Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: 8weekly on November 20, 2014, 07:46:44 am
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Does any one offer this?
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Does any one offer this?
do it yourself mate it's easy
X1 Electric tape
X1 clear coat lacquer
I did mine Sunday picture below
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There was a post ages ago from someone who was planning to offer this but I don't recall anything more from him. Can't find the post, I'm afraid.
You could always flog on Ebay and buy new - might be cheaper than having someone work on it.
Vin
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This pole here only 14 months old but got a 22slx 3 to 4 years old and still works like new.
Even do the vac poles too.
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Sorry, but if you are earning close to 80k a year as a sole trader, why on earth would you bother?!
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Sorry, but if you are earning close to 80k a year as a sole trader, why on earth would you bother?!
who earns that 8weekly?
Tight git 😄
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I would have though being on £300 a day, every day, reconditioning an old pole would have been the last thought on your mind ;D ;D
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Sorry, but if you are earning close to 80k a year as a sole trader, why on earth would you bother?!
You see that's why you are a window cleaner and not an accountant.
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There was a post ages ago from someone who was planning to offer this but I don't recall anything more from him. Can't find the post, I'm afraid.
You could always flog on Ebay and buy new - might be cheaper than having someone work on it.
Vin
That's not a bad idea.
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Does any one offer this?
do it yourself mate it's easy
X1 Electric tape
X1 clear coat lacquer
I did mine Sunday picture below
That's amazing! Unfortunately I am totally hopeless at practical stuff. My slx25 is a bit of a dog now and made worse by the fact that I have a new slx18 which is lovely to use.
ADDED LATER:
The SLX25 is only a year old & has loads of life left in it, but just needs someone to do what you have done to your pole to make it feel nice to use again.
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I did the first video on it. It's bloody easy. Just have a go ;p
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I did the first video on it. It's bloody easy. Just have a go ;p
Have you got a link? I'll get the wife to do it. About time she got off her arse. :o ;D
Actually, the above is not fair as she spends 8-10 hours a week dropping leaflets.
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Sorry, but if you are earning close to 80k a year as a sole trader, why on earth would you bother?!
You see that's why you are a window cleaner and not an accountant.
Put it in as an expense is what your accountant will say, so its not a bad idea ::)roll
And £350 (ish) from 80k isn't a drop in the park...
Pure H20's vid is good though, ive tried the laquer and it works well
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Sorry, but if you are earning close to 80k a year as a sole trader, why on earth would you bother?!
You see that's why you are a window cleaner and not an accountant.
It is about £285 incl VAT (and you get a free brush) - not £350 - and being a higher rate tax payer you get 40% back anyway. Seems I would make a better accountant than you.
If the pole has earned you £80k I would say that is a good return and you probably need a new brush, you may find replacing the brush enables you to earn another £100 a week through increased efficiency.
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Sorry, but if you are earning close to 80k a year as a sole trader, why on earth would you bother?!
You see that's why you are a window cleaner and not an accountant.
It is about £285 incl VAT (and you get a free brush) - not £350 - and being a higher rate tax payer you get 40% back anyway. Seems I would make a better accountant than you.
If the pole has earned you £80k I would say that is a good return and you probably need a new brush, you may find replacing the brush enables you to earn another £100 a week through increased efficiency.
;D ;D ;D
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The SLX25 is only a year old & has loads of life left in it, but just needs someone to do what you have done to your pole to make it feel nice to use again.
I'll give you £50 for it Steve. ;)
Cash.
Just tell the taxman you drove over it and had to write it off ;D
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Why don't you just put smart clamps on it?
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Lol. Just get a new 1 you tight git.
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Why don't you just put smart clamps on it?
cause he aint that smart ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Why don't you just put smart clamps on it?
It has smart clamps. The clamps are fine. I think it just needs a laquer as it's lumpy compared to my new SLX18.
Thanks for your offer Matt and your advice Mick and your opnion Franky. They have all been filed appropriately.
And dd, I still think you chose the right job in window cleaning. Accountancy definitely isn't for you.
