Sealey PW1712 12V Rechargeable 6.8kg Pressure Washer - 17ltr Water Tank

I don't have an outside tap and live in rented accommodation, I've struggled for many years with buckets, then hand pump weed sprayers and expensive no water "washes" and quite frankly never got on with any of them.Even tried a tap adapter to fit to my bathroom tap which after a 20 minute soak of the car managed to flood my bathroom when it shifted and leaked everywhere.This has a 17 litre tank which in one fill is plenty to wash my bike or my car.Its pressure isn't going to blow you away but it is comparable to a normal hosepipe, the fittings it comes with are of a decent build quality but the detergent bottles are a very soft plastic so could easily get damaged.I find only having to make one trip up the stairs to the bathroom to fill the tank is time saving and the fact it's a sealed lidded unit means no soaking your walls as you splash a bucket walking down the stairs.The pressure is enough to give dirt a good blast in hard to reach places and best of all doesn't require 20 pumps of a handle every 10 seconds of use to maintain pressure. It isn't too noisy and I love the neat hardwired cigarette lighter lead. Plenty of length on it to move it wherever. The wheels are useful as you can roll it around using its carry strap like a trolley case for going on holiday.Overall, well worth the purchase and other neighbours have been impressed/asked to borrow it.

This is the first portable pressure washer that I have bought and I am wondering why I haven't bought one before. The build quality on this is very good and it was delivered very quickly and well packaged. The pressure is easily good enough to clean a pedal bike, motorbike , caravan or a car. I easily cleaned two muddy mountain bikes with one filling of the 17 litre tank using the battery. One of the great features is the small detergent bottle that can be fitted onto the spray gun or brush. There is a switch on the main gun that enables you to easily flick between having soapy water and then plain. This means that there is no fiddling around taking the bottle off. You can spray with soap and then with a flick of the thumb swap to clean water and rinse. The 6m hose is a great length but still easily storable in the mesh pocket on the washer.All in all a good buy with good build quality and good features.

Arrived nice and quick but I had problems right from the beginning. I filled it up with water some times the pump would work and other times no. It sprays water out of the tank and is enough to wash the car and I would say a full tank of water is needed to wash a big pick up truck. But it kept started working and stopping and had to go back for a refund. I would not recommend this item as it is expressive and does not function right. When it works it useful for watering my plants at the end of my garden. It is a long garden and I prefer to use this washer instead of fighting with my long water hose that keeps getting tangled and does not have a very good water pressure coming out of the long length of hose.once charged I managed to fill the tank up twice to wash two cars but then the battery is run flat and needs recharging.it is well made and nice to use but just is not relatable and therefore would not recommend buying this product

This is a generic far east import model sold under a few brand names including Sealey and Mobi.The first unit received leaked from the base (not the orange plastic water container, but the grey part where the battery and pump etc is housed). I contacted Amazon and they agreed it could be returned. They sent me a replacement which arrived before I had returned the original, so can't fault Amazon's customer service which is great. Upon unpacking the replacement I noticed that one of the small wheels on the base of the unit was completely smashed, and fell off in bits when I touched it. They are made of that brittle plastic that does not flex at all which is an odd design choice for wheels on a unit that when full of water is quite heavy - some sort of rubberised wheels would have been more suitable. There was no visible damage to the box the unit came so I don't know if the wheel was damaged before it was boxed up at the factory or subsequently. I couldn't face sending both units back so after testing the replacement to make sure it didn't leak like the first one did I contacted Amazon and explained that I was going to remove a wheel from the original unit and use this to replace the broken wheel on the second unit (fortunately the wheels are fairly easy to remove with a bit of force). I returned the original unit to Amazon which cost me a lot more in postage than their standard reimbursement amount, but after contacting them again they agreed to refund the difference which was great (I do buy a lot from Amazon so this may not be something they normally do?)So after a bit of a poor start we do now have a unit that seems (so far) to be performing well. We bought it to hose off horses after competitions, a task which it does well. The pressure of the water is just right for this task not being too powerful. Obviously it's not as powerful as a mains unit, but we knew that before buying and for our purposes this is perfect. I wouldn't want to wash my car using this (unless it was pretty clean to start with) but for smaller items like bikes (and horses!) it's ideal. Let's hope it lasts!

Perfect - exactly what I needed. I looked at the much more expensive nomad and was worried the Sealey wouldn't be powerful enough but it's great. Obviously doesn't have the power of a mains washer but I didn't want anything that powerful. I use it to wash down horses at competitions and it is superb - a fine but strong spray which soaks the horses quickly (changes to a jet if needed). The soap container is excellent - I put lavender wash in it to help cool the horses. Battery has a really good life - to test it I used the washer to wash down two horses every evening for a week - at the end of which I had to leave it running for a few minutes to completely run the battery down, The car AV adapter is a great backup - very impressed.