No water pressure when wand is squeezed - Garden

Bad wand, bad wand hose, or clog at wand hose connector.

Many of these devices have strainers on the input (garden hose connection) of the pump. Remove the hose and check and clear debris from strainer. Reconnect hose and turn on supply water. Do NOT start engine / motor. Pop the nozzle from the end of the wand and squeeze water trigger. Hose pressure water (or less) should flow from the wand. Of not, youll have to see if water is leaving the pump by inserting the nozzle (or something that will if it) into the hose connector. If water still does not flow - there is an issue with the pump.

Common problem across brands. When you spray water the drop in pressure triggers the motor to take the hose pressure ~ 30 psi and boost it to ~ 3000 psi. Water coats these parts with calcium (hard water) or other junk and water contains bacteria which causes slime and scale. Once that pressure switch / valve is sufficiently clogged it doesn't move smoothly so it can fluctuate between sending a yes / no signal about whether you are squeezing the trigger or not. This causes the pulsing.

EZ test: take the the tip off the wand, start the unit, squeeze trigger - should run continously with no problem. If it does for sure you need to watch a video on dissembling and cleaning the valve body. It is not hard but you must work carefully to avoid losing parts especially springs and take digital pictures to record the order for reassembly.

It sounds like you are getting air into your pressure hose. Try just turning your faucet on and squeezing your wand handle for a few minutes before you crank your pressure washer up. This should bleed the air from your hose.

Hello, W/D here.

Sounds like it may be air locked. Connect the hose to the washer. Connect the wand and hose to the washer. Open the supply water, and hold down the trigger on the spray wand. Be patient, this can take several minutes.
Now crank the washer.
Best regards, --W/D--

try squeezing the wand when you are starting the motor.
it will let the water pressure go through.

You can download the manual here: http://www.farmprotractors.com/hdcmanuals/PW2200-03435.pdf

It is probably the same manual that came with the unit.

As far as pressure... hook up the water supply hose and turn on the water supply. Let the supply hose purge all of the air out. Then turn off the water and connect the high pressure hose. After that turn the water supply on again with the engine off and squeeze the wand trigger. Make sure all of the air is out of the high pressure hose. Then start the unit...
Once the engine has stabilized rapidly squeeze and let go of the wand trigger several times. Your exersizing the bypass / unloader valve spring. By this time you should have good pressure. If you have owned the unit less than 90 days and your sure you have a warranty issue use this link to contact the company:
http://www.homier.com/contacts

Contact Information:
Homier Distributing Company, Inc.
84 Commercial Road
Huntington, Indiana 46750
Hours of Operation:
M-F 8:00am - 5:00pm EST

I note they do NOT include a phone number on their contact page but do state empatically that warranty contact should be made via email [email protected]

You will also need a warranty form here:
http://www.homier.com/return-authorization-form.pdf

Some of these units have a sliding assy on the wand that slides toward the ouput nozzle for adding soap / chemicals. If the slide is not pulled back toward trhe wand and locked into place you will not have any pressure either.

It appears from reading the manual that this particular unhit had 2 different nozzles. One for chemicals and one for high pressure. Plese make sure you have the high pressure nozzle installed. The BLACK nozzle is for chemical use. (page 5 of manual link above)

The red, yellow or white nozzles are all for high pressure with different spray patterns.

This is about the best I can do for you Ron. Hope it was helpful.

Kelly

May be it's ice-clogged?

Fairly simple to opperate. Connect water supply hose. Connect wand hose. Plug in, turn on water supply and turn on. Then squeeze the wand handle to spray. With mine, there are times when the unit looses pressure, but if you leave it running, it seems to recover. Also note that you can turn the flare at the end of the wand for a soft stream versus pressure spray. I have had mixed results with the pull out clear tube that is supposed to siphon liquid soap into the mix.