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Yes. Unfortunately the average accountant does not earn £80k plus a year so it would be a waste of time having to pass all those exams.
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Thanks for your offer Matt and your advice Mick and your opnion Franky. They have all been filed appropriately.
In the bin? ;D
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Yes. Unfortunately the average accountant does not earn £80k plus a year so it would be a waste of time having to pass all those exams.
The average accountant would deduce that if someone said that they would only hit the VAT threshold once they employed then they weren't turning over £80k for a start. The average accountant would also realise that turnover is not earnings. Unfortunately the average windowcleaner does not get this fundamental truth. ;)
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Thanks for your offer Matt and your advice Mick and your opnion Franky. They have all been filed appropriately.
In the bin? ;D
Yarp.
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If you are turning over 80k as a sole trader, unless you are doing something wrong your overheads should not be over 6k on an average year. As a higher rate tax payer a new slx 25 will only cost you around £171 and you get a free brush.
If you speak to your accountant I am sure he would recommend this option over faffing about trying to apply lacquer to a worn pole. This leaves you more time to focus on working or running your business or simply recuperating after a hard weeks work.
Just for the record I have no aspirations to be an accountant, which is why I use a window cleaning forum, although I do my own accounts. On your previous thread you indicated you were about to go through the VAT threshold even as a sole trader.
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Just for the record I have no aspirations to be an accountant, which is why I use a window cleaning forum, although I do my own accounts.
I suggest you take some advice then, because if you are as you stated previously claiming a sixth of your utility bills as an allowance for home office, then you are seriously misguided. ;)
Good luck.
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this thread has really made me laugh! ;D ;D
trying to get someone to revamp his year old slx!its easy!just take it apart,flush with water then re assemble with new tape and a squirt of ptfe spray.job done.itll take you about 30 mins. ::)roll :)
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Yes I do claim that. Around £3800 is the biggest expense - 45 per mile for the van.
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this thread has really made me laugh! ;D ;D
trying to get someone to revamp his year old slx!its easy!just take it apart,flush with water then re assemble with new tape and a squirt of ptfe spray.job done.itll take you about 30 mins. ::)roll :)
I did that but it's still lumpy. It's stiff to open and close. The clamps are fine, although the top one is just starting to go.
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Yes I do claim that. Around £3800 is the biggest expense - 45 per mile for the van.
You claim £3,800 for home office? What do you do, clean windows by remote control from your PC? ;D
Ironic that you criticise someone for paying VAT and at the same time defrauding HMRC. Lol.
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Yes I do claim that. Around £3800 is the biggest expense - 45 per mile for the van.
I see I misread. £3,800 is the mileage claim. It's unusual to claim that allowance if you are a tradesman.
Joking aside, if you offset the whole cost of purchasing your van against your turnover I don't think you can claim that mileage allowance. Seriously, you need advice from an expert. I could be wrong, but I thought the 45p per mile was if you used your personal vehicle for your business. Similarly, I am pretty sure you can't offset, VED, insurance, servicing if you are claiming the 45p.
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thats right you cant, i did 22000 miles last year ;)
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Yes I do claim that. Around £3800 is the biggest expense - 45 per mile for the van.
I see I misread. £3,800 is the mileage claim. It's unusual to claim that allowance if you are a tradesman.
Joking aside, if you offset the whole cost of purchasing your van against your turnover I don't think you can claim that mileage allowance. Seriously, you need advice from an expert. I could be wrong, but I thought the 45p per mile was if you used your personal vehicle for your business. Similarly, I am pretty sure you can't offset, VED, insurance, servicing if you are claiming the 45p.
You can claim 45 per mile for the first 10,000 (which I do not exceed). Doing this means you cannot claim the purchase price as a capital expenditure, but as I have owned the van from new for 9 years (I always planned to keep it long term), seemed the best route to go down.
If you change your van more frequently you are better going down the capital allowance route instead.
The other advantage is it is more simple in that I do not have to keep fuel receipts or any other van related bills as it all allowed for in the mileage allowance. 9 years ago though the mileage allowance was comparatively more generous than it is now.
