50 Times People Tried Cleaning Things, And The Results Were Too Satisfying Not To Share

Cleaning can be a hassle – but it can be incredibly satisfying, especially after years of washing away dirt and exposing the shiny surface of anything you clean underneath. If you have lost the things you need to clean or want to experience this feeling without getting your hands dirty, you are in the right place.

From professional high-pressure cleaning machines to refurbishing old paintings, the people featured in this list certainly know how to handle a swab. People who tried power washing things share the results to the r/powerwashingporn/ subreddit, and they’re incredibly satisfying.

#1 Decided To Have Some Fun While Powerwashing My Dirty Driveway

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#2 New York Used To Be A Much Dirtier City Back When The Northeast Ran On Coal Plants

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#3 My Wife Cleaned The Knobs Off Of The Old Cabinets In Our Basement

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#4 Stages Of Hoarder House. You Would Have No Idea

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#5 Got Transferred To A New McDonald’s Store. First Thing I Did Was Scrub Their Vats

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#6 I’m Ashamed To Admit That I Didn’t Realize How Dirty This Swing Was Until My Wife Asked Me To Clean It. It’s Not Painted Green, That’s Just Years Of Gunk

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#7 Our Cabin At The Lake

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#8 Algae – Algone

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#9 This Church In Detroit Hasn’t Been Cleaned Since It Was Built 134 Years Ago. I Always Thought The Stone Was Black

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#10 Cleaning Rust Off Metal With A Laser

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#11 Marischal College In Aberdeen, The 2nd Largest Granite Building In The World, Has Been Cleaned. Before And After

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#12 So After My Previous Washer Broke I Went Out And Bought A New One, Managed To Complete The Whole Backyard

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#13 Before And After Of A Playground Cleaned At Wirral School. The Difference Is Amazing

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#14 Trinity Abbey In My Hometown, Mid-Cleaning

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#15 My Cousin Does Powerwashing For A Living. He Recently Posted This

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#16 200 Years Of Varnish Removed From A Painting

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#17 Solina Damn In Poland

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#18 Told The Wife The Floor Was Gross And Needed Cleaning. She Said We Don’t Need To. Clean Half She Said And Let’s See The Difference. Mission Accomplished (We Don’t Have Tiled Floors)

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#19 Today I Power Washed A Running Track

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#20 I Cleaned A Jetty Yesterday With A Power Washer. Hadn’t Been Touched In Over 15 Years. Can’t Believe The Difference It Made. Bonus Dog Pictures

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#21  Walked By At Just The Right Time

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#22 Cleaned For The First Time In 5 Years

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#23 Power Washing A Dirty Truck

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#24 I Power Washed A Garden Bench The Wife Gave Me 16 Years Ago

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#25 Satisfaction

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#26 Nottingham City Looking A Little Brighter

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#27 The Power Washers Realised They Got The Wrong House, But At Least We Got A Free Sample

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#28 They’re Power Washing The Fountain Stones At Work

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#29 Cleaning A Dirty Griddle

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#30 Before And After Bathroom Cleaning. The Power Washer Was My Arm

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#31 St. Patrick’s Unveils Its Immaculate Facelift

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#32 32 I Never Knew That The Building Was Nearly White

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#33 Boom

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#34 Built By Her Grandfather. I Thought It Was Just A Bad Stain. Had No Idea

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#35 My Favorite Building In Uppsala Is Going Through A Power Washing Makeover

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#36 Scrubbed A Ceiling Rose Clean With A Toothbrush Whilst Renovating A House

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#37 This Was Last Summer. My Pops Was So Impressed, He Went In Socks On And All

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#38 Cleaning A Platinum Ring That Hasn’t Been Cleaned For 20+ Years

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#39 My Brother Recently Bought His First House. This Was The Very First Thing I Did When I Saw His Back Yard

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#40 Just A Roof Being Cleaned

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#41 My Shoes Before And After A Cleaning

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#42 Power Washed My Driveway After 5 Years Of Buildup

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#43 Chicago’s National Building In The Middle Of A Facelift

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#44 Tadaaa!

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#45 I Thought Our Roof Was Supposed To Be Black. Apparently Not

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#46 46 My All Time Favorite Power Wash. Grimy Swimming Pool

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#47 I Believe This Came Out Rather Nicely

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#48 I’m Falling In Love With My Power Washer

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#49 49 Probably My Favorite Thing To Use A Power Washer For

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#50 My First Go At Power Washing. I Think I’m Hooked

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