Pressure Washing Your House

Series Summary

Since the dawn of time, man has sought to ameliorate his humble dwellings. The do-it-yourself spirit has driven people the world over to tackle projects like adding a room, painting, installing new light fixtures, and the list goes on. Home improvement can be some of the most rewarding—or most frustrating—work homeowners can do. The key to doing home repair and maintenance successfully is having the proper tools and the right knowledge. The key to making your home improvement project relatively hassle-free is a tactic that has worked for ages: divide and conquer. With step-by-step instructions and safety procedures in hand, Sunday afternoons walking around the house with a screwdriver and a plan can resume.

In this free DIY home improvement video series, learn how to pressure wash the exterior of your house—as well as the sidewalks, driveway and deck. Our expert will show you where to get a pressure washing machine, how to hook it up, what wands and tips to use, and how to start the pressure washer. Then follow him as he takes you around the house—from roof, to eaves, to windows, to exterior walls—showing you the proper pressure washing techniques for cleaning. After watching these videos, you should be able to pressure wash your own home in no time!

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is Grady Johnson and I'm a professional painter and today I represent expertvillage.com. Now today we are going to talk about pressure washing a house. It is very important to pressure wash your house before you do any painting also pressure washing can extend the life of a existing paint job. You don't always don't have to paint sometimes just pressure wash could make your house look brand new. So today in this series we are going to talk a little bit about the type of pressure washer you want to buy and where to get those. We would talk about how to use the machine, how to start it up, what kind of tips to use and wands and how to work with this hoses and coil them up. We are going to talk a little bit to about the actual work itself working from top to bottom, we would discuss how to pressure wash a roof also these windows and galaxy windows as well. How to pressure wash the ease on your house and the fascia adn we are going to talk about how to do the walls and how to protect our plants and how to do walks and driveways as well. Once we have gone through this entire series today you would find that you'll know everything you need to know about pressure washing a house."