Pressure washers are very useful and helpful tools for eliminating any kind of dirt, grime or grease – no matter if you need to wash your car, house siding, wood, bricks or concrete, they’ll make it much easier.
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How to buy the right pressure washer?
Start with thinking about what do you intend to use it for – do you need a cheaper tool just to wash your car? Or a powerful machine that can handle stubborn dirt and clean large areas effectively? There are three types of pressure cleaners:
Light-duty electric – they are cheaper, compact and easy to carry around. Perfect if you need to do only light cleaning jobs – but lack power for tough grime, also washing a larger area takes ages with them.
Medium-duty electric – the most popular ones – they are not overly expensive but offer enough power for most cleaning jobs around your house and garden.
Gas powered – if you need to use the washer frequently or clean larger areas, these would be your best bet. They are quite expensive but also offer the most power.
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What is a pressure washer and do I actually need one?
Cleaning siding with power washer
A power sprayer is a tool used for removing all kinds of dirt, grime, mold or grease from cars, buildings or wooden, concrete and other surfaces. It takes water from a garden hose and engages the pump to push it out of the wand with a lot more pressure – also, several different nozzle types are used to shape the water fan and adjust the power of the stream.
To rate different models two variables are used – PSI (pressure per square inch) and GPM (gallons per minute) – and while the small electric units have about 1500 PSI, gas powered machines can offer even 3200.
Compared to a traditional garden hose, it has several advantages:
- The difference in power is just huge – a garden with 40-70 PSI is simply not able to remove that kind of dirt that a 1400-3200 PSI washer eliminates without any problems.
- It uses up to 80% less waterÂ
- Most of them feature a detergent injector as well
Take a look at this video to see a pressure sprayer in action:
