Finally started...

With summer having arrived so late this year (if it's really arrived yet...), we haven't got around to starting our big summer job - painting the outside of our house.  With fine weather forecast, we bought ourselves a water blaster to clean the house before starting the big job of scraping loose paint and sanding.  And... what did we do first, we cleaned the deck of course!  The steps are half done in that photo - it's amazing, our deck is actually brown, not grey!

We did also blast one side of the house, and I've managed to scrape and sand most of it - it should be painted next weekend.

We did also manage to burn out the water blaster.  According to the instruction booklet, it's suitable for "cleaning buildings".  According to the helpful man at Bunnings, it's not.  If you use it for more than about half an hour at a time, it's likely to burn out.  So, we got given a replacement seen as it had failed within a day.  And I guess we'll have to treat it carefully and hope it lasts for the rest of the house...