Cheapest I've ever seen a pressure washer, looks nasty but for $25 who's complaining?
1600 PSI Pressure Washer $25 @ Repco
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figarow on 03/07/2014 - 10:11 catalogues.repco.com.au (10853 clicks)
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They'll have a constant stream of customers at this price
This deal is really pressuring me to grab it
This one gets plenty of plus votes?!
You only need a one liner, not many references in one comment, KISS principle.
Another 20% discount with the RACQ deal? Probably not I'm guessing though since this is a catalogue item on sale?
Correct discount not off sale or catalogue items
Ok cool no worries, hopefully my local Repo has paywave so I can get my ing 5% discount lol!
I like your way of thinking
Haha thanks Hikey. Used paywave topsy with my ing card to get an extra 5% discount. My local Repo only had 3 of these left!
Is this their home brand?
All I can find on this, that's not in russian, is this :
https://forum.lowyat.net/uploads/attach-74/post-758874-13754…
Used to be at $49 from Repco in the past - but not found any reviews so far.
what low yat forum?
any good?
I'm a pressure washer noob… do you attach it to a hose, or just fill a reservoir before use?
Hose.
A Pressure Cleaner is just a pump feeding water through a short hose and a lance with a small nozzle to basically convert the low pressure/high volume water from your hose to high pressure/low volume. Nothing more than that… but as per everything some do it better than others :)
Will it blow compressed air if it doesn't have a water source?
No but it will stuff the pump up.
Any plans to use it as a tire inflator? It can't.
Thanks!
I live in an apartment and the closest water source to my balcony (which I would like to clean) is my kitchen… I don't think this is gonna work
If you own the apartment you could fit a 'Garden Tap' type fitting under the sink where the assumed Dishwasher gets its supply from but yeah things can get pretty wet when using a pressure cleaner so I don't think it's a good idea TBH.
Do you have a laundry in your apartment?
If you do, grab a converter from Bunnings and use the cold water tap that you would use to connect your washing machine.
Works a treat from when I lived in an apartment complex.
Will all the dirt just flow down into your downstairs neighbour's balcony? :)
If your tap has a screw on water aerator, you can get a garden tap adapter that will fit in its place. Then you just need a length of garden hose and you're good to go.
You may be able to use a bucket to draw the water from, some Karcher and Gernis allow this, not sure about this one.
Pretty sure this one would rely on a decent flow from the mains supply but spend around $100 or more and they should be able to feed directly from a water tank or bucket but at less than maximum output.
Spend more than $100 and you get little improvements like a soap/liquid sucker and longer hoses & fancier lances & other attachments etc. but from my research (a few years ago now) you need to spend several hundred to get something that steps up to brass pumps and other hardcore-ness that most simple DIY'ers probably wouldn't need anyway.
SteveAndBelle, From your experience/knowledge, are you able to recommend a pressure washer (perhaps Karcher or Gerni) for a budget of $200 - $250?
Your comment & username make me feel REALLY old :p
I settled on a $150 Karcher after realising their $99 through to their $200-$250 model used the exact same pump. Not sure if it's the same now and/or with Gerni & the others but back then the only differences I could see between the $99 cheapie and the $250 model were hose lengths and included accessories. I was about to buy the $99 cheapie Karcher but as I had to wash a house down a few times while stripping its paint off I thought it'd be better if I had a longer hose so I could leave the unit on the ground and just take the lance up the (wet/slippery) ladder. I think I got a 4m hose which was only just long enough. The kit also came with a more powerful lance too with a rotating tip but again the actual pump in all the sub $250 models was identical to the one in the $99 cheapie.
Depends what you need it for but the $99 (or in fact this $25 unit) may be all you really need!
Thank you SteveAndBelle.
My usage requirements are primarily the regular washing of a large SUV, cleaning the dust and mud from the walls of a (white) rendered brickwork house, and cleaning external patio tiles and paving. It sounds like by spending around $150 I should get something suitable.
