Greenworks 1500 PSI 1.2 GPM Pressure Washer (Upright Hand-Carry) PWMA Certified

About this item

1500 PSI : 1.2 GPM will blast through grime and dirt to restore your surfaces
VERSATILE : Can be used vertically or horizontally for greater stability
20 FT PRESSURE HOSE : provides greater reach without sacrificing power
35 FT POWER CORD : with inline GFCI for use on all exterior outlets
SOAP APPLICATOR : to apply soap to completely clean any surface. 2 nozzle tips and attachable detergent bottle to complete any job.
PWMA CERTIFIED
3 YEAR WARRANTY

• MegaBuyer

  It works as advertised. For washing cars it's perfect. Instructions on the other hand could be better. It took me a long time to figure out how to attach a foam cannon. Yes, it's easy to assemble the foam cannon when you assembling the unit for the first time, but once you got the unit assembled without it, it's not easy to figure out where to hook up. Almost broke the damn wand when I tried to attach the cannon foam bottle to the wand end with quick release.Update. Tried using the Foam Gun and it did not foam at all. All I got is weak water/soap stream... Not sure what I did wrong.

• BeBe Video Productions

  I previously owned a gasoline powered pressure washer. It did everything you could ask for but I hated how much storage space it took, cranking it over and over to get it started, and if you went too many months without using it, it was extremely hard to get started. I finally loaned it to someone about 6 months ago and told them they didn't have to bring it back. Yet I still had use for a pressure washer. I liked the reviews that all seem to agree how light and easy to carry around, this washer was. But all of them said to not expect it to do what the big guys (gasoline powered and higher PSI) can do. I decided to give this one a try. I've used it for 2 weekends now, including 2 sessions where I used it for over 4 hours without stopping. It never blinked, got winded, asked for a break, complained, etc. I felt it afterwards and it was barely warm. It was as easy to handle as I had hoped. During those 2 weekends, I really put it to the test. My deck had not been cleaned in years, and it sits in a shady area and since this is Louisiana, along with its year round oppressive humidity, my deck was covered in slime and algae and moss. It was so slippery, we could not walk on it in the mornings when it just had dew on it. It was literally an 1/8 of an inch thick in places. This pressure washer cut through it with no problems. It removed so much junk that the plants surrounding my deck were buried in crud. I had to follow up with a garden hose to clean up my plants. The whole deck is a beautiful golden color now and it looks great. It revived all of the wood, including posts and spindles. I even did terra-cotta planters and they look new too. The biggest negatives I've read through all the reviews, were about it tipping over too easily, that the hose is too stiff, and the trigger is hard to squeeze. I didn't have any problems with it tipping over. The electrical cord is a very generous length and so is the hose, which means I didn't find I ever had to move it much as I could cover a lot of ground when I placed it in central spot. If you feel the hose, you will find that it is very flexible but it's a different story when you start up the washer. Naturally, the pump is pushing the water through at around 1500 psi. I don't know how you could make it super flexible under that much pressure. It's just the physics...limp hose/no pressure = soft...push water through at 1500 psi = stiff hose. I do agree that holding the trigger gets very tiring, especially if you use it for over 4 hours at a time. That's something that would be nice to see improved. Yes, I love this pressure washer and it doesn't take up all the space my old gasoline powered one did. It also doesn't leak oil on the concrete. It's rare, but every once and a while, I buy something that just blows me away in how well it performs, how great the design is, and the value. This is one of those rare items for me. I'm am so happy with my purchase!

• Kathleen J

  I like the fact that it's a lightweight easy to carry around with you. Works efficiently for light cleaning of windows siding. I used it to power wash my carpet it worked great carpet looks great and I also used it too pressure wash my car tires rims everything came out like new. And quiet compared to the bigger models.

