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mightypudge
06-29-2018, 03:17 PM
As some of you may recall, I live in a development where severe restrictions make it very difficult to properly wash and detail a car. Notably, there is no place to hook up a hose outside the apartment. As a workaround, I tried the Worx Hydroshot, but it lacked the oomph I was looking for. Plus the Hydroshot is bucket-fed, which means every so often I had to keep hauling a five-gallon bucket up and down two flights of stairs. With my heart condition and my *cough* advanced age *cough* that got old very fast. So, after nearing dying of a heart attack the prior weekend, I was almost ready to give up.

Almost. :)I think I have finally concocted a solution that will allow me to pressure wash my car like I've always dreamed. Allow me to walk you through my evil plan.

Say hello to my washer hookups.

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That one on the right is obviously cold water. He is about to get a new lease on life, thanks to:

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This baby is going on the cold water hookup. One side will continue to provide fresh Pennsylvania water to our dirty clothes. The other side will feed:

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This 75' hose will lead from the splitter, through the living room, down the stairs, and out the front door, where this will be waiting:

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The Greenworks pressure washer is on sale at Lowe's this week. I absolutely wanted to make this work so I could use:

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Finally, I get to foam my car!

Everything will get connected via quick disconnects to make hookup easier.

I just pray the hose doesn't spring a leak. :)
briarpatch
06-29-2018, 04:53 PM
you need to post pics...can not wait to see this
Rsurfer
06-29-2018, 05:04 PM
Good luck..hope you don't get an association letter saying you can't do that in the parking lot.
mightypudge
06-29-2018, 09:16 PM
Good luck..hope you don't get an association letter saying you can't do that in the parking lot.

I checked our lease and there is nothing in it about washing cars, thankfully. The noise won’t be a problem since the Greenworks pressure washer is much quieter than my neighbors’ lawnmowers.

I think as long as I keep the water and foam off my neighbors’ cars and driveways they’ll have no recourse.


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Rsurfer
06-29-2018, 09:24 PM
I checked our lease and there is nothing in it about washing cars, thankfully. The noise won’t be a problem since the Greenworks pressure washer is much quieter than my neighbors’ lawnmowers.

I think as long as I keep the water and foam off my neighbors’ cars and driveways they’ll have no recourse.


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It would not be in your lease, but the association by laws.
SWETM
06-30-2018, 04:40 AM
Nice setup! Hope it's what you have been looking for. The hose and the fittings seems like great quality so it's lower the chance of them to start leaking. With a whole hose with mon extension midway through your house their is only the fitting in the washer room that could leak.

/Tony
mightypudge
06-30-2018, 02:04 PM
It works! Pics to follow. [emoji846]


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mengelhardt
07-03-2018, 06:27 AM
I just got a new pressure washer last week too. It's been great!!! Why did I wait so long?!?
mightypudge
07-03-2018, 02:36 PM
Okay, here was my setup for Saturday. Bear in mind, the temperatures were flirting with 100F all day, so even standing still taking pictures was challenging.

This was the splitter I attached to my washer cold water hookup. Notice the quick disconnect.

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Hope it doesn't spring a leak! :)

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After all the hard work, and heat stroke.

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Rsurfer
07-03-2018, 02:46 PM
Where theres a will, theres a way. Good job.
DetailKitty
07-03-2018, 03:02 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA this is awesome!
Way to McGyver that thing!
UncleDavy
07-03-2018, 05:39 PM
Okay, here was my setup for Saturday. Bear in mind, the temperatures were flirting with 100F all day, so even standing still taking pictures was challenging.

This was the splitter I attached to my washer cold water hookup. Notice the quick disconnect.

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Hope it doesn't spring a leak! :)

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After all the hard work, and heat stroke.

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I love it. Around here we would call that Yankee ingenuity.
PaulMys
07-03-2018, 05:46 PM
Way to go, man!! :applause: :cheers:
SWETM
07-03-2018, 05:55 PM
Problems are to be solved :)

Great DIY solution to this problem!

/Tony
mightypudge
07-03-2018, 09:03 PM
Thanks everyone! This was a fun project and I enjoyed overcoming the challenge.

Now I need to figure out the foam cannon. I think the Greenworks 1600 psi 1.2 gpm should be sufficient, but I didn’t get the level of foam I was hoping for.


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