Do you recall the model number of your Karcher?@ifonlyiwasyounger:
I'm at work so just looked up the Karcher website. As expected all the models have changed since I got mine but the K 2.180 looks to be the closest however mine came with the standard lance and the 'Dirt Blaster' lance but the K 2.180 only comes with one lance.To be honest it sounds like you'll be using yours for a lot more than I use mine for so $150 would probably get you a unit that's technically capable BUT I doubt it will include enough attachments for your particular needs. I'm not a Pressure Washer professional but it sounds to me like you'll need a standard lance for general stuff, a 'Dirt Blaster' for the tougher stuff and then a Deck Scrubber attachment for your Patio tiles & Paving worth over $100 by itself (http://www.bunnings.com.au/karcher-deck-and-patio-high-press…) My Dad has one of these and swears by it as it doesn't spray water all over the place and concentrates it where it's really needed. Makes cleaning timber decks a breeze but also works very well for concrete & tile too.
Looks very nasty.
But as an ozbargainer I love nasty.
She tells me all the time.
No not my mum. My misses….wait.. 8 /
Gosh, these conversation is right down at the gutter level. You guys better purchase one of these pressure washers to clean your mouth XD
its called WIT. People may want to consider that next time before reporting comments.
The forum police ruin everything.
why? it has no resale value, adds to the landfill, and costs you more in the long-run.
I actually feel dirty putting my comment near yours.
1600 PSI, more like 200 PSI..
Typo? 1600 Pfft.
Looks like those steam-thingies, people clean the shower etc. with.
Still, 200PSI is probably all you'd need for a DIY flamethrower :p
Warning: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! (try it at someone elses)
I don't trust that thing to be 1600PSI…or actually keep working to wash a driveway without overheating. :\
Won't overheat, watercooled!
(When you spray it directly at itself)
My biggest concern about a $25 water pressure cleaner would be electrocution. It plugs into both water and 240v and they don't go well together in poorly designed units.
+1. Especially after that recent tragic news of a young mother got electrocuted by some cheap nasty non-compliance phone charger :(
Yes, that was tragic, no question about it BUT just because it has a 'tick' printed on the side do you really think it couldn't ever do the same? Freak accidents happen all the time but only some make it to the news.
I'm a freak accident.
I understand what you're saying but you have to understand how many devices most of us use on a daily basis that combine water & electricity and a lot of those are very cheap, poorly designed, poorly built but the likelihood of being electrocuted by them is low… especially on an RCD protected circuit!
There are other products that combine Water & mains potential Electricity much closer together including Electric Hot Water Systems, Kettles, Spas & Pools, Dishwashers, Washing Machines… the list goes on!
It's good to be cautious but just because something's cheap doesn't necessarily make it deadly and the main point I'm making here is the opposite of that… just because it's expensive doesn't mean it's safe either!
Yup I agree - it's much easier for a dodgy charger to cause electrocution than a half-decent pressure washer sold locally at an established store.
A dodgy charger would be poorly designed with minimal components and poor or no isolation. There's no earth pin either, so the RCD won't do anything. A pressure washer would have physical isolation between AC in the motor and the water, and is earthed so the RCD can do its job.
http://www.righto.com/2012/03/inside-cheap-phone-charger-and…
Having pulled one of these chargers down, frankly I am shocked that this doesn't happens more often. This or I would have guessed house fires.
You dont want to know what is inside. Just ugly.
Would never use one.@SteveAndBelle
Difference is, this cheap and poorly designed (if it is) device virtually guarantees a perfect pathway between you and ground with water;
1/on the outside
2/presumably all over the ground with the user standing in it.… similar to a Hot Shower being fed water via your electric HWS! But yes, I understand KTA :)
The noisy output which causes tingling or messes with the touchscreen is enough to make me not use them!
The usb charger I opened up had missing components (output diodes). You could see the silkscreen on the board. So "thats" a good idea leaving them out. Guess they wanted to save 0.001 cent a board. The board itself was through hole components with the worst soldering I have ever seen in a commercial product. You could virtually visualize the sweat shop with kids banging them out.
