Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: NWH on December 18, 2007, 04:43:22 pm
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I`ve had enough with this cold weather,don`t get me wrong it`s not the weather as such it`s the fact that hoses just don`t like the cold,in the new year i`m going hot for deffo no more worries on cold mornings.I reckon i was 1-1.5 hrs behind today because of the cold,that in itself would have paid for months of gas or deisel to run it.
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why you moaning, i had a great day yesterday today and yesterday, i think even you would be impressed, and it was cold,
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As a thermo WFP user I love this weather. At least it's dry ;D
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I take it your ankle has recuperated Alex.
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I reckon it was his wrist, ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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ankle didnt stop me one bit, i hopped all the way round, dad was helping me out thought, without him id be stuck,
but now, i flew round yesterday, started 1 hour late finished 1 hour early, i was amazed,
and you moan about cold, pffff
and the ankle is just a bit sore, and weakish
wrist?........lol
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Glad to hear it Alex.
My motor was in for a full service today so didn't have the use of it. However my work today was all on my doorstep so just came home for my water when I needed it. Had a pretty good day too.
Mark
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thats what you want, i only have three jobs on my door step, next door neightbours
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Due to the pole hose getting kinked and stiff i bought one of those "hose tidy" things from freedom the other day.
Brilliant!!
No more kinked hose. The tidy thing is a bonus too, but i could of lived with that.
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Due to the pole hose getting kinked and stiff i bought one of those "hose tidy" things from freedom the other day.
Brilliant!!
No more kinked hose. The tidy thing is a bonus too, but i could of lived with that.
still waiting for mine to be delivered ::) ::) :'( over 2 months
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i ordered it of ebay last tuesday and it arrived saturday.
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i ordered it of ebay last tuesday and it arrived saturday.
I was given one for a reason I am not putting on here but not got it yet
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i bought a hose tidy from B & Q does a similar job to the freedom for less than £3.00
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i bought a hose tidy from B & Q does a similar job to the freedom for less than £3.00
any pics or what it is called what you bought from b&q m8 was thinking of getting the one off of ebay out of emas tipsbut if there is a cheaper way will look in to it thanks
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Is it just me, but I always seem to work about 10% more quickly in the cold than when it's warmer.
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You do seem to get on with it more in the cold weather.
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i bought a hose tidy from B & Q does a similar job to the freedom for less than £3.00
any pics or what it is called what you bought from b&q m8 was thinking of getting the one off of ebay out of emas tipsbut if there is a cheaper way will look in to it thanks
they are called "cable carry" cost £1.98 each found them in the section with the electrical cables and extention cables i think they are for lawn mower cables
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i bought a hose tidy from B & Q does a similar job to the freedom for less than £3.00
any pics or what it is called what you bought from b&q m8 was thinking of getting the one off of ebay out of emas tipsbut if there is a cheaper way will look in to it thanks
they are called "cable carry" cost £1.98 each found them in the section with the electrical cables and extention cables i think they are for lawn mower cables
is this what you mean how did you connect it to your pole
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thats the baby !
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Is it just me, but I always seem to work about 10% more quickly in the cold than when it's warmer.
I tend to work faster and the custys don't want to chat as much, but I'm more tired out at the end of the day.
Does anyone know if microbore is more likely to freeze up compared to regular hose?
Simon.
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thats the baby !
how id you connect it to your pole cheers
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m.b.s sorry mate i havnt i have about 40 ft of micro bore wrapped around it just hold it with the pole
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m.b.s sorry mate i havnt i have about 40 ft of micro bore wrapped around it just hold it with the pole
??? ;)
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Is it just me, but I always seem to work about 10% more quickly in the cold than when it's warmer.
Alex,
Very true. It's also quite amazing how fast you can plough through work on a wet day too. Turns a negative outlook day into good positive income.
On a different note. Did a close full of 3 storey town houses today using the SL-2. Having only used it on a few blocks of flats before now I thought that it would be slower on these terraced three up monsters. Very pleasantly surprised to be wrong.
Once the routine was in place it was quick. It was also a darned sight easier to reach over parked cars and conservatories than with our previous setup (Unger Tele-heavy-banana).
Thank you Alex. It used to ache. Now it felt like one of our easier days. Before you ask - I am not on commission.
I could do with speaking to a few milkman to learn the best ways of transporting five bits of pole around and making it look easy ;D
Ben
(P.S. Does anybody else get funny looks when they wheel out the SL kitbag. I swear a few customers curtain twitched and thought they were going to get shot by a trained assassin setting up near their house)
Someone I know who has an SL uses a light golf-bag strapped onto his back!
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You might think you work faster, but in fact you slow down in the cold...
Water moves more slowly the colder it gets, to the point where it frezzes and doesn't move at all
Hoses stiffen and are less likely to move smoothly
Rubber diafraghms (sp?) in pumps stiffen and are not so flexible, move less water
YOU stiffen, your muscles tighten and you do not operate like the well-oiled mahine you are (!)
The cold affects your thinking and slows down your judgement and ability to respond to situations and you have more accidents
and on and on.
You think you are working quickly becasue in reality you wish you werent out there at all and cant wait for it to be over.
Hot systems have the edge over cold, and dressing properly will help, but big heavy clothes will weigh you down like lead.
Cuts hands are painful when they thaw.
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You might think you work faster, but in fact you slow down in the cold...
Water moves more slowly the colder it gets, to the point where it frezzes and doesn't move at all
Hoses stiffen and are less likely to move smoothly
Rubber diafraghms (sp?) in pumps stiffen and are not so flexible, move less water
YOU stiffen, your muscles tighten and you do not operate like the well-oiled mahine you are (!)
The cold affects your thinking and slows down your judgement and ability to respond to situations and you have more accidents
and on and on.
You think you are working quickly becasue in reality you wish you werent out there at all and cant wait for it to be over.
Hot systems have the edge over cold, and dressing properly will help, but big heavy clothes will weigh you down like lead.
Cuts hands are painful when they thaw.
100% agree with that :-[
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You might think you work faster, but in fact you slow down in the cold...
Water moves more slowly the colder it gets, to the point where it frezzes and doesn't move at all
Hoses stiffen and are less likely to move smoothly
Rubber diafraghms (sp?) in pumps stiffen and are not so flexible, move less water
YOU stiffen, your muscles tighten and you do not operate like the well-oiled mahine you are (!)
The cold affects your thinking and slows down your judgement and ability to respond to situations and you have more accidents
and on and on.
You think you are working quickly becasue in reality you wish you werent out there at all and cant wait for it to be over.
Hot systems have the edge over cold, and dressing properly will help, but big heavy clothes will weigh you down like lead.
Cuts hands are painful when they thaw.
Extreme cold will do the above, but standard cold I find does not. On Monday I finished every job at least 10% more quickly because it was too cold to hang around!
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'Standard' cold? ???
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A new expression! Basically the cold we are enduring now is fairly normal for winter-time in Britain.