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Offline ianv5

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Re: Hose Pipe Ban!!!!
« Reply #15 on: March 13, 2012, 03:44:29 pm »
Will affect this area too - like you I'm in Northants Ian.

I assume this will affect the literally hundreds of 'Hand car scratchers washes" in Northants & elsewhere for the ban?

Interesting one (I hope so!)

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Re: Hose Pipe Ban!!!!
« Reply #16 on: March 13, 2012, 04:31:18 pm »
^ I don't know how it will affect business/commercial use, not that all of them are registered as 'businesses' of course. I don't know if it scales for them to risk a fine of £1,000?

Will be interesting to see as it will run right through their peak season, I'm sure.
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Re: Hose Pipe Ban!!!!
« Reply #17 on: March 13, 2012, 05:20:57 pm »
Last time I used the large containers that drinking water comes in, couple of empties from work. Fill them up with using a tap then get a section of hose to run from pressure washer into container. Works just as well as having the hosepipe connected and the bigger the container the less refills you need to do.

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Re: Hose Pipe Ban!!!!
« Reply #18 on: March 17, 2012, 10:57:29 am »
When I used to live in a flat I used to use a petrol station jet wash to power rinse the car then nipped home and washed by hand then a couple of buckets was plenty to rinse the car off.  Not a problem.

I will be thinking of you all when I'm merrily hosing and pressure washing my car this summer  :evilgrin:
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Re: Hose Pipe Ban!!!!
« Reply #19 on: March 17, 2012, 01:39:28 pm »
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Seven water companies in southern and eastern England have said they will impose water restrictions after two very dry winters have left reservoirs, aquifers and rivers below normal levels.

Southern Water, South East Water, Thames Water, Anglian Water, Sutton and East Surrey, Veolia Central and Veolia South East will enforce hosepipe bans.

Read more  here > http://www.hosepipeban.org.uk/

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Re: Hose Pipe Ban!!!!
« Reply #20 on: March 18, 2012, 08:09:10 am »
25 litre drum of deionised water, can run your pressure washer of it and wont leave any watermarks on your car, can be bought for just over a tenner.

Either that or wash your windows and drive a lot more with your can in the way? :innocent:

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Hose Ban Can & Can'ts

But what does a hosepipe ban really mean?
Thanks to the drought laws, the answer is no. Even under a hosepipe ban there are still lots of permitted hosepipe uses. Of course, you aren’t allowed to water the garden with one, or to wash the car but here are just a few of the things you can do:

•Use a hose or pressure washer to clean paths, patios, boats, windows, garden furniture, barbecues and much else which is neither garden nor car
•Use a hose to fill ponds, paddling pools, swimming pools and other containers
•Use a hose to wash down pets, horses – or with a spray head to take showers outdoors
•Use a hose with a backflow prevention valve to fill livestock drinking troughs
•Use a hose to put out a fire
•Use a hose to mix cement or for any other DIY job
•Use a hose for childrens’ play

But for the record, here is the full list of possible prohibitions from the new Act:

•Watering a garden using a hosepipe;
•Cleaning a private motor-vehicle using a hosepipe;
•Watering plants on domestic or other non-commercial premises using a hosepipe;
•Cleaning a private leisure boat using a hosepipe;
•Filling or maintaining a domestic swimming or paddling pool;
•Drawing water, using a hosepipe, for domestic recreational use;
•Filling or maintaining a domestic pond using a hosepipe;
•Filling or maintaining an ornamental fountain;
•Cleaning walls, or windows, of domestic premises using a hosepipe;
•Cleaning paths or patios using a hosepipe;
•Cleaning other artificial outdoor surfaces using a hosepipe.
A water company seeking to impose a hosepipe ban can elect to prohibit one or more of these specific uses but cannot prohibit any use not on this list. So even if all the options are enforced, there will still be a number of hosepipe uses which cannot be banned.


where did you get that list from.

half the list seems to contradict itself

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Re: Hose Pipe Ban!!!!
« Reply #21 on: March 18, 2012, 01:22:24 pm »
Off to jet wash the car now!   :happy2: might even leave the water running!
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Re: Hose Pipe Ban!!!!
« Reply #22 on: March 20, 2012, 03:46:49 pm »
Seriously, are they going to send out the water police!!!

We are on a ****ing island surrounded by water, I pay my rates, it's not my fault they don't have the infrastructure to deal with it.

I will be washing my car and watering my garden as normal, if a neighbour dobs me in I will set fire to there house and the firebrigade will have to use buckets to put it out.*

*joking of course.  :evilgrin:

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Re: Hose Pipe Ban!!!!
« Reply #23 on: March 20, 2012, 05:16:32 pm »
Seriously, are they going to send out the water police!!!

We are on a ****ing island surrounded by water, I pay my rates, it's not my fault they don't have the infrastructure to deal with it.

I will be washing my car and watering my garden as normal, if a neighbour dobs me in I will set fire to there house and the firebrigade will have to use buckets to put it out.*

*joking of course.  :evilgrin:
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Re: Hose Pipe Ban!!!!
« Reply #24 on: March 20, 2012, 06:07:11 pm »
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