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I like to ask 2 general questions.

(A) Is your house in good shape and you are just looking to clean off some mold and mildew

or (b) are you looking to clean it to get it prepared and ready to go to be repainted?

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So let's talk about this from Point A. The house is in great shape and just has some

mold, mildew, algae and you want to get it clean okay so what I generally do is make

sure that when you are just looking to get it clean what we want to do is put our cleaner

on the house we use several different products you can check out our other other videos of

what we have used as far as products go we'll apply it by either running it through our

chemical injector through a pressure washer or you can put it on with a garden sprayer

depending upon what's available to you.

But if you are using a pressure washer we're going to go ahead we have a chemical injector

we'll run it through and apply it throughout the whole exterior of the house and what we

want to do is make sure that our cleaner sits on the house to really let it do its job now

I will try to do is run a comeback when we want to pressure wash it and we are probably

talking about 2500 PSI at maximum pressure pounds per square inch we don't want to

have too much pressure on the house.

So what we want to do is make sure that we're somewhere between 10 and 12 inches away from

the siding you don't want to create what they call a pattern when you pressure wash it it's

kind of shape can kind of see here it's it's kind of shaped almost like a triangle when

it gets away here what you'll do is if you get too close you'll start to to show a cleaning

pattern where the pressure washer is taking off the dirt you basically want to come come

at it with a little bit less pressure and allow the cleaner to do the job because if

you get this wear pattern you'll notice it from standing from the street to the street

corner you'll notice how much dirt is there and how much is not taking off you may have

to clean it twice actually to get it to clean more evenly, now if you're looking to clean

it for repaint or you're going to go ahead and paint it you can get a little bit more

aggressive on it because you want to get the original paint from the house when it was

built you know a lot of times would what's going to happen is that paint is going to

oxidize or get real chalky, we want to get their chalkiness off, mold, mildew, algae,

anything that's going to keep the paint from sticking to that aluminum siding want to get

off there so little more aggressive when you're going ahead and repainting the exterior of

the house a little bit less aggressive when you're just looking to really just clean it

and maybe getting it ready for sale or just want the house look fresh for when the relatives

come over.

Thanks again for joining me I'm Mark and this is Discover Your Home.