How to Use Electric Pressure Washers for Mobile Detailing
You should know how to use electric pressure washers for mobile detailing if you want to avoid damaging a vehicle, electrocuting yourself or someone else, or just work efficiently and profitably. Using an electric pressure washer rather than a gas-powered pressure washer for mobile detailing has advantages. Unless you're detailing miles and miles of vehicles at a time, so to speak, a more powerful, heavier and bulkier gas powered pressure washer is overkill for mobile detailing.
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Things You'll Need
- Electric pressure washer
- Pressure washer brush kit
- GFCI extension cord (50 feet to 100 feet)
- Car wash soap
- Buckets (2)
- Garden hose ( 50 feet to 100 feet)
- Universal spigot key
Instructions
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Setup
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Place the electric pressure washer in a spot where it will be out of the way while detailing yet close enough so as not to have to stop washing to move it closer because you don't have enough hose to reach around the vehicle. Inspect the hose lines and fittings for cracks and functionality.
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Connect garden hose to electric pressure washer and water spigot (faucet). Use a universal spigot key if necessary to turn on the water spigot.
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Measure out the necessary amount of car-wash soap into the bucket. Add water.
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Plug the GFCI extension cord into an electric pressure washer and electrical outlet--a GFCI outlet if possible. Make sure the extension cord is extended in such a way so as to avoid standing or pooling water. Turn on pressure washer.
Clean
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Spray vehicle with plain water so as to get the entire vehicle wet. You do not want to spray soap onto a dry vehicle, especially on a hot day.
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Insert pressure washer detergent intake line into bucket. Attach rotating brush to pressure washer wand. Apply soap from the top of the vehicle down to the bottom of the vehicle, skipping the tires and wheels or rims.
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Remove the brush attachment. Attach a fan tip or adjust fan tip on the electric pressure washer so that it's ready to rinse. Rinse vehicle.
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Use a hand brush to wash the tires and wheels. Rinse the tires and wheels with the electric pressure washer.
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Tips & Warnings
Do not allow extension cord ends, GFCI or not, to lie in standing water.
Do not pressure-wash the engine compartment if you don't know what to avoid.