Just one solder drip away from live 240v at the output.
Shocking (ark ark)Ahahah. I ordered a few of these the other day. I'm quite certain it'll be safe, and much neater as well since I always have several chargers plugged in at my desk and bed.
http://www.amazon.com/Family-Sized-Desktop-Charger-PowerIQ-T…
"You can charge up to 5 devices for up to 8 Amps on each port. Wow.
FWIW someone linked (here on Ozb?) an oscilloscope shoot-out between the various popular commercial USB chargers and the absolute cleanest output was a genuine Apple unit, closely followed by the HP Touchpad charger. The one I jacked open was ye standard eBay special. Naaasty!Hmm that's a bit misleading.. it's 8 amps total, but it looks like if you only have one device connected that can draw 8 amps through one port, it should supply it. I'd be surprised if it actually does it though, 8 amps through a usb socket is surely out-of-design-spec!
I remember reading that one too, I thought it was the HP charger that was the cleanest.
edit: the HP charger was the highest-rated one:
http://www.righto.com/2012/10/a-dozen-usb-chargers-in-lab-ap…You are right!
You have confused an old ELP with a more modern RCD, an Earth Leakage Protector detects current leaked to the earth wire and would work as you say, cutting off only if a current is detected on the earth line.
A Residual Current Device compares the current on the active and neutral lines and shuts off the line if the difference is over 0.05A for over ~20th of a second - it doesnt matter where the current goes to so long as it isnt the neutral line (where current normally returns)- so it will protect un-earthed appliances every bit as effectively as earthed ones. Thats why RCD is legislated in new installs, rather than ELP.
If you dont have RCD on your house, it is cheap to buy units that plug into the socket you are using.
I would not buy this, I dont want to blame myself afterwards if this suddenly breaks down or caused any trouble then wished that I bought the decent or the average stuff
but certainly would have second thoughts if any one here in OzB would vouch that it works perfectly on small jobs to medium jobs
you sound certain in your indecisiveness.
For what you're expecting, you can't really compare a 25 dollar pressure washer to a branded Gerni or Karcher and say "I dont want to blame myself afterwards if this suddenly breaks down or caused any trouble then wished that I bought the decent or the average stuff"
If you want something decent, then you need to pay the bucks for it. You can't buy something this cheap and say I should've bought something decent.
I have bought some things that are dirt cheap but still do the Job thats what I mean
Indeed. No such thing as a free lunch as the saying goes …
You need to actually understand that psi is not the measure of the actual power of the machine. Most consumer grade pressure washers will have a higher psi rating but the actual cleaning units are pretty low. For example, the pressure washer rated for 2000 psi, at 5 gallons per minute water flow - The amount of water actually flowing through the nozzle determines your actual cleaning power. Most consumer machines will have a high psi rating but will pump only a gallon or 2 per minute of water flow. Look at it this way, 2000 psi of water at 2 gallons per minute is almost like strong mist but 2000 psi at 5 gallons per minute will cut your hand if you held it in front of the tip. We actually dial ours down to 1500 psi because 2000 psi is more power than we require and could possibly strip paint if your aren't careful. Also, never use anything more than a 40 degree fan tip, anything more aggressive is overkill. I hope that helps.
Using the metric system would help
If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 disciples.
But isn't it a measure of the ability of the water directed by the machine to shift objects that it hits, thereby breaking up and dislodging dirt etc?
no, it is a measure of the energy in each ml of water, not the total energy. It is the total energy delivered per time that matters
bugger i wish i'd gotten one of their cheapo $39 arc welders a short while back. i've actually got a use for it now :(
blowing up a gas main? I so shouldn't have written that, the internet police will be after me.
One word… STOCKPILE!
One word… HODUR… oops, I meant HOARDER :P
(guilty as charged)
Anyone know if the jump starters are any good at that price?
I bought one of the basic yellow ones from Autobarn a few years ago for around $120 as I was desperate and it was the cheapest they had at the time. Got me out of a sticky situation and prevented me from being charged a massive penalty fee for having to leave my car in a carpark for a few days so I didn't mind paying the overinflated price.
