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LockedWhat do you use your Pressure Washer for?

posted on November 24, 2009 at 09:23AM Inappropriate?

Below are the top ten reasons customers purchase pressure washers. Does anyone have a reason that didn't make the top ten?

#1 Driveways and Sidewalks

#2 Exterior Walls and Doors

#3 Decks

#4 Vehicle Cleaning

#5 Patios and Porches

#6 Brickwork/Masonry

#7 Mildew

#8 Garage/Building Floors

#9 Roof/Eaves/Gutter

#10 Windows

replies: 20 latest post: August 05, 2010 at 04:16PM by SamuelPaxton
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posted on November 24, 2009 at 10:32AM
 

Pressure washers, given the right PSI & GPM, are also good for getting out tough oil stains & can help with paint prep. 

posted on November 24, 2009 at 11:09AM
 

As to "vehicle cleaning", I think it's overkill for cosmetic cleaning.  In non-cosmetic cleaning, I tried to use one to clean an engine and transmission that had been taken out of a car.  It didn't clean.  As has been said before, the only way to get off heavy gunk from an engine is to scrape it.  I'm sure steam cleaning could get such gunk off, but most pressure washers don't even use hot water.

Spraying a walk or wall with a pressure washer is a reasonable acitivity since you can direct the spray away from you.  But if you spray onto a surface that has indentations and cavities like the side of a transmission, the spray is going to come back and give you a shower.

As to window cleaning, they might be OK for very modern properly installed windows.  If you clean old windows with a pressure washer you risk getting water into the wall or window frames.

 

posted on November 24, 2009 at 11:09AM
 

paint prep is a good one :D i will add cleaning the BBQ

posted on November 24, 2009 at 11:52AM
 
In response to fishfacejr2's post from November 24 2009 11:09AM

What PSI unit do you have?

posted on November 24, 2009 at 12:00PM
 
In response to SHC-RandyR's post from November 24 2009 11:52AM

i think it is a task force gas 2300 psi that i got at lowes

posted on November 24, 2009 at 12:38PM
 

Yeah, I've used my pressure washer for getting rid of algae on our deck, clearing years of moss from patio stones (we bought the house and couldn't even see the patio until I cleared the moss this past summer), and cleaning off the house.

posted on November 24, 2009 at 04:40PM
 
In response to SHC-RandyR's post from November 24 2009 09:23AM

Fences, patio furniture and trees that have moss or fungus.

posted on November 28, 2009 at 08:30PM
 

Don't forget cleaning upturned tree root balls, before cutting the roots loose.

Really prolongs the life of your saw blade.

posted on December 03, 2009 at 11:09AM
 
In response to BlueCrewGuyInMA's post from November 24 2009 12:38PM

Do you always use cleaning solution to clean your deck or do you just rely on the pressure of the unit?

posted on December 29, 2009 at 08:38AM
 
In response to SHC-JohnH's post from November 24 2009 10:32AM

So what would be the right PSI & GPM? to get oil stains out or help with the paint prep?

Can you educate the discussions group on "how to decide on PSI & GPM?"

posted on June 11, 2010 at 10:42AM
 

Using a pressure washer to clean a wood deck is a huge mistake in my opinion. High pressure streams of water easily erode the soft light colored spring wood that is found in between the darker bands of summer wood on each piece of lumber. I have actually cut my hand on pressure cleaned deck handrails. So much soft wood was eroded by a pressure washer that sharp slivers of summer grain wood were left behind. The surface of the handrail resembled an upside down multiple blade razor.

 

To make matters worse, many of the pressure washed decks I have examined were cleaned by professional deck cleaning companies. If you have no experience working with a pressure washer, the last place to start is a wood deck.

If you want to make an even bigger mistake, then use chlorine bleach to clean your deck! In my opinion, it is the absolute worst ingredient to apply to a wood deck. Chlorine bleach, better identified on deck cleaning product labels as sodium hypochlorite, removes the natural color from your wood, it destroys the lignin or glue that holds together the wood deck fibers, is toxic to surrounding vegetation, and is corrosive to all metal fasteners and components that hold your deck together.

A far better wood deck cleaner is oxygen bleach. This powdered product when mixed with water releases non-toxic oxygen ions that kill mildew and algae. In addition, the foaming oxygen bleach loosens grey weathered wood fibers and dirt from the deck surface. In the process, it does not remove natural wood color, nor does it hurt nails and joist hangers. Possibly one of oxygen bleach's best attributes is that it will not harm plants, vegetation or you

posted on June 17, 2010 at 11:06AM
 

Where do you buy oxygen bleach?  Do you have a brand name?

 

posted on June 17, 2010 at 05:12PM
 

Wal Mart has it in their own brand at most stores.  You can order it off the internet.  I think clorex 2 is oxygenated but not positive.

posted on June 19, 2010 at 11:39PM
 
In response to SHC-RandyR's post from November 24 2009 09:23AM

Pressure wasn Decks and walls

SHC-RandyR said…

Below are the top ten reasons customers purchase pressure washers. Does anyone have a reason that didn't make the top ten?

#1 Driveways and Sidewalks

#2 Exterior Walls and Doors

#3 Decks

#4 Vehicle Cleaning

#5 Patios and Porches

#6 Brickwork/Masonry

#7 Mildew

#8 Garage/Building Floors

#9 Roof/Eaves/Gutter

#10 Windows

 

posted on June 28, 2010 at 09:18AM
 

great for grills, up and down and throughout.

posted on June 28, 2010 at 10:19AM
 
In response to adamsrib's post from June 17 2010 05:12PM

You shop at Walmart?

posted on June 28, 2010 at 04:03PM
 

Washing my cows and dogs

posted on July 02, 2010 at 10:20PM
 

cleaning the tracks on my 450 track dozer

posted on July 10, 2010 at 02:37PM
 

I can't even imagine myself torching my dog with pressure washer, as "cowman" ! It is not a pleasure at all. Do you wash your kids with pressure washer too? I don't think so. Why then dogs? It's animal cruelty!

posted on August 05, 2010 at 04:16PM
 

I use for all the above

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