Dear James: I need to paint my house, which has wood siding. The paint is in pretty bad shape. What is the proper way to scrape and prepare the wood surface so the paint will stay on longer and look ...

It can be a mighty labor-intensive and time-consuming process to remove paint, which is why many DIYers dread or even avoid the task. That’s a shame, given that the results usually are worth the ...

The timeframe for this stage can be as long or as short as desired; it just depends on how nice we want the final product to be. We could smear the car with filler, hit it hard and fast with a block, ...

Paint stripping is not pretty! For a test case we stripped Art Director Charlie Hayward's "Heartland Express" '37 Chevy. At this point we are applying a second coat of Aircraft stripper to the right ...