To make a long story short, our well pump went bad. To get running water until it could be replaced, my landlord ran a garden hose from my neighbor’s house into our house, and hooked it up behind the washer where the water supply is (I’m not sure which nozzle he used, but I think it was the one for hot water.) Everything is fixed now, but when I do laundry the cold water won’t shut off…the machine starts to agitate and the cold water keeps running. I have to turn it off at the wall. The hot water is fine though. Does anyone know why this could be happening?
I am a screenprinter, and I bought a a pressure washer (1750 PSI Campbell Hausfeld) to clean my screens in the bathtub. However, there is no garden hose faucet in my 3rd floor rental apartment. Is it safe to hook up the washer to my residential supply, AKA my shower? I have an adapter that connects a garden hose to a shower fixture, but I’m not sure if this would mess up my water heater or what. I don’t need the water to be hot.
Hey, thanks for the answers so far! Ok, so I measured my GPM, which was 3 gallons/minute. I also noticed that there was some sputtering, i.e. very brief dips in flow rate, every couple seconds, but this was barely noticeable.
I tried connecting the electric power washer to the shower through a 15 ft. garden hose. Every time I pull the trigger the lights in my house dim significantly (Its a 1600 W machine), and a very powerful spray comes out, but in a big cloud instead of a fan or jet. The shape of the cloud is not dependent on how I adjust the nozzle.
After about 10 seconds of continuous spraying, the power washer really seemed to be struggling, and the RPMs on the motor started getting fearful, and so I shut the thing off quickly and hid – Help!
I don’t know if its a problem with the flow rate, or with the electricity in my house. I didn’t think this thing would be such a crazy beast to operate.
by the way, my shower puts out 3 GPM versus the power washer’s required 1.3 GPM.
The engine runs great. I have only used it a couple of times. It was brand new from Sears. It stayed in the box for a couple of years and I finally used it three or so times last summer and fall. It worked perfect. I tried using it recently. The engine runs, but there is no added pressure to the water coming out of the nozzle. With the engine shut off, I run the garden hose through the pump, and without the nozzle and hose on, the water seems to shoot out of the pump, kind of like when you put your thumb over a hose. Basically it doesn’t run free, but no blockages are visible, and with the nozzle and hose on, it seems to develop some pressure. But the spray is the same whether the engine is running or not.
I left it on idle and came back to find that the garden hose had popped and since then, I have been unable to get it to work the way it’s supposed to. I’m using a different garden hose now, so that’s not the problem. The problem seems to have to do with the power washer hose becase not as much water comes out when the pump’s off as it used to. Maybe it’s getting clogged or something? The pump is still working because I can hear it and it still pressurizes the small amount of water that does come out of the nozzle.
i have a karcher 2500psi gas power washer i bought from costco 5 years ago, it runs fine every summer. this spring i took it out and power washed half of my driveway, i turned it off to take a break, when i turned it back on and started power washing, it would only shoot a weak stream. not enough to even break the dirt away, almost like a garden hose. I changed spark plugs, filled gas , filled oil. it will power wash for about 2 seconds, then go back to garden hose stream. i take off the nozzle, put it back on, and i get another 2 seconds, i have to keep repeating. but its senseless to keep doing this .
what could be the problem?
i noticed whenever the pressure washer does work it will jerk, then will go to garden hose stream mode
It says in the directions of my super glue not to immerse in water if I do immerse it does anything terrible happen ie if i were glue a rubber nozzle to a garden hose and the threaded part often got below the surface of water((( immersed)as in were filling a small swimming swimming pool???
This is maddening! I am stationed in Germany, and am just trying to water my lawn. The German stores have only plastic hose couplings that are the threaded-to-quick-disconnect variety (as are the sprinkler attachments and so on). The hoses are quite flimsy, and the water pressure will cause the fittings to come apart if I close the nozzle at the hose end when I am washing the car or something like that…so, I bought an American hose on base with standard brass threaded ends and a sprinkler for my lawn.
When I attach the hose and turn on the water, the anti-siphon valve (small hole in the bottom of the spigot) shoots out water. This happens when the other end of the hose has nothing attached, and water flows readily from the hose, so I would be surprised if it were a backpressure issue. The problem happens on two separate outdoor spigots…what am I missing?
This is maddening! I am stationed in Germany, and am just trying to water my lawn. The German stores have only plastic hose couplings that are the threaded-to-quick-disconnect variety (as are the sprinkler attachments and so on). The hoses are quite flimsy, and the water pressure will cause the fittings to come apart if I close the nozzle at the hose end when I am washing the car or something like that…so, I bought an American hose on base with standard brass threaded ends and a sprinkler for my lawn.
When I attach the hose and turn on the water, the anti-siphon valve (small hole in the bottom of the spigot) shoots out water. This happens when the other end of the hose has nothing attached, and water flows readily from the hose, so I would be surprised if it were a backpressure issue. The problem happens on two separate outdoor spigots…what am I missing? The water is coming only from the anti-siphon outlet hole, not from around the fitting…
When you on the water, you can hear water coming out but when it gets to the nozzle, when you don’t press it, how does the water stay? And at the other end of the hose, you can hear more water coming out. How is it possible. What’s making the water stay within inside the hose?
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