Karcher Pressure Cleaners

[Shrimpo]

Hi guys just wondering if anyones used the cheap pressure cleaners for around $250?

We got a heap of concrete to clean and would also clean cars and boat with it.

Are they any good? Is the pressure any good or should we just get a bloke in to clean the concrete?

[tyrion]

unless you have a tank its illegal atm to use a pressure washer but they do go alright for the price

[Shrimpo]

Got 6000 litres

[faulked]

if you have a large area of concrette to clean rent a big one but for everything else the little ones are magic

ive cleaned alot of concrette now and the petrol powered industrial ones rock just dont hit your foot with them and dont hold the nozzle to close to exposed concrette it lifts the stones quite easilly

jason

[Shrimpo]

Can you reccomend who to hire from? I have looked at kennards and they want $160 for 4hrs, yeah right.

[will]

mate i have used the small 1s and they will do a good job and once u have purchaced ur machine u have it for ever. stick to karcher because u can bye parts for any model were some of ur other brands u cant cheers will

[Dusky]

With these pressure cleaners it pays to look at the litres per minute they consume..higher the litres the better they are able to do the job.

I hire one and it puts out 11.5 litres a minute with a turbo head in stead of a fan jet and it does the job easily.

Anything with 1500psi and above 7 litres a minute shoud do the job!!

But I wopuld recommend getting a turbo head, cuts ya time in half!!

cheers.

[faulked]

sorry i couldnt tell you whom to hire from the last one i hired was a 4cyl diesel at about 5000psi it cut timber palings in half we did all the pathways in a resort in a week with it but im talking hundreds of square metres if you just have a driveway to do take your time with a normal one and the fancy heads are well worth the extra money:)

jason

[Hellcat Dan]

you ca hire them from sheild coat on beaudesert rd the for about 120 for the week end

if you put straght pool chorean on it first it will look better there will not be as much pass marks

[Feral]

Dont forget to check old "not-worthies" rules to see if you can use one these days!

[tyrion]

well 6000ltrs is plenty for the job sheild coat is the go last time i used them it was 110 for the day but if you hire on a saturday you get it for the weekend for the same price cause there not open sundays

Im not sure about the pool chlorine though im sure some one will call the water patrol just to check you out and if they see straight chlorine goin down the drain they wont be happy

[shortie]

Pool chlorine works a treat. Ive got an exposed aggregate driveway. And use pool chlorine on it. then geurney. works perfect. Hydrochloric acis for bad spots like oil stains.

[Shrimpo]

With it going down the drain, It would be no worse then people draining pool water would it?

[shortie]

got a neighbour that works for seq water. he does

[tyrion]

ok np then i just thought thed have a prob with it as when we wash a roof down we have to disconect the down pipes so it doesnt flow to storm water ??

[shortie]

tyrion wrote:

ok np then i just thought thed have a prob with it as when we wash a roof down we have to disconect the down pipes so it doesnt flow to storm water ??

Wow i havnt heard that 1 either.

I would of thought more crap would come off the road like oils tar and the like than would come off a roof.

[Hellcat Dan]

all you have to do is block the gutters on the road with sand bags and buldge it out if not set up 4 sand bags in a row across the gutter you wont have a problem with the dirt that comes off the roof or drive way i learn that mastake it is costly as for clorine i wash down terracotta tyles down with he stuff it cutts work down by half

[Shrimpo]

The only problem with chlorine is that the driveways on the side of the house and slopes down and to the neighbours side property because he has a drain right down the back. However the Chlorine will run off onto his lawn and kill it, and i dont think he will be happy about that.

[will]

just tell him it must be something in the air :laugh: :whistle: