Kärcher 26431000 5 m Suction Hose and Filter

I’m very pleased with this purchase. It’s does the job very well. I would like to recommend this to anyone who don’t have water supply outside their property. You will need to have a bucket of water and you can use your pressure washer.:)

Fantastic product! I drop it into my water butt, takes a moment or two to get going but once it is it’s brilliant. Works just as well as a hose attachment. Really would recommend this product!

Works absolutely fine with my K2 – officially its not supported, and others have had mixed experiences.

It does go through water quickly (about a buckets worth per one side length of a car), and takes a while to prime itself for full strength, but overall its worth getting for the price.

Bought this to go with new karcher k4 had no problems apart from the curling issue which an old heavy spanner tied to the end sorted out went from bucket to bucket with no repriming I only sucked some through halfway along pipe at start went through two water tubs to clean patio with no loss of power as far as I concerned love it good piece of kit.

Was a bit worried about some of the negative reviews but this worked well from my water butt to a series 4.99 Karcher pressure washer.

I simply tied a heavy weight onto the filter end of the hose ensuring that the weight was 6 inches lower than the filter end so it would not disturb any sediment at the bottom of the water butt. I then syphoned by sucking the threaded end of the hose to get a decent water flow without air and quickly screwed it onto the machine water inlet.

Worked brilliantly and used the equivalent of 4 normal sized buckets of water to wash and rinse the car.

The hose is difficult to straighten fully when new after being coiled in its box so the weight to hold it in a water butt needs to be heavy. I used a lump hammer.

Very pleased and being on a water meter it helps with the bill and water saving.

I bought this item because the water pressure in my street is low. Having a tank of water provides enough water for the Karcher K4 to draw upon. However if, like me, you know nothing about “electricity’ amps, wattage, circuits etc. You might, like I did, use the same old extension cable that is generally used for using the lawnmower etc. But with the Karcher K4 , plugged into the extension, it stops working. Then when plugged into the mains, starts working. There’s quite a bit of information on google about extension cords. From my search,”What is often not considered, though, is that these extension cords need to be of an appropriate size for the power load being placed on them. When you are using an extension cord for devices with motors, or which produce heat of any kind. The electrical load of these items is substantially higher, which means light-weight extension cords using 16-gauge wire should not be used with them. Further complicating the issue is the length of the extension cord. In longer extension cords, the resistance of the electrical current is higher, and the potential for overheating is greater”.
In the small print of Karcher K4 instructions. It is recommended that an extension cord of 10-meters length should have a cross-section of 1.5mm. A 30-meter length should have a cross-section of 2.5mm.
Apparently it is possible to damage power tools when using incorrect cables. … who knew?.. not me. perhaps karcher should have made more of a point of this fact instead of hiding information away in the small print.

This is a very expensive piece of pipe but it does in fact need that non return valve to make it work sufficiently. I struggle to see and also struggle to deal with the amount of “special” people on these reviews. I mean come on people? It’s common sense that for a pipe to flow water it must not have any air in the pipe. But the Karcher pressure washer pretty much self primes. I literally filled the pipe with water attached the end to the pressure washer (without loosing water) and then placed the valve end into the water butt. Then two pulls of the trigger and bam it had full pressure!! Completely free water and it’s works soo well!! After a while of using it from (Unfilteted) rainwater the water pressure dropped. It was the internal filter in the pressure washer, this is the only downside, but again this is user error. So please if you have half a brain and are probably somebody that doesn’t pen push during the day do indeed buy this item because I’m sure you will manage this!

Wish I had bought a longer version, For water butt use a large filter would be useful I had to improvise one as the small filter in the pressure washer soon clogged. Also need to weight the end to keep it low in the water. Once you master getting all the air out of the hose there was no problem with water pressure to the pressure washer even from a low level water butt.