I feel like I see signs everywhere now advertising it. Has this always been the case or just recently now that it’s a popular internet job

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    1 year ago

    Yeah pressure washing is a blunt instrument. I pressure washed my deck and it got all splintery. Any sort of surface imperfections will be made worse by pressure washing.

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      1 year ago

      I had a chemistry teacher who would put a chemical formula on the chalkboard and say things like:

      “This’ll clean your teeth really well. Once.”

      Or

      “This’ll make your car go really fast. Once.”

      That’s how I think about pressure washing a deck. It looks amazingly clean at first but the damage is there. Maybe sanding after would help. But you can only do that so many times.