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Only a few hours to go

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:29 pm
by sonny
Quick go and wash your cars :biggrin3:

Re: Only a few hours to go

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:41 pm
by amanda1
Mines being done tomorrow !!!!!!

Re: Only a few hours to go

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:53 pm
by Mr V10
Few hours to go for what?

Re: Only a few hours to go

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:06 pm
by amanda1
Hose pipe ban but it doesn't apply here :)

Re: Only a few hours to go

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:25 pm
by sonny
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

Re: Only a few hours to go

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:32 pm
by Mr V10
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.

Only a few hours to go

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 1:44 am
by sonny
Use a water butt lol

Re: Only a few hours to go

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 6:26 am
by Dave_Hedgehog
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

Re: Only a few hours to go

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 6:27 am
by Dave_Hedgehog

Re: Only a few hours to go

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 6:38 am
by gdavison
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

Re: Only a few hours to go

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:56 pm
by bam_bam
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.

Re: Only a few hours to go

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:29 pm
by gdavison
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 !

Re: Only a few hours to go

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:38 pm
by bam_bam
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.

Re: Only a few hours to go

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:06 pm
by Timster
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."

Re: Only a few hours to go

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:09 pm
by gdavison
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