I agree with the respondents that the 1500psi ones are crap.
How about buying a 2400+ psi unit?

3 years ago my neighbor & I bought a Karcher 2400psi w/
a Honda engine at Costco for $300. I figure I'm at payback
(vs rental) already.
There's now no pressure(no pun intended) to hustle thru the job
and return a rental unit.
In addition to washing the house:
Cleaning and/or stripping the deck.
Annual blasting the winter moss from the driveway.
Cleaning the mud from the toys - quads, M/Cs, etc
Degrassing the underside of the lawnmower.
Peeling the bark(and mud, grit, whatnot) off of logs/wood
before running them thru the saw/jointer/planer.
Etc, etc, etc.

You'll be surprised at how many uses you can think of for
your new "toy".

Art


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I'm planning to paint the exetrior of my house to get it ready for
sale. The old paint is in decent shape, with not much peeling, so the
main function of the pressure washing will be to clean the surface, not
strip the old paint. In fact, I'll mainly be repainting the faded trim
and only touching up the walls.

I was planning to rent a 2,400 psi washer from Home Depot, but am also
considering buying a low-end consumer washer for $70-100. For example,
there's one on sale at Sears with 1,500 psi (not sure about the GPM
rating).

Would something like this be sufficient for my needs, or should I rent
the heavy duty one?

Thanks.