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| message from Stuart on 24 May 2004 |
A friend of mine is thinking of getting a power washer . She has been told
that there are none that can be connected to a kitchen sink tap so that
means an outdoor tap being installed which would be handier anyway so she
will probably get that done but is it true that no power washer can
connect to a sink tap ??
Stuart
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| Tim Mitchell replied to Stuart on 25 May 2004 |
I'm not sure if it would stay on the tap, our Karcher pressure washer
causes some pretty severe pressure when it stops, the whole hosepipe
twitches. I haven't tried it with a push on tap adaptor but suspect it
might blow off the tap.
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| Christian McArdle replied to Stuart on 24 May 2004 |
False. I have a hozelock adaptor that fits on the end of my mixer tap and
has a standard clip on hose connector nipple. I tend not to use it for power
washing, although I'm sure it would work. Whether the specific adaptor would
work depends on the design of your tap. However, you could always improvise
something with jubilee clips.
I use mine to wash the bus with a foaming hot brush attachment. Just pop in
a soap stick, turn on the hot and cold taps and I have hot foaming water out
of the end. Obviously, you need a fairly meaty mains pressure hot water
system for this. It also makes the hosepipe go all squashy and limp until it
cools down. All the bits say max 40C, but I don't care, it works and keeps
your hands warm in winter.
Christian.
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| Christian McArdle replied to Christian McArdle on 25 May 2004 |
A hose twitches pretty badly when you turn it off. In fact, the hose
probably has a greater jolt as the flow rate is higher, so there should be
more hammer.
It did come off once, but I actually have more trouble with the hose
connectors blowing off rather than the tap connector. I have very good
static pressure on my system.
Christian.
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| Ian Stirling replied to Christian McArdle on 25 May 2004 |
The key is to tighten the jubilee clip really, really hard.
I've recently run into problems with a sprayer on the end of a hose, that
can be turned off at the sprayer end just by twisting it.
I turned it off, turned the tap off, and was most surprised on disconnecting
several hours later that there was significant pressure stored in the
expanded hose, which as it contracted squirted water everywhere.
(and the pressure here is fairly high, I can shoot water over the house
easily)
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| Lobster replied to Stuart on 24 May 2004 |
Further to what others have said; if she doesn't want to install an
outside tap, I expect she's got a washing machine tap/valve - the
thread on those is the same as on a threaded outside tap, so she could
fit a standard hozelock connector to that temporarily if she wanted.
David
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| mrcheerful replied to Stuart on 24 May 2004 |
there is no reason not to connect to a kitchen tap, but most of those
connectors are a bit of a bodge and would be likely to spray all over the
kitchen as the pressure changes very quickly when you stop spraying. Some
pressure washers will pick up from a pond or similar. She should just get
an outside tap though.
mrcheerful
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| Set Square replied to Stuart on 24 May 2004 |
No! They just require a standard hosepipe fitting. You can get adaptors to
clamp onto most types of domestic tap. These will work, but a proper
threaded hose tap is *better*.
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| Andy Hall replied to Stuart on 24 May 2004 |
No, you can connect them to any clean water source - they connect
using a standard garden hose.
Having said that, it's usually easier to hook up a hose to an outside
tap. Adaptors for sink taps don't work that well and tend to squirt
water everywhere.
.andy
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