Pressure washer fixed in one place(or partially fixed) for ease of use!?

[JCfarmer]

After putting the pressure washer away again, cusing about dragging it back in the shed and rolling the bluddy awkward hose up has anyone got one positioned on an outside wall in a locked cabinet etc with any easy system of rolling the hose up?
So you can just go to it turn it on pull the hose out and away you go!
Advice appreciated.

 

[chickens and wheat]

My effort.
Othertimes the powerwasher lives in workshop and connects to stainless steel pressure lines leading to farmyard or my house for washing patio
I had a supply of used stainless pipe so made use of it. I drive the pictured tank to house and unload the pipe, connect to hard pipe and wash.
Othertimes I drive tank with washer sat in front rack to conviently placed 3 phase sockets around poultry site.
3 phase washer makes life complicated, but its so much more powerful its worth the trouble

 

[quattro]

After putting the pressure washer away again, cusing about dragging it back in the shed and rolling the bluddy awkward hose up has anyone got one positioned on an outside wall in a locked cabinet etc with any easy system of rolling the hose up?
So you can just go to it turn it on pull the hose out and away you go!
Advice appreciated.

Have a20ft container as a chemical store and just behind the r hand door built a compartment for power washer with a reel on the back of the door also have infrared light for frost protection in in winter
I will get a pic if I remember

 

[Willie adie]

I'm a believer that they don't being moved about,

 

[David.]

I vow to do the same every time I have to set it up.
Sure things would get cleaned more regularly if setting up washer was less bother.

 

[JCfarmer]

Think I am going to fix mine up outside, boxed in. Open lid, allowes diesel fumes out, switch power and water on. Pull hose out of an expensive but worth it retractable hose reel and away you go!
As David said the easier it is to use the more things get cleaned off! Sometimes you only need it for 10 mins, takes as long to get the blessed thing out and put it away!

 

[quattro]

 

[Dan@JF]

Mine is in locked internal part of workshop all ready to go but with a switch, a tap and reel on the outside wall. everything you need, except the lance, you have to ask for that! You will prolong the life of a washer 10 fold if it doesn't move and gets drained down properly.

 

[SilliamWhale]

Mine is kept in an old coal chamber outside and brought in in the winter. And this reel felt like an indulgence at the time but they seem to be a bit cheaper now and it keeps the hose tidy and keeps you motivated to use it. You can always add another pressure washer extension hose if you need more hose less often

 

[Hilly]

Mine is kept in an old coal chamber outside and brought in in the winter. And this reel felt like an indulgence at the time but they seem to be a bit cheaper now and it keeps the hose tidy and keeps you motivated to use it. You can always add another pressure washer extension hose if you need more hose less often

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Where did you get the reel if you don’t mind me
Asking

 

[Chae1]

Ours is mounted ontop of a Ibc. So we can put it inside when frosty. It also doubles as a drain jetter, so need to be able to take it to fields. Just lift it up ibc with pallet forks. Also needs to be mobile for pressure washing/disinfecting cattle courts and grain store. It's also been used as a mobile sprayer! Put it in grain bucket and spray steep banks and top of silage pit. Saves getting stung by nettles when covering silage pit.

 

[SilliamWhale]

Where did you get the reel if you don’t mind me
Asking

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The £68 one is quite a good deal. They do rust a bit but should last 8 years

 

[R J]

Best thing I ever did was to have the pressure washer fixed in a permanent shed , 3ph hot/cold washer, so easy now just flick switch and start washing , no dragging in / out setting up ! Things get washed much more now ,

 

[JCfarmer]

Mine is kept in an old coal chamber outside and brought in in the winter. And this reel felt like an indulgence at the time but they seem to be a bit cheaper now and it keeps the hose tidy and keeps you motivated to use it. You can always add another pressure washer extension hose if you need more hose less often

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Thanks, I've seen an auto retractable one around £300! But I might sod it and treat myself!

 

[SilliamWhale]

Thanks, I've seen an auto retractable one around £300! But I might sod it and treat myself!

Sounds like a waste of money to me. This reels in in 10 seconds by hand.

 

[Tractortech]

Now Then..
We have a Karcher hot washer and it lives in a corner of a lockable yard other than when it's frosty. The previous one was in a purpose made hut but this one is bigger and doesn't fit. We have about 40' of hose on it and we just try to keep it 'tidy'.
It's in constant use all day for washing machinery or just parts. The weather (other than frost) doesn't bother it. I could do with similar at home..

 

[milkloss]

We’ve been lucky. Our 3ph sits in the old milking parkour all year.... might get an old coat thrown over it when it gets very cold and that’s it. Pipe 30m plus I guess is pulled in down one wall inside out of the way. Have 3 old pipes that got a bit spiky to handle in reserve so can link up with 3/8” qrc for 100m nearly if you’re man enough. Handy for running the sludge pump round the yards in winter for unblocking drain holes and dirty water troughs.

 

[JCfarmer]

We used to have ours in the old milking parlour with it pretty much set up to go come to think of it, the pipe you could drag in out of the way. That building is used for something else now and not in the best place for pressure washing any more.

 

[snarling bee]

Best thing I ever did was fix it in one place inside, permanently plumbed and wired in, with an external hose reel.
Still can be moved if required.

 

[rob h]

Ours was padlocked to the floor in a open fronted shed .made it handy and stuff gets washed more when you only have to switch it on.i locked it down years ago after finding it in the middle of the yard one morning.someone had dragged it out then left it .they must have got it out and seen it covered in pig muck and thought it wasn't worth nicking.