Clean your bike and hose the patio down afterwards. Job done
this.
Assuming by cleaning you don't mean degreasing with petrol, then igniting the mucky stuff on the patio. That would be bad for the pavers/stones.
Seems the OP didn't really mind washing the bike down on the patio but his Mrs does?
Can't blame the guy looking for a work a round?
Some things just aren't worth the hassle with the OH! Particularly when it's new bike time. 😉
In other words I see his point.
Every now and then, when I'm compelled to wash a bike (it really doesn't happen very often) I just hose it down on my decking
I then hose the big gloopy bits of mud off the decking onto the grass or to the edge (the decking is raised a lot above the grass with steps going down, CBA with carrying the bike down the steps
My actual plan is even more cunning. Ride rigid SS in the gloop. No washing needed. Dried on mud falls off next time you ride it, or stays there to protect the bike from the new mud
Some things just aren't worth the hassle with the OH!
And hassle with some things just isn't worth staying with the OH!
Are you real - MTFU !!
I have a hook on a post at the end of one of our fences, out of the way at the side of the house. Bellow it I dug down a bit and chucked in some shingle/gravel to make a sort of rudimentary soak away.
I Hang bike by front wheel, hose and scrub from front (top) to back (bottom) then leave it to drip dry. All the water runs off the back wheel and the soak away Works quite well, beats flooding the patio and I hose off muddy clothes and shoes there too...
following one from the cattle trough , what about a Plastic sheep dip? (not the whiskey). Easy to move / store during the summer.
Happy wife is an easy life 🙂
dood, she won't let him wash his bike; I reckon the hokey-cokey in the border is well out of reachHas anyone suggested doing it in the flower bed yet?
Some viz top tip suggestions on here, all to keep a garden 'clean'.... 😆 😆 😆
One solution is get a Mobi V17 Jet Washer and wash the bike somewhere else outside of the garden. Leave the crud elsewhere.
I wash mine on the pavement and hose the mud into the gutter. Every now and then a nice man from the council comes and cleans it all up.
Get a old bath from the tip or a neighbours front garden and put in on the patio. Will stop the patio getting 'ruined' from all of the mud. Maybe your wife wouldn't think walking directly on the patio would be so bad then. 👿
I wash mine on the pavement
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Seriously, if you've put a new patio in that hasn't been designed to drain, you got bigger problem than a moaning missus!
If you're just worrying about staining the patio then wash bike at the edge on a tarp then hose it off, fold up and put it in the shed.
Is that pic above ^^^ the Op's missus? 8)
Onslo's house?
it's a term that's entered the british lexicon. As in 'don't leave that rubbish out the front, we'll look like Onslo's house'
😆
What a bizarre thread.
ads678 - Member
Seriously, if you've put a new patio in that hasn't been designed to drain, you got bigger problem than a moaning missus!
Don't worry about that, it'll drain nicely into the Aco's along the front edge.
Judging by some of the replies I'll just rock up at one of the posters houses and hose it down on the pavement, patio, garden or whatever and walk away 😆
Judging by some of the replies I'll just rock up at one of the posters houses and hose it down on the pavement, patio, garden or whatever and walk away
Other posters are not your issue matey, growing a pair however..... 😆
Seriously, you're welcome to clean your bike in my garden on my drive or outside my house. Mainly on account of them all being outside and subject to weather happening already. A bit of dirt from a bike will make bugger all difference and simply wash away.
Judging by some of the replies I'll just rock up at one of the posters houses and hose it down on the pavement, patio, garden or whatever and walk away
Fine with me, the mud washes away and I'm not on a water meter. You can do it on the patio or the decking, your call.
I'll just rock up at one of the posters houses and hose it down on the pavement, patio, garden or whatever and walk away
I have an isue with that - if you are going to clean your bike then at least ride it afterwards...the walking part of that is where my issue lies! 😉
Just don't wash it and put in away in the house dirty, you'll soon be allowed to use the patio/grass etc for washing it then 😉
I hope you're not going to say now you're not allowed it in the house either 😆
Just because I don't want to wash my bike on a new patio it's tragic?
Nail on the head.
Some people care about things that I don't care so much about. Who'd have thought it !
whatyadoinsucka - Member
...my current driveway due to horse Wellies and mtb cleaning is a disgrace.
Neigh wonder.
This is by far the greatest thread I have seen for many a year, it felt like watching the final episode of some multi season US hit drama when I read the final comment.....sad that it was all over!
So I feel it is my duty to resurrect the phoenix that is 'Man without a real problem, asks wife to invent a problem so he can ask people how he should tackle said problem'
Type away......
I'm having a hot and cold tap installed with a pressure washer. Alongside this is the outdoor shower for me, along from that is the sauna. Not sure why everyone else is going half measures
Man up & wash it on the patio.
That stone has survived a few millennia - I think it'll survive a bike wash or 2!
I'm having a hot and cold tap installed with a pressure washer. Alongside this is the outdoor shower for me, along from that is the sauna.
A bike drying room, I like your style 8)
This HAS to be a troll. WTAF??? Do you eat dinner directly off the patio or something?
So I feel it is my duty to resurrect the phoenix that is 'Man without a real problem, asks wife to invent a problem so he can ask people how he should tackle said problem'
I salute you sir. If ever a thread needed resurrecting it was this one. I've taken to levitating over my patio in order to ensure no earth touches it.
IHN - Member
To be fair, our lawn is basically [s]moss[/s] artisan upcycled synthetic Kentucky bluegrass, so it's pretty resilient
Ftfy 😆
Hermetically sealing mine & putting it into storage form posterity..
Op - do you have a plastic cover on your sofa?
I actually have sympathy - my wife's biggest bugbear with bike washing is the little sticky oily lumps that, no matter where you wash the bike, seem to glue themselves to your foot and lead to oily carpet stains that then need tackling with GT85. Said oily lumps are obviously due to rather irregular degreasing/lubing and normally only over winter when I can't face attempting it in the cold and dark, but still if this has been experienced just once by OP's better half, then I quite understand.
If it's just mud rather than consideration of 'oily crap', then I feel I must concur with the general view of the forum 😉
I have been spending a lot of time living away from home and have concluded (since spending time in hotels and apartments) that bike washing in the bath is an entirely acceptable thing to do.
Just be careful with the shower screen.
Get her telt.
To save myself getting any patio related grief I now resort to using the single use disposable bicycle. No bother if it's dirty I just fly tip it or bung it over the neighbours hedge
Mumsnet would love this thread.
4130, do you drive a GM Whim?
http://www.theonion.com/article/general-motors-reports-record-sales-of-new-disposa-1491
I'm the designated bike washer in our house, usually four one after another, along with the ironing but not at the same time.
Prior to having our garage broken into last year and two bikes stolen I used to wash them on the pavement infront of the house and let all the filth go into the drain further down the road, I even had a bracket that clipped onto the fence to jam the wheel into.
Since then I have become paranoid on who may see them so have reverted to stealth washing round the back of the house either on the grass or on the patio.
After reading all this Im going to adapt my bracket so that I can now wash them at the top of the garden and utilise the pebbled bit that Kevin has never got round to landscaping since we moved the shed 10 years ago.
Tracey - MemberI'm the designated bike washer in our house, usually four one after another, along with the ironing but not at the same time.
Good to see there no gender stereotyping of household chores going on!
Exactly the same here, but I also get lumbered with the cooking, laundry and shopping. Teenage daughter has assumed dishwasher loading but the recent thread on that subject made me chuckle!
Nedrapier, nope, but do you know all those burnt out cars on bits of wasteland etc....s'me that is
