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UK General Cleaning Forum => General Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Ian Rochester on December 08, 2011, 08:26:29 pm

Title: Ball pool
Post by: Ian Rochester on December 08, 2011, 08:26:29 pm

Need some help, going to price up to clean a "ball pool" tomorrow, size is 10ft x10ft x3ft deep and is 3/4 full of plastic balls.  It's for the NHS and they want the washed and sanitised.

Someone give me some idea as to how long this will take and price!!

Title: Re: Ball pool
Post by: BDCS on December 08, 2011, 09:01:04 pm

It will take f8888 ages - sub it to a ball cleaner. We did one at Madplay in Greenhithe, took forever to bag them up and the bloke turned up with a machine that sucked them up, forced them through a solution with a brush set up and blew them out. It took him most of a day. The empty ball pool was full of dust, plasters, socks and every other thing kids have. There was a machine advertised in the INPA - TIPE magazine this month. You will be sick of the sight of balls - BE WARNED

Title: Re: Ball pool
Post by: Ian Rochester on December 08, 2011, 10:38:16 pm

LOL, just been on a site who have just such a machine, may be giving them a call in the morning.
 ;D

Title: Re: Ball pool
Post by: BDCS on December 08, 2011, 10:56:23 pm

http://madplay.co.uk/index.php?page=4


http://madplay.co.uk/gallery/2/

Look at the picture on the right - we only put half the balls back in ! You should have seen the place before we started on it, I doubt if the kitchen had been cleaned for months and there was 136 points of note on the play frame inspection.

Title: Re: Ball pool
Post by: Ian Rochester on December 09, 2011, 03:49:26 pm

Been to look at the job, roughly 20,000 balls to be cleaned.  Just been enquiring about a ball cleaning machine...............£4200!!!! for basically a vacuum to suck them up and a tank with a brush paddle in it to wash them.

Title: Re: Ball pool
Post by: jasonl on December 09, 2011, 04:59:06 pm

They go for about a grand on e bay from time to time ,  can be made back in one job , but then like most of this type of thing the machine will sit for 3 years waiting for the next job .

Title: Re: Ball pool
Post by: BDCS on December 09, 2011, 06:03:32 pm

I'll see if I can find the bouncy castle magazine for that machine

Title: Re: Ball pool
Post by: BDCS on December 09, 2011, 09:59:57 pm

Found it eventually  ::) The blokes name is Rob 0208 166 5772 and its £495 with additional vacuum £295. It was in the Autumn magazine

http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/launch.aspx?referral=other&pnum=&refresh=J0m58E1wr4L0&EID=38dcd1c6-6c9d-47ad-971d-8aa0920f9f6d&skip=