Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Does a good job with things like removing grit from wood decks and furniture (see gate I cleaned below), but the really weak spot (and the reason why I'm not giving it four stars) is the coupler at the front used to attach a garden hose. It's made of very cheap, malleable, plastic, and after the third or fourth use, the threads on the side that attaches to the water inlet on the unit became stripped so that the hose would either blow off on its own or if it were slightly bumped. This fitting is essentially a 5/8" female coupler with a rubber hose gasket on each side with a 1/4" hole at the center. When I set about looking for all-metal replacement, I found that though a 5/8" female coupler could be had almost anywhere, no one seemed to stock one with a rubber gasket that had a 1/4" hole in the center, and a perusal of the pressure washer parts bin of my local Home Depot turned up only 3/8" couplers. Not even Amazon has one that will fit this unit, or at least one doesn't appear when one searches for "5/8" pressure washer coupler". Frankly, if I could return this thing I would but after a year that's not likely so what I did was buy a brass 5/8" hose coupler at my local hardware store and two small faucet washers. I drilled a 1/4" hole through the faucet washers, and using some bicycle tire repair cement, attached each to both of the rubber gaskets that came supplier with the hose coupler. It now works as it should (and as it never did since the plastic coupler always leaked). What really galls me about this is that a proper metal coupler would probably only cost a dollar or two at the factory level (I paid about $6.00 for the coupler and the faucet washers) but because they want to go cheap, they instead sell something that will not work properly out of the box let alone after a few times of use, which is really a shame as there isn't all that much out there in this price range to begin with and most do not need a gas-powered, high pressure washer for little jobs around the house.