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Old 14-07-2006 | 09:38 PM
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It's really annoying me now not being able to wash my car properly!! So much harder without a hose just to get the suds. Going back & fowards with buckets is just crap!! I swear i'm using more water with buckets instead of the hose!!!!! AHHHHH!! ! ! !

Actully, i might try using a watering can next time!!
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Just use the hosepipe, who's gonna be watching?
Old 14-07-2006 | 09:39 PM
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u dont need a hose pipe.

Wash the car with a decent shampoo, then rinse off with a watering can, then dry with a Mf.
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as dan said above, i just use it anyway, theres no hosepipe police as far as i know
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People that live oposite me are more than likely to grass!! + we have helicopters fly over quite a bit which i reckon is sometimes checking whose got their pipes out!! Suppose i could use it either in the morning or later in the evening when its quiet!
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I use the sprinkle setting on my hose, uses less water then
Old 14-07-2006 | 09:43 PM
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I never take any notice of this hose pipe ban, and have just filled my son's 8ft pool up, after fighting for him for 3yrs if he wants a swimming pool i'll give him a swimming pool....fine me
Old 14-07-2006 | 09:46 PM
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Fuck it, i'm guna use it lol! Seems i'm the only one watching my back with it!

Now watch me go get a grand fine!
Old 14-07-2006 | 09:56 PM
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essex hasnt got a ban has it
Old 14-07-2006 | 10:06 PM
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weve got a hose pipe ban but were allowed to use a pressure washer to clean the patio
Old 14-07-2006 | 10:06 PM
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i didnt think Essex had a ban, thought it was sussex?
Old 14-07-2006 | 10:07 PM
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You can fill a watering can with a hose pipe.

So stick the hosepipe in a watering can and hold it over your car
Old 14-07-2006 | 11:27 PM
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Just be sensible and get a water butt to collect your rain water and then run a pressure washer from it. You will be amazed at how little water a pressure washer actually uses and a water butt is on ly Ł30 from homebase!!!!

Fact is this country is low on water in areas so may as well help and conserve some????
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We have a Drought (sp) Order


get caught using a hosepipe etc and its an unlimited fine
Old 15-07-2006 | 08:32 AM
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Drive it up here and use mine

Seems silly to me that only a quarter of the country has a ban.

We have more water than we know what to do with
Old 15-07-2006 | 08:53 AM
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Buy a fire engine & use the hydrants. Serious, been there and done it lol.
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the bans are bollocks

if you use buckets you can easily use 5 of em, which at 20L a time is quite a lot.

hose pipe for 1 min and its done at arate of 15L/min

also you can still use pressure washers AND fill up swimming pools

as our friends have just done for the kids, only 4500L and it only took 8 hours to do


yet the water companies waste 100 MILLION litres PER DAY!
Old 15-07-2006 | 09:43 AM
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Bet the cunts hav'nt reduced your water bill even though they have restricted the amount of water you can use

By the way theres fucking oodles of the stuff up here in manc
Old 15-07-2006 | 10:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Michelle
i didnt think Essex had a ban, thought it was sussex?

Hi Michelle, you essex peeps are ok at the moment

It's not just sussex though




-Southern Water (in its Sussex North, Sussex Coast, Sussex Hasting, Kent Thanet, Kent Medway and Isle of Wight water supply areas),
-South East Water,
-Mid Kent Water,
-Cholderton and District Water,
-Sutton and East Surrey Water,
-Thames Water
-Three Valleys Water
-Folkestone and Dover Water
Old 15-07-2006 | 10:26 AM
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check the website of who your with.. i asssumed we had a ban in essex then i realised my water is supplied via anglia water and checked out their site.. and hey presto NO BAN
Old 15-07-2006 | 11:48 AM
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no ban for me essex and suffolk water

still cant see how there a drought, when we live on an island that strangely is surrounded by water
Old 15-07-2006 | 12:38 PM
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We have loads of water up here
Old 15-07-2006 | 03:10 PM
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THAMES WATER ARE FUCKING DICKS FOR THE AMOUNT OF WASTED WATER IN ACTON OVER THE LAST 5 YEARS

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Im on a water meter so off to the jet wash i go


Old 15-07-2006 | 03:15 PM
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What ban....Move to Scotland!!!!!!
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