Painting The House

Our whitewashed house appears not to have been painted in quite some time. The paint (particularly on the southern exposure -- the rear of the house) was peeling badly. To complicate matters the house had been painted (badly) quite a number of times and the paint was thick, obscuring a lot of the original ornate detail of the house. The painters erected scafolding around the house and for the past 3 weeks stripped pratically the entire rear exposure which was all flat siding with not much detail and have started stripping the detail on the eastern side of the house. Most of the detail is on the front (north) of the house and this will take the bulk of their time to strip. Plastic sheets have been wrapped around the scafold and on the ground around the house to contain the lead paint and to facilitate clean-up.