REVIEW – Strain washing the driveway is an annual occasion the place I dwell. A 12 months’s price of mud and grime from all of the purple clay we’ve round right here offers my pavement a fairly reddish, muddy look, one thing that’s positively not very enticing. Each fall I haul out the strain washer, fill it up with fuel, and set about to painstakingly wash all of it away. The work is back-breaking, and it’s by no means fairly carried out completely, as I depart stripes from sweeping the little yellow nozzle backwards and forwards. There ought to be a greater means to do that, and I hope that the EVEAGE 14.5″ Pressure Washer Surface Cleaner is what I would like.
What’s it?
The EVEAGE 14.5″ Strain Washer Floor Cleaner is an attachment to your present strain washer. Its objective is to assist me apply constant, even washing to my sidewalk and driveway whereas lowering stress on my arms and again. It does this by taking the output of my strain washer and splitting it between two nozzles which might be rotating, whereas retaining them a constant distance above the bottom. If all the pieces works as anticipated, it ought to be simpler and sooner to strain wash the pavement, and it ought to look higher as nicely.
EVEAGE is a model that focuses on designing and promoting of backyard cleansing instruments. Their brand slogan is (fairly sadly), “Wipe out in a flash,” and clearly I’m hoping that doesn’t occur whereas I check their gadget.
What’s within the field?
- EVEAGE 14.5″ Strain Washer Floor Cleaner
- A pair of 15-inch extenders
- A pair of substitute nozzles
- 4 substitute O-rings
- A pair of spools of Teflon tape
- A needle to unclog the nozzles
- A guide
{Hardware} specs
- Connectors: ¼ inch quick-release
- Materials: Stainless-steel
- Strain: Any strain washer with 2000-4000 psi
- Weight: 8.3 kilos
- Dimensions: 19.5 in diameter (from caster to caster) and three.5 in tall (not together with the rod on high)
- Cleansing floor: 12 inches (the inside diameter)
Each EVEAGE’s web site and just a little sticker on the cleaner claims that it has 14.5-inch cleansing attain, however the inside diameter is simply 12 inches. EVEAGE is exaggerating the vary of its product.
Design and options
The EVEAGE Strain Washer Floor Cleaner seems like an the wrong way up round baking cake pan with wheels protruding out the perimeters and a pair of tubes popping out of the highest. EVEAGE says that it’s manufactured from stainless-steel—all the pieces is actually good and glossy—so there shouldn’t be any rust.
The elements appear like they have been all machined by hand in a store, with bolts holding the L-brackets and casters in place in addition to the mount on high. There are many scuff marks and bits of residue left on it from the manufacturing course of, however that shouldn’t stop it from doing its job.
Beneath the EVEAGE Strain Washer Floor Cleaner, there’s a horizontal bar with a pair of angled nozzles on the finish the place the water will squirt out; the whole bar rotates freely within the horizontal airplane, making certain that the whole floor beneath the cleaner is washed evenly. Whereas the cleaner doesn’t look professionally made, it does have a really strong and sturdy really feel to it; I’m considering that this cleaner goes to final a very long time. Total, that is clearly a operate over kind design, and I’m optimistic that it’s going to work nicely.
Setup
The guide is a single sheet of paper, printed on each side and folded over. There’s actually no setup or meeting; the one factor I needed to do was join it to the tip of the strain washer wand. For these washers whose wand is a bit brief, like mine, EVEAGE included a pair of extenders that may enhance the size by 30 inches (if each are used). This allowed me to stay upright whereas cleansing, as a substitute of getting to hunch over, as I usually do when cleansing the driveway; utilizing the extenders does make the connection from the wand to the floor cleaner much less inflexible and extra wobbly.
The EVEAGE Strain Washer Floor Cleaner’s guide offers some commonsense security precautions, equivalent to don’t put my hand down close to the bristles, hold the cleaner on all 4 wheels, and be ready for the recoil after I activate the strain washer. It additionally encourages me to brush my driveway earlier than washing and to show off the washer if the cleaner begins to vibrate. I fairly think about that the quickly spinning bar may very well be a critical security hazard if it got here free and spun off. It additionally has some directions on cleansing and changing the nozzles, ought to that be required.
