£1,000 vs £14,000 Pressure Washer! 

Comparisons are always good these days. Reviews are often tainted by idiots not understanding what they've bought, how to use them properly or can't be bothered reading instructions before buying or prior to using the kit (especially on Amazon. Last one I saw last night was “smaller than expected.” Dimensions were on the listing so one can only assume their measurements were 50% bigger than everyone else). #devolving evolution.

@@akmothman843 just got given the jetwash to make a vid out of, didn't want to do a generic product review so decided to put it to the test instead

@@PartridgeExteriorCleaning ki

@PartridgeExteriorCleaning I hope everything is going okay. I really miss your videos. Hope you all are doing okay and that the girls are loving their little baby so much!

Hi , good vid. when I saw the jcb name and price I thought Wow might be the one for me. I want a machine to clean tracked plant machines and my muddy yard but if I'm to buy a machine why not get one to clean drives etc and have another string to my bow. I use stihl, husqvana, Kubota etc. These are all the real deal and have the full back up of parts for their machines. I contacted a distributor of Jcb tools pressure washer and I also contacted JCB. JCB could only tell me that Jcb tools is on licence so they pay to use the name. They couldn't help me in any other way. The distributor could sell me the machine and offer a 3 year guarantee domestic or year commercial guarantee , the latter I thought was not a gift but actually the law. I was confused about the statement that it is fitted with a JCB engine! I don't think JCB make and engine like that. The problems that really stuck out for me was there is no parts list availlable and no direct emailing to Jcb Tools. I have rebuilt stihl saw that are 25 year old and haven't had any problems getting parts yet the distributor couldn't give me a parts list or order parts. If this Jcb tools machine didn't have the JCB LOGO on you probably wouldn't have reviewed it and customers wouldn't be thinking they own a JCB machine. I don't want to sound like I'm slagging it down, I want to buy a good cheap machine but I wouldn't recommend to anyone to buy a machine you can't email the manufacturer , you can't easily get parts and the name has been bought on liciense to sell the product. People who are starting up and have very little knowledge of this type of kit are the very ones who can't afford to pay less. I'm still looking and my yard is getting muddier so if you have any proffessional brands you know of , I'd be grateful for any info. Bob

for sure, the 3 year warranty with this is the key. and most new starters won't have enough work to be blasting 8 hours a day 5-6 days a week like me, by that time you can definitely afford a big big upgrade

@@PartridgeExteriorCleaning just to get myself off the ground i bought two $200 vevor corded pressure washers. once these ones die ill upgrade to a proper machine

​@PartridgeExteriorCleaning the warranty is actually only 1 year commercially and 3 years for home use. So, it's not quite the fit you would need i think.

i'd rather buy a new $1k washer every 2 years for 30 years than 1 $14k washer that has to last me

@@velocityfpv5231 So you would prefer to work one day extra every week, or accept that you earn 20% less, which is way more than 14 grand.

I want him to make one!

I think the microphone needs one too haha

haha yeah it was a wet one that day xD

will do! I'll do a trade hypochlorite vs some store bought stuff soon

That would be awesome sid cos my grans drive has spots that came back after I first washed it

The problem with replacements is the time and effort you go to and the money that passes you by while you're waiting for the replacement.

And I thought it was comparing 1000 _pounds_ of pressure vs. 14000 _pounds_ of pressure. ? 🤷‍♀️ What can I say? I haven't had my coffee yet.

​@@cindyknudson2715at that point add a bit of abrasive and you have a mobile waterjet cutter rig!

But it’s also a lot of jobs that would be cut short and split into two sessions, maybe two days. A lot of schedules that will slip.

good idea, think a standard karcher would probably be 5-10x slower

I went through loads of karchers cleaning motocross bikes then bought Parker petrol one about 190 pounds far better quality and power

I got mine from FFX tools. But they don't stock them, they order them, so shop around.

i hope so!

most of the time its technique, just doing straight lines on some surfaces will cause it hence why you'll see me do circle motions on nearly everything apart from blockpaving. other times it's dodgy jets or just going too fast. I will grab a cheap one and compare it to my one though for sure

I'll definitely do a race between an fsc and turbo nozzle, actually interested in the result of that myself.

Try the pressing the trigger down on the lance when you pull start it, more often than not it is just air pockets in the hose so it struggles to prime properly, all my previous pullstart machines did it from time to time. - yeah camerons got some ramps with his one, it's definitely pretty heavy for one guy to lift in and out without ramps

@@PartridgeExteriorCleaning cheers was thinking of trying that for tomorrows job. Keep up the good work and vids 👍

Would U rate this better than a honda gx200

@Josh19998 Australia, if you looked up Australia steel works water jet death , they use a water lance to remove overspilled slag and clean out the big melting pots .

yep they don't stay shiny for long in this job!

thank you that's very sweet!

You might have been looking at one of Syds early videos. He did one with pumpkins.

I looked at the JCB before buying the Slipstream Pro 20 in July this year. If you can, I would advise to stretch that little bit more and get the 20 (or an equivalent Honda GX390 engine) if you are getting it for a business (as opposed to simply using it on your own property).

@@kevinwall795 ahh did you what pushed u to the pro20? looks a good machine the jcb one for 1k and about 1.5k cheaper than the pro 20 im a window cleaner looking to branch out and offer pressure washing and gutter also just abit hesitant to get a pressure washer due to the costs of machines thanks for the advice mate

your surface cleaner will just need to have a quick release female fitting on it - it doesn't matter which surface cleaner you go for as they can all be fitted with that fitting on purchase usually, best to head into a shop where you can grab those in person so they can sort it all out for you

Thanks sid​@@PartridgeExteriorCleaning

I’ve been getting really confused looking at different pressure washers around £1000

yeah i had no idea they did pressure washers till they reached out

@@PartridgeExteriorCleaning neither did I. I thought they were excavators and the brother did agricultural kit if memory serves. Mind you the factory in Rocester was more or less built on a swamp which reminds me of a Monty Python sketch. That said they did create some good fishing lakes back in the day

@@garyjefferies6763 if they make agricultural machinery I can see the pressure washers make sense. for one if you work on farms there is a lot to clean often. (mainly with life stock) plus what they make already uses like 90% what a pressure washer needs.

@@sirBrouwer JCB and Bamford Agricultural are or were two separate companies run by brothers. I see what you mean about farm needs, though. Might be the JCB engineering was better suited to the pressure washer construction and their set up might be why it can be done at a lower cost than most

@@garyjefferies6763 that mainly. plus I have the idea that they prefer that people just keep coming back do to the quality. in doing so they will likely be ad ease to buy the more expensive items as they show that the quality is always good.

I wondered about that. It makes sense to at least try it.

Generally pull starts can be unbolted and rotated around, mine pulled to the opposite-to-preferred side and just removing the bolts and rotating the pull assembly 90- degrees and bolting back on worked fine in changing the pull handle/grip to the other side of the machine.

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Which one anyone in particular