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Yes I do claim that. Around £3800 is the biggest expense - 45 per mile for the van.
I see I misread. £3,800 is the mileage claim. It's unusual to claim that allowance if you are a tradesman.
Joking aside, if you offset the whole cost of purchasing your van against your turnover I don't think you can claim that mileage allowance. Seriously, you need advice from an expert. I could be wrong, but I thought the 45p per mile was if you used your personal vehicle for your business. Similarly, I am pretty sure you can't offset, VED, insurance, servicing if you are claiming the 45p.
You can claim 45 per mile for the first 10,000 (which I do not exceed). Doing this means you cannot claim the purchase price as a capital expenditure, but as I have owned the van from new for 9 years (I always planned to keep it long term), seemed the best route to go down.
If you change your van more frequently you are better going down the capital allowance route instead.
The other advantage is it is more simple in that I do not have to keep fuel receipts or any other van related bills as it all allowed for in the mileage allowance. 9 years ago though the mileage allowance was comparatively more generous than it is now.
I suggest you get an accountant or call HMRC for guidance for clarification. Generally the allowance you are claiming is for use of your personal vehicle in your business and means not only that you can't claim the capital allowance, but that you can't claim any other expenses. If you do decide to call an accountant, I recommend you call a different one to the one that advised you in the matter of your home office.
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I need to check this my accountant. I have just bought a new van and he has stated I should jeep fuel receipts. I intend to keep the van for 5-10 years.
I am sure the mileage rules changed. He explained (and I checked)
You cannot claim mileage to and from work. So you can only claim milage AT work. Does that make sense?
What is your 10 jobs are 10 miles apart at each one. Doesn't make sense.
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I need to check this my accountant. I have just bought a new van and he has stated I should jeep fuel receipts. I intend to keep the van for 5-10 years.
I am sure the mileage rules changed. He explained (and I checked)
You cannot claim mileage to and from work. So you can only claim milage AT work. Does that make sense?
What is your 10 jobs are 10 miles apart at each one. Doesn't make sense.
Your at work the minute you get into your van unless you have a unit somewhere.
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this thread has really made me laugh! ;D ;D
trying to get someone to revamp his year old slx!its easy!just take it apart,flush with water then re assemble with new tape and a squirt of ptfe spray.job done.itll take you about 30 mins. ::)roll :)
I did that but it's still lumpy. It's stiff to open and close. The clamps are fine, although the top one is just starting to go.
sprayed with laquer this pole will slide like new 😄
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I need to check this my accountant. I have just bought a new van and he has stated I should jeep fuel receipts. I intend to keep the van for 5-10 years.
I am sure the mileage rules changed. He explained (and I checked)
You cannot claim mileage to and from work. So you can only claim milage AT work. Does that make sense?
What is your 10 jobs are 10 miles apart at each one. Doesn't make sense.
Your at work the minute you get into your van unless you have a unit somewhere.
That was my take on it. Every day i pretty much start a different house as such. :( I need to get a new one. Starting to pick holes in mine and not even had him long :(
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Been watching this (and another closely related, abuse-filled) thread with bemusement.
The part I find slightly tragic is "If you're turning over £X then you shouldn't care about wasting £Y". There's simply no logic to that. Every business should maximise turnover and minimise expenses, no matter how far apart the two numbers are.
Argued as "You could earn more by cleaning windows for an hour than you'll save by doing Z," it makes some sense, but that wasn't related to the original question - in fact the opposite. The OP was trying to pass off the time he'd waste and pay for it.
If it's not a simple refurb involving a wash down and tape, I still reckon that buying a new one and flogging the old one would be the best course. You don't spend a day without the pole, you get a guarantee from Gardiners on the new pole and you'll get surprisingly close to the purchase price for the old pole.
Vin
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Been watching this (and another closely related, abuse-filled) thread with bemusement.
The part I find slightly tragic is "If you're turning over £X then you shouldn't care about wasting £Y". There's simply no logic to that. Every business should maximise turnover and minimise expenses, no matter how far apart the two numbers are.
