Car Washing

I’ve been using the Flash Car Wash to wash my car for the past year. It’s a fantastic device, and has really good results. Not only does it leave my car shining without blotchy water marks, but it removes the need to use a bucket at all.

There’s only one flaw with it though – it requires a hosepipe. Here in Kent we’ve had a hosepipe ban since last summer (which I was unaware of until recently), so using the hose is tricky. I could have pleaded ignorance, but they sent a letter not long ago. I also live on a main road, so it’s hard to do it sneakily 🙂

So yesterday I’m sitting inside wondering how I’m going to rinse the car off before and after washing it with a bucket of soapy water. It was a horrible day too, absolutely pouring with rain. Then it occured to me that the rain was probably the answer – it wouldn’t contain lime would it? I’d also only just had a shower, so my hair was already wet.

Out I went to an already soaking wet car and started cleaning it. Sure enough, the rain washed the soap off nicely, albeit making me rather wet in the process.

Today I went out to check the results and it was pretty impressive – no horrible marks to be seen anywhere… apart from the bits of grass left from me strimming the front lawn 🙂