MattyB1983

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Really want to wash my car tomorrow as after today's drive it's covered in dead flies.
We have a hose pipe ban here where I am so what can I do, am I allowed to use a bucket of water and/or watering can ???

Don't fancy a £1000 fine to be honest. What you chaps been doing ?

mouseb

Yea you can use a bucket or if you no someone with a blue badge they are exempt from the hose pipe ban

Cannon Fodder

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I thought the ban had been lifted (well in 19 areas anyway), come to Wales we've got way too much of the stuff here.

Is anyone using rain water via a water collection butt and then filtering the water?

subarutom

Yes mate ,but don't do what I did and fill the bucket with a hose pipe .with good behaviour I'll be out in two weeks ..

ditchmyster

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Come off it, we all know your davros.

chrishigham

Is that right?? wish i knew yesterday my mum has a blue badge and i did about 6 trips to fill the bucket up.

jay vr6

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at least for south east water a blue badge only allows someone with severe mobility problems to water the garden and plants, not wash a car.
I've been using my karcher pressure washer and drawing the water from a water butt, also works straight out the bucket

MattyB1983

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Wonder if I can get a blue badge then ...

bigsinky

hosepipe ban.........????? what's that then? Move to NI mate. never had a hose pipe ban and we aren't actually that bad to get on with.

alcazar

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Can you not take it to an Iraqi carwash? They are hosepipe ban-exempt, of course......

MattyB1983

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Would rather leave it dirty mate.

classic scooby

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just use your hose pipe mate,it's my understanding that over the many many years of hose pipe bans only 1!! person has ever been given a fine

Matt2732

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Thats not very public spirited! I'd rather the situation didnt get so bad I have to fetch water from a standpipe, so if everyone saves a little it will help. I remember a few years ago when I worked for the Environment Agency we were told not to wash our vehicles, that time we didnt even have a ban in force. Some of the lakes I fish round here have never been so low.

I never use a hosepipe to wash the car as we dont have an outside tap. I rinse it with a watering can first, wash as normal and then rinse as normal with a watering can. Its not really that big a deal unless your washing car miles from the tap/rainwater butt.

I always rinse with rainwater from the butt as I find it leaves less spots, me and Matty live in an area with really hard water.

Jimbob

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Wales the land of the 360 days of rain, the other 5 are snow days!!

NEVER a problem here.

ukimpreza

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using a hosepipe actually uses less water than buckets so i cant see the problem i still use mine in lincolnshire

zs_phil

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Waterbutt and a karcher and uses 80% less water than a hosepipe and the water level doesnt drop much either

ScoobySteve69

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I heard on the news that the ban is only still in force in the South East.....you know the place, the one where they always brag about their good weather all the time

MattyB1983

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Ended up taking it down to my local 'pay as you go' jet washer and then leathering it off back at home.

Adam-M

What happens if you wash your car while its ontop of a drain? You could always argue that 90% of the water will return to the system lol.

I'd happily donate some of the Scottish weather if i could, you wouldnt need any hosepipe i tell you because its constantly p!shing down.

super_ted

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I have never used a hose pipe to wash the car anyway. Two bucket method then rinse with a bucket of clean water, then dry & polish. Job done.