• P. Schmidt

  I have a nice, heavy duty Karcher gas power pressure washer that I use around my property. But I don't like using it in the winter due to the hassle of making sure it does not freeze (and it is too unwieldy to bring inside more than once each year for storage), and it is too large and heavy to take to my alternate property, or for small quick tasks. So I went shopping for a more portable, electric powered pressure washer whose price would not break the bank. I selected this "Greenworks 1500 PSI 1.2 GPM Pressure Washer (Upright Hand-Carry)"; note that the actual manufacturer's part number GPW1501. At just under $100 US, I was hoping that the quality was at least decent.I was a little surprised to see that this product was made in Vietnam (rather than China or Taiwan), although the Greenworks company appears to be based on Canada, and it appears that service and support is 'local', or within North America at least.The basic specifications are:- Pump housing dimensions; 18" tall, 11" wide, 9" deep (front to rear); these dimensions are approximate- Pump housing weight; 19 pounds (according to user's manual)- Pump maximum pressure; 1500 PSI- Pump flow; 1.2 GPM- Pump power: 120VAC, 60Hz, 13A (this should be plugged into a dedicated 15A circuit, or at least one where there is nothing else on the circuit currently turned on); the power cord is about 35 feet long and has a GFCI plug, so you can use this safely even with non-GFCI outlets; note that the GFCI plug head is pretty huge, so it might not fit into outdoor outlets which have weather-doors, etc; I had to use a short outlet extender cord in order to plug into my house's outdoor outlets- Handgrip has the usual pressure washer squeeze trigger control, and all high pressure hose and associated fittings are the conventional type used by most other pressure washers; I can use the longer pressure hose, handgrip, and accessories (including the nozzle tips) that are part of my larger Karcher machine when I am using this smaller Greenworks sprayer- High pressure hose is about 20 feet long (product can be ordered with longer hose lengths)- Accessories; 25° (green/narrow) and 40° (white/wide) spray heads/nozzles/tips, and a detergent 'tank' (bottle) with associated detergent spray head, and a small wire nozzle cleaning toolAs with any home-use pressure washer, this one is easy to use, even easier than the larger gas powered ones since there is no need to mess with the engine, and THIS one automatically turns the electric pump on and off according to whether you are squeezing the handgrip trigger. Just screw the high pressure hose fittings onto the pump's fitting and the handgrip fitting, and connect a garden hose to the water inlet connection (which includes a screen), and plug in the power cord. There is a single control on the pump, "OFF/ON" (plus the handgrip trigger of course), so you turn that on, and start spraying. When you release the trigger, the pump automatically stops. When you squeeze the trigger again, the pump automatically starts. When you are done, turn the power switch off and disconnect the garden hose.As with all such pressure washers, you can quickly and easily replace the nozzle/tip according to the need of the moment, since it has the conventional quick connect fittings.Note that the handgrip has its own proprietary quick disconnect fitting where the 'spray wand' connects to the handgrip; this is not the conventional fitting, so you probably won't be able to use spray wands from other kinds of pressure washer with this machine's handgrip (but you can use other machines' handgrips with this machine). When you are using the detergent tank for spraying water and detergent, the detergent tank connects to the handgrip in place of the spray wand, using the same kind of proprietary quick disconnect fitting. The conventional quick disconnect fitting is found on the opposite end of the spray wand.I have so far used this sprayer to clean some siding on my house, and to wash my car. It worked fine and exactly as expected. It seems to be of decent quality, and the pump ran surprisingly quiet. I found the automatic start/stop to be a nice convenience (actually, having this feature might save cost since with it, the more common water recirculation valve on the pump is presumably not needed, and there is no worry about overheating).The