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Giving your house a facelift using sandblasting or pressure washing. Some tips.
CANADIAN WORKSHOP Jan 1988 (v.11#4) pg. 35

How to renew weathered redwood or cedar wood siding using a pressure washer and bleach.
FAMILY HANDYMAN #281 Sep 1987 (v.37#7) pg. 66

Tip on cleaning vinyl siding.
FAMILY HANDYMAN #310 Jul-Aug 1990 (v.40#7) pg. 14

How to power wash your house.
FAMILY HANDYMAN #310 Jul-Aug 1990 (v.40#7) pg. 66

Renewing weathered wood. Making decks, fences, and siding look great again.
FAMILY HANDYMAN #346 Mar 1994 (v.44#3) pg. 34

Formula for solutions to kill mildew and lighten cedar shingle siding.
FAMILY HANDYMAN #355 Feb 1995 (v.45#2) pg. 13

How to pressure-wash your whole house from start to finish.
FAMILY HANDYMAN #386 Mar 1998 (v.48#3) pg. 54

How to clean your exterior siding. Deals with stains on wood, aluminum, steel, vinyl, masonry, stucco, and asbestos-cement.
HANDY ANDY Jul 1978 (v.2#9) pg. 68

Power washing a house. Some tips.
HOME MECHANIX #746 Jun 1990 (v.86) pg. 10

Tips on how to remove mildew from cedar siding and preservatives to use that keep it from coming back.
HOMEOWNER Jun 1985 (v.10#5) pg. 12

How to clean weather-stained siding and decks. Three new products are tested.
HOMEOWNER Sep 1985 (v.10#7) pg. 60

How to clean the exterior of your house. Includes tips on cleaning brick, wood siding, aluminum siding and vinyl siding.
MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED #672 May 1984 (v.80) pg. 110

Tip: How to wash the outside of a house with a bleach solution to both clean and kill mildew. Use a hose with an inexpensive garden sprayer attachment.
OLD-HOUSE JOURNAL Oct 1981 (v.9#10) pg. 242

Tip on using BBQ grill scrubbers to (1) scrub clapboards and shingles prior to painting and (2) clean up walls after removing wallpaper.
OLD-HOUSE JOURNAL Jul-Aug 1994 (v.22#5) pg. 22

Tip describes a method for washing the exterior of an old clapboard house.
OLD-HOUSE JOURNAL Mar-Apr 1996 (v.24#2) pg. 20

Tips on removing stains from vinyl siding.
POPULAR MECHANICS Jul 1996 (v.173#7) pg. 85

Tip on washing and painting asbestos cement shingle siding.
PRACTICAL HOMEOWNER Mar 1989 (v.4#2) pg. 7

Faster way to prep. Tips on safely using a high-pressure (2,000-psi) power washer to prepare a house for painting.
PRACTICAL HOMEOWNER Apr 1990 (v.5#3) pg. 70

How to control mildew on your house siding.
WORKBENCH Jul-Aug 1977 (v.33#4) pg. 62

Give aluminum, steel and vinyl siding new life by cleaning the paint.
WORKBENCH Apr-May 1991 (v.47#2) pg. 24

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