Only a few hours to go

Post by **sonny** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:29 pm

Quick go and wash your cars

Post by **amanda1** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:41 pm

Mines being done tomorrow !!!!!!

Post by **Mr V10** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:53 pm

Few hours to go for what?

Post by **amanda1** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:06 pm

Hose pipe ban but it doesn't apply here

Post by **sonny** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:25 pm

Its rained twice in past 6 weeks here.

Yep comes into effect Thursday, get caught cleaning your car with a hose pipe and its a £1000 fine.

So one day left

Post by **Mr V10** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:32 pm

Oh deae. Finally decide to get my car mapped, and I can't get Tesco 99/V Power. Then want it looking shiny for the German trip and can't clean it!

Any way they can find out? My car is hidden and no neighbours can see me clean it.

Post by **sonny** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 1:44 am

Use a water butt lol

Post by **Dave_Hedgehog** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 6:26 am

I will get one of these

http://www.nomad-direct.co.uk/index.php ... s/c_1.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cySojxzZOpk

It will solve a lot of issues for me, our communal parking makes getting power and a hose a nightmare to our cars

Post by **Dave_Hedgehog** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 6:27 am

and for those of Scottish decent

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Portable-Power- ... 625&sr=8-1

Post by **gdavison** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 6:38 am

Dave_Hedgehog wrote:I will get one of these

http://www.nomad-direct.co.uk/index.php ... s/c_1.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cySojxzZOpk

It will solve a lot of issues for me, our communal parking makes getting power and a hose a nightmare to our cars

Great Find Dave .. Will be ordering up one of those

Post by **bam_bam** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:56 pm

I bought a pond hose for my pressure washer so I draw water directly from a bucket, do you think the neighbours will think I'm still using a hose and report me?

EDIT/ Just found this: The fine applies to "drawing water, using a hosepipe, for domestic recreational use"
So that means I can't fill a bucket with the hosepipe and then wash my car with it! BUT, I could go into the house and fill the bucket there. Silly.

Post by **gdavison** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:29 pm

the wording I loved was ... "Customers can still water their gardens with a watering can and can still clean their cars with a bucket and are actively encouraged to reuse bath water and washing-up water for such jobs."

The concept of washing a car with dirty bath water or washing up water is beyond comprehension !

Post by **bam_bam** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:38 pm

gdavison wrote:the wording I loved was ... "Customers can still water their gardens with a watering can and can still clean their cars with a bucket and are actively encouraged to reuse bath water and washing-up water for such jobs."

The concept of washing a car with dirty bath water or washing up water is beyond comprehension !

But you're not allowed to draw water from a hose pipe, so, to fill up your watering can or bucket, you need to use a tap... so does this mean you just pop the hose off the outdoor tap and just fill <beep> up, sans £1000 fine?
I hate this.

Post by **Timster** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:06 pm

Quote from the YouTube clip:

"it was unable to remove a wet leaf from the front of my van, and was unable to remove dried on bits of leaf from the wheel well, it did not have enough power to remove a spiders web from the side mirror."

Post by **gdavison** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:09 pm

TimsterRS4 wrote:Quote from the Youtube clip:

"it was unable to remove a wet leaf from the front of my van, and was unable to remove dried on bits of leaf from the wheel well, it did not have enough power to remove a spiders web from the side mirror."

yeah saw that was also the only one and was from 4 years ago ..I have one on order and will let others know what they are like

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