jay knowles

Spent most of the day washing and waxing the car,it occured to me how much water i had used using buckets and watering cans,ran a small experiment and i reckon i used twice what i would have using the hose pipe alone.In the time it takes to fill one watering can i can easily rinse the car off,i used god knows how many can fulls.JAY

stevencotton

I'm going to wash mine tomorrow, I noticed a load of bird **** on the rear bumper. I think it's stupid I can fill as many buckets as I like yet can't use a hose whilst the water companies leak most of it into the ground. It's like bath versus shower if you ask me, for car cleaning at least.

John Catlin

Ahh but you are now fitter !!!!!!!

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

totally agree...
called thames water, asked if i could use a pressure washer as the water is recycled in the system until you use it, on demand sort of.
But no not allowed to use it to wash the car, but could use it to wash my driveway??? eh what?? my driveway is fecking long
anyway washed my car last weekend and used around 7 buckets to rinse it.
2 buckets to wash it, another 7 to rinse it. another 2 to chamois it dry.
another 1 to wash the wheels and another 1 to rinse them.

so in total 20 buckets...a hell of lot more water used in my opinion than using the hose and pressure washer..but hey ho thats their decision..now to go out and jetwash my hugely long driveway and use (sorry waste) even more water.

oh and yes the walking back and forward was really good excercise

jay knowles

Tony pleased to here you used about the same amount of water as me.JAY

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

the best bit is when the guy at thames water said" when you fill up your buckets you can use a short hose pipe from the tap to the buckets"

right mate, so when i fill up my buckets, how the **** does the length of the pipe make a difference.??

jesus, they employ monkeys there

it's a shame i havent got a hot tub or swimming pool as you are allowed to fill them up as well ...now many gallons of water does a pigging pool take

Swen6

Buckets and watering cans are ****...OFFICIAL!!!!

Washed the car last week and was so fed up of fetching water i couldn't be arsed to do the wheels

jay knowles

I didnt realise you could only use a short lenght of hose,mines about 50ft and was directly behind car for the bucket filling process,and it kept slipping from my hand ocasionly and sprayed right under my wheel arches.JAY

rgv_stu

just use the hose pipe, its not as if the hose pipe police are gonna be out in force to catch you

ricardo

If the car was on the driveway when the driveway was being washed I suppose the car might get fairly wet too...

jay knowles

My neighbours are so far up there own ***** they would love to grass me up,they would feel its there duty.JAY

Swen6

Yeah thats the problem, they made this a people power problem. If you see anyone using a hose you can go on line and report them...*******.

Also had the hose at the back gate just out of sight, fecking long walk to the tap

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Solution:

1 large bucket,
1 large pond pump
1 hosepipe

Connect hose to the pump. Dump the pump in the bucket, place bucket under tap, switch on tap, when bucket is near full, switch on pump. Then wash the car as normal with the hose.

jay knowles

Good idea i might even give something like this ago as a sort of project,might even be able to get it working through the pressure washer,then knock it out on ebay.JAY

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

<cough> I want 25% commission

pslewis

I wash my driveway with my power washer .... the car gets bloody wet!

Pete

jay knowles

Im pleased youve got involved Pete,the last i read on here you were dead,i always enjoy your input into threads.JAY

Butty

iTrader: (2)

The aim of hosepipe bans is really aimed at cutting out garden watering where hoses are left on for a couple of hours.
I've worked for a number of water cos and analysed flow data. It is very obvious when people come back from work and turn on the sprinkler in summer time - especially in very affluent supply areas.
Sunday evening watering is also a very use time for watering gardens.
Unfortuntely the ban doesn't view car washing as being different - even though it uses far less water.

Nick

jay knowles

So why didnt they say it was ok to wash cars,as im sure its actually using more water the way people are washing them at the moment

Brendan Hughes

Because otherwise everyone would be hosing down their cars for an hour a day with the lawn getting bloody wet ?

jay knowles

Good point Brendan

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

but my scoob would look pretty silly sitting on my lawn whilst i washed it !!

pslewis

If it's a BugEye then I'm afraid it looks pretty silly already!!

Pete

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

pete u old codger, you know i have a dbm classic like yours !!

Daryl

The reason the ban only applies to private vehicles and gardens is because that's what the law says. So you can still use a hosepipe to clean your drive/patio/windows//boat and to fill your swimming pool etc.

Businesses can hose down their lorries/vans/coaches etc and private clubs can still water their cricket pitches/golf courses etc. Seems like a stupid law, I wonder if it means enough water is actually saved to make much of a difference?

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Now there's another idea.....get a backwash hose and use the swimming pool water to wash your car.

Need a swimming pool first though

Dracoro

I think whether or not using buckets rather than hosepipes is neither here nor there. The point is most people just won't bother cleaning their cars and thus saving water.

Do agree the whole thing is daft though. The water companies are awful at collecting the amount of water that falls and then they go and lose what they do