Non-electric Power Washer!?

SpursDave

Has anyone seen or tried these? Granted not as powerful as a Karcher, BUT I was wondering if this was a way of washing the car using saved rainwater in a way that would clean some of the mud out the wheel arches?!

http://www.savewatersavemoney.co.uk/product/hand-water-pump/244

ixwood

A bucket and sponge?

I can't take that website seriously after it suggested using the 10L pressure sprayer to water the lawn.

Volcano

It's no different to the garden sprayers that have been around for years. It will be really weedy (excuse the pun) at 58 psi (that will also rapidly lose pressure) through a small nozzle, compared to the constant 1500 psi from a karcher. In fact I reckon it won't come even close to the pressure from your tap through a hose.

I think you'll have your work cut out cleaning wheel arches, even if the mud is wet. On the plus side, if you have an application where this may be less effort (and save more water) than getting the hose out, it's only £26 which is quite a bit cheaper than the garden sprayers I can find.

scbk

I've got a simillar 10L garden sprayer, it's useful for washing motorbikes where you can't be @rsed getting out the hose to rinse off the soap

Also sometimes use it for rinsing off trailers which are too far from the tap to use the hose

Have had to use it to wash the van when the normal hose was frozen up

It is not a replacement for a karcher type pressuse washer (which I would never wash a vehicle with anyway), more of a "cordless" garden hose

SpursDave

Might be worth further thought then. I appreciate it won't get anywhere near a 'normal' pressure washer, but if its near a garden hose, then that would suffice. To get the hose from our garden to where we wash the car, is a pain to be honest. Plus I want to use our collected rainwater rather than paid for tap-water!

SCBK - when washing the van and that did it do an okay job?

scbk

Yes it's fine for washing cars/vans just a bit slow, and you have to keep pumping it. Of course, you use it in conjuction with a bucket and sponge to rinse before and after.

I actually saw a car wash place using simmillar pump sprayers the other day!
You can get them in different sizes - 5L, 10L, 15L, 20L, 26L . Bare in mind a litre of water is a kilo so that's a fair bit of weight

I'm not so sure about using rainwater to wash your car though, due to the extra algae, would it leave as a good a finish?

ailuro2

bucket and sponge followed by a rinse with a watering can.

Filter the rinse water through some rolled up tights to keep it clearer.:D

No cost option.:money: