For years, UK homeowners have faced the same frustrating choice: spend £300+ on a bulky pressure washer that gathers dust in the shed — or waste entire weekends scrubbing patios and fences by hand.
Neither option ever made sense to Eleanor Vance.
Vance (57) is a fluid dynamics engineer who spent over three decades designing industrial pumping systems in Aberdeen. After retiring in 2023, she finally tackled the project that had been nagging her for more than a decade.
“I spent my career optimising how water moves through systems,” Vance explains. “And every weekend, I’d watch my neighbours drag out those massive, noisy machines just to clean a driveway. Your garden hose already delivers decent pressure — the problem is that a regular nozzle wastes most of it.”
That observation became the foundation for HydroJet — a compact, precision‑engineered hose attachment that is quietly disrupting the pressure washer industry across the UK and Europe.