[jyl]

When I was at Home Depot, the guy in the outdoor power equipment section told me the electric power washers cannot be used with an extension cord.

Can anyone think of any reason why this would be so? I've been using this borrowed Husky 1750 with a long (50 foot?) orange contractor's extension cord (12 ga I think) all weekend. Probably a total of 6 hours power-washing time - the fence earlier, the driveway today. The cord got barely warm but that was the only thing I noticed. I'm going to ignore him, unless you guys can think of something.

Anyway, I hadn't realized how much mold, moss, dirt, and general darkness and schmutz gets accumulated on everything around my house in three+ years of endless Portland rain. Nice to blast it all off. I think this is going to be a regular spring ritual from now on.