Cleaning cars during hosepipe ban

viennalad25

im just airing a view of what ive noticed today, were supposed to be getting short on water, and the hosepipe ban coming in, but passed a few petrol stations today and cues of cars for getting washed, I suppose they pay rates but surely people should hold of on the vanity of a shiny car, keep the windscreen clean and curtail the car washing until the rain resumes,

irishgeo

viennalad25 wrote: »

im just airing a view of what ive noticed today, were supposed to be getting short on water, and the hosepipe ban coming in, but passed a few petrol stations today and cues of cars for getting washed, I suppose they pay rates but surely people should hold of on the vanity of a shiny car, keep the windscreen clean and curtail the car washing until the rain resumes,

Would car washes be using public drinking water?

PARlance

Don't think it's a problem isolated to Mayo But with an upcoming ban, it doesn't surprise me that they're packed.

If they really want to conserve water they probably shouldn't give as much notice for people to go nuts... but they probably factor that surge into the equation.

Stoolbend

My local petrol station has a well for the car wash. The shop is all thats on the mains.

I wouldnt be surprised if other filling stations are the same.

mickdw

Water costs of running a car wash off mains would be crippling I'd say so most have other arrangements such as heavy recycling of water surely

ifElseThen

Worker in Toyota Long Mile out with a power hose this morning washing already clean Land Cruisers.

Does the hosepipe ban apply to businesses?

biko

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/business-as-usual-in-dublin-car-wash-despite-hosepipe-ban-1.3551264

ifElseThen

Ah yeah this wasn't a car cleaning place, was a dealership out keeping their cars clean on the forecourt.

TheRiverman

I live in rural Ireland and have my own private water supply,but I never use a hosepipe.I get a bucket of water,put some car shampoo in it and wash the car with a soft brush,another bucket or two max to rinse it off and a cloth to shine it.Job done,car clean and shiny.Water is one of life's most precious elements,it has to be conserved.

Alkers

I normally wash with my own powerhose ran from a waterbut but that's obviously empty at the moment. Given the drought and hosepipe ban, what have people been doing about keeping cars clean? I've done four trips to cork recently so cars are filthy.
Are the water-less wash places any use? Any recommendations near Dublin 12?
I'm not interested in any form of detailing, one car has a good few scratches already and the other is an old camper which I painted myself.

Thanks

Wheety

Use the 2 buckets method.

Riskymove

some car wash places recycle their water

Atlantic Dawn

You can use as much water as you like from buckets, you're just not allowed fill them from a hose.

frozenfrozen

fill your waterbut with buckets

DaveyDave

You can still get the car washed at a normal car wash, you can even use the DIY hoses at the garage as the ban doesn't apply to commercial hoses.

As someone with a pressure washer I think the hose ban is silly. They only reduced water pressure for one day where I am. Could they not just reduce it 24/7 and lift the ban? Hose pipes and baths would be useless, but you could still use the pressure washer as they don't need much water.

It's a bit silly I can fill buckets but can't use the same equivalent water with the pressure washer.

Charles Babbage

According to met.ie there might be reasonably normal rain in the next week, albeit in the form of showers, which will both we the car and perhaps provide something in the water butt.

You could also put the plug in the bath and keep the shower water, and use it to shampoo your car (via the water butt).

Wesser

Basin of water and a sponge in your hand?

Pops_20

I thought there was no chance my car was gonna see the wash for the foreseeable future but turns out my pressure washer doesn't need a water feed to it, it can just suck it from a water butt or equivalent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOXOOR1GEu8

Fill an empty bin with water using buckets, drop one end of the hose in and the other end connected to pressure washer.

I guess this isn't technically isn't breaking the ban as the water isn't drawn directly from the mains supply?

Ubbquittious

I find the car isn't really getting dirty this weather. Long may it last

mossym

Ubbquittious wrote: »

I find the car isn't really getting dirty this weather. Long may it last

i'd wager you don't have a black car ..

rabbitinlights

I was enjoying seeing the car get filthy over the last few weeks, but then a bird did a massive shít on the bonnet this morning and now I'm torn about cleaning that one spot and ruining the perfect layer of filth....

Alun

mossym wrote: »

i'd wager you don't have a black car ..

... or a white one.

rabbitinlights

rabbitinlights wrote: »

I was enjoying seeing the car get filthy over the last few weeks, but then a bird did a massive shít on the bonnet this morning and now I'm torn about cleaning that one spot and ruining the perfect layer of filth....