It's the most basic unit available these days but perfectly fine for small 4-Cyl petrol engine cars. If charged for 12 hours once every 3-4 weeks it should stay in great working order for a good 2-3 years but this is where most people drop the ball with these things. Keep them on charge 24/7 and the battery dies thanks to the 'dumb' charger supplied overcharging the battery. Let the battery drain itself past a certain point and again it's useless so best to set a reminder to charge it once ever few weeks to keep it alive.
Pay more to get more grunt for larger engines OR to have extra features like an Air Compressor and 240V Inverter and USB ports as per the ones I upgraded to when my basic yellow one died. It cost around $100 on sale (RRP $150) but still uses the exact same battery as this cheapie.
nvm lol
you spent $120 on that? that needs to go on ozripoff. com
why didn't you just buy a new battery? a decent ozbargainer can find any car battery for that.
I got a weird euro battery, that more resembles a pancake, for my 8cyl VW for $80 brand new instead of $400+ from VW.
Also, did you try jump-starting it? lol cost = $0
Ha, tell me about it! Massive rip-off however it was my only choice for many reasons including very limited time before the boomgate time-locked, late-night windy with freezing cold horizontal rain and carpark was on an uphill slope with a garden behind so no chance of an easy jump start by myself. On top of that the battery was only 3 months old and a very decent 13-plater Century but it obviously can't be expected to keep the lights on for two whole days (doh!). I only just managed to get back to the car with the over-priced jumpstarter and get out before it was locked down and mainly because the time in the security system was a few minutes slow. After that experience I built & fitted a Headlight Reminder but I've replaced that dodgy little car now with something a lot better appointed so all good.
Dug out 2 reviews (in russian though) - http://market.yandex.ru/model.xml?modelid=6129679
Bottom line: you get what you pay for
"Unreliability - After two months of Minisink stopped off for a working pressure. It seems the high pressure is discharged into the water system. I will take back."
"Bribed long hose. Pistol like a good, adjustable jet. Button switch is protected from water rubber cap. Generally good-looking compact apparatik. While noticed one drawback - she can not suck water, water is needed (at least a little pressure) that is not always achievable in the country."
ain't goggle translate a wonderful translation….
I bet "she" can
Can someone wash their car with this and let us know how it went please?
+1 Will this wash your car without destroying the paint??
Can you?
i do it the ozbargain way. I use the fire hose in the parking area of my block of units.
actually its like a car wash after 7pm. Everyone is waiting to wash their car
Pics!
Hopefully it will clean undies :)
How dirty are your undies ffs?
did he say they were his?
Liverpool is sold out on the hp cleaner
Just bought it this afternoon,tried and stop working after couple spray..off it go back to Repco tomorrow.
4-5 left at narre warren - vic
meh $25, same specs as the lower end karcher which i have used and works well.
Thanks OP. Bought the last one at Liverpool NSW. Had used it for about 20mins to wash my car and my front gate. It is well worth the $25 bucks. Had it on lowest pressure when washing my car, Not as good as hand wash but i did it in 10" so can't complaint there. i will use it again to wash my front fencing, drive way and front yard this weekend.
The sales guy at Liverpool told me I'm the lucky last. Gosh these sales guys can't be trusted. :-)
I'm as keen as anybody on a bargain, but I'd only want the bargain for a high quality item that will last. Items like this, which seems to be one that will not last, may be a lot cheaper and yes, you can get five of them for the price of a quality unit, but think about the expense to the overall environment when you purchase cheap items that won't last just because they are cheap. The cost to the environment includes the mining of the raw materials, shipping of raw materials, production of components, production of item, transport of item, and disposal (which will happen often on cheap goods). Each of these steps leads to greenhouse gas emissions.
Personally, I'd rather buy one good pressure cleaner for $200 (for instance) than 8 of these for $25 each - the impact to my wallet is the same but the impact to the environment is far less.
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This blows all other deals out of the water. Amazing price