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Pressure Washing the House and Prepping for Painting

Bob looks at a large exterior color sample on his home in Cambridge, Mass., and watches the paint crew pressure wash the house. Bob describes the tools involved in prepping a surface for new paint.
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" Now a couple of weeks yeah we're talking about the color schemes that have existed on the house in the past. And we note that this red has been here although the original color was a dark green neither of which we were sure about so. We took the liberty of doing a big sample here in the corner of the house and this is kind of a Venetian red that we mixed and it's more or -- an Essex green trim. I like it but the main thing I want to do -- to make sure my wife liked it she does this go around front will look at the pressure washing."

" Now the pressure washing of the house is really an important step is just removing all the dust and -- Loose flaky paint that's been there for many years but will be doing once -- is putting on. A complete coat of oil based primer with some tips in it and then after that we'll put on the latex finish coat. What he's got up there is a pressure washer professional one and there's two different kinds of -- you can news. The one with a circular opening we'll give you distance. This one here with which is normal -- opening we'll give you -- band but the main thing to keep in mind is not to get too close to the surface that you are watching this who just destroy the side."

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