Argued as "You could earn more by cleaning windows for an hour than you'll save by doing Z," it makes some sense, but that wasn't related to the original question - in fact the opposite. The OP was trying to pass off the time he'd waste and pay for it.
If it's not a simple refurb involving a wash down and tape, I still reckon that buying a new one and flogging the old one would be the best course. You don't spend a day without the pole, you get a guarantee from Gardiners on the new pole and you'll get surprisingly close to the purchase price for the old pole.
Vin
So in essence, you agree with what most are suggesting. ;)
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CIU - don't you just love it. ;)
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So in essence, you agree with what most are suggesting. ;)
If you ask me for a straight answer, then I shall say that, as far as we can see, looking at it by and large, taking one thing with another in terms of the average of arguments, then in the final analysis it is probably true to say, that at the end of the day, in general terms, you would probably find that, not to put too fine a point on it, there probably wasn't very much in it one way or the other as far as one can see, at this stage.
Vin
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I'll my peni5 is bigger than all of yours...ok maybe not, its a grower not a show'er
;D
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So in essence, you agree with what most are suggesting. ;)
If you ask me for a straight answer, then I shall say that, as far as we can see, looking at it by and large, taking one thing with another in terms of the average of arguments, then in the final analysis it is probably true to say, that at the end of the day, in general terms, you would probably find that, not to put too fine a point on it, there probably wasn't very much in it one way or the other as far as one can see, at this stage.
Vin
You should be a politician Vin!! ;D
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So in essence, you agree with what most are suggesting. ;)
If you ask me for a straight answer, then I shall say that, as far as we can see, looking at it by and large, taking one thing with another in terms of the average of arguments, then in the final analysis it is probably true to say, that at the end of the day, in general terms, you would probably find that, not to put too fine a point on it, there probably wasn't very much in it one way or the other as far as one can see, at this stage.
Vin
;D ;D FAF
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Yes I do claim that. Around £3800 is the biggest expense - 45 per mile for the van.
I see I misread. £3,800 is the mileage claim. It's unusual to claim that allowance if you are a tradesman.
Joking aside, if you offset the whole cost of purchasing your van against your turnover I don't think you can claim that mileage allowance. Seriously, you need advice from an expert. I could be wrong, but I thought the 45p per mile was if you used your personal vehicle for your business. Similarly, I am pretty sure you can't offset, VED, insurance, servicing if you are claiming the 45p.
You can claim 45 per mile for the first 10,000 (which I do not exceed). Doing this means you cannot claim the purchase price as a capital expenditure, but as I have owned the van from new for 9 years (I always planned to keep it long term), seemed the best route to go down.
If you change your van more frequently you are better going down the capital allowance route instead.
The other advantage is it is more simple in that I do not have to keep fuel receipts or any other van related bills as it all allowed for in the mileage allowance. 9 years ago though the mileage allowance was comparatively more generous than it is now.
I suggest you get an accountant or call HMRC for guidance for clarification. Generally the allowance you are claiming is for use of your personal vehicle in your business and means not only that you can't claim the capital allowance, but that you can't claim any other expenses. If you do decide to call an accountant, I recommend you call a different one to the one that advised you in the matter of your home office.
I do actually know what I am doing and if you bothered to read my post correctly I explained that if you go down the mileage allowance route you cannot claim the purchase cost as a capital allowance, or any of the other ongoing costs.
A few years ago I was called up by the local tax office and they went through my accounts in fine detail and everything was OK. Perhaps you know more than they do?
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anyone got some specific advice on how to recondition/ apply lacquer to the pole? My top two sections are losing their grip and extending with a struggle, but id rather not pay over £150 to replace them.
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What pure h2o's youtube vid....he's a spanner ( ;D) but the vid is helpful
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any chance of a link? I'm a bit of a spanner as well
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http://youtu.be/QNeHSiVhfS4?list=UUbuxJ_e6-YuPC4Xp_3YX_KQ
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It's also worth taking apart the clamp bolts and giving them a little clean and spray.