13 Power Washing Tips

[Music] all right so we're cruising right along pressure washing getting this thing done i'm about uh three quarters of the way done just gonna give you some more tips and tricks and when it comes to pressure washing around the screen so i'm using my rotating nozzle almost 90 percent of the time i do like to clean the screens as part of my pressure washing now a lot of the screens are going to be oxidized pretty old so really safe you know pretty far back from the screen until you're comfortable you're cleaning it but not actually leaving stripes on it or marks on it because they can be very fragile when oxidized and i actually striped one of the screens on purpose so you can see what happens if you get too close because i'm going to re-screen it so i just wanted to give you a look at what it looks like also on the concrete when you're doing the concrete make sure you're not striping the concrete if you do get stripes on the concrete i did stripe it out front so you can see what it looks like you'll have to go back and really clean it a hundred percent to get those stripes out and really work those things out but the the mi-t-m um all-service cleaner is an absolute amazing tool along with the shut off valve right here the the shutoff valve so you can switch between your all surface cleaner and your uh wand because you need to do corners and edges and stuff like that and you saw me switch out there is an all surface cleaner with wheels on it the thing has without wheels it floats pretty well but if you want it to be a lot easier to manipulate and move it around you can get it with four wheels on it that makes it a lot easier to do if you're doing a lot of concrete the ones with wheels do make a difference once again i do like wearing gloves and i do like wearing eye protection also when it does when it comes to pressure washing the house you'll stay far enough back until you get close enough that you're actually cleaning the surface you can see this side right here it was extremely dirty the rotation and agitation of the nozzle cleans it extremely well without chemicals but you got to get close enough to actually get that agitation to work but not so close that you damaging the surface once again i've been using these rotating nozzles for about 20 years this is a 5000 psi rotating nozzle from mi-t-m and these are the best i've ever used they don't last forever they do have a rotating ceramic ball so they i go through probably three of them you know every year and they're around 90 i'll leave it down in the video description below you know how much they do cost so just cruising right along i do uh use my rotating nozzle to when i'm done cleaning just to sweep leaves and stuff off the concrete i did um do the back patio right here you don't need the all surface cleaner i just used my agitating nozzle just to rotating nozzle to just do the back patio porch right here that comes outside the garage stay stay away from lights you can actually damage and break lights i've done that before in my career getting too close to lights because they get fragile they oxidize also in the sunlight sunlight does a lot of damage to uh the lights and stuff so be very careful once again just stay far back enough until your comfort comfortable that you're cleaning and not doing any damage and once again i do actually like that all surface cleaner it does make you know cleaning decks we got a deck back here that we clean um large driveways any concrete makes it cleaning probably two to three times faster for you know investment about 300 it's gonna pay for itself probably you know on the first job you do in the labor saved you know in time saved and doing the job and also the frustration and also not striping your concrete you can see how it cleans you know out front the concrete nice and easy even and efficiently another tip when it comes to pressure washing your gutters the rotating nozzle cleans and agitates gutters really well the gutters are metal so you want to clean those things really good especially if you're going to be painting them and the rotating nozzle cleans them very effectively and efficiently so you've got to grab one of these rotating nozzles if you've never used one you've got to try one once again i think this is the i use this probably 90 of the time doing my cleaning i'll switch out to a straight nozzle it's rare if ever do i ever use a flat tip a flat tip is so slow pressure washing and it has a tendency to stripe fences and it just doesn't clean very quickly at all get yourself a rotating nozzle so another tip i want to share with you when it comes to pressure washing especially when you got high sides like this and you got a house always work from the top bottom if you're working from the bottom up you're just gonna end up cleaning you know the bottom a second time because you're gonna be working your way up working dirt from top of the house down to the bottom of the house so i'm always trying to work from top down not bottom up top down bottom up same if you have to get on the house work on the top of the house get on the roof work on the roof and work your way down so i'll do all your high stuff first and then do all your low stuff second that way you're not power washing over yourself a second time cleaning up it's same with the concrete and decks and stuff like that i don't want to you know clean my concrete and stuff around this house and then do my house because then i'm gonna have to clean it all over again try to work efficiently all the time paint lazy so another thing i want to share with you when it comes to a rotating nozzle not all rotating nozzles are the same so this rotating nozzle from mighty m it actually has a filter in it so it filters any debris that could clog up your nozzle if you're actually hooking up to we do have a lot of irrigation valves and stuff in a lot of the houses and the irrigation water it's pretty dirty water so it's important to have a filter that's going to filter your rotating nozzles so it's not going to clog it because it does have a pretty small orifice if you clog that with some type of debris then it's no longer going to function anymore get one with a filter all right one very last tip also straight nozzle straight nozzle this house has lots of hornets uh hornet's nest on it and the rotating nozzle isn't as effective getting rid of hornet's nest throw on your straight nozzle it's gonna knock those things right off it's a good idea to kill the hornets first because if you knock them off with this and they're still alive all you're gonna do is piss off of the hornets and you're gonna get stung and once again i know from past experiences that making hornets mad is not a good thing so there you have it some tips and tricks pressure washing a house and pressure washing concrete if you've got any tips tricks that you want to share just leave it down in the comment section below we would love to hear what you 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