Karcher - Rubbish? - Is there a better alternative?

Z4 Gaz · Post by **Z4 Gaz** » Sat Mar 24, 2018 5:53 pm

cj10jeeper wrote: ↑Sat Mar 24, 2018 2:29 pm
Z4 Gaz wrote: ↑Sat Mar 24, 2018 2:19 pm
cj10jeeper wrote: ↑Sat Mar 24, 2018 12:49 pm If you spend £100 on a washer then it'll be lucky to last more than a few uses.
Total rubbish. My Nilfisk cost about £60, as it was a refurbished unit, and has been in constant use for over 6 years. New it was only worth about £100
In any general statement there will be exceptions

I have seen this question asked numerous times on numerous forums.

Time and again the Nilfisk that cost around £100 gets recommended as being an excellent and very reliable jet wash, as my experience and others that have posted on this thread confirms.

Just because you have had a few bad experiences with cheaper jet washes doesn't make it fact.

Jollyjoiner · Post by **Jollyjoiner** » Sat Mar 24, 2018 6:57 pm

Nilfisck E140 for me, can't fault mine

ronk · Post by **ronk** » Sat Mar 24, 2018 8:07 pm

john-e89 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 24, 2018 5:35 pm
ronk wrote: ↑Fri Mar 23, 2018 11:14 pm but it still plods on!
Much like your good self Ronk.....

How very true!
My Kew hasn’t been in the workshop as much as I have tho

csquire4 · Post by **csquire4** » Sat Mar 24, 2018 9:16 pm

Cheers guys. The Nilfisk sounds like it's worth a go.

I have a better quality after market rbuber hose that I use with my Karcher and and I've got a Karcher snow foam attachment, are all thee things interchangeable ?

adam1985 · Post by **adam1985** » Mon Mar 26, 2018 7:12 pm

I have a Karcher k2 which I have had for about 4 years now I think the key to protecting them is to drain the water after each use (with the unit turned off) and to protect from freezing temps, I keep mine at the back of an integral garage.

Normally Karcher and Nifilisk attachments are not interchangeable I'm afraid

Anmarube · Post by **Anmarube** » Mon Mar 26, 2018 7:53 pm

Kranzle for me. £800 new but goes all day every day. Can sometimes pick a kranzle up on eBay for a couple of hundred. They last forever and spares are plentiful.
Every cheap pressure washer I have had has broken within a year.

RustyZ4 · Post by **RustyZ4** » Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:05 pm

Anmarube wrote: ↑Mon Mar 26, 2018 7:53 pm Kranzle for me. £800 new but goes all day every day. Can sometimes pick a kranzle up on eBay for a couple of hundred. They last forever and spares are plentiful.
Every cheap pressure washer I have had has broken within a year.

£800!! and you have to get spares

Anmarube · Post by **Anmarube** » Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:24 pm

RustyZ4 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:05 pm
Anmarube wrote: ↑Mon Mar 26, 2018 7:53 pm Kranzle for me. £800 new but goes all day every day. Can sometimes pick a kranzle up on eBay for a couple of hundred. They last forever and spares are plentiful.
Every cheap pressure washer I have had has broken within a year.
£800!! and you have to get spares

Not yet but you can replace just about anything on the machine from seals to motors.
Had mine 6 years now and perfect everyday.

ronk · Post by **ronk** » Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:49 pm

If its for domestic / light duty use - don’t spend a lot.
If it’s for commercial use - buy the best with a good spares back up.

GuidoK · Post by **GuidoK** » Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:06 pm

csquire4 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 24, 2018 9:16 pm I have a better quality after market rbuber hose that I use with my Karcher and and I've got a Karcher snow foam attachment, are all thee things interchangeable ?

I dont know if its interchangeable (my guess is not but maybe there are adapters) but I do know that a good rubber hose makes a night and day difference to the usual hoses that come with cheap pressurewashers.
(Thats why I also have a nilfisk e140. The version I bought came with a good rubber hose)

Anmarube · Post by **Anmarube** » Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:12 pm

ronk wrote: ↑Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:49 pm If its for domestic / light duty use - don’t spend a lot.
If it’s for commercial use - buy the best with a good spares back up.

ronk · Post by **ronk** » Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:15 pm

A quote from Ruskin:-

It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. ... When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot – it can't be done.

RustyZ4 · Post by **RustyZ4** » Mon Mar 26, 2018 11:21 pm

ronk wrote: ↑Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:15 pm A quote from Ruskin:-

It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. ... When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot – it can't be done.

Don’t suppose you know what pressure washer Ruskin had by any chance ?

buzyg · Post by **buzyg** » Mon Mar 26, 2018 11:50 pm

Just had the joy of a Karcher add on the Tele. It would appear they are wasting their time on us lot.

Havard · Post by **Havard** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 12:03 am

My father in law bought me a Vax one a couple of years ago and that has been superb. I am not a big fan if pressure washers. Especially on wheels, I have removed some big chunks of paint at times.

Give me a reasonable pressure mains, two lambswool mitts and two buckets anyday.

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