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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: windiewasher on April 25, 2011, 08:21:22 am

Title: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: windiewasher on April 25, 2011, 08:21:22 am
What do you think
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: Erithwc on April 25, 2011, 08:25:17 am
don't care to be honest i will just use my ladder instead  :) will save me time filling up barrels, charing the trolley and loading the car up for work  :)
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: Steven Shoreditch on April 25, 2011, 08:32:45 am
Does anyone work in the rain?
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: Craig 72 on April 25, 2011, 08:36:03 am
This has come up in the past and doesn't it not apply for people who use water for their business?Not sure though.
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: Spruce on April 25, 2011, 08:52:42 am
This has come up in the past and doesn't it not apply for people who use water for their business?Not sure though.

This should help southerners.

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Britains_first_desalination_plant_opens_999.html

According to this article, the dams are still nearly full.

Spruce
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: Perfect Windows on April 25, 2011, 08:55:32 am
What do you think

Guy from environment agency on the radio earlier this week said hosepipe bans were extremely unlikely this summer, so stop worrying yourself (and people who read your thread title) and get on with it.

Vin
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: Handyman Window Cleaning Services on April 25, 2011, 10:17:39 am
as soon as they mention a hosepipe ban, it rains all summer anyway
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: H S and Son on April 25, 2011, 11:20:50 am
NO.

There's always someone who says this EVERY year,

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Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: GB Window Cleaning on April 25, 2011, 03:44:09 pm
i doubt they could stop wfpers, we need water to make a living! i would think we will be exempt
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: Crystal-clear on April 25, 2011, 05:26:03 pm
how many wfp people out per day how on earth would they stop it  8)
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: simon w on April 25, 2011, 08:53:15 pm

Isn't there a difference between hosepipe ban and drought order?

I was led to believe that a hosepipe ban only includes domestic use ie: car washing lawn watering etc and doesn't affect businesses and Industry?

A drought order is different and has to be sanctioned by the government and not the water companies and local council and this is rarely enforced dont think it's been necessary for one of these for a very long time
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: mci services on April 25, 2011, 09:04:26 pm
spot on simon ;)
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: traps7 on April 25, 2011, 09:56:19 pm
Besides all that, I think a hosepipe ban is a ban on hoses connected to a mains tap. I've got a static system so I don't have a hose connected to a mains tap. It's connected to my van tank.

Or am I missing something?
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: GB Window Cleaning on April 25, 2011, 09:57:08 pm
thanks simon
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: andy1975 on April 25, 2011, 10:40:17 pm
i doubt they could stop wfpers, we need water to make a living! i would think we will be exempt
that is correct.we are classed as businesses and bans only apply to personal household usage eg.watering grass,cleaning cars.
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: Klean07 on April 25, 2011, 10:52:25 pm
Yes your right we are business's but if we want to be exempt from the hosepipe ban we should be man enough to tell our water companies that every day we pour 1'000's of gallons of water down the drain. In other words inform them that your business depends on water etc.
Better to register with them from the start than get some jealous neighbour to do it for you.
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: boldy1304 on April 26, 2011, 07:43:22 am
going from recent years summer is nearly over then it will be rain rain flash flooding etc etc  :'(
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: Paul Coleman on April 26, 2011, 06:00:49 pm

Isn't there a difference between hosepipe ban and drought order?

I was led to believe that a hosepipe ban only includes domestic use ie: car washing lawn watering etc and doesn't affect businesses and Industry?

A drought order is different and has to be sanctioned by the government and not the water companies and local council and this is rarely enforced dont think it's been necessary for one of these for a very long time

Just about right.  Four or five water companies did get a drought order granted about five years ago so that they could enforce it if necessary.  Only one enforced it - and then only partially.  Sutton & East Surrey banned the use of car washes that didn't have a water recycling unit fitted.  As far as I know that was as far as it went.  At one drought order hearing that I went to, it started raining while we were in there.  It was worth going if only to watch Craig Mawlam ripping the pi55 out of the water company management.  He has a knack of doing it in such a way that it is comical.
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: Sapphire Window Cleaning on April 26, 2011, 09:45:02 pm
As I am aware, DEFRA issues the drought orders.
Drought orders have replaced hosepipe bans, yet the media still calls them hosepipe bans.

ALL WFPers are exempt from the ban/order as the ruling states you cannot fill a recepticle with "tap water", WFPers don't fill receptcles with tap water as we filter this before it reaches the recepticle.

so in short, if you use DI or RO water you ARE exempt. here endeth the lesson.

 ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: matthewprice on April 26, 2011, 09:54:30 pm
what is a water shortage ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D move north we have loads ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: help_me_pls on May 02, 2011, 11:03:11 pm
It'll never be enforced,just check out all the cowboy wheelie bin cleaners running round, they get through way more water than any wfp'er set up.
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: alanwilson on May 02, 2011, 11:10:49 pm
or you could always claim to have drawn the water from the sea before putting it through your ro
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: d s windowcleaning on May 02, 2011, 11:13:54 pm
It'll never be enforced,just check out all the cowboy wheelie bin cleaners running round, they get through way more water than any wfp'er set up.
can you explain how ? i was going to set my son up doing bins
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: LWC on May 02, 2011, 11:33:53 pm
It'll never be enforced,just check out all the cowboy wheelie bin cleaners running round, they get through way more water than any wfp'er set up.
can you explain how ? i was going to set my son up doing bins

Fill a barrel, connect it to a pressure washer, spray it and watch it eat the water  ;D
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: Londoner on May 03, 2011, 07:23:08 am
It'll never be enforced,just check out all the cowboy wheelie bin cleaners running round, they get through way more water than any wfp'er set up.
can you explain how ? i was going to set my son up doing bins

Its illegal to clean bins in the road and  they are supposed to capture all the water and recycle it. There are people who make trucks that comply with the regulations.
Round here the bin cleaners have all but gone, its hard to clean three different bins all emptied at different times and having three bins cleaned works out a bit pricey for the customer.
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: d s windowcleaning on May 03, 2011, 08:14:03 am
It'll never be enforced,just check out all the cowboy wheelie bin cleaners running round, they get through way more water than any wfp'er set up.
can you explain how ? i was going to set my son up doing bins

Fill a barrel, connect it to a pressure washer, spray it and watch it eat the water  ;D
yeah i understand that sensai but dont the water just keep going back into a holding tank ?
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: LWC on May 03, 2011, 08:18:05 am
I dont really know myself bud, they are supposed to collect it and take it away etc, but would you want to recycle it back around? If thats how they do it?
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: help_me_pls on May 03, 2011, 04:38:35 pm
It'll never be enforced,just check out all the cowboy wheelie bin cleaners running round, they get through way more water than any wfp'er set up.
can you explain how ? i was going to set my son up doing bins

Fill a barrel, connect it to a pressure washer, spray it and watch it eat the water  ;D
yeah i understand that sensai but dont the water just keep going back into a holding tank ?


http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/static/documents/Business/wheeled_waste_bin_cleaning.pdf


Straight from the Environment Agency website, the fine has now gone upto £50 k .
Title: Re: hosepipe bans coming soon
Post by: Londoner on May 04, 2011, 07:30:54 am
Yes thats it. Some of the stuff about disposal of effluent applies to carpet cleaning machines as well. The collected water is classed as trade effluent and requires proper disposal.