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I've been giving this some thought and fortunately in our area I hope we never have a water shortage but if we did this would be my solution.
I have always used a power washer to wash off the dirt first then use a regular bucket with car wash additive and micro fibre cloth etc with a final rinse using the power washer. Now power washers are extremely economic with water, but they are connected to a hose therefore against the hose pipe ban. How about if you have a suitable sized container which can be topped up using a bucket (perfectly legal) and the container coupled to the power washer obviously with a hose but not connected directly to the main supply so again perfectly legal. You could easily monitor the water level in the container and top up accordingly. I reckon I will use less than two bucketfuls of water for a full wash including underside of my car. I'd love to try it out but maybe some of you guys in a drought area may be willing to take up the challenge, let me know if you think this is a worthwhile idea. JYJ |
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I remeber seeing an advert for a cordless power washer with its own water reservoir built in. If you filled the reservoir from the tap I guess that would be perfectly OK in a ban area.
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I'm sure I've also seen something of the like very recently, in the last week or so, either a TV advert or in a magazine, but I can't recall where I am afraid....
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Thing is though, I'd be worried about using one of these whilst a hosepipe ban was on, as to the casual onlooker, it might appear I was using a "proper" hose. That may be just me though....
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Recently I've seen a TV advert for Karcher pressure washers extolling their washers as using much less water than a hosepipe, and that all their range can be run from a bucket therefore avoiding the hosepipe ban.
Can't remember specifics, I wasn't interested (I'm in wet Yorkshire)
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Washed the car with ONR for the first time yesterday, all I can say is its witchcraft! No marring at all.
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Run a pressure washer off a water butt, rain water is the best thing for wash the car as it leaves very little residue that tap water seems to have.
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I think I'll be trying ONR, a large part of me is scared of adding yet more swirls to my tired bodywork!
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