With a 12v does the Xjet go with that or the wand?
No hoses, no tips. Garden hose for rinsing gutters.
I’m saying if I had $1,000 to start, I’d just buy equipment to clean gutters while building a customer list. Then use the money from that to buy a proper soft washing setup.
Lots and lots of time. Before i became a professional i used a 2.3 gpm on my house for almost 10 years. I thought it was awesome! Just downstream bleach and rinse. Flat work would probably require one of those cheap home depot surface cleaners. But they suck and are a waste of money. (Although I’ve never used 1 but i did go through 4 NT POS before i had money for the eagle wash). So is the smaller machine. If you have a real source of income just save up and wait. There is no rush. Read, learn, get experience doing freebies for family, friends and neighbors when you get said equipment. In a year you could be your own boss! Good luck
I spent a couple years testing and tweaking my setup. Tried different pumps, pressure switches, accumulators, etc. Not something you’re going to go buy or throw together in a couple weeks. Don’t follow what I do, I’m the only one doing houses this way. I have a 4 gpm pressure washer and surface cleaner for flat work, I just prefer not to do that and stick to house washing with my method.
You should just stick with the traditional way of washing. Read a much a you can on here and save money to get good equipment
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IDK, we did the whole bowl of a baseball stadium with a couple plastic ones that click on the wand QC…5 minutes of watching the guy trying to get the WW classic through a row of seating and I was at the store buying 3…worked perfectly for the aisles. Granted we had to cut the flow back with the ball valve to not risk damaging anything, but we tidied that baby right up. Would have taken weeks to wand, and months to work the WW through there. Wound up putting metal ones off Amazon on every truck for front stoops and basement walkups… Every tool for it’s proper use. Heck @Racer has a Ryobi, and has me thinking about uses 
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I have the stainless 15" surface cleaner from lowes. Used it for about a year until upgrading and it worked great. Seemed to be pretty good construction and being stainless, for $150 its
a good deal. I still carry it as a backup
Im surprised your 8 gal wouldn’t have exploded it. That 12 inch powerhorse lasted 3 hrs before the swivel became wobbly. The 16 ww has lasted 5 years and 1 spindle. The 19 i just got Wednesday. I still have to test it and because space is so tight on the truck i have to wait till Saturday to do. Anxiously awaiting how my 4 gal pairs with it
Your Ford Fusion can tow about 1000lbs… but I wouldn’t do it. The reason I brought it up is because you can get a hitch for it and throw a little basket carrier on there to haul the washer. Keep your chem and wands and all that in the trunk. Get to the job and unload your equipment.
Like others have suggested… try and find you a used truck. Even a little Ford Ranger would be 10x easier to work out of.
It sound like you’ve done some research but it also sounds like you’re hearing a lot of misinformation from other sites. I see you’re asking about 12v, xjet, and all that but I’d suggest figuring out what path you wanna take (12v, downstream, xjet, etc) and spend some time searching all the phrases you’re unfamiliar with. Thats one of the things that helped me learn… the other is listening to these jabronies on here lol 
. They know their stuff
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Not the best method, but we definitely cut the flow back. Those were plastic ones too, lol. They held up a couple months beyond the stadium job until one blew a rock through the plastic housing, then they all went into the dumpster. For $200 collectively costed to that job, they outlasted their expense exponentially.
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Also i remember @Racer thread about the ryobi. I thought about getting one for the post treat but still using the 1 gal pump up. That made me think of another thread about hooking up your surface cleaner to the handle. I wasnt a member then so i couldn’t post. This is my solution. The fitting came from the guts of sn old handle i took apart. Shameless exmark plug also
What about it? Just saying get it?
So the picture you sent of that setup. That is something that I can’t replicate? Is that because running something like that is going to require that I lug around tanks that won’t fit in my car?
Or is it because you don’t know exactly what they are so it would be hard for you to tell me the part to actually look up and go get to replicate that look?
Sorry if I don’t all the way understand what you’re saying.
Got you I figured there was a difference between 12v, downstream, and xjet. I’ll search them up and then decide which one I should go for. Out of the them I’m trying to find which, although not ideal, which system would work best when trying to jury rig to run it out of the truck or a carry on trailer hitch to my fusion
That’s the main thing Im asking. Out of all the setups what will work best for the trunk/car route
I still use Arm & Hammer with Oxi Clean on basically every single house I wash. It smells so good and the customers love it. Those commercials where they can’t stop smelling their clothes is pretty spot on.
Of course, I’m still using Elemonator as my surfactant and just a splash of A&H for the smell good effect.
You better be careful…you might end up on the “Pics of your most hysterical competitors” thread 
Personally, I think @Nickski’s weird little thingamajigbob is pretty neat and would probably work just fine if you’re not looking to actually do any pressure washing but I have no clue what it cost him to build it. I’m guessing the battery is probably the most expensive part.
The gun is the easy part. Search for a Blue Mule spray-all 50. I took that but modified it to use a different gun and j-rod with different nozzles.
It works just ok with garden hose pressure. It needs a #50 nozzle, so pretty big orifice size and that means you don’t get much distance with it.
I built an on demand 12v booster system that connects to a spigot and boosts the pressure to about 100 psi so I can use this modified gun to clean houses.
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Pumps are cheap, $12 each x 4. Cart, accumulator tanks, pressure switch, and all the plumbing adds up. Probably about $500ish total, but over the years of tinkering and testing, a couple thousand or so. Not bad considering what this unit makes me
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Not bad at all, I’d say. I spent a quarter of that on diesel today alone lol
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If you just want to start washing and just “use what you got” type of thing… People are going to think you just a “chuck in a truck.” Yeah you can make money and all that but you probably wont be landing jobs in the fancy neighborhoods that could potentially pay more.
IMO that’s one way to get some money coming in and not look like a complete hack. I started recently (so listen to the OG’s before me) and have a little open trailer and a truck… So I’m biased towards the trailer setups.
Install is so-so on this one. One of our trained technicians would have hitch on in about half hour… But if I tried it I’d be messing around fishing those plates into place for at least 20 min lol. 2000lb towing - 200lb of weight basically just off the hitch. The opening is 1 1/4". It might be super low too the ground too… But it’s a cheap option.
EDIT: My bad I forgot to link the carriers.
Pumps last about 70-80 houses. They don’t fail, they just start to leak too much and take longer to build pressure. I’m good with that since it’s under $50 to change out all 4. I tried "quality " pumps, but they don’t like high inlet pressure and don’t last any longer.
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Yes, insurance first before you do anything else.
Nick is trying to say he is a little unorthodox, so stick with the mainstream basics.
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