water surge pricing
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Buckets are fine but not the pressure washer unless your running it from stored rain water.
How are they going to police me using my pressure washer for 10-15 mins ?
The pressure washer stage / Snowfoam cannon i use to get the first layer or crap off so i dont use a mit and end up scratching with the grit thats on the car
Given that I am single person in the household, and use hardly any water, I doubt they would even notice this
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They mostly rely on people's neighbours telling them.
I'm with you, I'm sure a pressure washer uses less than buckets rinsing a car.
Looking at welsh water and entering my postcode, i dont think there is a ban, it states "use all the water you need but help save it by using only what you need and not wasting it"
Anyway, im not out there cleaning my car every week,
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The thirlmere links to Chorley res. If memory serves,s me right. I was involved in it's construction.
A section goes towards Prestwich as well I think, you can see the double pipe section go across the Irwell.
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Fill a bucket then pressure wash from it? Profit.
That's not allowed either, makes no sense does it.
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i see your point but i just dont think rates work. the last few holdouts on them i knew because they were on rates were vocal about how it didnt matter to them how much they used because it wasn't metered
personally i am fine with surge pricing BUT with the v important small print that there needs to be a daily allowance which is charged at a lower rate that way everyone gets the water they need, and then people can choose when or if they really need to wash their car or fill their paddling pool, water their lawn or what ever.
it would also encourage those who can to collect as much waste water as possible for things like lawn / garden watering.
mind you maybe i am biased as i do not need my lawn to look like a golf putting green..... indeed mine is a definite shade of yellow at the moment. it will probably recover however, it kind of usually does.
i can see why people get angry tho.......... too many times i see areas where people are being moaned at to be respectful of their water use, but then with constant leaks and what not due to our shoddy infrastucture.. but we are where we are and people need to be able to drink and wash themselves, imo that is not too much to expect.
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They use the TV Licence police.
Desalinisation uses a lot of power so would need more power stations as well, maybe dedicated ones. Locals and councils don't want them (but they are happy to have a million crap houses built) :/
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I don’t have a TV licence, I have never seen the TV police either
I feel like such a naughty person
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you may be right however a desalination plant near a resevoir which could pump water in when we have an excess could be 1 way to use excess energy rather than paying companies to stop production. The Grid needs to be radically modernised anyway to enable better use of localised energy generation.
i am spitballing and if people experienced in this know better and insist it wont work then fair enough, but if we increase our solar so that every roof has it etc along with wind then i can imagine huge gluts of energy with nothing to do with it. desalination (along with H2 production) seems a good way to use some of that excess.
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you NEED to wash your car using a pressure washer? why?
That said i am torn because a lot of the time when the unwashed masses are not allowed to wash their car, car washing businesses are not affected. I do get it, you dont want to force companies to go under... but OTOH it does feel a bit like wealthy people hoappy to splash cash again get to have nice things whilst the rest of us suffer.
(and yes i realise in the grand scheme i am one of the lucky few....... but at the same time i am just too tight to pay someone to wash my car
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I use a snowfoam cannon
1) first stage is a pressure washer rinse
2) second stage is a pressure washer with snow foam cannon - cover the car with snowfoam, this dwells when you leave it for 10 mins, and releases all trapped grit
3) rinse off with pressure washer
this allows you then to start with the 2 bucket method
Otherwise the alternative is filling about 4 buckets and then chucking that over the car ,then using mits with more buckets
Otherwise your using a mit to basically rub all the grit in to your car bodywork, risking microscratching to the paint work
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