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Teaching Painters to Pressure Wash. Tips from The Idaho Painter.

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actually a straight nozzle reach all the way on the roof with a straight nozzle um you know obviously your strong starting your pressure washer when you start it a tip is to pull the trigger on the gun because there'll be a lot of pressure behind it and it's really hard to pull on the power washer when there's pressure behind it so squeeze your trigger pull start it and then it's gonna start a lot easier um another thing is um this has happened to me multiple times if you're using a straight tip um i put a straight tip on and then i pulled the trigger and it actually wasn't on and um that straight tip probably went a mile so um if it was pointed at somebody it probably could kill him so if you put a tip on um any type of tip you should always pull the trigger at the ground first so it happened to me twice and the tip was long gone and i actually shot it in the air so um if that was shoot pointing at a house it would go right through the window um when you got my our big pressure washer has you know 4 000 psi behind it so it's 4 000 psi launching a piece of metal that big so so gun safety rule supply gun safety rules up high pull the trigger with on the gun facing the ground you know otherwise something serious could happen uh i we talked about it um these are all brand new windows but a lot of the houses we go to on these older style homes um they get a lot of wind or a lot of water inside the windows because this had old 1950s windows on it if those were still there there would probably be a lot of water on the windowsill if you don't go immediately wipe it up it's going to swell up damage the paint and we'll be painting inside um their house form for free so that's happened to me before so a lot of things i say is because i learned the hard way so there you go the thing um the rotating nozzle a lot of people you know say that you know all you're going to do is tear things up damage things you know there's only a couple times in my career but how to repla to fix some siding because of a new guy you know getting too close but you learn really fast it's always best to start away and work your way closer till you get comfortable to where it's cleaning and not damaging so just start far work your way close and you'll be fine so it's it's a matter of

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