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UK General Cleaning Forum => General Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Blast Away on January 19, 2011, 06:25:23 pm

Title: Gutter Vac
Post by: Blast Away on January 19, 2011, 06:25:23 pm: What would anyone recommend airflow rate?

Got one of them chinese snides and think it's had its day being bashed about. Same as in this link http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/INDUSTRIAL-COMMERCIAL-WET-DRY-VACUUM-POWERFUL-3000w-/180605899525?pt=UK_Vacuum_Cleaners&hash=item2a0cf35305#ht_2854wt_944

Not sure if to get same one again or second hand if anyone has one similar with good enough suction for gutters.

Got 90 houses to do starting next month.
Title: Re: Gutter Vac
Post by: BDCS on January 19, 2011, 07:04:39 pm: I've got an Omni vac which is rated at 4200 watts so should be more or less the same as you have, I also have a CFM 3000 and is rated as below which shows the airflow

http://www.cfmindustrialvacuums.co.uk/CFM_SOL3000_Industrial_Vacuum.shtml
Title: Re: Gutter Vac
Post by: Alan McTernan on January 19, 2011, 07:21:22 pm: I've got a tech-clean vacuum 3 x 1400 watt motors (so the same) and it has been great!!! Touch Wood ;)
Title: Re: Gutter Vac
Post by: Blast Away on January 19, 2011, 08:38:22 pm: Quote from: BDCS on January 19, 2011, 07:04:39 pm
I've got an Omni vac which is rated at 4200 watts so should be more or less the same as you have, I also have a CFM 3000 and is rated as below which shows the airflow

http://www.cfmindustrialvacuums.co.uk/CFM_SOL3000_Industrial_Vacuum.shtml

Airflow 8200 ltr/min :o :o :o :o :o :o
Title: Re: Gutter Vac
Post by: Rob125 on January 24, 2011, 11:21:20 pm: where do you get the poles (40ft or so) - to attach to these vacs? are they standard fit??
Rob
Title: Re: Gutter Vac
Post by: Jimmy Jon on January 27, 2011, 08:41:18 pm: Try e-bay - guttervac poles - there is a few sellers on there
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Gutter-Vac-Suction-Pole-set-BIG-DADDY-/220729432317?pt=UK_HomeGarden_CLV_Cleaning_CA&hash=item33647fd8fd
Title: Re: Gutter Vac
Post by: Rob125 on January 27, 2011, 10:41:30 pm: how are the possible to hold - especially with big tubes like that. Ive had a fair few experiences with my 35 brodex hyrdra pole and that is bad enough - surely those things way twice that to get to 40ft? or is it a 2 man job??
Title: Re: Gutter Vac
Post by: BDCS on January 28, 2011, 12:24:08 pm: I have done a big 4 storey house house with most of the bottom flat in the ground - that was a work out but it can be done depending on how well the grass has grown. The power pole is the most important bit and I have a couple of attachments for digging the growth loose. Carbon poles are not too expensive if you can do a bit of diy. I have 51mm 135 degree bends, 2"-1.5" reducer and various flattened bits of both size pipe to fit those narrow gaps. I have omni pole tubes which are telescopic and don't slide back unless you are working in the rain or vac buckets of water at the end. There is also some that use the gardiners modular extensions but they are over £100 each but worth it in the long run to save the work out.
Title: Re: Gutter Vac
Post by: Blast Away on January 28, 2011, 04:55:28 pm: Just bought 6 x 1m lengths of clear tubing today and some silicone joiners and 135 degree bend and reducer.
Fuuuck paying Omnipole prices. I aint buying another load of their tubes and fittings.
Title: Re: Gutter Vac
Post by: drive surgeon on January 28, 2011, 09:31:44 pm: yeah well said blast away. make your own and save money.
Title: Re: Gutter Vac
Post by: dandandan on February 05, 2011, 04:24:12 pm: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/INDUSTRIAL-COMMERCIAL-WET-DRY-VACUUM-POWERFUL-3000w-/180605899525?pt=UK_Vacuum_Cleaners&hash=item2a0cf35305#ht_2854wt_944

Is the full kit with camera a good deal at £800 or are you best getting it all seperately?thanks Dan