Well, at long last, Thames Water have lifted the hosepipe ban and so all we keen car owners, who like to wash their own cars regularly, have no excuses whatsoever for driving around with number plates and windows obscured by road dirt - not that I ever did.
I shall look forward this weekend to setting up the hose again with the water-fed brush and washing both our cars with the ease that this method affords.
Of course, you lazy car owners out there will carry on, as usual, proclaiming that once or twice a year is a wash too much - shame on you!
Hip, hip hoorah!
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Has anyone worked out how much water you use washing a car?
I can rinse the car with a hose in about the same time it takes to fill two buckets of water. It takes 8 buckets of water to do the same job to the same standard.
If I use the hose with the power-washer, I must use even less water!
Does this mean that hosepipe bans should be banned, and we should have bucket bans instead?
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During the ban I filled up a plastic dustbin 80 litres and used my pressure washer to clean 2 cars including the arches and it used half a bin ful (i.e. 20 litres per car). With buckets I seem to use around 5 - 6 buckets per car (.e. 25 litres...ish and still have dirty arches)
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Agree.Rinsing my car off with watering cans definately used more water than my hose.As I am on a water meter and pay for every drop used ,I ignored the ban.
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I am sure that some organisation has some sort of distorted figure based on the assumption that people, generally, leave their hoses running all the time whilst cleaning their cars. However, if terminated with some type of brush with an on/off valve then I would imagine that waste is kept to a reasonable minimum.
Obviously, a hosepipe uses more water than if a few buckets were used but it should be possible for people to have some sense and, say, wash their vehicles from the top downwards shutting off the hose after washing an area at a time, leathering off as one goes further down towards the wheels etc.
That is how I do mine and on hot days I would never try and hose the whole car before leathering, as the hard water would be drying off, leaving marks, before I was able to use the leather.
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Hmmm...I pick a showery day, wait till the car is thoroughly wet to soften the muck, then rush out during a break in the weather. I find one 10-litre bucket of soapy water is enough to sponge the bodywork and wheels clean, then I go back inside and let the next shower rinse the suds off. The car's four years old and seems to be doing OK on it, so haven't bothered to buy a new tap connector for the hose since the old one broke last year. It gets it annual valeting chez Volvo for a mere £350, so I leave complicated things like leathering off to them.
Maybe it's because I'm not a Londoner.
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>>let the next shower rinse the suds off.>>
I think you'll find this is something I've been admitting for some considerable time...:-)
Londoners - Wash your cars now!
Why change the habits of a lifetime...:-)
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To be honest I still used the hose during the ban - shock horror !
It can use more water not using the hose than using it in my opinion. The way I was the car is to get a bucket of hot water with car shampoo, sponge off an area at a time, and then rinse each area with the bare minimum of tap water using the 'rose' spray pattern from the hose nozzle. I maintain that if you add up all of my squirts, they would come to a lot less water than some people use with buckets/watering cans etc.
The final irony of the ban was that I was perfectly entitled, if I wanted to, to change the water in my swimming pool, ie about 20,000 + gallons !
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The final irony of the ban was that I was perfectly entitled, if I wanted to, to change the water in my swimming pool, ie about 20,000 + gallons !
If you were Keith Moon, you could wash your car that way too.
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>>If you were Keith Moon, you could wash your car that way too.
urban myth.
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>>If you were Keith Moon, you could wash your car that way too. urban myth.
Was the "real" story not that at one point he reversed his RR into a lake when attempting turning around?
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"urban myth."
"Daltrey begs to differ. "I saw it. We paid the bill (for the damages). It was $50,000. It's vague now, but I just remember the car in the pool. And the chaos. And Keith being rushed off to the dentist after being arrested because he knocked his front tooth out... But then I read in the biography that never happened, so maybe I've been living someone else's life, I don't know."
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On the other hand
"Keith once bragged he'd driven a Lincoln Continental into a Holiday Inn swimming pool during his 21st birthday party in Flint, Michigan. But the story, which helped cement his 'Moon the Loon' reputation, is almost certainly untrue. And contrary to myth, Moon's Rolls never ended up in his swimming pool (although he did once back it into his garden pond for a publicity picture). "
Suppose this is where I should quote "If you can remember the '60s, you weren't there" or something.
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Phil
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What he did do though was run over someone, a roadie I think, in a car park in a Bentley when being harassed by fans. Fatal incindent I seem to remember.
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Why has this topic been hijacked by a lot of uninteresting information, that has nothing to do with Thames Water's lifting of the hosepipe ban, thus enabling we motorists to wash our cars, easily, again?
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It's all about cars and water, innit? ;-) Anyway, if we never strayed from the point a little, how would we ever learn anything new?
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