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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: ringo1968 on January 28, 2012, 10:34:58 pm

Title: Best price to pay for ladders as a beginner?
Post by: ringo1968 on January 28, 2012, 10:34:58 pm
Looking to do domestic and have been looking at two part ladders. My mate who is a wc said pick up a cheap one from Wicks for forty quid!! The ones from the window cleaning centre are 160 quid though!! But can anyone recommend something decent between these two prices and where?
Title: Re: Best price to pay for ladders as a beginner?
Post by: Andy Leett on January 28, 2012, 10:47:40 pm
Try Midland Ladders.
Title: Re: Best price to pay for ladders as a beginner?
Post by: bobby p on January 28, 2012, 10:51:43 pm
my favorite is my Wickes ladder, but i dont let employees use it as it has its dangers.

i also have a set of  LYTE trade ladders, sturdy but not light weight and  when i first bought them they had many sharp edges/corners that took me a while to file down. i dont recommend LYTE
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Post by: Gav Camm lammy 283 on January 28, 2012, 10:54:52 pm
globe ladders in brum  ;)
Title: Re: Best price to pay for ladders as a beginner?
Post by: AS Window Cleaning on January 28, 2012, 10:56:16 pm
Try Midland Ladders.
second that. bought mine 8 years ago, lasted 6 years on trad and still as good as new, bar a couple of sucker feet and the odd rattle.
Title: Re: Best price to pay for ladders as a beginner?
Post by: stuart mc on January 28, 2012, 11:02:11 pm
ramsey's mine were plated in 1985 and 1982 still going strong, not sure on the pointer but probably about the same time, bit dearer but worth it
Title: Re: Best price to pay for ladders as a beginner?
Post by: Inside Out on January 28, 2012, 11:05:22 pm
Have had a few ladders. These are the best I have bought, by far.

 http://www.laddersandscaffoldtowers.co.uk/acatalog/combination_ladders.html
Title: Re: Best price to pay for ladders as a beginner?
Post by: zimzam on January 29, 2012, 01:05:43 am
midland ladders.their titan ones are a bargain. 8)
Title: Re: Best price to pay for ladders as a beginner?
Post by: KS Cleaning on January 29, 2012, 04:00:26 am
my favorite is my Wickes ladder, but i dont let employees use it as it has its dangers.

i also have a set of  LYTE trade ladders, sturdy but not light weight and  when i first bought them they had many sharp edges/corners that took me a while to file down. i dont recommend LYTE
Bobs ma uncle n aw that but c'mon,sharp edges??????   6 sets av had o Lytes n no probs, :-* these are the daddies
Title: Re: Best price to pay for ladders as a beginner?
Post by: bobby p on January 29, 2012, 06:45:23 am
maybe i bought a "friday afternoon" set ,but i tell you the edges of All the alloy fittings were razor sharp.  i nearly cut myself a few times ,then i spent a couple of hours one Sunday with a needle file putting a gentle radius on all the edges

 i bought them online and i had spent a while online comparing the weight of the different makes , LYTE seemed to be a shade lighter than the others which was why i settled on them but once they arrived they were heavier than stated .

 However ,they are strong and will last donkeys years im sure

  
Title: Re: Best price to pay for ladders as a beginner?
Post by: tom cronin on January 29, 2012, 07:32:55 am
U want to buy the best you can afford, after all it's you that is going to be at the top of it everyday!!!!!
Title: Re: Best price to pay for ladders as a beginner?
Post by: bad trippy on January 29, 2012, 11:05:42 am
MIDLAND LADDERS simples
Title: Re: Best price to pay for ladders as a beginner?
Post by: Jackal on January 29, 2012, 11:18:27 am
ebay,3.5 double trade ladders about £90 i had a set of trebles a while ago decent ladders
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Post by: Deangsi on January 29, 2012, 11:36:38 am
Go water fed pole!
Title: Re: Best price to pay for ladders as a beginner?
Post by: dave f on January 29, 2012, 05:49:19 pm
dito, do you value your life
Title: Re: Best price to pay for ladders as a beginner?
Post by: ringo1968 on January 29, 2012, 06:33:37 pm
Go water fed pole!


   Haven't got the money to start that way. Hopefully if I build up a trad round I may then think that way!!
Title: Re: Best price to pay for ladders as a beginner?
Post by: Jackal on January 29, 2012, 06:43:56 pm
im trad mate and the worst thing i did was not go wfp from the start,but like you its a money thing at the moment but im slowly going buy the kit this year
Title: Re: Best price to pay for ladders as a beginner?
Post by: CLEANCARE WC on January 29, 2012, 09:21:15 pm
I bought the £69.99 set in the link over 2  years ago an ideal starter set imo

http://www.ladders4sale.co.uk/titan_ladders.htm