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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Nick Day on August 30, 2016, 01:44:00 pm
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Hello,
I know a few of you asked us a couple of weeks ago to put a video of the 1250 watt machine working, well on Friday I managed to take a video of a job we were doing using the 1250 watt machine (this is the machine we always use). Here it is lifting a weed out of some gutters, these gutters were particularly narrow between the tile and the gutters so we were using the extra thin head on this job (it's 12mm wide). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_nB99Km1JI
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Nice vid but can it do this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8oswcbDG6A
Turf anyone ...green side up paddy ;D
What also make me chuckle was the wheelbarrow on the roof and the guy not wearing any fall protection either :D
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Hi Nick, how much is the bracket for sj4000 cam to vac pole, I did email via website but had no reply
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Hello,
E-mail again with pole size (diameter) and I assume you want both head and pole clamps.
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E-mail sent thanks
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Looks like much better tools than my sky vac
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You (and Sky vac) would be shocked by how many people contact us for our tools for their poles.
One customer had spent two days trying to finish a large Housing Association contract in London. They even went to the extreme of cutting a piece of their poles to send to us for perfect match, we then found out why those poles act like a whip!!
We sent them the tools and got a very nice e-mail telling us that they managed to finish the contract in two hours with our tools..........ooops
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Do you do a set of tools that will fit the sky vac poles? Or is it individual tools you sell?
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Is that a garden shed? Bet that used up a lot of poles.
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And your point is??
If your poles are as good as ours, the height is irrelevant,
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Sky vac tools aren't very good . Blue flexible tool holder bends far too much. Can you get these tools to fit sky vac poles ?
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And your point is??
If your poles are as good as ours, the height is irrelevant,
Only that I'd like to see it in action on a higher building with a longer reach thats all.
What power is the Clarke 20 in your vid?
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Not gonna happen ....
Anyway Dave you must know by now that you can't ask questions like that because you are only a potential customer and have no right to know the answers to such difficault questions such as real performance
Darran
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Dave that's a 1250 watt machine in that video.
Darran??
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This morning a chap was enquiring about an industrial unit gutter clearing job. The usual wide box gutters including the bit in the middle like the vid I posted. Hmmm... I thought I don't own a wheelbarrow ;D ;D
I gave him the name but not the number of a firm to try that specialises in this type of gutter clearing as was not interested to take it on myself. The chap searching the tinternet then phoned me twice more.
Mind you I do come up in quite a few places but still I thought it would be quite simple for him to find the firm I was on about as are also on the first page too. Obviously not...Bless him.
The point I'm trying to make is you need the right tools for the job even though a small vac may work on some jobs on others may struggle. That's even using the most powerful vac you can buy can be totaly useless on some jobs. I know I've tried.
What I will say is Nick being a gutter cleaner himself has put a lot of thought into the design of the extra tools he uses to help overcome some of the issues associated with guttervac clearing with the aim of not having to break out the ladders to get the job done.
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Do you do a set of tools that will fit the sky vac poles? Or is it individual tools you sell?
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Sorry Shrek thought I'd answered you, yes we can make the whole head attachment to fit their poles. Mod Note: Please email advertising@cleanitup.co.uk if you are interested in advertising on Clean It Up.
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Cheers pal
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Got mine from there....3kw version though with carbon poles.
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Dave that's a 1250 watt machine in that video.
Darran??
i was in North Walsham a few weeks back watching a two man team using a small (1250 watt) gutter vac on a 3 storey house the run was about 3 ft long adjacent to the gable - 30 minutes later it was still full of crud, in the end they used the pole with weed hook disconnected from the vac and just kept raming and bouncing the gutter pushing the waste out where it promptly covered the lower tiled roof in all an hour to clear a 3 ft stretch of domestic guttering
when you do a video removing what you removed from a ground floor gutter i'll be in the que to buy a system from you
Darran
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Darren,
You just posted an absolute blatant lie, very disappointed!!
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What lie is that ?
