Thread: Must clean. must clean.

Originally Posted by tea lady

Well apparently you can fill a bucket and have the afore mentioned power washer sucking the water out of there. Actually takes quite a while to use a bucket o' water with it. And with another bucket placed under down pipe we have continuous water recirculation, as tis the roof he is cleaning. Triffic.

if you are useing a bucket with your pressure cleaner they say you have to coil the hose around the inside of the bucket or have a hose with a non-return valuve lets say a small cleaner uses 300ltr per hr thats 5ltr a min hope you got a big bucket

Well, Hubby has finally actually looked up the water restrictions and power washers can be used for construction purposes. Since he is using it to clean roof of loose rust so we can paint it with "rust conquerer" and silver paint it appears it is a legitimate use. Anyway, finished the cleaning bit now. Roof becoming more and more blindingly silver. Will have to wear sunglasses in studio as it overlooks roof. I guess dirt and leaves will tone it down soon enough and we have slowed the rust down somewhat.
The water restrictions do unfortunately mean that we can no longer just squirt the washing clean.

BTW, beware of pressure washers if you have concrete drive/patio type surfaces. the pressure can pit the suface and ruin a nice finish.