My new toy.

[Retired]

Hi,

Thanks Big Al; you know you don't need to remove your shoes when you visit because we put the red carpet out anyway. Both you and David mention the fact that it will rough up timber and I've already found this out. I only caught our treated fence with it and in an instant it was down to bare white timber. I also tried a patch test on the decking and again it was like using a sand blaster; I'll pressure wash the deck in our two days of summer this year and on the second day I'll apply preservative. The deck runs full length to the bungalow front at 40' long; I'll enjoy doing it.

You really did start something David by telling me how good these washers are; I'm still in shock this morning just looking at the work I did yesterday; it took around 8 hours spread over two days for me to power wash over 100 feet of wide path (42' at almost 5' wide) edging blocks; 3 lots of garden steps; concrete driveway and a lot of dry stone walling. I loved every minute of it. I'm not surprised you are always looking for more things to blast with it.

Thanks for your caution regarding mortar joints Gary; I cheated when I laid all the flags because I really went to town by bedding them on mortar then filling the wide joints with a granite chip/mortar mix. It only blew one small loose section out and I was going to re-lay this small flag anyway this year. Our roof tiles are covered in moss/algae where the large Scots Pine tree used to overhang; I took the tree down but now I want to power wash the roof; Bron and I put the roof on many years ago and it looked beautiful so hopefully a power wash will fully restore its previous splendour. Regarding painting roof tiles YUK!! We've also seen beautiful old rows of stone cottages with the pointing painted brilliant white making them in my opinion to look ghastly. Still the beauty is in the eye of the beholder but many people behave like sheep and once one person does something others are sure to follow. I wonder how long it will be before our neighbours are out power washing their paths?

This pressure washer is indeed very powerful Lawrence and thank you for your concern. It is rated at 120 bar and whilst washing the wide steps I noticed it stripped the black gloss paint from the wrought iron railing feet with ease. I quickly learned that blasting directly into an internal corner gives me a rapid dirty shower; blasting directly downhill into the corner wasn't a problem then the vertical surfaces were tackled one by one. It's just incredible how easy it is to blast dirt from normally inaccessible places.

Regarding removing paint from my lathe beds David; had the beds been here I would have certainly given it a go even if only to clean all the dirt out from between the ways. I wonder if there is such a thing as a sand blasting attachment to fit the washer as this would be extremely useful to me given the number of machines I strip down.

Not only do I share your enthusiasm for power washing David but had I known about these machines and how good they really are I would have packed in my most stressful job of 24 years and set up my own small one man business as I would have enjoyed driving around in the car with the power washer; I bet I could make £100 per day easily if I was in need of money. There are many houses that would benefit from a spring clean to the outside and I'm sure the home owner would be very impressed by the result thinking it money well spent. I feel cheated today as it is back to its usual miserable wet gloomy self preventing me from playing with my new toy.

Kind regards, Col.