What do you use to remove paint inside the drip rails? The roof has never leaked. I'm concerned if I get to aggressive it may create some pinholes that water could get into. Maybed it is best to just scruff rather then remove all the paint?
These work well. The drip rail is spot welded to the roof, so it's not going to leak. After stripping and priming with epoxy, reseal the drip rail with seam sealer or panel bond. https://www.amazon.com/Abrasive-Whe...344566&sprefix=Nylon+abrasive,aps,110&sr=8-10
Quick dose of paint stripper. Don’t leave it on too long and wipe it off with a scotch brite pad. You can leave the primer intact if that’s what you need.
Will the nylon brush also remove the old seam sealer? It must be a slow go with this if it is to be used in a drill.
My seam sealer was cracked and chipping. I scraped most of it out with an old, sharpened screwdriver, then used the orange nylon wheel to clean the residue. I think the ones I had were 80 grit. My cordless drill on high worked fine.
I use Roloc discs in my angle grinder to remove paint and sealer from drip rails. They did a great job in quick order.
I've use wire wheels and then cleaned up with sandpaper. Big thing is to reseal it, even if it's not leaking inside doesn't mean something is getting in between the panels. Last one I did got 3M seam sealer...so will the next one.
this is a similar product on the market today. Hello, When my wife and I moved to our first “kid/family style” house, it had a fenced in big back yard and it was single story. We did not have to worry about custom open stair design as our last house. When our toddler niece stayed with us for a weekend, it was fun for a couple of wandering 20 somethings to take care of a youngster. She was having the best time and was smart enough to stay away from the open style stairs going up and down from the lower floor. When we all went downstairs, she did find the nice “secret area” located under the open stair design. She sat next to the tall glass wall and read her books while we were in the next room. It was the perfect place to just sit and enjoy the world around you. But, as we were ready to leave for the last time to go back to her own house about an hour away, she was going down the stairs like she did 10 times on that weekend. This time was no different. She just happened to have a misstep and fell down the two sets of stairs to the landing. Luckily, she was not injured and all was well. So, right there, my wife and I decided to buy a single story house if we ever had a child. Two years later, one arrived in style and for the first year of his life, we still lived in the two story house with the dreaded stair case. Jnaki Luckily, our custom designed house was more than the single story house we eventually bought. But each had its own stories and experiences. So, it was a straight across purchase. But, the kitchen cabinets were just awful. A dark brown paint was on every wood portion of the cabinets uppers and lowers. They even painted the stove hood vent to match the dark brown cabinets. It was just awful even on a sunny day. So, one weekend, I bought some paint stripper, similar to the above photo product. We had used the stripper before on our antique oak furniture pieces. it was fast and cleaned the oak for its final clear coat. On this new/old single story house, I had some of the old wood stripper can stuff. I used it on the wood surfaces and when I got to the metal painted stove hood, I got some on by accident. The material started to take the paint off of the wood and by the time I had scraped off the paint, I noticed the steel vent hood also had some paint curling up. So, I wiped it off with a clean rag. Wow, I was surprised that the thick, liquid solution of a “wooden painted surfaces” remover did such a good job of taking off the paint from the steel hood. Then I coated the whole steel surface of the hood and in a few seconds, the paint started to curl and after I wiped it off, the surface had no scratches as if I used a super, fine grain sand paper. YRMV
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