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Originally Posted by fatlazyless
"...What is the benefit to using a pressure washer?...Probably, there is a good use for a high pressure washer that I don't know about..."
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As a brand-new landlord, I felt justified in spending $1500 for a brand-new pressure washer: As advertised, I realized that it pumped 1300-psi.
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That's a LOT! Don't ever aim the spray at your bare feet!!!)
What I
didn't realize, was that it pumped 8 gallons per minute!
There's no garden hose that can supply that kind of volume, so I had to attach
two garden hoses—one from a willing neighbor, and one from the house. (8-gpm will pull down a single garden hose
flat in 30 seconds).
The rate of high-pressure water was so great, that the replaceable fittings would show wear
inside! 
Anyway, it's such a handy cleaning tool, you'll find things to clean with it 'til you wear yourself out.
After an afternoon of:
1) removing paint from concrete,
2) digging trenches in the yard,
3) removing vines from the fence,
4) cleaning all the gravel in the driveway,
5) cleaning the roof,
6) cleaning the concrete garage floor,
7) cleaning the wheels of all the cars, (and especially whitewalls, if you have 'em—as I did),
8) driving 4x4s into the lake bottom for your dock,
9) frightening squirrels away (my dogs wouldn't get anywhere near my pressure-washer,
10) removing algae and mildew from decks,
11) removing lichens from trees and boulders,
12) blasting Autumn's leaves into piles,
13) unintentionally removing the decals from the sides of my truck
14) cleaning under the hood,
15) blasting all the cobwebs out from under the eaves,
16) cleaning windows on the 1st and 2nd floors
17) cleaning the undersides, differentials and transmissions of all the cars, you can just...
18) spray high-pressure water up in the air for 50-feet—for a quick, misting cool-off of
everything surrounding you.
19) Drive nails. (No forget that, it didn't drive nails).
If the dock needed a less-slippery surface, the pressure-washer
I had would rip-up the grain of the wood!
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Gee, I miss that washer! 
(Tim Allen would've too...).
