I have a ranch style house with t-111 cedar siding. We are thinking about stripping off some 3-4 layers of paint and finishing it with a stain. My feeling is that this will be very costly and time consuming using hand applied stripping chemicals etc. Anyone recommend alternative options?
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You may want to try asking your question over at the Breaktime forum too. They will probably have some answers for you (maybe not what you'd like to hear, but....). I never heard of cedar T-111. It may be worth stripping, but the T-111 I'm used to is just plywood with some grooves in it to look like boards and it's been primed on the front.
I can get T-1-11 in fir, cedar, or pine.Fir most common. I would not dream of trying to strip this. It is only a 1/8" top veneer of cedar that can be damaged by stripping and sanding. The T-1-11 would be cheaper to replace than to try investing so much labout in something that might jsut fail anyway
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leave the t-lll in place as an extra layer of sheathing and side over it with the material of your choice.
That's what usually happens. T111 is a limited life product
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