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[yozza]

Hi guys after some advice. I keep my caravan in storage, and at the moment when ive washed my caravan, ive had to take it round to my parents house when they are away in their caravan.

There is next to no room if there caravan is on the drive and I take mine round to wash. I have spoken to the owners of the storage. They have allowed me not long ago to put flags down underneath my caravan so it no longer stands on grass.

They have also given me permission to wash my caravan down there so im now on the look out for a hand pump pressure sprayer that some of you use. Have you guys got any links to the ones you use. The type im looking at is about 8 litre capacity.

[FishyDave]

We have one of these.

It does a decent job of wetting down and the final rinse of the front, rear and sides of the caravan, though you have to refill it several times to do the whole 'van.  If the tap is a fair way away, you may be better filling an Aquaroll and having some sort of syphon arrangement closer to hand.

Unfortunately, it's not so clever for doing the roof. You really need something with a bit of power to it to sweep the dirty water away. But if a proper hose isn't an option, one of these is probably the best you'll do.

[fishman]

This might sound complicated but it is not really, I got an old caravan water pump, I fitted a longish length of twin flex to pump with a  5amp in line switch (table lamp type) about a meter from pump and a cigarette lighter plug on the other end, It then has a short length 1Mtr of hoselock type hosepipe jubilee clipped onto pump, Other end has a hoselock connector, I use an Aquaroll for water - drop the pump into the Aquaroll, plug the cable into your car/van lighter, connect a hosepipe to connector from pump, (i use this so it is easy to store pump seperate to hosepipe you dont have to) I then get my lovely assistant to work the switch on and off as i shout whilst i use hosepipe on van, If your hose has a twist type spray adjuster thingy it can be shut down a bit and water will last a good while,
Hope this makes sense, It does work well.

[toscal]

Most Karcher pressure washers can take water from a suitable container. Mind you you might go through 8 litres in as many seconds.

[chillypenguin]

Just try filling a bucket via a pressure washer and you will be surprised about how little water they use. Its all about the pressure not the flow, which is less that a standard hose pipe.