I am looking for my first rig to do flat work in Strip Malls, Gas Stations ect..... I was speaking to a salesperson today and he said that the 8 GPM 3000 PSI washer I was looking at would not work if I was drawing water from the site. He said the only way I could use an 8 gpm unit would be to draw water from a tank. What would be the max gpm I could use if I were to draw water from the site.
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- Thread starter JDB
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Clean County PW
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JDB,
First off most sites can you can draw between 5-7 gpm. Obviously the more gpm's the better. Having a tank that the water can drain into then to your powerwasher then you can go with the higher gpm machine.
To make life easier get a PW(Hot water) that has a flow rate anywhere from 5 to 6 gpm/'s at 3000psi. This way you can hook up most anywhere including Residential and blast away.
IF you don't have a rig yet look over at the Equipment sale site here. This guy named Tim is selling a nice setup all in an ENCLOSED 7'x14' trailer with all the goodies for around $8000 and he may be negotiable.
Good Luck
First off most sites can you can draw between 5-7 gpm. Obviously the more gpm's the better. Having a tank that the water can drain into then to your powerwasher then you can go with the higher gpm machine.
To make life easier get a PW(Hot water) that has a flow rate anywhere from 5 to 6 gpm/'s at 3000psi. This way you can hook up most anywhere including Residential and blast away.
IF you don't have a rig yet look over at the Equipment sale site here. This guy named Tim is selling a nice setup all in an ENCLOSED 7'x14' trailer with all the goodies for around $8000 and he may be negotiable.
Good Luck
Chuck Richard
New member
If your doing flat work at a strip mall etc you can get all the gpm you need. the stripmalls i do pump 8-12 gpm out of their spickets.
Also its a good idea to have a tank anyway,that way you can draw from tank while spicket refills it usally keeping u ahead of running out.
Also its a good idea to have a tank anyway,that way you can draw from tank while spicket refills it usally keeping u ahead of running out.
terry's-power
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JDB
I agree with everyone above me, running a tank is the way to go. If you go with a 5gpm. to even a 10gpm. washer, the tank will keep you running a long time.
Example
You get to the job site, start filling the tank as you set up. When you get started, you may have 100 gal. In your tank. Now if your washer draws 6gpm. and your water coming in to your tank is at 5gpm. you will have 1hr. 40 min. of run time if you do not stop washing at any time before you will run out of water.
But we all know that in an hour we all will stop to do something and the water coming into our tanks does not stop. This make the 1hr. 40min. more like 2 hrs. or even longer.
Terry II
I agree with everyone above me, running a tank is the way to go. If you go with a 5gpm. to even a 10gpm. washer, the tank will keep you running a long time.
Example
You get to the job site, start filling the tank as you set up. When you get started, you may have 100 gal. In your tank. Now if your washer draws 6gpm. and your water coming in to your tank is at 5gpm. you will have 1hr. 40 min. of run time if you do not stop washing at any time before you will run out of water.
But we all know that in an hour we all will stop to do something and the water coming into our tanks does not stop. This make the 1hr. 40min. more like 2 hrs. or even longer.
Terry II