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How to paint a house (the prep process). Pressure Washing Tips.

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The first crucial step in preparing a home for exterior painting is power washing. This process effectively removes loose dirt, dust, spiderwebs, and any hornet nests from the house's exterior surfaces. It also aids in the initial stripping of old, peeling paint. The video demonstrates starting a power washer and using different nozzle tips: a red straight tip to reach high areas and a yellow tip for cleaning lower areas. After the power washing is complete, the house is left to dry for an entire day to ensure proper moisture removal before any further preparation.

Goal: Clean the house exterior and begin paint stripping

Tools and materials

  • Power washer
  • Water N/AOperating the power washer

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In this video, we're going to show you our prep process, how we go about getting the home ready to paint. And the first step that we go through is we actually power wash the house. And we come out here and we're going to be here today. We're going to power wash this home. And then after power washing it, we're going to let it dry for a day. And then we're going to come back and walk you through this the prep process that we go through. I'm going to start up this power washer and show you how I go about power washing it. I've got two tips in my pocket that we'll be using. I've got a a red straight one. to reach the high areas and then we'll be using a yellow tip to actually power wash the lower areas. So, we're going to turn this power wash to the on on position. It's off choke cuz it's warm warmed up right now. We actually use the power washer to actually clean any uh loose dirt and dust, spiderw webs, try to knock down any um hornets nests and and we also use a power wash to do um some of the initial stripping of paint. That's this is the initial prep process, the power washing that we go through um one day prior to prepping the house. Uh doing the caulking, priming, and sanding and

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