Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: David Kent @ KentKleen on December 07, 2013, 11:22:21 pm
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Come on! lets have it!
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we gonna play the drums with these poles?
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Harris pole :)
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Harris pole :)
+1
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What no Chinese option. Ptttfff
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She lives along Anzac Close in Peacehaven (near Brighton).
She is absolutely gorgeous both in looks and mannerisms.
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you should know that only gardiner users are allowed into this forum ;D
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I use CLX 27 every day, works for me. Yes, the closed length can be be annoying in some tight spaces, but on the whole its great.
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Tried 4 of the 5 recently.
Brodex - solid but very heavy and outdated.
Facelift - good poles - too expensive.
Ionics - surprisingly poor quality.
Gardiners - SLX-22 - pole of choice for me.
Reach it? Never even heard of it?
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what are the gardiner pole mad of?
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Carbon.
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SLX 35ft for me, town house and velux window all very reachable with that size pole.
Very good pole.
Equally as good is the Glyder mk2 from Ionics very good pole but dreadful brush.
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Really? I bought an Ionics pole - a Glyder or Grafter or summat. It was kak. Very surprised as ionics stuff is normally top drawer. You certainly pay the premium for it.
I now use it as a squeegee pole.
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How can you comment when you don't what you had? Grafters are rubbish that's why they don't make them any more.
They Glyder has been improved and is a very good pole and is more or less the same price as a slx.
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i voted for gardiners because i have only every used brodex or gardiners.
i might have tried facelift but gardiners was a better deal with brush ect
Paul
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Must have been a Glyder then as it was just last month I bought it.
I was most surprised that the ionics pole was kak. Everything I have bought from them in the past has been good - overpriced - but good.
The pole itself was OK - although the middle section was cut too long, first time I collapsed it the end flew off. The pole hose supplied with it was too stiff and as previously stated the head is guff.
I can comment as I was giving my opinion on what I did have, as the op asked.
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Really? I bought an Ionics pole - a Glyder or Grafter or summat. It was kak. Very surprised as ionics stuff is normally top drawer. You certainly pay the premium for it.
I now use it as a squeegee pole.
Glyders & grafters are both crap.
The swift+ is a superb pole.
Completely different to the others.
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what are the gardiner pole mad of?
gold
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We use this one: http://www.windowcleaningwarehouse.co.uk/shop/index.php?option=com_aceshop&route=product/product&path=75_15_297&product_id=1322
With a Gardiners type 2 aluminium end cone - this is the nearest I can find on their site: http://www.gardinerpolesystems.co.uk/acatalog/Aluminium-Pole-End-Screw-Type3-Alloy_Pole_Adaptor.html - seems to replace the earlier types.
With a standard plastic gooseneck and a hole drilled in the base cap for internal pole hose you have a good, serviceable 18ft pole that lasts forever. The clamps have inner locking collars that cost £1.31 to replace and last for months.
Won't satisfy the 'Super-doopa bells and whistles' brigade but it does the job, year after year and weighs about a third of a comparable glass fibre pole.
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We use this one: http://www.windowcleaningwarehouse.co.uk/shop/index.php?option=com_aceshop&route=product/product&path=75_15_297&product_id=1322
With a Gardiners type 2 aluminium end cone - this is the nearest I can find on their site: http://www.gardinerpolesystems.co.uk/acatalog/Aluminium-Pole-End-Screw-Type3-Alloy_Pole_Adaptor.html - seems to replace the earlier types.
With a standard plastic gooseneck and a hole drilled in the base cap for internal pole hose you have a good, serviceable 18ft pole that lasts forever. The clamps have inner locking collars that cost £1.31 to replace and last for months.
Won't satisfy the 'Super-doopa bells and whistles' brigade but it does the job, year after year and weighs about a third of a comparable glass fibre pole.
Hi Ian
Do you mean this?
http://www.wintecs.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=406&osCsid=kl8pv72b625bhhs6gusrhtqnn5
No hole through the middle though - hose on the outside
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Hi Spruce,
If that's the same as one I tried years ago, it's absolute rubbish >:( The alloy screw is hollow and made of extremely thin alloy and attached to the plastic by prongs of alloy crimped through - the one I tried fell off as I was trying to screw the gooseneck on to it.
The Gardiners one is solid alloy and is a fairly good fit in the Unger pole, we just drill and put a retaining bolt and nut through the end of the pole and the neck of the pole end screw.
Then we drill a hole on the skew into the top of the pole so we can draw the pole hose through.
Thanks anyway,
Ian
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Brodex beating Facelift!! :o These were the poles which were going to change everything too!! ;D
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SLX-22
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Hi Spruce,
If that's the same as one I tried years ago, it's absolute rubbish >:( The alloy screw is hollow and made of extremely thin alloy and attached to the plastic by prongs of alloy crimped through - the one I tried fell off as I was trying to screw the gooseneck on to it.
The Gardiners one is solid alloy and is a fairly good fit in the Unger pole, we just drill and put a retaining bolt and nut through the end of the pole and the neck of the pole end screw.
Then we drill a hole on the skew into the top of the pole so we can draw the pole hose through.
Thanks anyway,
Ian
It is the very one. We used them for years without issue although I must admit, the end cap wasn't very robust.
I didn't realise the Gardiner alloy adapter fitted that easily. We still use the Teleplus pole from time to time as it works nicely on Juliet Balconies as the ali pole has a nice flex. We also have other adaptors so can be used for high level trad work and I have a scrapper for removing those solid bird strikes that the edge of the brush won't do.
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what are the gardiner pole mad of?
gold
You called?
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Brodex beating Facelift!! :o These were the poles which were going to change everything too!! ;D
No chance are Brodex poles better than Facelift IMO.
The Facelift poles I have used have been excellent - the only issue I had with them was that they were not supplied with a brush, pushing the price too high.
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the best residential pole ive ever used and owned.even better than the SLX poles is an extreme 25 with AD,carbon 10in 55 degree gooseneck and extreme brush.
this pole is simply awesome and is used nearly all day every day.no other pole comes close in rigidity and ease of use.
i know a few of you would recommend an 18 ft version of this pole but it d come up short on lots of my work,same with the 22 footer.too short.25 ft is just right.
i lacquered it this morning after giving it a good flush out with water.great tip by a guy on here.i reckon it will last me years.
the slx 22 is a good cheaper pole.i have one but its redundant since i bought a few extremes and came up short on some work which left me having to go back to the van for a longer pole wasting time.
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Brodex beating Facelift!! :o These were the poles which were going to change everything too!! ;D
No chance are Brodex poles better than Facelift IMO.
The Facelift poles I have used have been excellent - the only issue I had with them was that they were not supplied with a brush, pushing the price too high.
Tongue in cheek! ;D Although it's still brodex in front! ;D
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Extreme 18 and then i have various options to take it up to 50ft.
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Extreme 18 and then i have various options to take it up to 50ft.
If you can get to 50 you could get to 80 couldn't you.
All bases covered, if the need arises.
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Extreme 18 and then i have various options to take it up to 50ft.
If you can get to 50 you could get to 80 couldn't you.
All bases covered, if the need arises.
We yeah i could, but i wouldn't. If we are doing high work then we start off with a 47ft extreme.
We have the extreme extensions but not the HS extensions. So at the moment cut off is around 60ft. Tbh 50ft is fine for me, any more and its just not fun :)
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we use slx 22 for most daily work but carry slx35, extr 35 and extr 47
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SLX35, broken down into sections, used mainly as a slx22 and then re built for jobs as and when needed also carry a clx18 in the van in case of problems with the slx