Siding on a dollhouse kit

[AshleyM]

Hello everyone!

I am brand new to this group and about to build my first house.  My question is, can you remove the siding on a dollhouse kit?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Ashley M

[KathieB]

Hi, Ashley. Welcome to the forum. What kit are you asking about? Unless it is milled into the exterior walls, siding is applied separately. You will get better answers if you can be more specific.  

[havanaholly]

Milled in siding can sometimes be sanded, but it's easier to cover with spackle/ joint compound.

[Kells]

Are you talking about milled-in siding? Is the house built or is it a kit? Siding that's been glued on is usually pretty easy to scrape off. It almost always pops off in big long strips and takes no time at all to remove. The only labor-intensive part is sanding off the glue residue left behind.

If it's an old kit with siding milled into plywood, that is next to impossible to get rid of. It's much deeper clapboarding than is currently used, and is hard as a rock.

If it's a newer kit with clapboarding milled into MDF, you are in luck! Yes, it can be removed. That stuff disappears like magic under a belt sander. I removed every bit of the milled-in siding on a Lincoln Springfield house. It's going to be a bricked French Quarter house. The clapboarding simply vanished in a cloud of sawdust and left me with pieces smooth as glass. It worked a wonder, so here's hoping that's what you're dealing with!

[havanaholly]

My belt sander is, next to my Dremel Stylus:

my most-used power toy.