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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: strakercleaning on August 23, 2004, 10:14:25 pm

Title: Buckets
Post by: strakercleaning on August 23, 2004, 10:14:25 pm
What types of buckets do most people use?
Colour coded for waste or clean water
Square lipped or jug lipped
Capacity marked
Heated



Not that i am that really interested, it's more in relation to FORUM BURNOUT thread..........has this question been aked before ???
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: eclipse on August 23, 2004, 10:23:45 pm
well i use a black calibrated bucket for my solution and i use a plain white bucket to put my soiled solution in at end of job because most customers would like to see how dirty there carpets were and as we all know white shows the dirt better  

how can you give a serious answer to that question ;D
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: paulchambers on August 23, 2004, 10:25:51 pm
Jasonb probably emptied tank on to flower bed
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: Len Gribble on August 23, 2004, 10:27:32 pm
Lee

Very easily I don't use buckets I use a TM
.
Len
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: strakercleaning on August 23, 2004, 10:33:00 pm
Len,
You told me you have a bucket to carry your cash in ;D
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: Dynafoam on August 23, 2004, 10:33:46 pm
Chris,

You tried, but I asked this one on Cleantalk last year  :D

I carry three colour-coded, square-lipped, graduated buckets - clean, dirty and insulator, not that you wanted to know that anyway  ;D

John.
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: strakercleaning on August 23, 2004, 10:34:56 pm
Bah Humbug  :-X
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: Dynafoam on August 23, 2004, 10:35:58 pm
Len,

When using a TM, I still use a bucket - to bleed cold water out of the solution line  before starting and after a break.

John.
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: Len Gribble on August 23, 2004, 11:05:17 pm
John

No longer use the solution line system but do use Solutions.

Len
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: Mike Halliday on August 23, 2004, 11:26:11 pm
John you should do what I do, i poke my wand out of the window and pull the trigger until its steaming ;D

The only use for buckets I have nowerdays is to catch my tears when i'm reading Paul Chambers post about how hard he's finding it :'( :'(

Mike
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: paulchambers on August 23, 2004, 11:30:05 pm
I hate to see a grown man cry things are looking up for me
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: Big_Fish on August 23, 2004, 11:39:03 pm
Mike,
You can get arrested for doing that!

BFN ;)
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: Dave Parry on August 23, 2004, 11:55:08 pm
I use a bucket for carrying spotters and stuff when I have a stain that refuses to be blasted out. otherwise handy for stopping bits rolling around the van.
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: Dynafoam on August 24, 2004, 12:04:00 am
Mike,

With my poor old eyes, I probably would'nt notice that the window was closed  :o ;D

John.
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: eclipse on August 24, 2004, 12:04:03 am
My wife wears buckets!! ;D
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: Glynn on August 24, 2004, 12:29:50 am
I use a TM  and also use buckets, for carrying the money to the bank !!
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: Len Gribble on August 25, 2004, 02:39:32 am
I have a spade to hide it!

Len
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: Dynafoam on August 25, 2004, 03:15:07 am
Len,

You couldn't get all your money under a JCB, let alone a spade.  ;D
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: Len Gribble on August 25, 2004, 03:35:26 am
John

You have to remember the wife she takes 99% that only leaves with 1% that leaves me with the bobcat to dig the hole!!

Len
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: Ian Gourlay on August 25, 2004, 10:03:37 am
John,

I read your words of wisdom on Cleantalk.

I think I did contribute, but if I did not  I noted the contents.

Getting rid of the waste in buckets is my biggest concern.

In my experience Customers do not like it being put down the loo.

Down the sink.

Not too keen on their roses also leaves a lot of fluff that you then need to pick up.
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: paulchambers on August 25, 2004, 11:42:08 am
When i cleaned cookers my oven cleaner supplier informed me that sometime this year new legisalation is coming in regarding disposal of waste water with oven cleaner ph14 in it, it will need to be taking to a water treatment plant, when i lived in Shaftesbury Dorset i would of needed to go 30 miles to Bournemouth to be charged £15 a gallon to dispose of it, and on top of the that te supplier had a duty to inform the relavant bodies who was getting the chemical.LETS HOPE THAT DOSENT HAPPEN TO  CC.   PAUL
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: Dynafoam on August 25, 2004, 07:03:34 pm
Ian,

Quote
Not too keen on their roses also leaves a lot of fluff that you then need to pick up.


Not if you use a fluff-filter.  :D

John.
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: Ian Gourlay on August 26, 2004, 09:22:28 am
I would have aquired a fluff filter but never seen one.
Next time I am in town I will buy some netting and put it over bucket when I empty it.
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: Dynafoam on August 26, 2004, 02:38:51 pm
Ian,

The best place for a fluff filter is in your vacuum line.

The fluff is trapped before entering the waste tank.

I think Hydromaster sell a good one.

Regards,

John.
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: strakercleaning on August 26, 2004, 02:45:22 pm
Should not have fluff......... if vacuumed then gone over with Sebo Duo then vacuumed again ;D
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: Dynafoam on August 26, 2004, 02:59:44 pm
Chris,

With some carpets it just keeps on comming - perhaps it breeds in the warm, damp air of the vac hose  ;D

John.
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: Ian Gourlay on August 27, 2004, 10:36:50 am
Regarding Sebo Duo.

Do you think I would get better results with this and a wand.


Or would I get better results if I invested in  Rotovac


Or do I need both bits of kit.


The list goes on



Maybee I better get a transit after all
Title: Re: Buckets
Post by: strakercleaning on August 27, 2004, 07:55:39 pm
You would need a DOUBLE DECKER bus to carry all you THINK you would need  :)