Karcher KB1010 Pressure Washer

It was a few months back now, in summer (remember that?) when my mum decided that our block-paved front garden needed cleaning. She was absolutely right - in places it was hard to distinguish the blue bricks from the red ones! Our first attempt at cleaning involved trying to use an archaic pressure washer, kindly loaned to us by a neighbour. Sadly this was doomed to failure before it began as the hose they gave us with it was in a terrible state and kept leaking from one spot or another and the old attachments didn't fit our kitchen sink properly, since it has one large tap, which was hence ... more

I have a patio area at the back of my house. It was starting to look rather tired and dark and when wet, it was beginning to get a little slippy. While the weather is still nice and I am able to get out in the garden, I decided to buy a pressure washer. I was prepared to spend up to a £100 pounds. Not knowing much about them, I thought that anything that came under this budget would be pretty lame and unable to do the job. I trotted off to my nearest garden centre and started to look at the various machines; some beastly monstrosities, some slightly smaller and more manageable looking ... more

I had a good look around for customer reviews of pressure washers before purchasing this one - until I was just about fed up of reading the word pressure washer!!! Well, the main reason for my purchase was because my patio was nearly black with mildew, moss & just about everything a patio gathers over quite a few years! I knew I needed a powerful one, as I bought a Power Devil one a few years ago & what a waste of time that was, think it was the same power etc. as this Karcher one, but would have got more pressure from holding my finger over half the end of a hose pipe!! This one was very easy ... more