Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Suffolkcleaners on December 07, 2024, 10:46:29 am
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what do you guys use to reel hose in when it’s really dirty? I was using microfibre cloths but too much to keep using them. I guess old rags would be another idea. Is there anything you can buy in bulk that’s cheap for this?
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I was thinking industrial blue roll and just rip a bit off and bin immediately. Actually that might work
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I use old large Unger microfibres for reeling in. Get through a few a week in the winter compared to to the summer.
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Microfiber cloth - use 1 maybe 2 in a day - end of the week throw in washing machine
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baby wipes or disposable kitchen wipes.
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In the fire service we used a sponge. I buy 50 micro fibre cloths for £35 at Screwfix and wait till I have a few dozen and wash them in my washing machine. Don't worry about cost because they last a few years.
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I had to take my washing machine to bits after blocking it all up with crap of my microfibres. Since got banned from using the washing machine.
I now throw them in a carrier bag then when ive got loads i put them on my driveway and blast them with the hose pipe gun. That knocks most of the crap off...then i just rinse them under the out door tap, stick them on the washing line and they are ready to go again.
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https://www.screwfix.com/p/essentials-microfibre-cloths-blue-380mm-x-380mm-50-pack/62624
They are up a pound now but still cheap as chips.
You can build them up and wash them at the supermarket washing machine rather than use your own.
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I use old cut up bath towels
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I use microfiber or scrim for reel hose/pole hose and for mopping up drips in the back of the van.
I also have a tub of industrial antibacterial wipes if I'm unlucky enough to drag the hose through cat/dog muck which happens a few times a year.
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I’ve just bought a bag of 10kgs mixed cleaning rags for £20 online. They are all cut to cloth size. I didn’t know this sort of thing existed but it’s a good idea and I can keep my microfibre cloths separate 👍
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I use microfiber or scrim for reel hose/pole hose and for mopping up drips in the back of the van.
I also have a tub of industrial antibacterial wipes if I'm unlucky enough to drag the hose through cat/dog muck which happens a few times a year.
One of my pet hates that (pardon the pun). It lingers for days. Now you mentioned that I might buy some anti bacterial spray to use on a rag as and when it happens again as like you say it always does occasionally..
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One of the most over thought threads on CIU yet🤣 This is all basic beginner common sense stuff.
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I’ve just bought a bag of 10kgs mixed cleaning rags for £20 online. They are all cut to cloth size. I didn’t know this sort of thing existed but it’s a good idea and I can keep my microfibre cloths separate 👍
I usually buy a bag for my mechanic mate from the parts place.
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i use a microfiber cloth 1 cloth for the week then it goes in the wash with the rest only time ill change cloth is if i go through a dog log
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Old teatowels from family, friends and neighbours plus my mate has a pub so beer towels as well.......rinse them through in a tub of hot fairy liquid then washing machine......be sure to rinse out washing machine after.....wife once put some whites in not knowing I had washed cloths the day before whilst she was away.......she was definitely not impressed.
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An old tea towel. When it gets really dirty I put it in a bucket, fill the bucket from the waste water that's running from the RO and wash it through. When the water in the bucket is filthy I fill it from the waste again. Rinse it out and sling it in the back of the van.
Rinse and repeat so to speak.
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I'm quite lucky I bought two 2kws solar panel systems on both sides of my roof meaning its 4kws in total. Then I bought the best Miele washing machine when I retired because I was Trad at the time which had a 10yr guarantee. So from March to October its on everyday. My mum burns out a washing machine in 3yrs and this is the only one she hasn't managed to break. Its been going for 14yrs now and still works well but I see it has trebled in price.
So, if anyone is thinking of a new washing machine you can get a Miele for £800 which my neighbour got and that was 10yrs ago and his is still going strong. 😉
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I'm quite lucky I bought two 2kws solar panel systems on both sides of my roof meaning its 4kws in total. Then I bought the best Miele washing machine when I retired because I was Trad at the time which had a 10yr guarantee. So from March to October its on everyday. My mum burns out a washing machine in 3yrs and this is the only one she hasn't managed to break. Its been going for 14yrs now and still works well but I see it has trebled in price.
