After you start the motor, point the wand off into space.
Squeeze the trigger. Adjust for wide fan spray. Slowly get
closer to the house, until you find the distance that works.
Probably about six inches.

If you spray a straight stream of water to the house, you
risk damage. Having left permanant lines on a black top
driveway with a straight stream out of a 3,000 PSI
washer.....

--
Christopher A. Young
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I'm going to rent a pressure cleaner to prepare a smooth
stucco on
cement block house for painting. It's been several years
since the
house was last painted and the surface is chalky with some
areas of
peeling paint.

As someone whose experience with power tools and accessories
is pretty
much limited to rare use of a 40 year old electric drill, I
wonder if
there's is much of a learning curve for using a pressure
cleaner.
Would 3000 psi be adequate for a job like this? Are there
certain
things to do or to avoid doing to improve the chances of
satisfactory
results or is it simply a matter of just starting the thing
up and off
I go?

Any and all advice and suggestions are greatly appreciated.