Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

AVOID the hand car wash at the Hawes & Curtis site

Went the other day and one of the jetwash guys hamfistedly broke off our rear windscreen wiper. Presumably an accident but he immediately sought to aggressively deny it was anything to do with him, despite the multiple broken pieces then being found amongst the puddles...

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Permalink Reply by Jan H on March 19, 2017 at 8:02

My husband had a similar experience in the same place. They used swipe blades try dry off the car after washing and they weren't clean so scratched the car! Best avoided...

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Permalink Reply by Alexander on March 19, 2017 at 12:29

What happens to the new flats being built there?

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Permalink Reply by Antoinette on March 19, 2017 at 15:18

They didn't get their latest planning application approved...so we get a tatty car wash instead....result (not)

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Permalink Reply by Antoinette on March 19, 2017 at 15:40

Actually that's wrong...I just checked and the permission was granted. I seem to recollect another thread on here that speculated that the developers had got financial cold feet....perhaps post-Brexit jitters

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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on March 19, 2017 at 13:30

I was thinking the same thing Neil. It pours across the pavement and into the street drain which carries water straight into streams and rivers. I'm sure that one of the conditions placed on a car wash is that the dirty water and detergent discharge into the sewer system, not the ground water one.

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Permalink Reply by pamish on March 21, 2017 at 21:37

I thought car-wash run-off has to be discharged not just into sewer system (cf. into road drain and therefore into the poor old River Lea) but has to be filtered first as it contains too much oil and possibly other chemicals, which then upset the sewage process.

If only we had enforcement officers to spare....