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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: taylored on September 18, 2010, 10:33:10 am

Title: backpacks
Post by: taylored on September 18, 2010, 10:33:10 am
looking to buy a backpack but don't know which one to get ??? only going to use it for hard to get to windows as I'm trad and not looking to go full wfp just yet. which one do you use and have you have they been OK, thanks for any help
Title: Re: backpacks
Post by: Wc Solutions on September 18, 2010, 10:36:32 am
def go on john hewitts site - soz crap with links.

just google john hewitt poles or something.

does a good range of big and small trolleys.

email or ring him he will help you out alot - top bloke is john.
Title: Re: backpacks
Post by: taylored on September 18, 2010, 10:43:09 am
been looking at them and they are top of my list, but seen in other topic someone say they had lots of problems with them ???
Title: Re: backpacks
Post by: Wc Solutions on September 18, 2010, 10:47:42 am
really?

for example the ESR16 is the same backpack as the one on windowcleaningwarehouse - V2 but look at the price difference.

elite mike on here has the esr16 from john hewitt - give him a shout for a review.
Title: Re: backpacks
Post by: taylored on September 18, 2010, 10:51:57 am
thanks wc  that the one i'm looking to get.
Title: Re: backpacks
Post by: Wc Solutions on September 18, 2010, 10:55:23 am
if you go back three pages to a post sir jeffs pole .... on pg 1 of that is how i know elite mike has the backpack ...
Title: Re: backpacks
Post by: elite mike on September 18, 2010, 10:56:10 am
really?

for example the ESR16 is the same backpack as the one on windowcleaningwarehouse - V2 but look at the price difference.

elite mike on here has the esr16 from john hewitt - give him a shout for a review.

its been a very useful bit of kit , and i have had no probs ,yet ;)

but they are really easy to fix if you do

mines the five speed one and i find on setting 1 is just right

mike
Title: Re: backpacks
Post by: Wc Solutions on September 18, 2010, 10:57:16 am
oh well there you go - elite mike saves the day.

cheers mike
Title: Re: backpacks
Post by: elite mike on September 18, 2010, 10:58:52 am
 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: backpacks
Post by: taylored on September 18, 2010, 11:34:41 am
thanks mike and wc ;D made the chose for me  ;D sorry i took so long to sat thanks had jeahovos at the door.
Title: Re: backpacks
Post by: AuRavelling79 on September 18, 2010, 06:54:49 pm
thanks mike and wc ;D made the chose for me  ;D sorry i took so long to sat thanks had jeahovos at the door.  

 ;D ;D ;D Let me guess - offering a magazine on "loneliness" perhaps?
Title: Re: backpacks
Post by: windiewasher on September 18, 2010, 09:08:00 pm
i have 2 of these,absolute quality,i use on speed 5 very good bit of kit!
really?

for example the ESR16 is the same backpack as the one on windowcleaningwarehouse - V2 but look at the price difference.

elite mike on here has the esr16 from john hewitt - give him a shout for a review.

its been a very useful bit of kit , and i have had no probs ,yet ;)

but they are really easy to fix if you do

mines the five speed one and i find on setting 1 is just right

mike
Title: Re: backpacks
Post by: trevor povey on September 18, 2010, 10:05:47 pm
looking to buy a backpack but don't know which one to get ??? only going to use it for hard to get to windows as I'm trad and not looking to go full wfp just yet. which one do you use and have you have they been OK, thanks for any help

 fork out a little extra cash and go for a 50 ltr  trolley instead...the amount of time spent on first cleans YOU will be constantly having to stop to refill
Title: Re: backpacks
Post by: windiewasher on September 18, 2010, 10:16:18 pm
18 litres more than enough for a first clean and so easy to carry instead of pulling or pushing a daft trolley!
 save loads of time using a backpack!
Title: Re: backpacks
Post by: Wc Solutions on September 19, 2010, 01:25:14 pm
really?

for example the ESR16 is the same backpack as the one on windowcleaningwarehouse - V2 but look at the price difference.

elite mike on here has the esr16 from john hewitt - give him a shout for a review.


