Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Scottish Cleaning Service on December 03, 2025, 04:04:24 pm
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Lost an hour this afternoon because I drove round the back of lockups to clean the back of a house. We used to be able to continue driving down and round onto the tarmac until the boy racers were using it as a race track. The moment I stopped the van and seen the big concrete bollard I knew I was in trouble especially with the rear wheel drive my van has. A few guys came out and helped me by placing fencing boards under the wheels and pushing me out. In the end I lost an hour and think I will design plywood boards that fit together to see if it works by spreading the vans weight. Watch this space!
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Lost an hour this afternoon because I drove round the back of lockups to clean the back of a house. We used to be able to continue driving down and round onto the tarmac until the boy racers were using it as a race track. The moment I stopped the van and seen the big concrete bollard I knew I was in trouble especially with the rear wheel drive my van has. A few guys came out and helped me by placing fencing boards under the wheels and pushing me out. In the end I lost an hour and think I will design plywood boards that fit together to see if it works by spreading the vans weight. Watch this space!
Get yourself a backpack. Don't put your wheels on it or drive over it though. Just fill it with water and walk round to the back of the house with it.
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Was you still able to trouser a ton in a couple of hours?
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Lost an hour this afternoon because I drove round the back of lockups to clean the back of a house. We used to be able to continue driving down and round onto the tarmac until the boy racers were using it as a race track. The moment I stopped the van and seen the big concrete bollard I knew I was in trouble especially with the rear wheel drive my van has. A few guys came out and helped me by placing fencing boards under the wheels and pushing me out. In the end I lost an hour and think I will design plywood boards that fit together to see if it works by spreading the vans weight. Watch this space!
Plywood boards have already been invented. They're 6'x4' generally.
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Lost an hour this afternoon because I drove round the back of lockups to clean the back of a house. We used to be able to continue driving down and round onto the tarmac until the boy racers were using it as a race track. The moment I stopped the van and seen the big concrete bollard I knew I was in trouble especially with the rear wheel drive my van has. A few guys came out and helped me by placing fencing boards under the wheels and pushing me out. In the end I lost an hour and think I will design plywood boards that fit together to see if it works by spreading the vans weight. Watch this space!
Plywood boards have already been invented. They're 6'x4' generally.
Usually 8x4 😉
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Was thinking of cutting a few down to 400mm by 2400mm and then fixing something on top to give a bit of grip.
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Was thinking of cutting a few down to 400mm by 2400mm and then fixing something on top to give a bit of grip.
Are you mad? ;D
Use a backpack on a sack truck or drop the job. ::)roll
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Just dont drive on wet grass ???
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I will still do the job but stay on the tarmac. I was thinking of trying to invent something cheap which I could sell.
Anyway, had a terrible day yesterday. First thing my electric reel refused to reel back in and had to reel it in by hand and use the other reel. Later got bogged down trying to cut corners. Lastly I decided to hose down the wheels and get the mud off so pulled out most of my garden hose. The moment I put it away, the automatic winder was in speed mode and near took my hand off and snapped something inside so that was the end of that. Ordered another on Amazon for £150 so never made anything yesterday bar 40m of spare hose. 🤔
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Was thinking of cutting a few down to 400mm by 2400mm and then fixing something on top to give a bit of grip.
Just get off roading mats or boards much easier ,this type of thing (http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1764868591_IMG_0632.jpeg)
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Lost an hour this afternoon because I drove round the back of lockups to clean the back of a house. We used to be able to continue driving down and round onto the tarmac until the boy racers were using it as a race track. The moment I stopped the van and seen the big concrete bollard I knew I was in trouble especially with the rear wheel drive my van has. A few guys came out and helped me by placing fencing boards under the wheels and pushing me out. In the end I lost an hour and think I will design plywood boards that fit together to see if it works by spreading the vans weight. Watch this space!
Personally I would park on a hard surface and use my 100 m hose to get me to the job
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Exactly that. Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t 100 metres of hose enough to reach? Or didn’t you think of that?
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Exactly that. Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t 100 metres of hose enough to reach? Or didn’t you think of that?
100m is plenty but I remember I could drive down and round because I used to live around the corner. The reason it never happened before was because I used to clean 2 houses and would walk round the back of the other house and clean both. That house was sold so I only clean one house at the moment and I was trying to save time but I never realised the council had fitted a concrete bollard at the exit. It was a tough lesson to learn and then a few other things happened that day when someone reversed into the van. Its the only time I'm glad I have an old van because there was no damage. Not had a day like that since school days but I still managed to pickup 3 new customers and I don't know why.