Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Easyclean Windows on February 15, 2007, 05:27:26 pm
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For the last year now i have been using 6mm microbore and thought it was the bees knees.....until it started kinking and once it happens in the same place it kept pin holing.It was a nightmare trying to fix with barbs etc.
Anyway ive now got Gardiners reinforced microbore and i thought it couldn't be any different how wrong i was.
To kirsty well done excellent piece of hose
Look at the difference in diameter i thought it was all the same but its not.
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Looks good Steve, but its not very long. If I were you I would have got longet than that ;D
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Thats all i could afford
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What are the other clear hoses in your pictures?
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Hi Alex...
the clear hose's are the centre hose from both the red microbore and the yellow i bought from your good selves.
The old one i had (red) has the thinner inner clear tube and the (yellow) you sent me has the more robust heavy duty clear tube.i didnt realise you could get two different microbore hose.
Anyway thank Kirsty for a speedy delivery cracking reel of hose
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Right, I get it now! That is the exact reason we stopped using off the shelf microbore and went back to using the original microbore that we had manufactured for us 4 years ago (our first reel is still in current use with no bursts!)
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is the yellow the new or the red??????.
i have the yellow used it for 6 mnths it still kinks.
maybe mine is overworked!
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I think the yellow one is the new one?
I have 100m of yellow minibore and have also used it for 6 months and it's never once kinked!
Brilliant hose. A must have ;)
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how many hours a day do you use your hose for?
mine is usually 8 hrs min
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7-8 hours
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mine must b a crap hose cos the other 1 that we use has been in 4 mnth & no where near as bad
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The red one is the old microbore ,plastic inner once it kinks in the same place over and over it pin holes and impossible to repair.The yellow is the new from gardiners very heavy duty inner cant see it can ever be damaged very strong and robust.
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sorry but it looks exactly the same as the streamline microbore, and coincidentally the exact same as the 6mm microbore that you can buy from altec.
How does it differ alex?
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It has a slighter tougher inner core. It actually has a slightly larger OD because of this.
I have been supplying 'microbore' to others for over 3 years now and having tried and sold other types, we found that there was too high an incidence of pin-holing. We were getting tired of people wearing it out within a year and there was too many de-lamination problems within the first week of use by customers (about 5% occurence, usually under 100psi strain). We now have this made exclusively for us in the UK.
We have the first 60m reel we had made still in daily use after 4.5 years and whilst it has many scars on the outer layer (someone did a wheel-spin hill start on it 2 years ago!) it is still going strong.
Having said that, any microbore is better to use than 1/2" hose and is well worth switching to whoever you get it from.
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I would now only reccomend the microbore from yourselves Alex as with the other microbore does pinhole very easily and when its under pressure even at 30-40 psi its a nightmare.
Especially when its pinholed and you dont realise, the inside of the van is flooded continuosly .
Another thing i have noticed is that your hose(yellow) is glued to the inner clear tube which was not with the (red) so when i tried to repair the water was coming between both the inside and outside tubing
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Thanks Alex, I have been supplying microbore also for about 3 years - was told by a few at the start 'that stuff will never catch on', well I can say the first 50m roll is still in use every day,its of a completely different construction to your own as it is triple layer rubber hosing - absolute joy to use but then again most mini and microbore hoses now are very good.
I think most wfpers now are mini/microbore but if they aren't then I really think its time they should.
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I have got the micro bore from window cleaning warehouse and i would say it
is every bit as good as any micro bore.
I have been using it for over a year now and it is excellent.
When you are buying just make sure it has the thick rubber inner core as opposed
to the plastic core.
Dave
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dave - look at the post above, we've been supplying the best rubber hose for 3 years now - I like the plastic microbore/minibore but still have to admit nothing comes close to the rubber microbore.
well I would say that wouldn't I?
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Hi
Ive been keeping tabs on the micro/minibore experiment since it first became a talking point last year.
I use the winspray hosing, it doesn't kink, pinhlole, tire me out wnding it in, I regularly have to lay it over a very busy road and it still comes through. Only negative factor is the colour, but we put signs out so we are covered legally.
Norn Iron Ian
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?why dont the market leaders use micro bore ?
is it because others thought of it first
would make my job easier
as when they come in for system repairs i woulndt have to keep trying to make adaptors to fit there expensive hose reels
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?why dont the market leaders use micro bore ?
is it because others thought of it first
would make my job easier
as when they come in for system repairs i woulndt have to keep trying to make adaptors to fit there expensive hose reels
I've asked this question before, seems that most of the 'top of the line' systems are aimed at commercial wc'ers - who obviously aren't pulling the hose around dustbins etc as often as the rest of us.
As for adaptors to fit their hose reels e-mail a pic next time you are changing one over, Ive had to change over quite a few, found a local company who supply just about every type of conceiveable fitting or connection so should be able to get something. Plus just about everything they sell (and I mean they have hundreds of different types of fittings in stock) can be had in either brass, mild steel, stainless steel.