To think that there is no need to pressure wash the great outdoors to within an inch of its life?

[bigbluebus]

The house behind us owns a pressure washer. They wash the cars with it and last year cleaned the patio and path with it. Today they seem to have hired a man with an industrial strength pressure washer who has been cleaning the drive/path/patio for at least 5 hours now with the resultant noise. It's 30° here and people have their windows open - some are still WFH. Their neighbour opposite them also owns a noisy pressure washer and uses it frequently. They are 2 rows of houses away with a street in between and the noise can be heard inside my house when they use it.
I usually wash my car with a bucket and sponge and an ordinary hose pipe or drive it up the road where a team of chaps will clean it for a fiver. My patio has not been pressure washed in the 29 years I've lived here and it is absolutely fine - it looks like an outdoor surface!
So AIBU to think that this obsession with pressure washing the outdoors is totally unnecessary and unacceptable from a) a noise perspective and b) it is environmentally bad due to chemicals, electricity usage and a waste of water? (All these houses are on water meters)

I wash my car as you do yours but i power wash th patio, annually and will continue to do so. We sit out there a lot and don’t like sitting looking at a minging patio.

We pressure wash the patio and path once a year to keep moss etc off otherwise it gets slippy

that does seem slightly excessive.

I do jet wash the courtyard garden back yard but that's because it's basically north facing and in the winter the sun never gets over the house so it's like a fetid pond by the time the sun returns in march, but that's maybe twice a year...if i do it too early I often have to do it again.

I'd never jet wash a car....is it not bad for the paintwork? I mean it really strips the filth off concrete so i cannot image how it doesn't damage the surface of the car.

I wash my paving but with a stiff brush and a bucket of soapy water.
I also sweep my path with a brush - not a noisy garden vac.
I think there's something quite therapeutic about brushing stuff clean - quietly.

Some people are obsessed with it. Totally unnecessary

Bizarre behaviour. Popular with the astro turf brigade. They're not on water meters then

@3scape

Bizarre behaviour. Popular with the astro turf brigade. They're not on water meters then

I agree it's unnecessary and a shocking waste of water, but do Astro turf owners really do this? Wouldn't it wash away the base layer?

We have a North facing drive which gets mossy at the end nearest the house. I spent a morning with a stiff broom brushing it away. Hardly any noise, no chemicals and very little water!

I think it’s an extension of the extreme cleaning indoors, added to the fact that people are staying home a lot more. Every inch of their property is cleaned, painted and well maintained. I have a friend who Hoover’s her patio and is proud of that fact. Each to their own I suppose but if the noise is getting to you mention it tactfully.

Your first neighbours are doing it annually. Which is fine.

And no way I’m going out and scrubbing with a brush, screw that it’s massive patio, and I’m sure if it’s taking some bloke flv

Sorry five hours it is a large space. Also I use no chemicals, most don’t with a power washer.

I do jet wash all the paths once a year and the chicken coop every month but the cars usually go through the carwash. Daily or even weekly seems excessive!

For the fiver to clean the car, do they use a pressure washer and chemicals?

So bourgeois

It's very annoying but at least they're not doing it on a weekend when more people would be using their garden. I used to ban DP from doing it on a Saturday/Sunday when it was nice weather

We jetwash the yard every 6 weeks - kind of have to, we have two dogs who use it as their toilet, it's our planting area, and cows and goats often escape into it. Plus its where my washing line is. It would be covered in flies and animal waste if we didn't

Not like we do it anywhere else though, plenty of other places on our land for wildlife and insects to enjoy ourselves

Our neighbour does it several time a week. I think she finds it therapeutic. I don't. I think it's time for her colonic irrigation.

I pressure wash the flags. It doesn’t require chemicals.

I don’t own a car though.

The amount of noisy equipment people use now is a fucking pain. So YANBU.

Who cares? They're pressure washing!

@MattHancocksSexTape

For the fiver to clean the car, do they use a pressure washer and chemicals?

No, they use modern slavery.

The only chemical a pressure washer uses is water.

YABU have you ever actually pressure washed something? It is sooo satisfying! Try it, you'll be converted I promise