It uses a brushless motor and water-cooling technology to clean up dirt and grime on driveways, sidewalks, siding, and other surfaces. I guess what I'm suggesting is that you take a good look at your "requirements" and make sure you really need the size and expense of the larger units, and that a smaller, less expensive (and perhaps shorter-lived) electric unit won't meet your requirements.Topping out at 3000 PSI, this is the most powerful electric pressure washer Ryobi has to date. But the $69 purchase price was less than the engine overhaul on the gas unit, and I don't have any gasoline refill costs. Some day I'm sure the Husky unit will start to leak around the seals, or have other problems, and rather than repair it I'll just dispose of it - and probably buy another. Right now about the only time I use the heavy duty machines is to make sure I exercise their engines. I don't have to be quite as careful about damaging wood surfaces, and it's much easier to use than the gasoline-powered models. I use it everywhere - cleaned the driveway, washed out the garage, did the windows, washed the garage doors and stucco, cleaned the deck. It's about half the size of a canister vacuum cleaner, light and easy to move around, quiet, shuts off whenever I stop spraying. I use it ten times for each time I pull out the heavy duty units. I didn't see how I could go wrong for $69, and bought it. Also got the HD unit repaired.īut last fall I saw a Husky electric pressure cleaner - 1400 psi - for $69, including soap injector and a floor cleaner attachment. Drag it out, check the oil level, refuel, etc. I couldn't wait (and my wife worked at Sears) so I bought a second unit, which I use intermittently for heavier-duty uses. The next time I pulled it out it wouldn't start and needed the engine overhauled due to lack of use. I used it a few times, changed the oil, and then got wrapped up in business and didn't use it for about six months. I bought the HD unit to have a robust capability to clean driveways, decks, siding, etc. Michael - I'll offer a little different viewpoint - I now have three pressure washers - a 2500 psi unit I bought from Home Depot, with a Briggs & Stratton engine a Sears Craftsman 2500 psi unit, and one more. Etc.Īll honest and smart consumers share in the cost of enabling dumb or dishonest consumers who abuse return policies. Failure to mix oil with gasoline for 2 cycle engines or failure to fill the oil crankcase on 4 cycle engines. Most returns, he said, are the result of customers who lack common sense and/or reading comprehension. I spoke with a Ryobi customer rep this past week and he commented on their somewhat large number of returned items, which Ryobi must then sell at a discount as reconditioned items. Their cost of handling and returning that snowblower (which could work fine) to the manufacturer can be considerable. Retailers just can't afford to become a free tool rental outlet for folks who enjoy "buying" a tool and then returning it after the de facto "free rental." Retailers are also concerned about dealing with returns of physically large items which "don't work" because morons can't read the owners manual. There are a number of items which many retailers will no longer allow you to return: Is the phase "free tool rental" part of the store name? Why does this store (and many others) now have restrictive return policies on certain items? Think hard. They told him it would be repaired only and it was going to take 5 weeks - in the dead of winter! Jerk off store. This past winter a customer was returning a snow thrower that he only used 1 time and it died. RobertPatrick wrote: I wouldn't buy any equipment from HomeDepot. I needed a typewriter reapaired once, 6 months later and many phone calls later nothing had been done We also have a Sears, I would buy things I could exchange there but service is bad. Since this is a big promo here has anyone had experience with the Depot machine or the John Deer for that matter? So buying this machine is obviously a gamble. In fact that is where Home Depot gets its warranty service done. I checked withĪll our local small engine dealers and only one will repair this unit. The machines hoses and fittings look more consumer grade than professional. Our localHome Depot is having a special on a Ryobi washer with a 7hp Subaru engine, 3 year warranty, cost $500. This unit is noticeably heavy duty in the appearance of fittings and hose. Only one local dealer sells them, a John Deere dealer that has a 2700 psi with a Honda engine for $899. I am in the market for a pressure washer, cold water gasoline, in the 2500 psi range.
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