You can get a cheap one for under £50 which is better value than hire. The expensive ones that you hire cost £1000 plus to buy and have an industrial duty cycle (typically 70% or 90%). This means that they can be used practically continuously during a week. Cheap ones have a 5% to 10% duty cycle which means, say ten minutes use in 100 minutes of time. £300 pressure washers have a duty cycle of around 30% and are for the builder who does a lot of cleaning but isn't a professional pressure washing cleaner. The pressure generated by the cheap and the expensive ones is not that differend (100 bar cheap, 120 br very very expensive) and the volume of water is higher in the very expensive ones but remember it is constrained but the amount of water that you can get through a half-inch hose. For normal purposes where you use it for three to four hours a month a cheap one will last a couple of years, in a car wash it might last a couple of days only. The duty-cycle 10%, 30%, 70% requires different build quality, and hence the price!Cheap pressure washers: Wickes, Screwfix, Toolstation, Argos, B&Q. Avoid Homebase as it is automatically 20% more expensive than everyone else.
Peter Mcleod ● 4425d