If your buying a pressure washer get a hot water one that will inject soap into the water, the difference is amazing. I bought a number of pressure washers for the company I worked for and found Karcher washers lasted longer and were easier to service.
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Many years ago I was a service engineer for Kew Pressure washers.
In the past the cheap stuff was very poor, its now come on no end, having frost damaged a few good ones I now but £50 nilfisk ones and its fine for the little we do but I feel for bigger stuff a used industrial spec machine is better. Petrol, one with a Cat or Lynx type pumps are usually good and reparable.
Just took a load of stuff to the tip for a friend in it was a cheap pressure washer, tried it and it works well very well for under £50 new.
In the past the cheap stuff was very poor, its now come on no end, having frost damaged a few good ones I now but £50 nilfisk ones and its fine for the little we do but I feel for bigger stuff a used industrial spec machine is better. Petrol, one with a Cat or Lynx type pumps are usually good and reparable.
Just took a load of stuff to the tip for a friend in it was a cheap pressure washer, tried it and it works well very well for under £50 new.
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I've got a karcher that's earn't it's money several times over doing driveways. Never had any problem with it.
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I have a hobby 88, I think I bought it in 1988. I bought it new from BnQ.
It's still going strong. I used to forget to empty it, if it froze it would split a plastic
pipe going to the pump[?], other wise it just runs fine.
I have been expecting it to die for year;-).
It's still going strong. I used to forget to empty it, if it froze it would split a plastic
pipe going to the pump[?], other wise it just runs fine.
I have been expecting it to die for year;-).
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never mind that, shame the handle is blocking the view of the triumph which looks really nice
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Is that better....despite the clutter
Having some fun with the new washer - does drive much easier than what i have had previously, even got a snowfoam lance:
Glad I got the wheeled version, box weighed 35 Kg.
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Much!
Snow foam is great fun, did you know you can get it in all sorts of colours now - from yellow through to pink [if that's what floats your boat
] ? 
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Ta for that heads-up, months later.
Fed up with the stream of cow urine from my Qualcast thing (I hesitate to call it a pressure washer), and while I explore the possibility of cobbling together my own higher power one, I plumped down €53 for a new-but-tatty-box Amazon return C120, which promises to be better than the Qualcast piece of junk.
