Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: jon adams on April 09, 2007, 10:53:28 am
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Hi all, im using a glass fibre 38 ft gardiner pole which is much too heavy.
I need a minimum of 38ft to clean 4th floor so looking to buy carbon fibre pole dont want to go over 45 ft any reccomendations? with prices please.
Thanks Jon
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I would go for either the facelift carbon fibre or Gardiners Superlite pole.
Cheers Jon
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The telescopic nature of the facelift 44ft c/f pole won me....but saying that I have not used anything else...
Cheers
Dave.
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For that kind of height it`s gotta be superlite.
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Thanks guys, who makes the facelift cf and how much is the 42ft?
Jon.
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Cleantech. Tel 01563 550 450 Recommended!
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Essentially Pure - Tony- 07944 227635
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how much are these poles
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a 44ft carbon facelift will set you back about 750 + vat, but well worth it.
tony
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tony do you do 40 foot universal poles how much
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if you mean me ,i dont do a 40 foot glass fiber universal and i would its far to heavy and flexable
not nice to use a carbon fiber is the only option in my opinion at this height
i do have a second hand 45 foot ergo light which is for sale 07944227635
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how much for the ergo-lite sair and is it in good nick?
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;D i got my 40ft carbon ultra lite pole from a shop in hamilton and it comes with spare top super stiff section , cost is £399, does the brushes and goose necks too.
his no is 01698 283903
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What make ?
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exactly the same as the gardiner super lite
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Just a point, the Super-Lite™ does not use a standard taper top section - we have a reengineered extra strong/stiff top section. We also use an insulated base section.
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Alex I'm curious do you think your insulated base section will fit my F16 ? also is it a parallel section?
Chris
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E-mail me with your telephone number and I will give you a call.
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sent
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Chris - I haven't received the email. Did you send it to the email address on my profile or the business email (which won't get to me!).
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think it was your profile but anyway 07900 32 32 31
Chris
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Alex you got mail
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hi ,
the guy in hamilton gives you two strong/super stiff sections and a spare extension ,with his package he also isulates them , it a brilliant deal !!
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Problem with insulation with top or just bottom is that you will probably hit the lines mid way up. The Zensor flex is a non conducting glass fibre, the bigger sections will interchange with a carbon fibre somewhere along its length so you can put one piece of the Zensor midway in a couple of different positions as a "spacer" I had them tested, they are non conducting to 10000 volts.
Super stiff top sections still cost lots of money when you need to replace them. If you use the No3 or No4 section of the Zensor or any other glassf section as a shoulder or collar they spread the load onto the c/f and only cost £18.99- £25 to buy another complete pole to use as replacement sections. Having said that in 13 months I havent managed to break one theose glass fibre sections- yet :)
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The subject of insulation is an interesting one.
We insulate our bottom section because we are retailing and want to show that we have taken practical steps to make our product 'user- safe'.
Tucker poles, Brodex Pro-long poles, Omnipole Power-poles etc., all are fully conducting (being aluminium) and no one ever seems to have a problem with them.
I personally use a Super-Lite™ with no insulated section as all of the commercial jobs I do have no over-head electricity cables (all legally have to be underground nowadays). I have however worked in a thunderstorm and watched the lighting getting closer and at a certain point had to stop work until the lightning had passed over.
An interesting point with even fibreglass poles is that if the brush head was wet and the pole was wet, would it conduct electricity down to the user? I think so, so in a thunderstorm it would be most unwise even to use a fibreglass pole as chances are you would still get fried! The same would apply with high voltage power lines as how often are your poles bone dry?