The underside line is that this gadget is tremendous simple to arrange. Time to place it to good use!
Efficiency
I’ve a Troy-Bilt gas-powered strain washer. It has 2800 psi, which is in the course of the allowed vary of the cleaner. It makes use of the identical ¼ inch fast connectors that the floor cleaner makes use of, so connecting it was (actually) a snap.
This gadget is straightforward to make use of. It’s prefer it transformed my strain washer right into a vacuum cleaner. All I’ve to do is push it backwards and forwards or sweep it left to proper over my driveway. It has 4 wheels, that are actually casters that may rotate 360 levels, that hold it tremendous steady and be certain that the nozzles are at a constant top above the driveway.
There may be one downside with the EVEAGE Strain Washer Floor Cleaner. At first, I assumed that the bristles have been too lengthy on one facet, as at any time when I’m pushing in that path, they drag an excessive amount of on the bottom. This made it just a little tougher to make use of, but it surely was nonetheless useable, and the bristles actually stop any particles from flying out and hitting me.
After taking a better look, nevertheless, I noticed that the true downside was that the wheel on one facet was too brief. I acquired out my SnapFresh influence wrench, popped the nut off, and added an additional washer. That considerably diminished the quantity of drag. I feel I’m going to purchase extra washers and add an additional one to every of the wheels.
As quickly as I began utilizing the EVEAGE Strain Washer Floor Cleaner, I observed that it was washing the grime and clay off of my driveway. I might see a clearly seen distinction between the place I had washed with it and the place I had not. I pushed it backwards and forwards throughout one of many squares in my driveway, considering that all the pieces was excellent. After I regarded again over the work I had carried out, nevertheless, I discovered lots of stripes.
At this level, I took my time and started to experiment. I realized just a few methods for getting a greater clear with the EVEAGE Strain Washer Floor Cleaner. One, go gradual and regular with a fair tempo. Two, overlap every go with the earlier one. Three, as soon as completed going backwards and forwards over an space, return over it in the other way. In different phrases, if I went horizontally the primary time, do it once more going vertically. These methods eliminated almost all the stripes from my driveway. Right here’s a video that I created exhibiting the way it labored for me.
(This video is 1080p.)
As soon as I completed every part, I eliminated the floor cleaner, put the common nozzle again on, and sprayed off all of the nasty gunk that the cleaner had washed off the driveway. The tip consequence was a crisp, clean-looking driveway. As a bonus, I completed in about 1/3 of the time that it took doing it the previous means.
There are just a few limitations to the floor cleaner. Identical to my robotic vacuum cleaner, it doesn’t clear within the corners nicely, because of its spherical form. It’s a ache to make use of on stairs. It doesn’t actually work with bumpy areas, just like the paver patio we constructed within the yard. However for regular concrete sidewalks, porches, and driveways, nevertheless, it really works nice.
What I like
- Sturdy construct
- Included extenders for longer attain
- Straightforward, efficient cleansing!
What I’d change
- Be certain the wheels are on the proper top to forestall the bristles from dragging
- Clear off all of the residue earlier than delivery
Closing ideas
The EVEAGE Strain Washer Floor Cleaner is an attachment to your strain washer that makes it simpler to scrub concrete driveways and sidewalks. It sprays water out of a pair of nozzles which might be quickly rotating beneath a stainless-steel cylinder. After only one use, I’m offered. I’ll by no means return to strain washing my driveway by hand. The floor cleaner is rather a lot much less stress on my arms and decrease again, it finishes the work in a couple of third of the time, and it does a greater job cleansing off the mud and grime. Whereas EVEAGE’s gadget has a “we machined this by hand” vibe, it greater than makes up for that with its sturdy, strong construct. I’m wanting ahead to utilizing this cleaner for years to return, and I commend this product to you.
Worth: $109.99
The place to purchase: EVEAGE’s online store and Amazon
Supply: The pattern for this overview was offered by EVEAGE.
