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"George" wrote:

Can anyone recommend a really good one, up to aprox £200 that would live a
while, used once a week, and is powerful, to do car and patio etc

Won't your dad now the difference if you bought another type? ;-)

Another Karcher otherwise it'll cost you well more for an industrial jobby.

Aldi sell one around this time of year: around 75 quids. I bought one
last year --- it knocks the socks off my previous cheap job from B&Q
(which just conked out after about a year.

I'm pretty much sure that it's an "unbranded" Karcher: just have a look
at the two, and decide for yourself.

Mind - I don't use mine once a week, and I curse my neighbours who do:
yet another noise in the neighbourhood. I swear it takes one of my
neighbours an hour and more to clean his car, with his damn' PW buzzing
away incessantly, while I do my car in 10 minutes, with my rainwater,
shampoo and (above all) the magic car-wash brush.

Anyway: look at the Aldi one (or LIDL -- they're brothers apparently).
Not a Karcher, but *definitely* not crap.

hth
John