Nilfisk C110 3-5 PC X-Tra Pressure Washer Patio Cleaner Set with 1400 Watt Motor

The Nilfisk pressure washer is an excellent product for those people that need a reasonably priced washer to use around the home. It is very easy to put together and comes with a good set of instructions and a free CD Rom on the best way to clean cars, conservatories etc. I was especially impressed with the patio/drive cleaning attachment that comes free with the unit, it is easy to use and the results are as good as the results achieved by a professional cleaning company I used last year. All in all I would highly recommend this product.

Never used a pressure washer before - so a bit naive & not DIY minded . Turned it on and wondered how it was supposed to clean anything & was about to return it but I persisted & then realised the end of the lance had to be a few inches from the area to be cleaned!! Also, didn't realise it required to be plumbed in to my water hose pipe while in use - thought it had a reservoir :-)- not a problem as I have pipes at back & front of house.
Also, you MUST use the patio attachment otherwise you'll spend just as much time cleaning all the dirt off your conservatory or house walls - not to mention yourself!!
The attachment keeps all the debris inside the blue box. Had a bit of trouble attaching the patio attachment, then fathomed out that there was a little flange that had to slot into the lance - same as the detergent bottle.
My garden walls now look as if they have just been built - 40 years of grime build up. & didn't realise they were two tone colour!! Look really smart.
Well built & all the attachments clip onto the body of the machine.
Love it!!! :-)

Bought this product to replace an 8 year old JCB 1900 watt power washer & despite its modest price (the JCB easily cost twice as much, like Karchers do), was pleasantly surprised to note how robust the construction was, & how the Nilfisk appears to out-perform the more 'powerful' JCB washer we'd got used to. It's also finished in a rather fetching shade of blue, & the ABS plastics it's constructed from are of good quality, with an aluminium motor housing inside rather than a plastic one (I check such things, sadly). It also looks quite stylish.

Only assembly required basically is to screw the handle on (2 Allen screws, with supplied Allen key).

The accessories are very nicely designed & finished, ergonomic, & click together easily & with a satisfyingly reassuring 'click'.

All the accessories, including the hose-to-lance, can be attached to the unit nicely when not in use, unlike with our old JCB washer. Except, of course, the Patio Cleaning revolving-jet & brush attachment. This comes in its own box.

Documentation supplied is a multilingual Safety guide & a CD-rom.

You really have to read instructions with any newly-purchased item, & the CD has a PDF written User Manual ( in excellent English, btw, as Nilfisk is a big Danish company with a sound reputation ) and a section on how to connect everything up in video form & a selection of little vids showing how to use it, plus vids illustrating the various other (very alluring) accessories which one can buy, such as the rotating hi-pressure alloy wheel cleaning brush or garden furniture cleaning/ rotating brush/ carwash brush/ drain unblocker, etc. Each of which costs about a third or half of the price of the actual washer, so despite being very impressed by the vids, I won't be buying them.

With the possible exception of the thing which converts the unit into a dirty-water sucker-upper, for draining all the watery gunge we get in one corner after power-washing our patio & always being left with a small brown swimming pool, which has to be left until it drains very slowly, leaving a large dirty stain which then has to be, er, re-power-washed. That attachment is available on Amazon for about 16 or 17 quid, btw., & also empties ponds & sucks up small floods. I think I might get one of those.

(I liked the review here which said the unit looks like it might hold its own water inside it, & the reviewer was most disappointed to find that you have to connect it to a hosepipe, btw. but that's just some Amazon reviewers for you).

In use, the washer is pretty quiet & very powerful & despite my misgivings about the fairly flimsy patio cleaning revolving jet/brush thing, which we've just tried & which does look a little weedy frankly, compared to the rest of the kit, but in use this thing scrubs discoloured flags, stones, walls, etc., with minimal effort, no pressing down & brings them up like new. The fact that it also swivels in use means you can also clean vertical surfaces like walls without holding your wrist at a painful angle. There is also no vibration from the motor carried through to your hand, a thing I found very annoying with my last washer when using it for some time. It's comfortable.

The Turbo-blast nozzle is also much more effective than our old JCB's 'Dirt blaster' equivalent, & sturdier.

The unit is relatively light & on wheels & my wife loves it, particularly the patio cleaning attachment, as it cleans & suppresses the resultant dirty water without spraying the operator, the walls, windows & everything else with cr*p, unlike when one uses the lance spray heads to clean things, as anyone who's ever used a power washer will attest. (She does the patio, I do everything else). I'd urge anyone who just wants a power washer for cleaning a patio to get this unit: the patio cleaning attachment literally did our 5 metre by 5 metre patio in 20 minutes, the thing carving a 20cm swathe through the dirt at a single pass: most impressive, & as the lance attached to this is very long, no unpleasant bending required. It also gets rid of the grass & weeds in the cracks.

It also comes with a 2-year warranty, btw, so remember to print out your Amazon invoice as proof of purchase to validate this.

All in all, one of the best things I've purchased from Amazon so far, but clearly, I can't comment on its durability. Delivery was, as usual with Amazon, within a couple of days