The washer was easy to assemble and has worked well with everything I’ve used it on, including decking and unblocking a soil pipe. The app failed to pair repeatedly with the washer – I’m using an iPhone se 2020 – but I get the feeling it doesn’t really matter; not sure I want to start faffing around with the phone when I really just want to spray water at something.

Like everything apart from the hose is hard to reel up

The pressure washer is far superior to my old Karcher washer. Can’t seem to get the washer connected to my Apple phone at the moment but just wanted to get the car washed. It would be great if they could design a foamer nosel that would work with the built in detergent dispenser to foam up the car without having to use a different device.

Only just got this to replace our old one , so I expect it will be just as good

very good service and it is great for the job

Absolutely fabulous product. Easy to assemble and works a trea

Gave it a 3 for easy to use simple but you need an app to use correctly does a fantastic job

I upgraded after my k2 stopped working. I wasn’t impressed with the build quality of the k2. However I thought I would give karcher another go and I haven’t been disappointed. It took longer to assemble than I thought but once built the build quality is really good and the cleaning power is a few steps above the k2, as it should be at the price. Really impressed at how it cleaned my paving stones. The app is a bit fiddly but I don’t use it all the time. The reel for the hose works well. A must have for the machine in my opinion and the storage net for the power cable is very handy. I’m glad I stuck with karcher.

Bought this to replace an old Karcher which my son ‘borrowed ‘. I found it easy to assemble and to connect via blue tooth to my phone (after i switched the device on!) but confess dont see the point on this. However, as a pressure washer found it excellent and finally a karcher where its easy to reel in and store the hose! Having a 10m hose means i can do the car and terrace without moving the device. All in all very happy.

Purchased for cleaning the patio and cars etc etc
Great quality and easy to use

Krcher products are known for their quality and this pressure washer is excellent.

It comes in a very large box and is pretty heavy. The instructions inside are not great but by downloading the app you get very clear advice on the setup. Although it is a heavy item the extendable handle is helpful in moving it and the long hose — ten metres — means that a lot of work can be done before you need to move the machine. It can be linked via Bluetooth to the trigger — a bit pointless, I think but this feature will appeal to some customers.

As the weather is still cold we have only tried it out on a small area of brick paving. Very good results! The T-Racer surface cleaner which was included is easy to apply and very effective.

Although it is large it can be packed away quite neatly.

We have told family members about it and are already getting requests for a loan!

Firstly, if I’m spending northwards of 400 I do resent having to assemble a product myself unless I can see that it’s absolutely necessary and in this case I couldn’t. Okay, the wheels needed screwing on, I can accept that (although they didn’t when I bought my motor mower) but the handles too? It took me half an hour or more to attach bits that could far more easily have been attached in the factory and the process was made worse by the dreadful instruction booklet of tiny print and black and white, well monochrome, actually, photos. As it turned out there was an easier(?) method – register the product online and download the app and you can read the instructions much more clearly and in colour on your phone. All you need to do is scan the QR code, which unfortunately doesn’t actually work, so what you really have to do is manually enter the serial and product numbers before it recognises the product. This then creates a smart connection from your phone to the pressure washer but so far I’ve been unable to see why I would need that. Other than the assembly instructions it all does is tell you how to, for example clean your car – set the power to Hard either using the + and – buttons on the handle or by using the phone app, press the trigger and spray water on your car, then clean it with a cloth or sponge and soap and water, then dry and polish it. Tbh I don’t feel I really need an app to tell me how to spray water on my car and that’s all the instructions are actually doing, so in my book that side of it is a complete waste of time and money, but I’ve no doubt some people will find it useful. My final complaint is that I only had two different types of screw, not three, and there were two broken pieces of plastic in the bottom of the box, which turned out to be the clips that hold the small net on the back.
All that aside how does the actual pressure washer perform? Well, this particular model is very powerful and efficient. I tried it first on our garden path using the Multi Jet Lance and it cleared years of dirt and mould with very little effort. I then attached the T5 Patio Cleaner and this worked just as efficiently and with the added bonus of not soaking the bottom of my trousers!

The following day I used the Soft mode with the T5 patio cleaner to clean our painted decking and it did a great job getting rid of a year’s worth of algae and mould in quick time. Spray, brush away excess water and any loose paint chips, leave to dry and repaint – easy. Next job, the car. Hard mode on the Multi Jet Lance. No problem getting rid of the bird lime on the roof and mud under the wheel arches, but you still have to do the hard graft of cleaning the bodywork and windows yourself.

I found the combined reach of the power cable and an extendable 50ft hose meant I had no problems getting to anything I wanted to clean, although this model is quite heavy and with 2 hoses and a power cable it’s easy to get tangled up if you’re in a tight space. The detergent bottle is very easy to attach and it doesn’t seem to use a lot in ordinary use. Changing the pressure is very quick and easy using either the buttons on the handle or the app. Changing from the patio cleaner to the lance takes just a quick push and twist to take one off and put the other on and if you’ve got a clear run moving it around using the extendable handle is no harder than pulling a suitcase. I would say though that for this particular model you probably do need a reasonable amount of space to operate in as it’s not very manoeuvrable in a tight space and so I’d probably recommend one of the smaller models if that’s your situation.

