I've gone through 5 electric pressure washers in the last 15 years.
The first one was an Excell. It lived up to its name. It was EXCELLENT. There was only one problem with it. It worked so good, my next door neighbor wanted to borrow it to wash their 4x4. Within 5 minutes, they broke it. I'm not even sure how it happens that I can use something for 5 years, and then lend it to someone else and they break it in 5 minutes.
Just say no? Have you heard how pressure washer's sound? Even the itty bitty electrical ones make a noise that is unmistakable. Having a pressure washer is not something you can very well hide in suburbia. The neighbors can hear it. They KNOW you've got one. They KNOW you are not using it when they plan their walk over to your house. They KNOW you'll feel like a heel if you say no.
No financial compensation from the neighbor who broke my first one... not even a payment of guilt or sorrow. Must be a generational thing. At least that gave me an excuse to say no to HIM, but he never asked again. Perhaps the new generation is not lost afterall.
The second electric pressure washer was a Campbell Hausfeld. That thing broke on it's own. The first thing that happens is the gun trigger fails to shut off the water stream, so you have to walk back to the machine everytime you want to just squeeze the trigger for water. If you haven't yet experienced this in an electric pressure washer, trust me, it gets old. Quick. But I put up with it, because I've already spent twice the amount of money I intended to spend on pressure washers. Eventually, and inexplicably, the CH quit working all together.
The third electric pressure washer was purchased under duress... from Harbor Freight. I swear, they design their 66% off ads like they are just giving tools away for no reason. As if they were a non-profit. Well, the reality is, they really SHOULD be giving their **** away, for 100% off, because it costs more money to pick it up, un box it, build it, and watch it fail before your eyes, than it would to just save their clever ads for kindling to light the bonfire you'd like to smelt down their pot metal plastic **** in. So I did what HF should have done. I left it in front of my house with a sign that said FREE. It was gone before I reached the front door. Good riddance. Still have the cardboard box it came in though. It was a good, sturdy box. I store laser level in it, it's that good.
For my fourth electric pressure washer, I decided to spare no expense. I went to the nearest Home Depot, and bought the biggest, baddest, boldest Husky electric that they had, and picked up all the extra attachments, including the fake floor sweeper, to clean brick patio with. The specs were 1,750 psi, at about 2 GPM. No store bought electric on 110 volts boasted more flow or pressure at the time. Like the HF model it replaced, it was an awkward configuration, like an upright household vacuum cleaner, which made it tip prone in use. My previous two pressure washers were low to the ground, shaped like a big fat hand held boombox with a handle on top. Easy to carry, easy to sit still. Not the case with the HF or the HD.
The HD Husky developed the same triggering failure as the CH. However, that failure did not propagate to condemn the machine. It still worked, albeit awkwardly and inconveniently. The Husky's demise was theft. I used it to clean someone else's property as a favor, left it there for a while because I couldn't haul it home, and they in turn sold it on CL. Nice.
For my 5th and FINAL electric pressure washer, I must give credit to my sweetheart. She found it in an ad at Tuesday Morning, of all places. If you're a single guy, you probably haven't heard about Tuesday Morning. If you're married, you've probably been dragged there a time or two to compare thread counts in bamboo sheets. Yeah, somewhere between crock pots and wicker baskets, TM finds occasion to sell a pressure washer now and again. It seemed like good deal, so she brought it home for me.
No videos of unboxing or anything, but I do remember thinking that the little thing looked small and chincy. But I kept that to myself, as I was very happy for the gift and always thankful for the care and thought behind it. Well, little did I know at the time that that little closeout at Tuesday Morning would be prove to be the best electric pressure washer I've owned out of the five. Every bit as good, if not better than the first Excell pressure washer that I had liked so well many years before.
Turns out, it is made by AR (Annovi Reverberi). AR makes pumps for big commercial hot water pressure washers that cost in the thousands of dollars. And they made this little guy for less than $200. I think we paid half of that at TM's close out. The trigger works every time. All the attachments engage and disengage reliably. It just works.
One surprising thing I've learned to keep in mind when shopping for an electric pressure washer: Pay attention to how the supply hose and the pressure hoses are oriented relative to the machine. The easiest configuration to work with is if the supply hose enters on the opposite side of where the pressure hose exits. If the machine has wheels, these opposing sides should be parallel to the rolling axis of the wheels, not perpendicular to the way the machine rolls. Ideally, the supply hose should enter from the rear of the machine, and the pressure hose should exit from the front of the machine. That little detail makes a surprising amount of difference in maneuvering and manipulating the machine, the supply hose, the pressure hose, and the power cord all at once.
housing prices here are ridiculous, in addition to the apartment we rented shop space 
. The down side to the shop space is there is no hose hook up near our portion of the building. I have been using a chemical siphon gun from Binks ( http://www.binks.com/Products/Spray...gGuns/Model140B.aspx#LiveTabsContent179577-lt ) with a bucket for rinse duties. I'm thinking there has to be something better than this set up with out spending a fortune and ended up with a large piece of equipment that I don't have need or space for. 