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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: simon sturmey on July 18, 2012, 08:33:40 am

Title: Anyone used this pole????
Post by: simon sturmey on July 18, 2012, 08:33:40 am

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Complete-XTEL-Glass-fibre-water-fed-pole-27ft-brush-/390216031347?pt=UK_HomeGarden_CLV_Cleaning_CA&hash=item5adab01c73

seems a good price just not sure about quality has any 1 used these ???
          thanks simon

Title: Re: any1 used this pole????
Post by: paul13 on July 18, 2012, 08:45:34 am

Good pole for price, but HEAVY i have one, been using regular for over a year.

Title: Re: any1 used this pole????
Post by: simon sturmey on July 18, 2012, 08:48:32 am

im trad at the mo and looking to convert, says it weighs 3kg obviously thats not heavy. does it feel heavier fully extended???

Title: Re: any1 used this pole????
Post by: paul13 on July 18, 2012, 09:17:06 am

Not heavy to lift but working with it all day its heavy,
depends on the person but for just starting out it's
ok, to be honest if i were you id get a clx.

Title: Re: any1 used this pole????
Post by: Blue Frog Systems on July 18, 2012, 10:05:51 am

For a little over £20 more you could get a clx27 that is 1.3kg lighter than that pole. You need to buy a brush, but if your using it day in day out its worth the extra as the clx is over a 1/3 lighter

Title: Re: any1 used this pole????
Post by: SB Cleaning on July 18, 2012, 10:15:15 am

I had a 18ft when i started out, very whippy.

Better than a brodex though ;D

Title: Re: any1 used this pole????
Post by: mark blundell on July 18, 2012, 03:35:23 pm

i've just bought that pole used it for the first time today and its not for me

very whippy and so heavy I thought I would buy a cheep one cos I'm only using it for gutter/fascia cleaning and the odd conservatory.
I don't clean windows any more but will be buying another clx27 soon, as my clx was a great pole and that XTEL pole was hard work especially the angles you hold it at cleaning gutters and fascias.

I'll sell you my one like new only used once lol  ;D

 

Title: Re: any1 used this pole????
Post by: dazmond on July 18, 2012, 06:46:41 pm

PLEASE DONT SKIMP ON POLES!!

i bought a 25ft brodex hydra and 20ft fibreglass streamline pole when i started!i nearly gave myself a nasty shoulder injury using these poles!!avoid like the plague!!

go for a CLX if funds are tight then upgrade to an SLX when funds allow!you wont regret it!! ;) ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: any1 used this pole????
Post by: simon sturmey on July 18, 2012, 08:13:17 pm

clx it is then cheers chaps