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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: AS Window Cleaning on March 05, 2012, 03:08:19 pm
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Heyup boys and girls in south east, just wondering how your getting on with wfp and a drought order? any grief off the water board? do you trad bottoms to save water? do customers get funny with you?
I live in welsh water area, but work in severn trent, apparently they've promised no hosepipe ban for us this year. many of our customers wouldn't care bout us using water, but some used to have fits combined with nervous twitches with us half filling our bucket at their tap, and would likely frown on wfp in a drought order.
be interesting to see what adjustments, if any, you had to make. don't think we've had this topic before (recently anyway).
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It's fantastic,ping down as we speak
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;D Really? been sunny and bright all the way from gloucester to bournemouth today! doesn't change the drought order tho..... hadn't realised how long they would last, i.e., more than just a few weeks.....
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I dont think we are under one yet are we? Its news to me :-\
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flippin chucking it down today!!
but i thought i would hide indoors and do some 'invoicing' ;D
Yes its a concern but will have to wait and see
There has been another thread about this, and the consensus seems to be that we wont be affected as we make 'manufactured'water and are exempt from the ban(should it come)
Playing it by ear really, coz who knows- it might just never stop raining , however I do peak at long range forecasts(somewhat cynically) and yup, looks like it might be a dry month,this coming after a dry winter thus far
We have seriously looked at rainwater harvesting and I think that we may have our hand forced, but on the upside , it will improve our green credentials with customers and waterboard alike(plus it attracts some tax breaks)
regards
Roy
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We haven't got a drought order, we haven't got a hose-pipe ban yet either. You're jumping the gun, we will have but we haven't yet. Regarding what happens once we do, this tells you all you need to know
http://www.southeastwater.co.uk/pls/apex/PROD.download_file?p_doc_id=290
My interpretation is that there are concessions for those who make their living who use water as a necessary part of that
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;D Really? been sunny and bright all the way from gloucester to bournemouth today! doesn't change the drought order tho..... hadn't realised how long they would last, i.e., more than just a few weeks.....
Oi, stay off my patch! ;D
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lol, trucking, not windows today!
just to clarify, purpose of this topic wasn't as to whether bans affect us as businesses, but more to gauge customers and the public in general response to wfp'ers.
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;D
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My interpretation is that there are concessions for those who make their living who use water as a necessary part of that
Matt that link doesn't work.
interpretation ;D
Always the bl00dy same with these things, just like the hse regs on window cleaning and ladders.
People just interpet it how they want as it's written in such away that it doesn't state things clearly in plain english.
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The only reason a drought order was issued was so that Southern Water could take water from various rivers to fill up reservoirs a bit. Without a drought order, they can't do that.
Also, they said it's better to take water from rivers now rather than later in the year as it affects the environment less.
As usuall, the newspapers and tv have been hyping it all up and not explaining things which is something they are expert at.
The chances of there being no significant rainfall in the SE between now and June is almost zero.
Kent is now suffering day 2 of non stop rain. I bet that doesn't get a mention in any papers.
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My interpretation is that there are concessions for those who make their living who use water as a necessary part of that
Matt that link doesn't work.
interpretation ;D
Always the bl00dy same with these things, just like the hse regs on window cleaning and ladders.
People just interpet it how they want as it's written in such away that it doesn't state things clearly in plain english.
Silly swear filter, change the bit in the link at the beginning from numpty to south east water without the gaps. Sorry.
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so........customers haven't got funny with you? complained.....(when it's not raining that is!)
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thanks matt
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so........customers haven't got funny with you? complained.....(when it's not raining that is!)
NO NEVER, AND AS SAID A DROUGHT ORDER HASNT BEEN PUT IN PLACE YET.
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I see. by looks of it the government or whoever gave them authority to put it in place, but it's not been needed yet. sorry, my mistake. fairly pointless topic then, lol. :-[
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Heyup boys and girls in south east, just wondering how your getting on with wfp and a drought order? any grief off the water board? do you trad bottoms to save water? do customers get funny with you?
I live in welsh water area, but work in severn trent, apparently they've promised no hosepipe ban for us this year. many of our customers wouldn't care bout us using water, but some used to have fits combined with nervous twitches with us half filling our bucket at their tap, and would likely frown on wfp in a drought order.
be interesting to see what adjustments, if any, you had to make. don't think we've had this topic before (recently anyway).
take a barrel of water with you and stop using other peoples tap (I would class that as taking the P, they pay you for the job, they class water as gold. ;)
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just cracking on as usual until the water stops coming through my tap i will continue as normal, we pay enough for it, they need to invest money in more resevoirs so when we do have rain they can collect more. :)
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Gotta love the "intelligent" swear filter it's like people who see bad in everything!
Watch what happens when i type Southeastwater without italicising the "t"!
S'pose it would be similar with Scunthorpe! let's see ...
Southeastwater
Sidiothorpe
;D
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Gotta love the "intelligent" swear filter it's like people who see bad in everything!
Watch what happens when i type Southeastwater without italicising the "t"!
S'pose it would be similar with Scunthorpe! let's see ...
Southeasnumptyer
Sidiothorpe
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:o
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I thought this was interesting.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17413994
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April 5th is the day it all starts. Just pay the fine if it happens. try not to be so visible.
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April 5th is the day it all starts. Just pay the fine if it happens. try not to be so visible.
For Southern Water there are no fines for using wfp's, no restrictions and all that and etc etc etc.
It is written very very very very clearly on their website under 'Exceptions' to the restrictions.
• Using a water-fed pole to clean the windows of domestic premises in the course of a business;
http://www.southernwater.co.uk/Environment/WaterResourcesLatest/restrictionsNotice.asp
Also, with regards to Veolia and 'can't use wfp' as posted elsewhere on this forum. On their website there is nothing about the drought restrictions applying to using wfp. Nothing at all.
https://southeast.veoliawater.co.uk/docs/drought-restrictions-explained.pdf
As written elsewhere somewhere on CUI in a posted statement from Ionics there's the H & S aspect which means that using WFP is allowed as written also on the Veolia website.
'A statutory exception exists in The Water Use (Temporary Bans) Order 2010 for the cleaning
of domestic walls or windows in respect of health or safety. This includes:
a) removing or minimising any risk to human or animal health or safety; and
b) preventing or controlling the spread of causative agents of disease'