So, if anyone is thinking of a new washing machine you can get a Miele for £800 which my neighbour got and that was 10yrs ago and his is still going strong. 😉
I got a Zanussi washing machine and it has been going for 29 years, same age as my fridge freezer which is also Zanussi.
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I'm quite lucky I bought two 2kws solar panel systems on both sides of my roof meaning its 4kws in total. Then I bought the best Miele washing machine when I retired because I was Trad at the time which had a 10yr guarantee. So from March to October its on everyday. My mum burns out a washing machine in 3yrs and this is the only one she hasn't managed to break. Its been going for 14yrs now and still works well but I see it has trebled in price.
So, if anyone is thinking of a new washing machine you can get a Miele for £800 which my neighbour got and that was 10yrs ago and his is still going strong. 😉
What the actual f##k ;D
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This post has gone from reeling hose in to washing machines ???
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I bought a cheap washing machine a few years ago when my old one broke. Paid £170 for it. It only lasted a year or so until the bearing collapsed l. But being tight I stripped it down and replaced the bearings. Then we ended up buying a bigger one anyway so it's in the shed. I intend to use it to wash cloths etc but it's buried and I cba .
Anyone else have any cool washing g machine stories ?
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Got up one Sunday after a night on the sauce. Went to the kitchen to get a glass of water and went beck to bed.
Lying in bed I'm thinking... why are my socks wet?
Washing machine had shat it's pants.
Fun times.
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If it’s washing machine stories you want . I have a belter . Are you all ready , sit down get a cuppa and I will begin . We recently moved house . Brought our old one with us . But when we got the keys to the new place , there was already one plumbed in . I still tell this story 3 months later, gets loads of laughs down the pub . No one can believe it , but it’s true . Unbelievable.
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I'm quite lucky I bought two 2kws solar panel systems on both sides of my roof meaning its 4kws in total. Then I bought the best Miele washing machine when I retired because I was Trad at the time which had a 10yr guarantee. So from March to October its on everyday. My mum burns out a washing machine in 3yrs and this is the only one she hasn't managed to break. Its been going for 14yrs now and still works well but I see it has trebled in price.
So, if anyone is thinking of a new washing machine you can get a Miele for £800 which my neighbour got and that was 10yrs ago and his is still going strong. 😉
Picking through this ...
Miele washing machines are the mutt's nuts.
We buy middle of the road dishwashers, tumble dryers and fridges.
In 2003 with three kids and a trad. window cleaning round bought a Miele Washing Machine. Replaced it with another Miele in 2020 just before lockdown.
Now the kids have left home I reckon it will see me out!
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I'm quite lucky I bought two 2kws solar panel systems on both sides of my roof meaning its 4kws in total. Then I bought the best Miele washing machine when I retired because I was Trad at the time which had a 10yr guarantee. So from March to October its on everyday. My mum burns out a washing machine in 3yrs and this is the only one she hasn't managed to break. Its been going for 14yrs now and still works well but I see it has trebled in price.
So, if anyone is thinking of a new washing machine you can get a Miele for £800 which my neighbour got and that was 10yrs ago and his is still going strong. 😉
I got a Zanussi washing machine and it has been going for 29 years, same age as my fridge freezer which is also Zanussi.
The one before the Miele of 2002 was a Zanussi bought in 1985. I put new bearings in that. By 2002 I reckoned Zanussi wasn't what it used to be and went Miele.
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Cheap microfibres. Dishcloths till they get scraggy after a wash. Then they become floor cloths. Then they migrate to the van. If it rains they are wrung out. Once they have been black for a month they go in the bin.
Vin
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I dont even bother with cloths when its really bad. I just reel it in and sling the pole in the back. Usually end up with my clothes blathered in muck, wet feet, wet hands. Just get on with it and clean the van out properly once the weather improves. ping in the wind trying to keep things clean this time of year, i only wash my van every couple of weeks its pointless soon as ive done it next day its in the same state again.
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Always worth running hose through cloth/towel. Especially if running an Xtreme. Mine lasted three years before relegating it to second pole position and adding a section. Still being used now after 3.5 years.