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Apply Pressure Washing to the Fence

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Pressure Washing Wood Fences. How To FAST and Correct!

What happens here

Once the pressure washer is primed and safety gear is on, start the pressure washer engine. Begin applying the high-pressure water stream to the fence. The crucial technique is to move the rotating nozzle up and down the pickets, following the wood grain, rather than stripping across horizontally. This vertical motion prevents visible cross-hatching marks, which are particularly noticeable if a semi-transparent stain is applied later. Work systematically, cleaning one side of the fence pickets first. If there are gaps between pickets, ensure to clean any wood fibers or debris that might be pushed through to the opposite side of the fence. Also, when working close to a structure like a house, aim the stream at an angle away from the building to avoid spraying wood fibers and dirt onto the siding. If any debris does get on the house, it can be cleaned off after completing the fence.

Goal: Strip the old finish and thoroughly clean the fence using the pressure washer.

Tools and materials

  • GlovesTo protect hands during pressure washing
  • Pressure washerTo generate high-pressure water for cleaning and stripping the fence
  • Pressure washer wandTo direct the high-pressure water stream to the fence surface
  • Rotating nozzleTo effectively strip old finishes and loose wood fibers from the fence
  • Safety glassesTo protect eyes from debris and high-pressure water spray

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start your pressure washer. All right, we're just cruising right along doing the pressure washing. And I'm going to give you some tips and tricks pressure washing. Now, the backside of this is extremely gray and um kind of black and it's stripping pretty fast. What you don't want to do is strip sideways. If your pickets are going up and down, you want to strip up and down. Otherwise, if you're doing a semi-transparent stain, you're probably going to see uh the cross striping or the cross-hatching of where you're stripping and um pressure washing. So, always go with the grain, with the pickets. I'm going up and down. I'm trying to do it and up the picket, down the picket, have it completely stripped, and then moving on to the next picket. On the opposite side, I'm shooting at an angle because I don't want to be shooting directly at the house, getting wood fibers all over the house. But, we'll actually just if we need to clean the side of the house after we're done pressure washing the fence. Now I'm pressure washing, stripping one side, going back, stripping the other side, and then going back and cleaning the opposite side that throws fibers on the other side. Now I've got um gap, big gaps in between the pickets, so I got to do the edges of it, too. We are going to be doing this fence in a solid color stain. So the opposite side, which was stained probably two years ago, um it you can't strip that off. So, it's going to look a lot better if it's done with a solid color stained. I like doing solid color stains once a fence has been stained multiple times and it won't look like new and natural if it hasn't been maintained and maintained very well. Just kind of interesting. This fence wasn't done very well. Only one side of it was done and not the opposite side, which is kind of um adding to the dilemma. But it's stripping really

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