Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Tom White on January 19, 2015, 09:11:29 am
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I've got an immersion heater, but never used it last night; consequently my hose reels and transfer pump hose is frozen; my brushes are like rock too.
It took nearly an hour to fill my tank, after fannying about defrosting the transfer hose, and I've got a heater in the back of the van now defrosting that.
**Sigh**
Anyone else?
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day off ! lol
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I'm having a day off anyway. I procrastinated on my accounts and am visiting the accountant tonight. I'm putting it in readable form for him first, wading through receipts and entering them into the spreadsheet, so it's a day of paperwork. I really should do this as I go along. The bonus is that I've done most of the following year's too. I will be bringing everything up to date in the coming days - and keeping it up to date. I always used to do that but got a bit sloppy in recent years.
So, a nice warm day for me - I'm pretty much up to date with the cleaning so no issue with that. We've escaped the worst of the bad weather in the southeast (so far).
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Its forecast low temperatures all week I'll just be starting a bit later that's all!
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First freeze of the winter so far but done my head as behind now after a 3 hour thaw out.
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im same tosh had no idea it was going to be so cold today, got oil filled radiator in there now gonna go out in an hour hopefully
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Still frozen. >:(
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get your ladder and bucket out, bit of antifreeze in your bucket and your away ;)
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staff just sent me a photo from the van earlier -8 showing
not ideal day for the builders cleans (obviously can't be completed via WFP) nightmare
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get your ladder and bucket out, bit of antifreeze in your bucket and your away ;)
I'd rather shove Kosovan wasps up my bottom (they're really aggressive wasps; think of Scottish people in wasp form; just not as Gingery and they don't smell like men's toilets).
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staff just sent me a photo from the van earlier -8 showing
not ideal day for the builders cleans (obviously can't be completed via WFP) nightmare
ladders and bucket ;)
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Bit warmer +2 but snowing and breezy will make a mess of windows so hanging on a bit for it to clear
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I've been out this morning done a bungalow and a house and the water is freezing on the slabs,I've called it a day and got me feet up the fire.
Hope tomorrow is better .
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Not sure were you live, but North East was -4 last night. The only form of heater I use is a small fan heater, plugged into a timer switch that I put on from 9pm-12pm then 6am until 8.30am.
You can set it for every other hour if you 100% want everything warm but it does the job for me:)
Get them from the cheap shops.
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Had the van parked in the unit with the heater on so no problems, got my guy out working in the sunshine!
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And people say hot water freezes quicker than cold............
My lpg heater is making its money again for me today when others in my area are not working. :)
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We had a good day in the end. I'll make sure I set the timer on the tanks immersion heater for tomorrow. :P
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Plopped my aquarium heater in the van tank last night and awoke to a tank full of warmish water.
Set off this morning at 9am, outside temperature was -2 but still got a respectable day done without any problem.
Gotta be on the ball this week in prepping the van for the next day's work as it's gonna be cold all week. ;)
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Immersion on for 4.5 hours overnight. Got into a lovely warm van & tank of very warm water, supple hoses all day & sunshine!! ;D
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Bungalows all day started about 815 water freezing on windows and formining ice in bucket went home for an extra hour put some screen wash in bucket and had a good day
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Cover your tank and pipes with a towel/rags etc. How your gear is freezing up, inside van is beyond me. Post what van you have. When I am working with van doors open, its got a chance of freezing, but driving swishes water about, so always flowing
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put heater in van last night as it was forecast -2 through the night, nice warm van this morning,
went out with t-shirt + sweatshirt + hoodie + bodywarmer, by 10.30 was working in me t-shirt was lovely and warm 8)
might be getting thundersnow on wednesday though
tony
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Gutter clear 1st thing. Should've been half an hour. Didn't get done until 10 :'(
Frozen crap over a conservatory is not fun.
Not a good start to the week but still feeling positive.
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Bungalows all day started about 815 water freezing on windows and formining ice in bucket went home for an extra hour put some screen wash in bucket and had a good day
A few years back I started cleaning this house with a massive conservatory. The house was no problems, since the house is heated.
The conservatory wasn't though, and as I rinsed each pane, it just frosted up. And since I started, I thought I may as well finish and I left the whole conservatory, this massive thing, completely frosted up.
;D