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Peeling Paint On Redwood Siding: What To Do?
I've seen it happen at countless houses, and now it's happened to me... my paint is peeling (again).  I have a Minneapolis home that was built in 1939 with redwood siding, and I can't get the paint to stay on.  I've tried almost everything and nothing has worked so far.  The photo below shows what my siding looks like today.

I'm not a paint expert, but I think I've figured out why my paint keeps peeling.
I first painted my house during the summer of 2004, and the paint began to crack the very next year.  By 2007 it was peeling so much that I had to re-paint.  I had a good friend help me with the project, and we felt like we pulled out all the stops and spared no expense to make sure the paint wouldn't peel again.  This project consumed a huge portion of our summer - we spent so much time working on my house that summer that the 'Google Streets' view of my house even caught us in action.

Here's what we did during the summer of 2007:
Scraped with carbide paint scrapers.  We scraped the existing paint all the way down to the wood in many ... more

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