How are you going to beat the hosepipe ban?

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How are you going to beat the hosepipe ban?

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Bit of a contraversial subject but one that im sure will effect a large amount of people this coming summer!

Hose pipe bans are coming and apparantly, although no one has ever been prosecuted or fined for it before, the local constabularys are going to be cracking down on offenders by issuing £80 - £1000 on the spot fines for people caught using a hosepipe despite origin of the water!!

For example, My OH has a Carp fishing lake (privately owned) adjacent to her garden, they use a water pump and a hose to water the grass during the summer. If a local bacon was to see the hose pumping water onto the grass she/her family would be fined!

PANTS!

Most trades are exempt though, So I plan on staying behind on a friday afternoon (finish work at half 1 ;) ) and giving my car a wash and wax before coming home :)

How is anyone else gonna beat it? Watering can? Innovative water jet?

Tom
 
Bit of a contraversial subject but one that im sure will effect a large amount of people this coming summer!

Hose pipe bans are coming and apparantly, although no one has ever been prosecuted or fined for it before, the local constabularys are going to be cracking down on offenders by issuing £80 - £1000 on the spot fines for people caught using a hosepipe despite origin of the water!!

For example, My OH has a Carp fishing lake (privately owned) adjacent to her garden, they use a water pump and a hose to water the grass during the summer. If a local bacon was to see the hose pumping water onto the grass she/her family would be fined!

PANTS!

Most trades are exempt though, So I plan on staying behind on a friday afternoon (finish work at half 1 ;) ) and giving my car a wash and wax before coming home :)

How is anyone else gonna beat it? Watering can? Innovative water jet?

Tom

The local 'Bacon' as you refer to them can try issuing a fine, but it wouldn't hold up in court as the origin of the water has to be from a mains supply.

Equally there are very few exemptions to the ban where they wouldn't be able to fine you.

I just find it easier to not be in an area under a ban though :D
 
The local 'Bacon' as you refer to them can try issuing a fine, but it wouldn't hold up in court as the origin of the water has to be from a mains supply.

Equally there are very few exemptions to the ban where they wouldn't be able to fine you.

I just find it easier to not be in an area under a ban though :D

Or not visable from the road.;)
 
I just find it easier to not be in an area under a ban though :D

who provides your water Essex n Suffolk?


http://www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/lidl_uk/hs.xsl/index_29758.htm

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I got a lidl pressure sprayer a few years back, always carry it on the bus in winter so when the back doors get really messed up I can give them a quick clean. Only takes a couple of seconds and makes a heck of a difference.

Years ago I remember a bloke on the markets demonstrating a small handbrush with a hose attached, it had a non return valve & meant you could wash your car from a bucket. I've never revisited that idea but might be worth looking at.
 
I got a lidl pressure sprayer a few years back, always carry it on the bus in winter so when the back doors get really messed up I can give them a quick clean. Only takes a couple of seconds and makes a heck of a difference.

Years ago I remember a bloke on the markets demonstrating a small handbrush with a hose attached, it had a non return valve & meant you could wash your car from a bucket. I've never revisited that idea but might be worth looking at.


My dad being a window cleaner (using the traditional bucket and squeegy method ;) ) hes applied for a trade exemption so he can use the hose to fill the 2 25L tanks in the back of his Ford Cmax without having to carry them. Should hear back from them today :D

And we have 2 of those brushes hanging about, just like a brush with a hole and Hoseloc plug on the end. That what you mean?

Tom
 
No idea, it was a long time ago. IIRC it was just a basic car wash brush with a pipe forced onto the end but the secret was in the pipe. I think the guy plunged it in and out the bucket a few times to prime it then the water seemed to flow constantly, even when he was washing his car roof.
 
I used to take my sandwiches with me on the bus, never took a pressure washer.

Did you have to pay an extra fare for it? :)
 
I used to take my sandwiches with me on the bus, never took a pressure washer.

Did you have to pay an extra fare for it? :)

It was a sprayer, not a washer & there was no fare, the bus in question was being driven by me & was designed for transporting, mainly, people in wheelchairs as well as frail, elderly people, so the back doors were used at every stop. Trouble is, some journeys are a few miles in length so the large flat back of the bus attracted all the crap off the roads.
 
My dad being a window cleaner (using the traditional bucket and squeegy method ;) ) hes applied for a trade exemption so he can use the hose to fill the 2 25L tanks in the back of his Ford Cmax without having to carry them. Should hear back from them today :D

And we have 2 of those brushes hanging about, just like a brush with a hole and Hoseloc plug on the end. That what you mean?

Tom

Let us know if he's successful out of interest :)
 
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