handgrip trigger has a small piece of plastic that can be used to 'lock' the trigger in the OFF position for safety. However, it seems to be easily defeatable, thus is not of much real use. The manual does not describe the intent or use of this safety lock, other that to state that the user might need to move it from one position to the other.I found the power cord length to be very good, but it is a long and THICK cord, and what to do with it when the pump is not in use is the big question. I would have expected the pump body to have an integral pair of hooks, etc; which the cord could be wrapped around for stowage (as on vacuum cleaners, etc), and WHY Greenworks did not provide this is a mystery.I found the included 20 foot high pressure hose to be too short for my trial tasks, so I was happy that I was able to use the much longer hose from my Karcher washer. 20 feet of hose is really short once you actually try to use this sprayer, so I suggest opting for the model that comes with a longer hose. Also, the included hose comes tightly coiled, and I had a hard time trying to train it to relax so I could actually use it. Greenworks makes a similar, and somewhat more expensive, pressure washer which includes a reel for the hose (I did not choose that model since it looked like it made the overall unit too bulky).The GFCI plug does not include a grounding pin, and this is because the product is "double insulated". I think this is OK.Gripes:- The product overview diagram in the manual lists 14 pieces, but only three numbered arrows actually appear on the diagram, so pretty much useless. This kind of sloppy and ill-conceived content is found throughout the user's manual.- All illustrations are reproduced in a faint gray shade and very small, so hard to make out what is being shown.- The instructions for use of the detergent tank are confusing, in that they state that 'household detergents' should not be used since they might damage the pressure pump. 1) any kind of detergent one might wish to use with a pressure sprayer would be considered as a 'household detergent', 2) the pump is upstream of the detergent nozzle, with the 20 foot hose between them, so it seems very unlikely that whichever detergent is used would ever be in contact with the pump's innards. Stupid copy & paste mistake on the part of the manual's author.- "Do the instructions on the solution bottle to prepare detergent" is a not-uncommon bit of clumsy writing found in the manual.- There are no actual instructions for use of the detergent tank, other that how its quick disconnect works and the aforementioned clumsy cautions.- Just a few bits of plastic could have been added to facilitate storage of the power cord and hose, but Greenworks did not do this.- The rear of the pump unit has some shapes to the plastic that suggest a hint of storage potential, but if the designers intended a use for them, the manual does not describe or illustrate those uses. One tiny illustration seems to suggest that the handgrip and spray want might be stowed on the rear of the pump body, but when I tried to stow them, it did not work out, since I did not understand what was supposed to hold them in the pictured positions (the illustration shows the unit from the wrong side regarding this question).EDIT: After some fooling around over the course of several uses of this product, I have figured out a way to store everything:- Disconnect the spray wand from the handgrip. They then fit behind the large green plastic structure (I'll call it the LGPS) at the top rear of the sprayer body, and down into the two end pockets of the black plastic structure below that.- The detergent tank docks to the center of the LGPS, sticking out the back of the sprayer body.- The power cord can be looped such that its many coils hang over the rear of the sprayer body, hanging from the tops of the handgrip and spray wand as if they were hooks.- The 20 foot pressure hose gets similarly looped/coiled, hanging from the same devices that the power cord is hanging from. Note that if you buy the model with a longer pressure hose, there is probably not enough space to coil it in the manner I describe here.- The coiled power cord and pressure hose now surround the detergent tank.So, I think this is a decent product that should satisfy most casual users, for a reasonable purchaser price.

