Pressure washer for use with water butt?

[Paul_W]

Can someone recommend a decent pressure washer that is able to draw water from a water butt rather than a tap? I heard some some Karchers do but not sure if they all do. Can they all do it out of the box or do I need to buy extra accessories to do it?

 

[Craig Senior]

Guy at work got a petrol washer for ebay for about £60 that he takes with him to Motorcross races, runs fine from a water barrel in the van.

 

[Paul_W]

Thanks but I'm after an electric one.

 

[Craig Senior]

No probs.

I would assume that most washers would work from a water butt if they were connected to an outlet at the bottom and had a decent enough amount of water to draw from rather than being connected to a pipe dropped into the butt.

Does that make sense?

 

[Paul_W]

That's what I thought. But I remember seeing some advertised a few months ago that worked just buy putting a filtered feed pipe into the butt. Can't find any now that even advertise being able to use a water butt at all. I'll keep searching.

 

[FinerDetails]

B&Q sell the Karcher water p[ipe, complete with filter, its around 25/30 quid (reduced at mo).

Providing the water source is higher than the pressure washer you should be fine.

 

[Paul_W]

And that can be used with any karcher machine or are only certain ones capable?

 

[MarkE]

It connects to the machine where you'd normally connect your hosepipe and has a filter on the other end, so doesn't require a machine with a dedicated inlet.

Google "karcher suction hose" for more info.

 

[Paul_W]

Looks like this is the kind of thing I'm after.

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.100-9842.aspx

Unless there's any cheaper alternatives. I'm still not sure if I would be able to buy one of the smaller cheaper karchers and a suction hose or not.