Perform Water Beading Test

problem. You might see some houses that are splotchy on the sides. The dark spots are where the paraffin wax is working to the top and causing the paint to get darker. So you can see this whole side, this is the heavy sun side. So this gets the heat and the heat is causing it to rise. The darker the colors, the um the worse the problem is. So one of the things painting it with lighter color so it doesn't heat up as much is going to like help you um you know with the situation. But look at that. What I noticed I've actually painted houses quite a few of the houses. What you do is you just tell the customer, um, this has been like this for years and years and years. It's not going to just literally fall off on the ground. It's not going to fall off if you pressure wash it. If you get too close with a pressure washer, you can get underneath it and start lifting it up. So, this is a perfect example is if I pick at it, if I want to make it peel, I can make it peel. But if if this if I didn't start peeling at it, it wouldn't have just fallen off. So that's what I tell customers when I paint their house is whatever you do just, you know, don't put tape on the house. Like put Halloween decorations, Christmas decorations with tape cuz you go to peel the tape off, it's actually going to pull the paint off with it. So it's a condition. It's a very common condition. Um it's been around, you know, for over 20 years here in um the Treasure Valley. So here's, you know, a paint sample. This was the sample I came out here uh to brush on here for the customer to try to determine colors. And this was one of the, you know, telltale signs that there might be wax bleed, you know, with this siding right here is I put it on there and it just started beating. It started fisheying away right here. Here's a sample right here. We'll show you up close. It's um beating. So, the paint's beading away. What will happen, as you can see, this is all like faded. This paint job. I don't know. that's probably 10, 12 years old, maybe even more. You would assume when you come out here to pressure wash it, the water would kind of absorb into the paint and it wouldn't just like bead off. Well, what happens with wax bleed, I'll start pressure washing. This is when I first typically will notice is I'll be pressure washing this. It'll be beading away on here like it's a brand new automobile or like it was just freshly painted like a week ago. And that's a telltale sign, especially with an old paint…