Pressure Washer Heated Storage

[TimberXX]

I have a small PTO powered pressure washer. I want to use it in winter, but my garage gets close the freezing often.

I thought about having a 100 watt bulb in a small insulated wooden box. But I am not sure that would work.

Any other ideas.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I used to store my electric commercial pressure washer in an upstairs heated room in my barn. What a PITA!

Now I just blow it out with compressed air. I have made up special adapters for the air line AND I run the machine while blowing it out. No issues in fifteen years or so.

 

[grsthegreat]

They sell small pressure cans of pressure washer antifreeze at lowes and HD. screw in tube from can squirt till foam cones out. Easy peasy

 

[Industrial Toys]

You have to protect the hose and wand too. That would be a lot of antifreeze. I made up air hose to high pressure adapters for that too.

 

[grsthegreat]

No, the wand and hose i blow out with shop air. Ive done this for 10 years. I use mine in winter all the time.

 

[lman]

No, the wand and hose i blow out with shop air. Ive done this for 10 years. I use mine in winter all the time.

Why not just blow the washer out with compressed air also. I've been doing this for 20 years. Compressed air is cheaper than antifreeze.

 

[Sberry]

On portables, trucks we used to recirc anti freeze in a bucket. You can blow them out, can use heat which is my preference. Use 2 lamps in series though. I have one in an insulated box on a truck doubles as a fire truck but have the shop inside and heated, hose thru wall with outside controls. 5 gpm @ 200 degrees, can melt ice and clean grease. I wash a car about every day.

 

[grsthegreat]

Why not just blow the washer out with compressed air also. I've been doing this for 20 years. Compressed air is cheaper than antifreeze.

I just never thought of doing that. I pay about $5 for a can of winterizer. A can last me about 4-5 seasons...or more. Only takes a squirt. I never worried about the hoses and wands cause even if some water remained, it wont expand enough to crack. I always worried about water expansion damage to pressure washer though. What i should do is simply store it in my heated tack room.....but too lazy to walk that far.

 

[grsthegreat]

On portables, trucks we used to recirc anti freeze in a bucket. You can blow them out, can use heat which is my preference. Use 2 lamps in series though. I have one in an insulated box on a truck doubles as a fire truck but have the shop inside and heated, hose thru wall with outside controls. 5 gpm @ 200 degrees, can melt ice and clean grease. I wash a car about every day.

Holy crap....now thats a pressure washer.

 

[Sberry]

It does so much work and compared to the depreciation on just one new car it's nothing. If I was starting over and going to pay men would get 1 size bigger and connect to L.P. it's kind of a run what you being kind of deal though, I got it in my mid 20s and had visions of some kind of portable. I used it remote about twice, never moves. 100 ft hose.

 

[Sberry]

The portable is 80%the shop unit. I can feel the difference but it's minor considering the use. I didn't use it today, so far. It's a bit like compressed air, not cheap or energy " effecient" but does so much work so fast and well. Can hyper wash and get something sterile clean that itd rare to really dirty my solvent tank.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I was a little concerned lately. I started to have a problem with the relief valve sticking on my CAT pump pressure washer. And despite (I believe) having blown it out, there was water in that relief circuit and short hose. Yet, if that doesn't get blown out with compressed air, it's never been a problem.

 

[grsthegreat]

I was a little concerned lately. I started to have a problem with the relief valve sticking on my CAT pump pressure washer. And despite (I believe) having blown it out, there was water in that relief circuit and short hose. Yet, if that doesn't get blown out with compressed air, it's never been a problem.

i wish all my storage areas were heated...but i would need to be elon musk to afford the fuel. I just determined that my block heater on my f350 isnt working. it took 18F night to figure that out. Now i just need to figure out if i want to tackle it or take it to shop. im getting pretty lazy lately. the block heater on a 6L f350 looks like a sucky thing to change out.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Energy here is expensive enough. To heat a seldom used (shop) space is a difficult, no, expensive matter. I guess, mega insulation and some forced air heating of some sort is the answer, Certainly NOT any kind of slow, major thermal mass in-Floor system. But hey, everything is about TRENDS!

 

[Sberry]

Proly easier to change than take it.

 

[jaxs]

i wish all my storage areas were heated...but i would need to be elon musk to afford the fuel. I just determined that my block heater on my f350 isnt working. it took 18F night to figure that out. Now i just need to figure out if i want to tackle it or take it to shop. im getting pretty lazy lately. the block heater on a 6L f350 looks like a sucky thing to change out.

I haven't found anything on my 6.0 that isn't sucky to change out. I can't even see half the stuff,how am i supposed to chage it? One day I walked over where a nieghboring camper was checking under hood of his Volvo and due to lack of accessories, accused him of having a 20 year old engine in it.

 

[jaxs]

I was a little concerned lately. I started to have a problem with the relief valve sticking on my CAT pump pressure washer. And despite (I believe) having blown it out, there was water in that relief circuit and short hose. Yet, if that doesn't get blown out with compressed air, it's never been a problem.

If my Cat pump set's idle more than a few weeks without being used,the ss discs in valves stick unless I flush it with something. For a while I used their pump flush but I've found most anything that leaves a film works so I generally use anti-freeze diluted with water.

 

[grsthegreat]

i just crawled under it to look at the stupid block heater. no way in he** am i going to get any of my tools up there to get it out. i couldnt even pull out the plug to test resistance on the heater. off to the shop she goes.