我们回来了. And, this is the second part in our series, pressure washing and deck cleaning 101 by All Pro 洗. 下一个, we’re going to get started and we want to make sure first of all is that your on/off switch is flipped on. 所以它有力量. And secondly, you want to make sure that your gas is open. 然后, you’re going to make sure if you want to try to choke it if hasn’t started recently, 哪个在左边. And, you want to make sure your throttle is about ¾. 有了这个，我们就拉一下.
One of the nice things also is that you can actually, because this unit comes with a 50-foot hose, 你不用带人上楼. We’re going to go ahead and pass the wand up this way. 它可以防止高压清洗机挡道. And then we can watch the deck up top without having to deal with having the pressure washer up there in our way. In this scenario what we’re going to want to do is we’re going to want to start in the far corner and work our way back. Now we’re not using chemicals 今天 because this pressure washer is plenty powerful enough to do this without using chemicals. If you have a deck that’s very old and has a lot of build-up of different stains and stuff on it, you might want to use chemicals to get started but we try to avoid it as much as possible. 它们对环境不好.
If you have a pressure washer has enough pressure and flow you don’t really need them. So we’re going to start in this corner and when I start working our way back. You also might want to think about starting on your railings or higher areas and work your way down from the top. And that’s always a good methodology to always keep working from the top down from the furthest corner in.
下一个, what we’re going to show you is actually how to use what we call a broom. And what this broom will do is extend your spraying surface to three nozzles. It will actually help you increase your efficiency and get the job done three times faster. This is not always going to be perfect for small spaces like maybe the cap rail of the deck, but when you get to larger surface areas you’ll see how much this can actually help speed up your job.
Another important thing to note is that after you get done doing your upstairs area that you want to make sure that you clean off everything below it before you move on to your lower area. 本质上, you want to figure out what tip you want. You can probably go back to the same tip you were using the 25-degree angle. Or we also have another connection that you can put on and this tip is actually called turbo nozzle. The way the turbo nozzle works it’s actually very similar to a pressure washer tip. But what it does is take a 0-degree tip and it actually rotates it and gives you great blasting power. This is good for cleaning brick surfaces or cement, but you want to be careful not to get too close. Sometimes on wood products it’ll actually leave a swirling look which you can get rid of but it’s just something to take a consideration.
After you shut down your unit make sure you always release the pressure that’s built up in hose before you take off the tip. And that way you won’t have any extra pressure with that tip. After you’ve gotten everything done and cleaned up, 你切断了水管和水的连接, you can coil up your hose and you can set it right here and the special spot that’s been designed for it. 然后还有, if you’re going to be leaving the pressure washer running period of time you want to put some kind of pump saver into it. What that does is, it coats the valves and all the mechanisms inside the pump. It also prevents if you’re in a cold climate from anything from freezing and cracking the pump. 这是一个非常重要的特性. 这是一件非常简单的事情. You essentially just attach a plastic bottle to this fitting and you pull the cord once for the starter. It then pumps some water through and some of the fluids special pumps a burr fluid that takes care of your pump. And will make it healthy for many years to come. Something else to keep in in mind is how good of shape your wood is and down below we had a deck that was only a year or so old. When we come to the upper deck here we actually had a deck that was much more porous and all older wood.
And with the older wood, you’re tempted sometimes to really get deep down in. 本质上, you don’t want to overdo it with your pressure washer and get to close with your tip and tear that up. Because that will actually cause you problems and damage the wood even more. 所以要小心. In heavy duty situations you might want to use a chemical there to help bleach the wood versus trying to blast it out. 这样你就有了一个漂亮干净的甲板.
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