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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: e newlands on July 19, 2010, 08:40:37 pm

Title: diy gutter vacs
Post by: e newlands on July 19, 2010, 08:40:37 pm: can you make a diy gutter vac from a wet and dry numatic and if so where can you buy the parts only interested in something for one and two storey work domestics
Title: Re: diy gutter vacs
Post by: Dave Willis on July 19, 2010, 08:46:18 pm: Here's a bargain one (not) http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=160452518029&Category=633&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26its%3DI%26otn%3D1#ht_520wt_1139
Title: Re: diy gutter vacs
Post by: e newlands on July 19, 2010, 09:11:40 pm: looks like it was made by the ira
Title: Re: diy gutter vacs
Post by: p1w1 on July 19, 2010, 09:15:04 pm: you could try the eastern trading ones or polar brite do a decent one and i reckon you wouldn't really make one cheaper then what they sell them for boxed and ready to go.

paul
Title: Re: diy gutter vacs
Post by: chopsie on July 19, 2010, 09:18:58 pm: sure i have seen a diy gutter vac section on one of the other forums,
Title: Re: diy gutter vacs
Post by: e newlands on July 19, 2010, 09:22:02 pm: just procured a wet / dry vac gratis wondering if there was a attachment avaliable to bolt on to take a 2 inch hose---would work out cheaper than buying a new system
Title: Re: diy gutter vacs
Post by: p1w1 on July 19, 2010, 09:22:57 pm: could have a look here http://www.acsforums.com/forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?board=Gutter
Title: Re: diy gutter vacs
Post by: e newlands on July 19, 2010, 09:24:03 pm: chopsie am i on a bad trip or was there a link there just now
Title: Re: diy gutter vacs
Post by: Steven Shoreditch on July 19, 2010, 10:07:29 pm: Quote from: e newlands on July 19, 2010, 09:11:40 pm
looks like it was made by the ira
What should you be paying? Apart from it looking like a bomb/space rocket LOL!
Title: Re: diy gutter vacs
Post by: Dave Willis on July 19, 2010, 11:20:48 pm: Well three superlight sections = £300 or there- abouts plus the vac between £250 and £650 max, so certainly well under a grand would get you going.
Polarbrite even less 'cos you use your own pole to support the hose rather than sucking through the tubes.
Title: Re: diy gutter vacs
Post by: the bfg on July 20, 2010, 08:03:27 am: the thing with a diy gutter vac is that you need the suction power as if you don't have that then its money wasted.

IMO and experience you need more than 3000W of suction power especially for well soiled gutters with large chunks of turf and plantation frowing out of them.

the one from Eastern trading on ebay for £499 looks not bad but I havent tried it so cant really recommend it, I bit the bullit and bought and Omni-vac for £1500 as it has 4200W suction power and it has more than paid its way and it even lifts broken tiles and slates from the gutter.

as for that Darlek on acid for £1999 on ebay I would defo exterminate any idea of buying that contraption from yet another wide boy trying to rip people off.
Title: Re: diy gutter vacs
Post by: LWC on July 20, 2010, 08:08:27 am: No VAT is payable on this. Cash in person preferred.

I bet
Title: Re: diy gutter vacs
Post by: Steven Shoreditch on July 20, 2010, 08:30:18 am: Let's all send the seller a mail offering £500! ;D
Title: Re: diy gutter vacs
Post by: LWC on July 20, 2010, 08:32:21 am: Thats really not all that bad tho £1500 for omnivac is it...
Title: Re: diy gutter vacs
Post by: cleewindows on July 28, 2010, 10:46:13 am: [heres a gutter vac for sale on ebay!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260641933353&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT
Title: Re: diy gutter vacs
Post by: Steven Shoreditch on July 28, 2010, 09:28:52 pm: Is that yours, Clee?

Will you take £150?
Title: Re: diy gutter vacs
Post by: cleewindows on July 28, 2010, 09:30:23 pm: itis mine m8
no couldnt take £150 pal,21 watching already had a few calls and emails about it
Quote from: SSWC on July 28, 2010, 09:28:52 pm
Is that yours, Clee?

Will you take £150?
Title: Re: diy gutter vacs
Post by: Steven Shoreditch on July 28, 2010, 09:59:09 pm: Fair enough. Worth a punt.