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Title: nightmare pressure washing
Post by: cleewindows 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.
Title: Re: nightmare pressure washing
Post by: davep on June 01, 2010, 07:10:50 pm: Dont use a tap, get a water butt?
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Post by: cleewindows on June 01, 2010, 07:13:28 pm: Why's that?
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Post by: Richy L 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.
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Post by: martin19842 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
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Post by: Blast Off Stoke 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.
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Post by: cleewindows on June 01, 2010, 07:49:48 pm: thank for all your advice guys
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Post by: BDCS on June 01, 2010, 08:00:08 pm: If the neighbour is'nt on a meter then use theirs as well