Pressure washers
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They are on sale all the time, you can get a small unit on sale for about $100 at CT, Home Depot, Rona, or any big box hardware store. You do not need the big one, all you need it a little extra pressure to was the soap off your car. Sometimes I do not even bother to hook it up and just use regular water pressure from the hose. As far as the dry/wet vac. it serves no useful purpose. If you have a puddle or something disgusting in your car that you need to vac ou, pay a few quarters at the gas station and vac it out there. I was talking to the guy that fixes the gas station vacs, he tell me that in the winter time people vac out the water, slush and snow into the vacs and he gets a big barrel of frozen mess. The usual crap he finds in the vac can are lots of womens underwear, pantyhose, combs, hair pins, pens loose change screws condoms gum wrappers and the other usual crap. and yes, lots of sanitary pads. ( covered in cigarette butts and ash )
One thing about pressure washer: don't expect them to remove the "film" that you get from road crime. I have found they are only good for removing the large chunky dirt that builds up on things. You'll still need to get out the soap bucket and washmitt IMO.
They'll do an ok job on driveways, vinyl or aluminum siding, decks etc but be careful when you're doing the siding: you do NOT want to force the water in behind the siding........
They'll do an ok job on driveways, vinyl or aluminum siding, decks etc but be careful when you're doing the siding: you do NOT want to force the water in behind the siding........
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Strange new use of the word 'need'. How have you managed up to now?
In the hands of the unwary and inexperienced, a pressure washer of any power can do significant damage to surfaces in short order. Do be careful, and try to get a quiet one. Summer weekends in my neighbourhood with all the guys playing w/ their hoses are nosiy enough w/o another participant.
In the hands of the unwary and inexperienced, a pressure washer of any power can do significant damage to surfaces in short order. Do be careful, and try to get a quiet one. Summer weekends in my neighbourhood with all the guys playing w/ their hoses are nosiy enough w/o another participant.
Everybody I know that has bought one of those units has indicated it konks out after a couple of years max.
very cheap motors and because it is difficult to drain completely the excess water left in the unit freezes over the winter and fucks it up.
This has happened to myself......twice.
Its a nice toy to have if you can afford to replace it every couple of years.
Either that or buy a good one......not Simoniz
very cheap motors and because it is difficult to drain completely the excess water left in the unit freezes over the winter and fucks it up.
This has happened to myself......twice.
Its a nice toy to have if you can afford to replace it every couple of years.
Either that or buy a good one......not Simoniz