Overall, for general build quality and functionality I’d give this cleaner 5 stars, however I’ve knocked half a one off for the broken clips, the godawful instruction booklet and the QR code that doesn’t work. It’s noisy, certainly, but it does a very good job.

There are now many far-eastern competitors in this market, but none of them enjoy the track record that Karcher does; 100 subsidiaries in 160 countries, suppliers to NATO and other major users, and with the distinction of having produced the very first domestic pressure washer way back in 1974. Their name, like that of Hoover, has entered many countries’ languages as a verb, French President Sarkozy having once demanded the “Karchering” of a crime-ridden Paris suburb. So it’s hardly surprising that so many competitors decorate their products in the same yellow and black livery as Karcher.

That said, you have to make up your own mind how much this is worth paying a premium for, and in the end everything depends on the efficiency and user-friendllness of the local distributor/service centre. Reading the reviews, I note that the UK one has attracted a few criticisms.

Compared to the cheaper models, (K2 and K5), this one is a beast ! It’s also very heavy, and perhaps not for delicate young ladies – or doddery old men like me. In this version, it also comes with an accessory floor and wall cleaner – note that this is not a scrubber; it relies on water pressure for cleaning and has two revolving jets – but it’s most important asset is that it saves you from getting very wet shoes and trousers, spray being suppressed inside the hood. Whether this is worth paying for depends on how much you dislike wet feet and clammy trousers.

It sports bluetooth, to employ Karcher’s new mobile phone control app, which has no attraction whatsoever for me, not being app-centric, so I was pleased to see that it isn’t a necessity; but you still need batteries in the trigger handle to control the degree of pressure, which is easy. and a practical advantage; I will allow someone less prejudiced to comment on the usefulness and practicality of the app. I have to confess, I’ve never found a need for variable pressure; but perhaps this is because of my very sub-standard mains pressure living, as I do, 700ft above sea level.

The feature I thought I would like most is the built-in pressure-hose reel, which I’ve longed for for years; there being no such luxuries on my 30-year-old Bosch, which is a pain to put away and store, although it still does the job for me. But the reel turned out a disappointment; rewinding is difficult and a bit of a chore, and it doesn’t unwind easily. Needs work, I’d say.

I’ll make no bones about it, for my purposes, this K5 model should be called the OK 5 – OK for OverKill, at least with my quite ordinary needs; the next model down, the lightweight K3, is the one I would choose if I wanted another mains model. I would prefer it over the 100 K1 – apparently Karcher’s answer to the cheap Chinese competition – because, good though the K1 is, for the extra 50, the K2 offers more power. But these days, Karcher’s 18v battery-powered model is my pressure sprayer of choice, and does everything I need effortlessly and without fuss.

This K5 Premium smart control pressure washer with the T5 patio cleaner is absolutely fantastic and if your budget can stretch to this price you should definitely buy this one over the others. With this one you get a 10M high pressure hose with the reel on the back for easy storage also a stone & facade detergent. The power is 2100W the same as all the K5s and believe me the power is just amazing. With krtcher I’ve found the quality is always brilliant and yes some people review broken items and I would put that down to miss handling during delivery. After reviewing krcher and seeing what they can do and how good the quality is I would never recommend any other pressure washer. If you can afford it I recommend you buy one of the krchers K2,K3,K4,K5 or K7 every time.

The K5 Krcher pressure washer is near the top of the range for Krcher washers. It has a powerful 2.1 kw motor and this K5 Premium Smart Control washer has a Bluetooth connected trigger and also comes with a surface cleaner and a bottle of stone cleaning detergent.
The washer arrives in a big yellow box. Once unpacked you will need to do a bit of assembly work. A word of advice here, the manual that comes with it has tiny black and white illustrations so download the app, scan the QR code and the app will guide you through the assembly process with clear colour pictures. You’re going to need the app anyway because with this electric Bluetooth trigger system you can get advice about the job you want to do and set up the correct pressure from your phone.
Once you have the pressure washer assembled and you’ve linked your phone to the trigger system, you’re ready to go. This is quite a beasty of a pressure washer so take your time reading the instructions and the tips. Once you know what you’re doing though, this pressure washer is fantastic. It has various different pressure settings which you can adjust through the app in combination with twisting the end of the pressure lance. Twisting the lance will give you a gentle soap setting, a flat soft or medium spray pattern or a hard spinning spiral setting for the toughest of jobs. The video attached shows me cleaning a patio paving stone on the highest pressure setting. You also have the option of using the included surface cleaner and the included stone detergent.
The pressure hose is 10 metres long which means you can wander a fair distance from the pressure washer without needing to move it. When you’re finished, the pressure hose is really simple to wind back up just by turning the hose reel on the back of the washer using the handle, so simple and easy.
Although this washer is flexible and powerful, there are a range of accessories you can get to tackle even more jobs, for instance cleaning the gutters or clearing a drain.
Krcher are considered one of, if not the top company in the world for pressure washers. They are made in Germany and you can just see and feel that it’s top quality. In Europe they use the word Krcher to mean thoroughly clean in the same way that we use the word Hoover to mean vacuum cleaning.
This pressure washer is a bit of an investment, it’s made by one of the best pressure washer companies in the world, it will do pretty much any pressure washing job that you can think of and it should last a lifetime