Already you know that a pressure washer needs huge water to spray outside. To make sure this huge water supply-yes there needs to be an outside tap connection with the pressure washer hose pipe.
So, if you do not have an outside tap connection facility, where you can get the water supply? Does outsider tap mandatory for the pressure washer? Do you need an outside tap for a pressure washer? If so then what would be the alternate ways?
Let’s discuss this in detail-
Do You need an outside tap for a pressure washer?
Pressure washing is usually done with a garden hose connection onto a garden tap (usually what we addressed as outside tap). Water from this outside tap comes onto the pressure washer inlet. Pressure washer pump then works with this insider water to create an insider high pressurized water. And finally this highly pressurized water sprayed out with the pressure washer spray nozzle.
Whatever, now lets come to the point. The answer is, yes you need an outside tap for a pressure washer if the pressure washer is simple and there is no facility to make any high upgradation here.
But without an outside tap, you can run the pressure washer, if it has its own system of water supply, if it own has enough pressure system by which it can feed the water to the pressure washer pump . Or if the pressure washer own can feed the water from any external water source. The real scenario is, you never can replace the pressure washer hose with any water source. Neither you can run your pressure washer smoothly without a large external water supply.
However the good news is, now most pressure washers features a water bucket. So, if you do not have the outside tap, you can go with this water bucket, Infact you can adapt your pressure washer to run without the outside tap connection.
How to pressure wash without an outside tap?
When you will run your pressure washer without the outside tap, few factors will come in front of you severely. Like, the is the water supply is enough or not, does the water supply has enough pressure to inside the washer, and finally you have to ensure the water is clean enough and free of any dirt or debris so that it won’t damage your washing machine. However, follow means are there. This means can go well with your pressure washer still if there is no outside water supply connection.
Use your Indoor Tap:
Using the indoor tap is one of the awesome mean by which you can feed water to your pressure washer. The only problem of doing this is, almost every pressure washer do not have any long hose by which you can get in connection with the indoor tap.
So you have to be tricky if you want to use the indoor tap with the pressure washer. As kitchen taps are close to the window, you can use that window parts to make the indoor tap connection. Take the garden hose, use the window kitchen, and connect the one end of this hose pipe with the kitchen faucet and the other end of this pipe to the pressure washer. Make sure the kitchen faucet has proper water supply, so that the pressure washer can feed enough water.
Use a Water Barrel:
The advantage of water barrel is that, it can store rainwater, also can supply this stored water to the pressure washer. Almost every water barrel can deal with up to 300 gallons of water. So this is a huge amount, which easily can run a pressure washer approximately for half an hour.
If you have a water barrel, you must have seen there is a tap on its bottom. So you can easily connect the pressure washer hose to this water barrel tap. If you need, you can use a water barrel adaptor as well.
However one thing here is important, if you open the water barrel when it is not raining, the open air may fall dirt and debris into the reserve water barrels. Therefore close the lid of the water barrel, and keep the water clean inside. Portable pressure washer could easily go with this mean usually.
Use a Bucket:
It is the last option if you could not arrange any of the upper mentioned two ways. As a water bucket can hold a low amount of water, so it is not so efficient for pressure washing. However, if you are going to pressure washing for a while (that means for a short time) use water full buckets. Just keep the suction hose end of the pressure washer inside the water bucket, and turn on the pressure washer.
If your pressure washer do not have the suction pump, you can additionally purchase it from the market. And though most of the pressure washer features a water bucket, if your pressure washer do not comes with it, no problem! You also can bring a water bucket additionally.
Another important matter, when you will use pressure washer water inlet from the water bucket, you have to refill the water bucket repeatedly. As the water bucket is small, and the pressure washer suction hose suck the water with a glance, so the bucket will empty within few seconds.
FAQs:
Can you use a pressure washer with a bucket of water?
Yes you can use the pressure washer with a bucket of water. But the washing time will short and incomplete in that case. If you use the water bucket, you have to frequently refill the bucket with water.
Does a pressure washer need to be attached to a tap?
It needs, it is efficient! But there are some alternate means by which you can run your pressure washer when you cannot connect the pressure washer to an outdoor tap.
In a Nutshell:
That is the end of our today’s article. If you read this, now you know Do you need an outside tap for a pressure washer hose or not! Lastly, my recommendation is, though you can run your pressure washer without an outside tap connection-but try to avoid it.
Indeed, outdoor taps are not unreachable for everyone-so please try to make this a convenient alternative for your pressure washing water supply!
