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Understand Necessity of Post-Construction Cleaning

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won't be painting it today because we're pressure washing. We got done doing the touch-up caulking after the cers. Yo did the initial caulking, which is uh pretty typical if you're following up cers. Uh they typically don't have the best skills caulking. So I did quite a bit of touch-up caulking. Now I'm pressure washing. And you might have the question, why in the world are you pressure washing a brand new house? Well, this house, they started building it right before wintertime. It went through winter time, didn't have gutters. Water was pouring off of it. It got all muddy all over the sides. They eventually put the gutters on, which is not ideal. Water mud got all over the place. But another thing is is the siding comes out here and it's all stacked. They um it's delivered. It's winter time. The job site when I was working here was all muddy and everything. And the siders actually walk on the siding to cut and stuff like that. So, you'll get mud on the siding. sighting gets pretty dirty. There's, you know, rain, snow, splashing on it. It gets dirty. You don't want to leave that on there. When they were uh caulking, they were cutting as they were caulking and um sawdust was stuck to the caulking everywhere. The garage doors, you know, all the cutting inside the garage with the garage doors being up created all kinds of dust and dirt on the garage doors. So, you definitely want to pressure wash it. It's a good idea just to quickly. You don't have to take nearly as much time pressure washing a new home as you do a repaint. And even like the the high exterior stuff, none of that is really exposed to dust and dirt. But just inherently new construction, you look around the job site, it's all dirt. It's a brand new site. Cars coming in and out, contractors coming out, it's just causes dust and dirt. That all eventually lights and lands on, you know, the surface, and you want to get it off before you uh do any type of cleaning. And I know in a lot of new construction, the contractors, the painting contractors don't do any type of cocking at the cers. They don't pressure wash. But it really is uh just to have your job look amazing, look good. Take the little time and effort to do both of

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