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Pressure washers My dad usually did all the repair work or painting at our house. Several years ago, we kids decided to paint the house for him since he was getting up in years and didn’t need to be on a ladder. The old paint was flaking and needed to be scraped off. My brother-in-law Gale Wilson and I agreed that scraping would be too much work and we should use a pressure washer to knock the old paint off. One afternoon, Gale brought a pressure washer over to start the job. The only problem was that neither of us knew how to work it. We experimented with different nozzles from the smallest, which actually cut down into the wood, to the largest, which didn’t do much at all, until we found the right one. After adjusting the pressure and having everything just perfect, we went all over the house. The old paint came off with ease. The pressure washer made easy work out of a potentially hard job. Not until the next day, after the house had dried, did we discover that not only had the paint been knocked loose from the house, but some of the wood had as well. This resulted in a house of splinters. My sisters tried to smooth out a section by sanding, but it didn’t work. Daddy was so discouraged. He told my mother, “Mama, those boys have ruined my house.” After Gale and I explained that this would be the perfect opportunity to put vinyl siding on the house, Daddy agreed. When the siding job was done, Daddy was very happy and pleased because the 50-year-old house looked new. My whole family still laughs about this ordeal. Tony
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