Jobs that I really hate.
Pressure washing all of my concrete surfaces every year.
Then sanding in all the joints with kiln dried sand.
For those who have no idea, a lot of my hard standing surfaces have what is known as block paving.
Small individual bricks laid and compacted as driveway.
Pretty, but a bastardo to clean up yearly.
Those in sunny climates like Africa, Australia and lots of the USA will never understand.
Moss and fungus, weeds and whatever can germinate will grow there in the grooves, so you need to spray poison like Roundup or pull the weeds twice a season as well.
When you then come with the pressure cleaner, and I buy the most powerful one you can get for the money, you blast all the sand, moss, roots of weeds out.
Keep in mind that every brick has four bevelled edges to deal with plus the flat, mossy green top surface.
Yup………
I hate it.
Takes me three days to do all of it.
Keeping in mind you cover everything in a 10 meter radius in sh!t and constantly have to go back to clean where you left off. The amount of debris from the cleaning builds up so sweeping it up, collecting the dirt etc is more time consuming.
LAST THING.
I am 1.83m or 6 foot tall.
The lance or sprayer is made for a 1.65m or 5’5” short person. So you are bending over all the time to get the nozzle working 80-100mm off the ground. Don’t tell me about those sexy round brush things. THEY DON’T WORK for my application.
So I started at the garage. First job…….
Clear all my junk, left after the big clear out the last few weeks.
Clear a years worth of leaves and dirt under the hedge.
Then start the torture.
What you have after a year.
Junk moved.
The target.
Takes time.
The before and after images give an idea of how important this actually is.
Never looks that bad, till you start.
Two hours to do this section so far.
Next day some more.
Once it is dry, the idea is to sweep and brush kiln dried sand into the grooves.
This prevents stones moving once you drive over them.
Wet sand is not ideal.
But I paid for it, so I would use it. Right?
Garage area done.
Concrete strips next.
Video shows it a bit weird but trust me…… horrible job.
Then area behind the kitchen, followed by alleyway and out front.
Kitchen parking done.
Front area.
Bloody storm winds were not helpful.
Almost done.
By this point, I was cold, sore and tired.
But I finished the rest of the drive.
Next job was to grab the VW Caddy and go fetch a massive wooden double bed frame.
The rest was good, but I almost couldn’t get out the van I was so stiff and sore.
Loving this van doing it’s job.
So next job is to go buy some fresh kiln dried sand for the driveway block paving.
Till next year.
Three days worth of work in 6 minutes video.
Enjoy.
https://youtu.be/-WhOu6tTYkg?si=HbIVrREXmGkTbMP4
Thanks for watching.