I was there - were you ?
Darran
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:o
Does the 1250 have a cyclonic inlet?
I use a Nilfisk 1800 (I think) it's ok but soon loses power once the filter gets splattered.
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The building was approx. 25' across. It had about 10' of gutter then a right angle to 3' of gutter. It had two runs of this either side of making approx. 26' of guttering. Both approx. 13' runs were as jam packed, as bad as I have ever seen.
We never go out and quote, we have a fixed price range and stick to it with no "extras". We always make sure we do the job.
The building faced on to a slope, 5 x 5' poles one end to 6 x 5' poles the other. It opened directly on to a concrete drive which was also an access drive to a communal car park. We never carry ladders, but they were out of the question anyway.
The gutters had less than an inch of gap between the tiles and outer edge of gutter.
The root ball was the full length of gutter both sides, completely filling the gutter, and it all had to come through a less than 1" gap, had the roots been very wet it would have been easier as they would have been more pliable but they were only slightly damp which made them far harder to work on.
Suction was out of the question, but because of our extremely rigid, light and strong poles we were able to work the whole lot out with our downpipe fork (probably one of the most effective gutter clearing tools available.) we gave the gutters a vacuum before leaving, to clear any loose dirt left.
I had and still have never met Darren. I saw him arrive, he was still there when we left about 10 minutes later. I honestly thought he was a double glazing salesman after all somebody has to pay for all that waffle, it was only when we in the van that Alex had recognised him from a picture he had seen and mentioned it to me.
So yes Darren I was there and I know you were, but it is like my late father-in-law used to say "there's them that talk a good job and there's them that do a good job.
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Hello Dave
Sorry I should have said, No we cut off the angled inlet and put a baffle about 4" back which allows all the muck to hit and fall into the tub.
Cyclonic inlets are simply a marketing tool and expensive add on, they certainly do not create a cyclonic effect (perhaps only on your pocket).
It took Dyson over 2000 attempts to create his cyclonic effects and that only applies to dust particles.
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Anyone thought if adding a cyclone to vac for added suction.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cyclone-Powder-Dust-Separation-Collector-Filter-For-Vacuums-Cleaners-Plastic/381502212112?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D38707%26meid%3D6c058f8e29a141b6ba8cb97c0d06a6bc%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D18%26sd%3D311509596167
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Hello Dave
Sorry I should have said, No we cut off the angled inlet and put a baffle about 4" back which allows all the muck to hit and fall into the tub.
Cyclonic inlets are simply a marketing tool and expensive add on, they certainly do not create a cyclonic effect (perhaps only on your pocket).
It took Dyson over 2000 attempts to create his cyclonic effects and that only applies to dust particles.
Interesting, most of the competition seem to claim an increase in suction using this method. Good idea adding a baffle 'cos most vacs come supplied with a ninety degree deflector on the inlet which is pretty useless for our needs but without it the filter is in direct line of fire.
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That's exactly what we found Dave, we actually started out with a Numatic with the cyclonic inlet (Polarbrite with the adapted Waterfed pole if anyone remembers it). We didn't find any difference between that and a standard inlet. I think the difference is that we adapt our machines for gutter cleaning whereas others don't.
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I was doing a wee job today and hardly anything in the gutters but still did them anyway as was partially blocked. Also checked the downspouts where unblocked too. Easy 100 for one hour work but then was asked to do the plastics that seemed to take forever so as you do underpriced it as was on the hop so another 100 for twice as long. :'(
No disrespect nick but I would not want to use a small single motor vac day after day as would do my head in
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You are so right about the fascia's compared to emptying. Customers expect the out sides to be cheaper then the emptying.
As for the vacs, it's what ever suits you.
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I have one of your 1250 machine nick and it does a decent job.
I still have to question your video though, i cant see the machine in the video?
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Nick,
What comes in your tool set for gutter clearing and how much. I'm very interested.
Send me a link on 07717756357 or lance@sunshinewindowcleaning.co.uk
Cheers