a coat of solid color stain and two coats of Sherwin Williams Super Paint were applied. Naturally the owner was concerned with peeling paint at the windows. The first step was tarping off all of the surrounding area to prevent any flaking paint from remaining on the property. Then the windows were handscraped into buckets to catch as much debris as possible. All tarps were vacuumed off with a hepa vacuum and removed from the site. The final step was to prime the windows with Peel Bond Primer. (More on that product later).
The real trick was matching the colors. After a few trips to the paint store and going through three different fan decks the colors were nailed down.
