Inspect Side Exterior for Damage and Sensitive Fixtures

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What happens here

On the side of the house, the speaker points out a missing downspout, noting potential water damage to the siding below, indicating this area needs attention. He then warns about window screens, especially old or oxidized ones, stating that getting too close with a pressure washer will scar them. He recommends staying about a foot and a half away from screens and offers a tip to take pictures of existing damage on screens to avoid liability. He then identifies external light fixtures, specifically plastic ones, cautioning that a direct strong spray can break them. He advises rinsing lights gently rather than directly blasting them. Lastly, he mentions checking for rusted or weak sensors that could be easily damaged.

Goal: Identify and protect screens, lights, and any existing damage on the side of the house.

Tools and materials

Pressure Washer — Cleaning various exterior surfaces

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um he's missing a downspout here which is um pretty interesting we've definitely got some water damage down here um here we got once again screens you know that we got to just be careful with nothing unusual on this side other than vents uh hornet's nest the lights a lot of times those light bulbs um those flood lights those things um they they can be um exposed to weather and stuff and really weak and if you shoot straight at them with like a straight nozzle you can end up um damaging and breaking a light so be really careful uh like we got lights out front um a lot of these lights sometimes they'll be on plastic right here and i've shot um a straight nozzle at stuff like this and broken it so you got to be careful you know we want to rinse the lights off but we don't want to like right here you can see that one right there the sensor is broken right there um so you got to be careful with that kind of stuff i can see these sensors are all oxidized right here and damaged and broken so we got to be careful with that so we don't want to make it any worse go around to the back um and we'll check out the backside now see what we got going on back here so we got um some siding damage right here from sprinkler systems we are going to be replacing this from you know here down so we're going to cut it out right here um but this is the kind of stuff that if you get too close to that and you weren't replacing it it would be it would just really tear it up so you want to be really gentle kind around that

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