• kwood

  Our giant gas powered power washer died and we needed to get something rather quick to get the algae and mold off the back of our barn since we live in an HOA. This was so easy to set up and use and as you can tell from the picture it got the job done. It’s not going to be as powerful as the gas powered ones and I’m not sure yet how it would hold up to doing an entire two story house but we ran it for a solid 2 hours washing our barn and it held up fine and didn’t over heat. Looking forward to testing it out washing the cars next. Will edit the review if needed but so far extremely happy with this purchase.

• Homac

  The media could not be loaded. I originally bought this from Amazon, but the unit they sent me was obviously used (a return, I presume), so I re-returned it. I paid for a new one. Amazon took care of that glitch in their customary efficient and customer-friendly manner...no problem at all. I re-bought the same model directly from the Greenworks web sited for the same price, although I did learn later that it was immediately available for the same price at my local Menards. Anyway...This is a very nice, compact, and well-designed pressure washer. I purchased it for washing my airplane (bugs, belly oil etc) and hangar floor, so high pressure wasn't necessarily desirable. My problem was that there is no available water source at this (regional) airport. Also, my hangar only has a single 15-amp circuit. I acquired a 55 gallon poly storage barrel, plumbed it with a spigot for a 10-foot feeder hose to the pressure washer. I was apprehensive that I wouldn't have enough of a pressure head to feed the pressure washer, but with the barrel in the back of my truck, there is indeed enough water volume. I also found that the 13-amp draw of the pressure washer, even at start-up surge, did not trip my 15 amp breaker. Now, I put the empty barrel in my pickup truck bed at home, fill it with water, and take it to the hangar to accomplish my wash tasks. Naturally...several buddies now share the equipment.This little pressure washer is a great, and very cost-effective, unit. Highly recommended as to functionality, although I can't address long-term reliability.

• Thomas Harrop

  We used this for the first time yesterday to blow leaves out out rain gutters. The only small issue I had with it is that it has to be connected to power and a garden hose. Since I have a 100 foot extension box and a garden hose that reches anywhere in the yard it is not a problem for me. It does get to be a tangle of cords and hoses. A couple of times I had to stop and disconnect most of it to get it sorted out. If you are doing something like spraying your porch or driveway it would be less of an issue. The power cord and hose on the unit are very long. I also sprayed off my car. Even without the soap attachment it worked great. Highly recommended.

• Gnkaram

  I bought this cordless with the intent purpose of cleaning my shower. I was always cleaning it with a hand held sprayer and thought that more pressure (but not too much) would really do the trick. It does this very well. I just set the unit in the adjacent bathtub and fill the bucket with hot water and spray away. I even sprayed out the bathtub without much overspray. I then went to work on the front porch and it did great removing dirt and dust, without having to drag the garden hose out from around the house. Also, the bucket option makes the unit very portable, especially in areas that are not easilly accessable with a garden hose. Plus, you can use hot water from a sink to fill it up.Now for the limitations. It's battery powered so, with the 4Ah included battery you'll get about 20 minutes of run time. While this is enough for quick light duty jobs, it won't suffice for a big job. There is an included light duty charger but it will take all night to charge the battery so you'll probably have to buy a heavier duty charger and maybe an extra battery.This pressure washer is only rated at 800 psi and that's fine for light duty cleaning but don't expect it to perform like a 3000 psi gas powered unit. Then again, one can do damage to stuff with a 3000 psi washer and one could never use it inside, so: The bad news is that it only puts out 800 psi but the good news is that it only puts out 800 psi.The pressure hose is light duty and I would expect to replace it with a higher quality hose within 6 months.Overall, I really like this pressure washer. It fills a niche between a gas powered washer and a regular garden hose. If you're buying this thinking that it will perform like a gas, or even a smaller electric one, you'll be disappointed. But if you understand what it is, you'll really like it. Four stars for the cheap pressure hose.

• Jason L. Holt

  Positives :No electrical cordNo hose (optional of water hose adaptor to connect to a water hose is included )Bucket refill is easySpray adapter for foam works good25 & 40 degree spray adapters are includedBattery, charger, base, bucket, spray adapter, etc… is all includedNegativesNo lid for the bucket during useWater line has to be stretched out an can knot up pretty easy when using washerBattery arrived nearly dead not even half a charged an takes hours to fully charge to fullAttaching the bucket to the base can be a challenge at times if your in a hurryInstructions are odd an pictures are small in the booklet , parts are unlabeled in the box4/5 for me good for light cleaning such as siding, cars/trucks, & outdoor vinyl furniture .Not ideal for concrete, brick, etc… in large sections battery power run time is about 35-40 mins constant full run time when fully charged

• Ronster Monster

  Great for washing vehicles and spraying off patio, driveway, and walk ways. Easy to lift and carry. Stronger gpm gas power washers can damage wood patios if you do not know what you're doing. The "self coiling" sprayer hose is problematic. As with all electric power washers the spray hose, power cord, and garden hose can get tangled if you're not paying attention. Overall I am happy with the purchase.