PSI & Hose: Tools & DIY Reviews

About PSI & Hose

Compressed air and pressure washing are both sold on the wrong number. Compressors are marketed on peak PSI when the figure that decides whether a tool works is sustained flow. Pressure washers are marketed on pressure when cleaning performance depends at least as much on flow rate. Buyers end up with a machine that can technically reach the advertised figure and cannot keep an impact wrench turning or strip a driveway.

PSI & Hose is being built to put the useful number first. The plan is to lead with sustained flow rather than peak pressure, to match machines to the tools people actually intend to run, and to cover the hoses, fittings and regulators that quietly waste half a machine's capability. Noise matters in a home garage and will be reported wherever a manufacturer publishes a figure, and flagged as unpublished where they do not.

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What it will cover

Air compressors ranked on sustained flow, not peak PSI
Pressure washers, with flow rate given equal weight
Hoses, fittings, regulators and the losses they introduce
Matching a machine to the tools you actually plan to run

Launching soon

PSI & Hose is not live yet

PSI & Hose will publish at psiandhose.com. That address is not a link yet because the site does not exist yet, and there is no launch date to give you -- when there is one, this page changes. Nothing on PSI & Hose has been tested, published or recommended so far, and this page will be rewritten to describe what it has actually published once it goes live.

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