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Power Wash the House Exterior

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

What happens here

The first step in preparing the home for painting is to power wash the entire exterior. This process aims to remove loose dirt, dust, spiderwebs, and any insect nests (like hornets nests). The power washing can also help with the initial stripping of loose paint. The video demonstrates using a pressure washer with different tips: a red straight one for high areas and a yellow tip for lower areas. After power washing, the house is left to dry for a day before proceeding with further prep work.

Goal: Clean the house exterior and remove loose debris and some old paint.

Tools and materials

  • Garden Hose — Supplying water to the pressure washer
  • Pressure Washer All Power America — Cleaning the house exterior and removing loose paint
  • Red Straight Tip — Reaching high areas with a concentrated stream
  • Yellow Tip — General power washing on lower areas with a wider spray pattern

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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 any other prep work. This is Chris from

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