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cleewindows

nightmare pressure washing
« on: June 01, 2010, 06:02:50 pm »
Cleaned. A drive today had no. Pressure from tap so couldn't clean it what do I do?using a cobra just couldn't get any pressure out my washer.


cleewindows

Re: nightmare pressure washing
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2010, 07:13:28 pm »
Why's that?

Richy L

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Re: nightmare pressure washing
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2010, 07:18:46 pm »
Your pressure washer needs to syphone the water from the butt meaning you can keep a high pressure, only porblem is you need to wait for it to refill all the time. Not ideal, but sometimes you need to do it.

martin19842

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Re: nightmare pressure washing
« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2010, 07:33:23 pm »
hi there

you can be a little more ingenious, cut a whole in the side of the water butt at high level, and fix a standard ball valve,  with a bit of copper on the other end, therefor you can connect upto to the client tap outlet and leave it running, then you can either syphon out to the pressure washer, or cut an outlet at low level, and insert the fitting and a piece of copper and away you go.

regards

martin

Blast Off Stoke

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Re: nightmare pressure washing
« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2010, 07:36:17 pm »
I've had a couple of jobs with poor pressure recently on both jobs i was told that the pressure could be turned up more ,upon getting there the customer then said that it was at full pressure.
Sometimes running two feeds into your butt may help out , one from the outside tap and one from the kitchen sink.

cleewindows

Re: nightmare pressure washing
« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2010, 07:49:48 pm »
thank for all your advice guys

BDCS

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Re: nightmare pressure washing
« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2010, 08:00:08 pm »
If the neighbour is'nt on a meter then use theirs as well