Address Back Exterior and Secure All Openings

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Teaching an Apprentice to Power Washing a House Like a PRO!

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Moving to the back of the house, the speaker points out more siding damage from sprinkler systems, which will be replaced. He advises being gentle around damaged areas if they are not being replaced, as a pressure washer can tear them up. Special attention should be paid to spraying around and behind electrical boxes, where bugs and spiders often hide. He again emphasizes careful cleaning of window screens, especially if they are old or damaged. Crucially, before starting, always check that all windows and doors (including dog doors and shed windows) are completely closed to prevent water from entering the house or shed, and to avoid damaging the interior or contents.

Goal: Clean the back exterior, paying attention to damaged siding, electrical boxes, and securing all windows and doors.

Tools and materials

Pressure Washer — Cleaning various exterior surfaces

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to be really gentle kind around that we definitely want to be spraying around behind any type of electrical boxes a lot of bugs and spiders we'll get behind there so we want to spray behind there again we're looking like here electrical boxes you got spiders around we want to definitely get behind them um here's a screen right here if you get any closer than this you'll probably absolutely just shred this screen it's already damaged sometimes it's a good idea to take a picture of that you know if the customer says hey you damaged my screen if you have a picture you could show that it was already damaged like that before vents soffit vents we got to clean them but we don't want to shoot a lot of water up into them because once again it'll shoot a lot of water up into the attic um into the insulation which we don't want to do walking around opposite side of the house once again here's these type of lights sometimes they get rusty and really messed up and you want to make sure that you're not shooting water directly at them but around them to clean them you see the doors right here we want to make sure this door is open want to make sure it's definitely closed a dog door you don't want to shoot a lot of water you know inside there but you do want to clean it because we do paint it um stuff like this will typically take down the definitely the day we paint it um we can wash around it now so we got the back of the house once again we got um metal gutters you can see they are pretty dirty so we definitely want to hit those metal gutters we want to get really close you know clean those you know really well i believe those are metal if they're plastic you got to be really careful getting too close customer already took the downspouts down so um and last painters didn't paint behind them we definitely want to paint behind downspouts nothing unusual back here um going to be cleaning i'm not sure what this is some type of rubber stopper don't need to worry about that we want to be careful around their plants right here um back door we want to clean the screen we'll be painting this door so we definitely want to open this up wash that we got another dog door right here so be careful another thing just make sure there's been multiple times customers have left windows open and we're sitting there pressure washing spraying water and house not even realizing the windows are open so before walk the house make sure all the windows are closed like that dog door is um…

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