Clean it,there was a load of bird **** on the bonnet of my old car for about a month.
Cleaned it off and the paint underneath was ****ed

Yakuza

Two silver cars for the win The paintwork on both isn't too bad (the showers we got on Sunday in Dublin helped, mind). Took my car to Wexford the day before and there's a tonne of dead insects on the grille.
I am planning on washing them at the weekend, am just going to use a bucket and sponge and a damp rag on the alloys.

Lord Nikon

There is a hosepipe ban, but nothing stopping you from filling buckets from a tap in the house.
Hosepipe ban on washing private cars is out, but I've a commercial vehicle, same rules apply?

TeaBagMania

bring your bucket and back down the boat ramp at lough corrib, you can wash your car and fish at the same time

pawdee

I use babywipes. It takes 8 full packets for the whole car. Then 3 rolls of paper towel to dry/polish it. Works a treat.

poopyhead

Ubbquittious wrote: »

I find the car isn't really getting dirty this weather. Long may it last

Some strange form of airborne tree resin and insects are stuck all over my car from zooming down motorways.

Wheety

Lord Nikon wrote: »

There is a hosepipe ban, but nothing stopping you from filling buckets from a tap in the house.
Hosepipe ban on washing private cars is out, but I've a commercial vehicle, same rules apply?

Of course

It's not what you're cleaning, it's the use of a hosepipe.

DaveyDave

The hose ban only applies to washing a mechanically propelled vehicle so technically I could wash my bike in front of the car...

poopyhead

DaveyDave wrote: »

The hose ban only applies to washing a mechanically propelled vehicle so technically I could wash my bike in front of the car...

can you plumb a tap to the end of a hose fitting ? I should ask that in the legal section

tcawley29

What can they do about it if you do use the hose?

Just curious really.

frozenfrozen

tcawley29 wrote: »

What can they do about it if you do use the hose?

Just curious really.

6 penalty points

Gazzmonkey

Yeah I wonder how they're catching people... if any at all.

_Brian

Talk of a bit of rain next week makes little difference.
It would take a month of rain to top up the reservoirs around major cities.

The ground itself will soak and hold allot of the initial rain that falls.

Soils here in the farm at home have an 80mm moisture deficit and along the east coast it is probably worse.

So much of what falls won’t make it into storage for the cities.

I’d imagine water conservation measures could last another month.

cowboyjoe

Washed the car yday without a hose. YouTube told me to use two buckets of water, one to use car shampoo and one to rinse the dirty water from the sponge. Filled a watering can up 3 time to wash/rinse before and after. Then a dry cloth to finish it at the end. Worked a treat.

demanufactured

Wesser wrote: »

Basin of water and a sponge in your hand?

Hardly a way to wash a car.

tcawley29

OmegaGene wrote: »

€120 fine I think I heard on the radio

Any ideas would that 120 be for the home owner or the person caught in the act?

demanufactured

Just use the carwash, don't overthink these things

EPAndlee

My neighbour is on holidays so I've been using his garden hose

uck51js9zml2yt

cowboyjoe wrote: »

Washed the car yday without a hose. YouTube told me to use two buckets of water, one to use car shampoo and one to rinse the dirty water from the sponge. Filled a watering can up 3 time to wash/rinse before and after. Then a dry cloth to finish it at the end. Worked a treat.

I remember the days when common sense told us what to do...but times have changed

cowboyjoe

OmegaGene wrote: »

Im hoping that post was a joke
YouTube told me ffs

Imagine searching online to see how to do something properly, scandalous stuff really.

DaveyDave

Time to bust out the garden pump spray so I can wash the windows. As soon as the sun hits the side mirrors I can't see a damn thing.

doolox

On the N4/M4 in the evening.

People have not washed their windows of insects and other filth and cannot see where they are going.

One Bozo was doing 45-50 kph on the N4 near Liffey Valley causing anger, consternation and puzzlement among the normals doing 80-90 kph........


How do such creatures survive with their licences intact???

Did they get a licence??

Did they do an eyetest???

OldMrBrennan83

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Pops_20

I filled up a large plastic bin with water yesterday, dropped one end of the hose in and connected up the power washer. Technically not breaking the ban as I wasn't drawing the water from the mains?

I swear one of the youngfellas across the road came out and snapped a pic on his phone.

irishgeo

Pops_20 wrote: »

I filled up a large plastic bin with water yesterday, dropped one end of the hose in and connected up the power washer. Technically not breaking the ban as I wasn't drawing the water from the mains?

I swear one of the youngfellas across the road came out and snapped a pic on his phone.

Where you get the water to fill the bin.