Perhaps I am missing something, but on john hewitt's site they are £119 + £12 delivery, but on Window Cleaning Warehouse's site they are £119.95 with free delivery?

wcw backpack comes to £152 with microbore fitting and vat mate
Title: Re: backpacks
Post by: dazmond on September 19, 2010, 10:56:05 pm
id get a 50L TROLLEY MATE!sod the backpack!get a decent system and theyre really is no point IMO of just cleaning the odd difficult window!you will want to use it on everything after a while!by the time you ve faffed about chopping and changing you could off just poled the lot and 15-18 L IS NOT ENOUGH WATER!you ll be forever filling up!wasting time! :P :P

best thing ive ever done for my business getting a trolley after the first couple of months "bedding in"period!


dazmond
Title: Re: backpacks
Post by: windiewasher on September 19, 2010, 11:03:10 pm
i have a trolley and can say backpack is so much quicker to quicker to transport and imo looks far better than struggling with silly trolleys!
van system and backpacks anyday,trolley are just big ugly lumps of metal,take too much room up in your van and are no way near as good as a van system or £115 backpack!
id get a 50L TROLLEY MATE!sod the backpack!get a decent system and theyre really is no point IMO of just cleaning the odd difficult window!you will want to use it on everything after a while!by the time you ve faffed about chopping and changing you could off just poled the lot and 15-18 L IS NOT ENOUGH WATER!you ll be forever filling up!wasting time! :P :P

best thing ive ever done for my business getting a trolley after the first couple of months "bedding in"period!


dazmond
Title: Re: backpacks
Post by: dazmond on September 19, 2010, 11:19:41 pm
each to there own doctor!backpack would be next to useless for a lot of my work!i have over 30m of extension hose and i can do my work in 3 and a half days compared to 5 days on the  ladders after only 3 months wfp!and i was no slouch with ladders either! :P :P


dazmond
Title: Re: backpacks
Post by: windiewasher on September 19, 2010, 11:23:12 pm
Well done m8.get a van system with 100 metres and you will.be even faster.
each to there own doctor!backpack would be next to useless for a lot of my work!i have over 30m of extension hose and i can do my work in 3 and a half days compared to 5 days on the  ladders after only 3 months wfp!and i was no slouch with ladders either! :P :P


dazmond
Title: Re: backpacks
Post by: trevor povey on September 20, 2010, 12:38:03 am
18 litres more than enough for a first clean and so easy to carry instead of pulling or pushing a daft trolley!
 save loads of time using a backpack!


theres no chance at all you could clean a house on a first clean with a 18ltr backpack without refilling none at all!
Title: Re: backpacks
Post by: windiewasher on September 20, 2010, 08:04:20 am
It's easy done but if you have a supwrlite then you would struggle but with the vikan sill you can easy
18 litres more than enough for a first clean and so easy to carry instead of pulling or pushing a daft trolley!
 save loads of time using a backpack!


theres no chance at all you could clean a house on a first clean with a 18ltr backpack without refilling none at all!
Title: Re: backpacks
Post by: gary999 on September 21, 2010, 02:55:42 pm
18 litres more than enough for a first clean and so easy to carry instead of pulling or pushing a daft trolley!
 save loads of time using a backpack!


theres no chance at all you could clean a house on a first clean with a 18ltr backpack without refilling none at all!

why??...seems a daft thing to say..i would of thought it would
depend on the size of property and how dirty thewindows were

i stared with a freedom trolley i found it a right ball ache dragging
it around then having to drop the barrel off and hump it over
obsticales,so i turned it into a van system and got fed up of
microbore snaggng.

backpack with ten meters of pole hose best thing i ever did
pick up put down.my works all residential though, if i had
commercial work i would want a van system.

forget trolleys they are a waste of space ;D