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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Michael Peterson on December 05, 2012, 09:59:37 am

Title: going from 2 to one man system
Post by: Michael Peterson on December 05, 2012, 09:59:37 am

Hi im hopefully going to get my new transit back from the garage (tank bolting down) after blowing up a doblo with 50,000 miles on the clock the other day!

my question is this, i have a 650 litre upsright tank and all the  bits, now i have always run a one man system with a gas heater... now can i run two hoses after the gas heater by just splitting or wold i be better off by sticking another pump on the battery and just having one hose heated?

im sure like me everyone has been sat in for a week (now) off work with a broken van it doesnt feel great :)

Title: Re: going from 2 to one man system
Post by: Michael Peterson on December 05, 2012, 12:05:11 pm

any advice any please  :(

Title: Re: going from 2 to one man system
Post by: AuRavelling79 on December 05, 2012, 05:20:38 pm

Your post doesn't make sense compared with the title - are you going from 2 to 1 or 1 to 2?

And which model and engine Doblo blew up and how?

Title: Re: going from 2 to one man system
Post by: Spruce on December 05, 2012, 05:37:56 pm

If I think you meant what I think you mean then we have a pump each when we work off the same van.

I have a 110 amp leisure battery and this supports both pumps without issue.

There are some on here who have one pump through their heater, split into 2 hose reels, and they are making it work for them.
As we each have our own setup preferences we find this is easy to manage with seperate pumps and seperate controllers.

As Gold has a Doblo he would be very interested in your engine issues.

Title: Re: going from 2 to one man system
Post by: Michael Peterson on December 05, 2012, 05:59:16 pm

Thanks for the advice man i think i will go for the two pumps and just have one of them cold, if the hose freezes on the floor i will use the backpack etc for the second person.

i had a doblo 1.3 multijet 16v, the timing chain snapped ! i was driving along all of a suddern the oil light came on then a crunch an that was it, im having a second hand engine put in at a cost of about 1200 all in so i am going to have the second van as a spare, i have been caught out so mny times with vans of the road im just going to run the two of them, i know more expensive but ill not be left not working again :-)

the doblo i think is a great van everyone has said to me its just unlucky, your very unlikly to have the same thing happen to yours :-)

Title: Re: going from 2 to one man system
Post by: bobplum on December 05, 2012, 06:34:01 pm

 i think lee gls as a splitter on the hot water hose and feeds two reels no problem