Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: PurefectWindowCleaning on March 02, 2014, 07:08:24 am
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Do you clean your hose, and clean the pole hose after every job/jobs?
As we have a van mount, we reel in with one hand and have a damp cloth in the other placing the hose in your hand thus cleaning it as you reel in.
We then without fail every time putting the CLX back in the van, with a damp cloth wipe down the pole hose.
Am I suffering with OCD, or do you do the same?
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Yes and no.
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hiya
i do this if the hose goes through mud or if its dirty or if I've been in a garden with loads of dog muck around.
nothing wrong with what your doing I'm just not as anal as you. ;D ;D ;D
regards
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Do you clean your hose, and clean the pole hose after every job/jobs?
As we have a van mount, we reel in with one hand and have a damp cloth in the other placing the hose in your hand thus cleaning it as you reel in.
We then without fail every time putting the CLX back in the van, with a damp cloth wipe down the pole hose.
Am I suffering with OCD, or do you do the same?
I wish I was that thorough! I do not think its OCD I think its pride in your business and wanting to make things last. Do you have any employees? Are you a growing company? Because this type of mentality will make a business super successful ( you will be buying way more CLX pols lol)
What you are doing is a 'system'. I am at this minute putting 'systems' in place for my next company growth. 'Systems' ensures your future staff are doing just like you, the way you want. Keep doing it, in fact write your 'systems' down, they will become your companies Bible. I certainly will revisit this area of my business on the back of this post. Thanks for reminding me about this area.
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hiya
i do this if the hose goes through mud or if its dirty or if I've been in a garden with loads of dog muck around.
nothing wrong with what your doing I'm just not as anal as you. ;D ;D ;D
regards
Is it that your van Cliff? I dropped you a PM in FB buddy :)
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Do you clean your hose, and clean the pole hose after every job/jobs?
As we have a van mount, we reel in with one hand and have a damp cloth in the other placing the hose in your hand thus cleaning it as you reel in.
We then without fail every time putting the CLX back in the van, with a damp cloth wipe down the pole hose.
Am I suffering with OCD, or do you do the same?
I wish I was that thorough! I do not think its OCD I think its pride in your business and wanting to make things last. Do you have any employees? Are you a growing company? Because this type of mentality will make a business super successful ( you will be buying way more CLX pols lol)
What you are doing is a 'system'. I am at this minute putting 'systems' in place for my next company growth. 'Systems' ensures your future staff are doing just like you, the way you want. Keep doing it, in fact write your 'systems' down, they will become your companies Bible. I certainly will revisit this area of my business on the back of this post. Thanks for reminding me about this area.
Lee - Yes I have 1 employee, and he is exactly the same as me, if anything he is worse ;D
Am I a growing company? I'd like to think so even tho this is my 10th year in business at the age of 28.
Over the last 2 years ive turned WFP, upgraded equipment and bought a flash new van, along with rebranded my whole company.
So would you class that at 'growing'... id say so.
And before anyone says that im patting my own back... well yeah i am as ive been to hell and back at the beginning and now boast all of the above with FAR to many customers :D
And am very very proud in what I have acheived
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Do you clean your hose, and clean the pole hose after every job/jobs?
As we have a van mount, we reel in with one hand and have a damp cloth in the other placing the hose in your hand thus cleaning it as you reel in.
We then without fail every time putting the CLX back in the van, with a damp cloth wipe down the pole hose.
Am I suffering with OCD, or do you do the same?
I use old towels, quartered for cill wiping and hose cleaning.
If I didn't run the reel hose through a towel then I'd often get wet grass, mud, or worse on my gloves.
The pole hose is after the tap I have in a holster on my belt and so is often looped above the ground but it often twists and gets mucky so I unclip my tap and reel it and the pole hose, still connected round the reel through the old towel.
Also when I remember I put a wrap of gaffer on the end of the pole once a week where the hose runs through and this gets any odd remaining grit
before it goes in the pole.
May be that's why (along with replacement clamps) I have my 2008 and 2010 SLX poles still running.
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Do you clean your hose, and clean the pole hose after every job/jobs?
As we have a van mount, we reel in with one hand and have a damp cloth in the other placing the hose in your hand thus cleaning it as you reel in.
We then without fail every time putting the CLX back in the van, with a damp cloth wipe down the pole hose.
Am I suffering with OCD, or do you do the same?
I do the same but if i clean the front of house first i always wipe down pole hose before extending the pole to do the upper windows at the back always always without fail . Mike
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No
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every time i extend the pole and when putting away
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Yes we do that every time
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Do you clean your hose, and clean the pole hose after every job/jobs?
As we have a van mount, we reel in with one hand and have a damp cloth in the other placing the hose in your hand thus cleaning it as you reel in.
We then without fail every time putting the CLX back in the van, with a damp cloth wipe down the pole hose.
Am I suffering with OCD, or do you do the same?
We do the same 8)
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I don't bother with this unless it's pretty bad. As for pole hose, I reduced the need to do this a long time ago because I forced myself into the habit of using it externally. It can get in the way a bit more but at least it's not gritting the inside of the pole.
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Do you clean your hose, and clean the pole hose after every job/jobs?
As we have a van mount, we reel in with one hand and have a damp cloth in the other placing the hose in your hand thus cleaning it as you reel in.
We then without fail every time putting the CLX back in the van, with a damp cloth wipe down the pole hose.
Am I suffering with OCD, or do you do the same?
Do the exact same every house mate plus if I've been at one with loads of dog cr@p if the customer has a hose il rinse the reel and pole and its hose down too. Makes thing a bit more pleasant to work with instead of grit and dirt all over ya.
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Yes I always do this every time the pole and reel hoses are put away. I have never had problems with the poles sticking or wearing out prematurely - largely due to this cleaning.
Cheers, Tom
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I find that I need to as there's always dirt and grit on the pole hose, it also stops
grit getting into the van as I hang my poles in an overhead roof rack.
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I clean the pole hose 2 or 3 times a day, when it gets gritty. I can't remember the last time I cleaned the minibore tho
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we do it after every job too
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makes sense to clean all hoses after every job. Takes an extra 10 seconds to grab a cloth?
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Just the hose for me and pole hose
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cleaning the pole hose after most jobs has become standard practice plus once a month i take all sections apart on my main pole and give them a good flush inside and out and a light spray with PTFE.every other month i spray the sections with clear lacquer too.
its an expensive pole i want it to last me 2 or 3 years if possible! ;)
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Never unless its gone through a pile of poop that some dog owner couldn't be assed to scoop up from the pavement
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I don't clean my pole hose, though sometimes it's pretty dirty/gritty and I shudder at the thought of the inside of the pole though it's only 4 weeks young.
With the reel hose I don't reel it in after every house - this did my head in during my first day of wfp. I now make big loops of it in my hands then place it on top of the reel in the van - I find I'm using pretty much the same amount of hose for each house so why keep reeling it in and out all the time when you can just pick the loops up and away you go. End of the day every Friday it gets wound back in properly via a cloth to clean it. At the start it looped just fine but I now seem to get figure of 8s sometimes (or even plums/potato shapes!) instead of nice circles, odd.
I do loop my pole hose in a similar manner as I've recently attached a gutter to the ceiling to put the pole in, then hang the looped pole hose off the brush/neck - it probably is good practice to wipe down the pole hose but as a noob I'm likely wasting far too much time over cleaning as it is without then rubbing down all the hose with towels.
What I need to do is remember to attach the pole hose to the reel hose BEFORE I turn the pump on, to save me getting sprayed. What I haven't yet worked out is how to not get soaked when disconnecting the reel hose connector from the van port!