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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: ajwindows on July 25, 2003, 01:52:28 am

Title: Do suppliers actually use the equipment they sell
Post by: ajwindows on July 25, 2003, 01:52:28 am
I bought a new Unger washer frame the other day which for a peice of plastic wasnt cheap. More irritating than that though is every time you take it out of the bucket the handle collects a small amount of water which runs down your arm when you start to use it.  >:( Surely it wouldnt take much effort to put a hole in the base so the excess water actually fed into the sleeve from the inside. This would also save plastic which could be reflected in the price!!
Maybe I should patent the idea if no-one else has thought of it already ;D

Title: Re: Do suppliers actually use the equipment they s
Post by: GVS on July 26, 2003, 01:55:41 am
NO I DONT THINK THEY DO
HALF OF THEM CANT TELL BETWEEN A HARD AND A SOFT RUBBER
Title: Re: Do suppliers actually use the equipment they s
Post by: Glazeguard on July 26, 2003, 06:01:51 pm
so how do you tell the difference between a hard and a soft rubber and does it really make any differnce ???
Title: Re: Do suppliers actually use the equipment they s
Post by: dave_ball on August 07, 2003, 12:48:38 am
Come on then GVS how do you tell the difference ???
Title: Re: Do suppliers actually use the equipment they s
Post by: gibbouk on August 07, 2003, 02:34:30 am
i only use soft rubber and i cant use anything else nowdays. bought a vice versa and tried it with the standards hard unger rubber found it horrible and sticky
Title: Re: Do suppliers actually use the equipment they s
Post by: Polepro on August 18, 2003, 03:14:41 pm
Ott's washer T bar has a hole at the end inside the handle, perhaps the guy who designed it got a wet arm too some time in his life maybe when he was a window cleaner.
Title: Re: Do suppliers actually use the equipment they s
Post by: krob on August 20, 2003, 08:08:34 pm
8) I think some of them do as you can get good advise sometimes - the idea of the drain hole is good but not patentable
Title: Re: Do suppliers actually use the equipment they sell
Post by: pootwo on January 20, 2008, 09:55:43 pm
SUME DO
Title: Re: Do suppliers actually use the equipment they sell
Post by: [GQC] Tim on January 20, 2008, 10:41:46 pm
The ergotech handles have a hole there.

But IMO the best water retention would have to go to the ettore pro grip ones. They don't have a hole there, but it takes a flick of a wrist to turn the washer sideways to get the water out. Takes a minute to drill a tiny hole.
Title: Re: Do suppliers actually use the equipment they sell
Post by: brett walker on January 20, 2008, 10:55:08 pm
Hi there

if this includes wfp equipment

i know pure freedom and gardiner pole systems use some of their own equipment because they make it

regards

Brett
Title: Re: Do suppliers actually use the equipment they sell
Post by: stevekennedy on January 20, 2008, 11:01:35 pm
remember, water will also travel the other way too. If you have a hole, surely the water will run down your arm when you are using it.
Title: Re: Do suppliers actually use the equipment they sell
Post by: [GQC] Tim on January 20, 2008, 11:06:45 pm
remember, water will also travel the other way too. If you have a hole, surely the water will run down your arm when you are using it.

It's under one of the recesses. And yea, you would think so on the ergotech handles, but...it doesn't somehow. Haven't used it in quite some time, can't remember what it looks like anymore.
Title: Re: Do suppliers actually use the equipment they sell
Post by: jouk45 on January 20, 2008, 11:42:49 pm
gardiner pole systems are suppliers, alex also runs a wfp business so knows all the insides and outs
Title: Re: Do suppliers actually use the equipment they sell
Post by: sair on January 21, 2008, 10:31:52 am
essentially pure also run a window cleaning business and incorporate a lot of traditional window cleaning

we all ways use the equipment we sell hence most of what we sell is tried and tested 07950 706623
Title: Re: Do suppliers actually use the equipment they sell
Post by: Old_Master on January 22, 2008, 10:19:53 am
This is one of our window cleaning businesses

www.phcleaning.com (http://www.phcleaning.com)
Title: Re: Do suppliers actually use the equipment they sell
Post by: Small but perfectley formed on January 23, 2008, 04:17:05 pm
how about your back pack not good ???