Gave myself a shower right there.
Hi Youtube friends! Now, living in the city
It's got some great advantages, but one disadvantage.
My balcony gets very dusty. I clean it,
I mop it every now and then. I've even vacuumed it.
I really want to just give it a good spray with a hose.
You live in an apartment or a condo.
How do you attach a hose to your faucet?
Essentially, there's this magical one piece that you need.
Now, I'm not a plumber,
so I don't know if this is standardized across all faucets, but I would assume so .
But what I did is I took my little faucet aerator tip,
brought it to the hardware store and just checked to see if the piece fit.
I went to Home Depot and I picked myself a SNAP adapter.
I've also seen these called online as a tap to hose adapter, hose connector kit
This is the magic piece that you're going to connect to your faucet,
and then be able to stick a standard garden hose, and that's it.
And if you want, you can also obviously stick a pressure washer, all that stuff.
But the magical part is just getting the screw ins, right.
So that you can get that hose on there.
Mine is a snap adapter from MOEN.
So I'm going to show you how to do it.
OK, so these are the items that you're going to need. You have your:
SNAP adapter. I got an extendable hose with a nozzle attached.
Optional would be a pressure washer that I borrowed from my uncle.
This is pretty hardcore, but I really want to get that balcony clean.
The tool that you're also going to need
is an adjustable wrench or a adjustable plier.
So the first step is to remove the faucet aerator.
So this is what you call the faucet aerator.
In my case, I had a little notch
right here that allowed me to put a adjustable wrench.
So this will vary depending on how your faucet is setup.
I use an adjustable wrench and I put a vinyl tape around the teeth marks.
I wouldn't end up scratching my faucet aerator.
So the first thing to do is just to unscrew this out.
And that's it. That's your faucet aerator.
That's what allows your water to come out nice and aerated instead of that.
Second step as you take your SNAP adapter.
So this is your SNAP adapter. It comes in two pieces.
This piece replaces your faucet aerator.
And this piece just has this nice little pop on pop off type of situation.
And you put those together.
This is where your hose will attach to.
Just make sure the gasket is there.
You make sure all the pieces are there.
My kid came with everything I needed.
And then you just screwed in carefully.
And that's it. You can still use this.
It's not the best, but I mean, you can use it.
So if you wanted to, you could always leave it on, but it's not as pretty.
Then you just attached the hose, the garden hose of yours, just like that.
And that's it. It's finally raining.
I've been waiting two, three weeks, I feel for it to rain.
It's just been perfect weather.
And for once I actually wanted it to rain so I could wash my balcony.
So first thing's first, we're going to use
little Henry here to do some deep vacuuming.
Otherwise, I'm really worried that all of this dirt,
if I were just to spray water on it, will become just muddy and gross.
I just wanted to pause right now just to show you that actually vacuuming
is pretty effective do you see how dirty it is right there?
So all this to say that if you're in a pinch
and you just want to vacuum your balcony for maintenance and not bother anybody
that works really well,
just make sure to clean your brushes afterwards so you don't bring all that
yucky dust inside.
Although I don't know if there's a difference
between yucky outside dust and inside yucky dust because it's just dust. Right.
Thank you, Henry. You have served me well.
Now we're going to get this water hose connected and fired up.
That was a snap adapter that I left on the hose.
And that makes it easy to just pop on and off and extendable cable.
I'm very excited to see how this works out.
Oh, I could see the water going through their.
So I just connected the garden hose into here
and will power up the water and power up the pressure washer and see how that goes.
This thing is pretty darn noisy, but it is raining quite a bit outside.
Let me show you.
Yeah, that's a lot of peer side, by the way.
Holy shit, that's really strong.
Oh, my God. This is no joke.
This pressure washer.
First thing we're going to do, shut the water off.
Turn off the water and the valve here,
and then I'm going to have this outside to empty out so that the water is
gushing everywhere in my bathroom again. So I finally learned.
That's how you're supposed to do it.
I normally don't have garden hoses inside my house.
Don't empty it from the input. I empty it from the output.
The water line out now that the water is all out of the two, when I disconnect
this or should be very minimal water, no more spraying today.
This is still wet. So everything looks very clean.
But I assume that when it dries, it will be very nice and clean as well.
A couple of times when you do this project is wait for the rain
so you don't bother any of your neighbors and get in trouble
because it's raining. They won't notice anything.
The water's dripping anyways.
Second of all, make sure to follow the vowel turning on inclosing
at the right time so you don't end up making a massive mess like I did.
The expandable hose is good for storage, but I'm not sure how much I love it.
The expanding and compression just didn't work all that well.
I found it kind of just got stuck.
Sometimes you don't need a pressure washer.
This was really overkill.
Maybe if you're balcony's hyper dirty,
but that was just really noisy, really cumbersome.
I just wanted to do it for fun because my uncle had a pressure washer.
But yeah, so I'm not a plumber.
But from the reading I've done, the output from a regular faucet is about 40 to 50.
And then once you get to me, once it gets in the nasal spray, if you have it
concentrated into like a little jet, it comes out to, I believe, too much.
Now, this pressure washer I borrowed, I think is two thousand nine hundred pieces.
So it's significantly a lot more strength.
But I don't believe that it's necessary. You have any tips?
Please let me know a comment below. If you have any questions, comment below.
I really hope this helped you.
I couldn't find any clear videos
on this anywhere online, so I figured I would make my own
and help out a lot of people out there since a lot of us are
now in condo dwellings.
This could also be good for people that need to connect
a garden hose to the kitchen sink and go outside.
So I'm going to leave you at, I'll see you in the next video, bye!