Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Steven Biggs on September 07, 2015, 08:21:34 pm
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Do I need to connect the hose from a gardiners backpack to some pole hose . Also am I right in thinking if I'm only using 10 metres on the backpack pole hose is best to use . Cheers barry
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We just plug the pole hose direct into the backpack via a rectus 21 connector
Darran
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I just use rectus 21 also mate for all my fitting
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Cheers lads rectus 21 then .
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Do I need to connect the hose from a gardiners backpack to some pole hose . Also am I right in thinking if I'm only using 10 metres on the backpack pole hose is best to use . Cheers barry
10 metres of pole hose on your pole ( this is for a 18' or 22' pole, if you use a longer pole you will need more pole hose ) with 6mm male hosetail on the end, then 8mm female rectus 21 on the backpack.
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I mean 10 extra metres when the pole is extended . Should get most houses if just placed on the drive .
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when i ordered my gardiners backpack i opted for the female rectus 26 connector as thats what i use on all my fittings.i dont use any extra pole hose as i have a few metres extra on my main pole anyway.
i only use the backpack on the odd awkward access job here and there and for applying virosol.i bought a little fold flat trolley that i use for some jobs.saves carrying it around.
its good to have a backpack as emergency back up if main pump fails/van off the road etc.
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I have always used hoselock style connectors, the one from my backpack has a tap on it and hose has been cut short and zip tied to handle, whichever sort of connection you use imo some sort of tap is needed either on pole or backpack, if you are going to add 10 meters of hose and be 10 meters from the bp then without some sort of device you will waste a lot of water and be forever re filling it.
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Yeh he will defo have a tap taped to the bottom of the pole . Just like I have . On off with the thumb . What you all reckon . Should he get two 3 bed semis with a backpack full . It's hard to gauge when you have a van mount and water is not an issue . Off to aqua force in leeds tomorrow . Get him an slx 25 . Those rectus fittings . When you disconnect em does it stop the water or do I need one with a stop end on . Cheers barry .
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A couple of times I needed to backpack it for a few weeks while van was off the road. I just used the pole with extra pole hose fitted. Although I normally use a hoselock type tap connector, I didn't while using the backpack; I was concerned about damaging the pump with regular stop/start under pressure. My method involved placing the pole at the point it was first needed, stretching the pole hose out as far as possible and connecting up, then switching on and working toward the backpack. The hose length would get me through a few windows because I could work for the same distance on the other side of the backpack. On smaller properties I could clean the whole house from one backpack position. Waste was minimal as I tended to clean faster to compensate. Also, I worked to a much lower flow setting than from a van mount. I was surprised how little I could get away with on maintenance cleans.
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I've always used hozelock type fittings myself. Only reason really is that way when I did not need to use pure I could easaly connect my poles to a standard garden hose reel and outside tap without faffing about using an adaptor but each to there own I suppose.
I soon found out cleaning cladding, fsg, plastic conservatory roofs etc you don't really need to use pure water at all. Also I've found using tap water from an outside tap the pressure and flow rate is alot better than using a wfp pump so gets the job done quicker and you save alot of pure water too.
If you don't have access to an outside tap that's when a van mount come in handy as saves carting loads of water about.
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I've always used hozelock type fittings myself. Only reason really is that way when I did not need to use pure I could easaly connect my poles to a standard garden hose reel and outside tap without faffing about using an adaptor but each to there own I suppose.
I soon found out cleaning cladding, fsg, plastic conservatory roofs etc you don't really need to use pure water at all. Also I've found using tap water the pressure and flow rate is alot better than using a wfp pump so gets the job done quicker.
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and hoelocks are cheaply available everywhere in every town.
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I've always used hozelock type fittings myself. Only reason really is that way when I did not need to use pure I could easaly connect my poles to a standard garden hose reel and outside tap without faffing about using an adaptor but each to there own I suppose.
I soon found out cleaning cladding, fsg, plastic conservatory roofs etc you don't really need to use pure water at all. Also I've found using tap water the pressure and flow rate is alot better than using a wfp pump so gets the job done quicker.
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and hoelocks are cheaply available everywhere in every town.
Indeed ;)
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Apart from the male ones that fit onto the pole hose so is always a good idea to carry some spare specially if you have big feet like me and inadvertently stand on one. Oops ;D