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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Roland S on November 14, 2012, 11:09:08 am
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hi
where i live there's lot's of high ceiling 3-4 storey buildings like in photo below, that i find are a little bit too high for me to work comforatably with my 50mm alloy poles and hence i'm turning away quite a lot of work. can anyone who uses carbon fibre poles confirm that jobs like shown in the photo below (which i would say are 3 1/2 floors high taking into account the basement) are easily dooable with carbon poles? and also has anyone got any reccomendations on the best/cheapest 50mm carbon poles?
(http://www.ultracleansolutions.co.uk/pics/3storey.jpg)
thanks in advance
roly
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Hard hats,walkway cordoned off(do you need permission to close a footpath?),risk of loose slates damaging cars etc,risk of unclipping sections of gutter,risk of dislodging downpipe,risk of breaking gutter clips.
My mind is made up on this gutter cleaning now,if i can`t put my hands on it one way or another then i`ll leave it to chancers(no offence meant).
Truck mounted cherry picker if access problem is solved,off the top of my head, £280 for a single house,discounted for multiples.
Brilliant if any of you guys experienced in this work would comment,i`m guessing.
I don`t think i`m guessing saying that carbon gutter poles at that height are near uncontrollable whilst sucking.
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(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1352913684_phpd5tVJ7AM.jpg)
Easy ;)
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no problem with gardiner gutter pole from gutter vac: www.grippadirect.co.uk
each section is 5ft and only 340 gr!
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I know the weight isn`t the biggest problem but actually getting the sucking tool to where you want it can not be easy,in fact it has to be damn hard making adjustments in directions etc.I`d like to see a demo of someone successfully using the dig out/agitator tool at that height.You tube is full of video`s of guttervacs doing the simplest of tasks and yet they still make it look hard.The Ionics video of that Upkeeper machine would put anyone off,turning a 20 second job into 20 minutes.
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got one with alloy poles and TBH it's a nightmare working with it. Most gutters have tiles overhanging the gutter and sections not fitting in.
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(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1352913684_phpd5tVJ7AM.jpg)
Easy ;)
:) is that you working mark, what poles do you use?
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no problem with gardiner gutter pole from gutter vac: www.grippadirect.co.uk
each section is 5ft and only 340 gr!
yeah that's what i;ve been looking at, do use these poles? do they handle bits of tile going down etc without wearing out very quickly?
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That's me, and they are Gardiners Superlight base sections. No wear problems. Had them three or four years now. Vac wore out though.
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no problem with gardiner gutter pole from gutter vac: www.grippadirect.co.uk
each section is 5ft and only 340 gr!
yeah that's what i;ve been looking at, do use these poles? do they handle bits of tile going down etc without wearing out very quickly?
yes i use these poles and the numatic vac. I bought the system 2 weeks ago, so far so good, very happy with that!
very light poles and a great vac! ;)
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what height of poles do you comfortably work at with these carbon poles? i was thinking of getting 42' of poles, but they're very expensive so i don't want to buy more than i am going to be able use.
also i use 50mm vacuum hose, i see that these poles are a bit thinner. with my alloy poles i use a jubilee clip to attach the poles to the hose, what do you use for these?