Painting old weatherboard.

[saveasteading]

Your advice please.  The photo is the worst bit, randomly in the middle of my spiel.

I've painted this once personally, plus once by trusted workers and twice by professionals.

It's a big area, perhaps 200m2, so I'm keen to avoid high cost.

 

Some area are absolutely fine, being areas of replacement boards to a higher spec.

 

It needs doing again. Last year's heat caused more flaking than normal and I chose to scrape those bits off and let the heat carry on getting at it. Then the winter has released more layers and areas.

It has exposed some bare wood which will be either 10 or 90 years since first painted. Also sometimes  a yellowish layer and sometimes a clearly dirty, unprepared surface.

In other areas it all stays put.

My hunch is that letting blisters come off has released tensions that had allowed the surface to cling on to the dirty layers for many decades.

 

So today I have scraped more off and pressure washed it. 

I don't mind the indents where up to 10? Coats have been removed ("character").

Obv the manufacturers would like me to buy lots of expensive paint. But I'm wondering if the sheer thickness is an issue.

So do you think I can spray paint it for speed and economy. 1 or 2 coats? Perhaps the raw wood needs a brush of primer.

Where the timber is clearly cracked or eroded I guess it needs filling. First or after a coat of paint?

 

[Roger440]

Id imagine theres some impervous stuff on that?

 

Are you intending to paint over whats there? And what were you going to use?