We are in a region where we have a Hose Pipe ban on :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Question is we hose down and disinfect everyday the outside area where the dogs are allowed to go. Can this be classed as breaking the ban as not sure how we could keep the area sanitary otherwise :)

You'd better find out where you stand asap ;)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4896342.stm

there are quite a few exemptions as I understand it (you'r better off going to your local water board on line as they 'may' vary) But I know Im allowed to hose off my Motorbike (safety) and I can still use the hose on my dog... so Dave has said he's just going to make the dog stand on the roof of the car :rolleyes:......men! ;)

I'd love to know why people can't use hoses to wash cars, but garages are still allowed to operate their automatic car washes. Purely idle thought, you understand ... as you'd know if you saw my car, which only gets washed when it rains. ;)

M.

Most of the car washes operate on recycled water.  The water is settled in large tanks until the dirt drifts to the bottom allowing most of it to be sent round again.  It's business too, if businesses are damaged, jobs are lost.  If we don't all do our bit and the water situation gets worst then it is likely that businesses like these will be restricted next.

Aaah, that makes sense. Thanks for that!

M.

Garages can still use their car washes as they are on meters.  The water board would lose revenue by stopping them

I think you will find 99% of garage car washes use recycled water The new machines were installed after the last time we had an almost nationwide hosepipe ban

I know all the local ones are using recycled water(It's recycled on site BTW)

As you can still wash dogs....stand dogs in area where they are allowed to go - "wash" dogs with hosepipe -  shame that you keep missing them ;) -  disinfect ground then "rinse" dogs - again -shame that they keep moving and you keep missing them again ;) but hey - practice makes perfect - so keep practising every day!

Margot

I disinfect my, quite large, patio area with a stiff broom, pushing the fluid over the ground and removing the excess before finishing with a watering can rinse, this works fine.  I think we should all be saving water when we can :)

Hi Just seen this on TV and thought it was quite funny.Taken from Ceefax page 167 today.

Water jets clean hose ban offices.
A water firm that that has introduced a hose pipe ban has responded to criticism after water jets were spotted being used to wash its offices windows. Thames Water said the decision to use the high pressure jets to clean windows on the building where it has offices were taken by its land lord.
The firm has contacted the owners of Reading bridge house in the Berkshire town urging them to use an alternative. Window cleaning has stopped at the waters companys own headquarters.

There must be some red faces over that!!!

According to this, hosepipes can still be used to wash windows anyway. It's a bit cheeky to do so, though! ;)

Fair point Isabel but must admit I do prefer using a hose pipe as feel it does a proper job , perhaps it is the OCD coming out in me :D

I do save water when I can as we all have showers exluding Indigo who has baths every other day and only about two to three inches of water. I also do not let the tap run when washing my teeth twice a day. I also don't hose the dogs down unless they are caked in mud :rolleyes:

We are also going to house a water butt by our garage and collect the water to use in the garden once the watering season is upon us :)

According to the Met Office, there are equal chances of dry, normal or wet weather for the south of England over the next few months. Quote from the BBC news link. Now is that sitting on the fence or what :D

It's not the water that disinfects though :)   We have always had water butts for the run off from all our roofs, the house, the garage and the shed and have never run out during the driest summers.  We do live in the North West though ;)  The plants prefer it and its actually handier than running cumbersome hoses all over the place.

>hosepipes can still be used to wash windows anyway

Darn, I so want to have a good excuse not to do mine :D

:D :D Im with Chez! I thought the ban was a good thing! :D

It's not the water that disinfects though

Yes but is helps wash away the rivers of wee my two seem to do :D

I understand that you can't use a hosepipe to wash your car but you can use a pressure washer to clean a patio !. Makes no sense to me but that's what the list in the paper said last week.

Val

We have a ban here too - but we can use our hose as we have a meter :D :D Not that we need to anyway at the moment as we have rain :) We only use the hose rarely  - having a meter makes you stingy :D LOL

Daisy

OH has sent this down - he works for Thames Water, and they all were a bit sore at the report about their Reading Headquarters

A number of national papers have today (Wednesday 12 April) reported that 
a building occupied by Thames Water has been cleaned with high pressure   
hoses.                                                                    
    The facts:                                                                
       The building they are referring to is Reading Bridge House. Although
       a number of our employees occupy two rented floors, we do not       
       actually own the building itself. And we therefore cannot control   
       what happens there, any more than we can control the cleaning of any
       other premises.                                                     
       The use of these jet washers is infuriating. Some weeks ago, we     
       decided not to wash the windows of our own premises, as we realise  
       how important it is to set an example in the current drought.       
       The building concerned belongs to a company owned by HSBC. We have  
       expressed our views forcibly to their managing agents, but they have
       declined to stop the work, since it does not breach the current     
       hosepipe ban.                                                       
       Such actions are likely to prompt debate around the detail of       
       current legislation, and we would expect the water industry to play 
       a part in recommending improvements for the Government to consider. 
                                                                           

Thanks

Richard Hewison