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Old 08-05-2006, 07:26 PM
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Pressure washing before painting

Started the big job of pressure washing the 1885 Victorian house today. Plan on doing this house in stages so I can hopefully do the prep work before painting the correct way so I don't have to do this much work again for a long time.
Plan on pressure washing then sanding everything else that don't come off down to the bare wood, as I get it down to bare wood I plan on priming as I go around the house. I doubt that I will get to the finish color before winter since I have ALOT of prep work to do including the caulking of everything including all the 85 windows. So far I have just one question since I have never used the pressure washer before to strip house paint ( I have always in the past just scraped and painted but them houses were not my own).

Question is how long after you pressure wash the wood on the house should you wait before priming with paint?
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