Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Kevin R on November 03, 2008, 07:34:03 pm
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Today I attempted to clean some commercial box gutters with the Omnivac. The gutters were filled with pine needles then a layer of soil then some well established weeds.
Usually when you see well established plants the Gutter spike is used to break up the roots before using the Omnivac. We tried this to no avail so we tried blasting with the pressure washer / trying to break up the roots with a gutter spike again, but to no avail. Out came the ladder and the manual way of doing things
The problem is that pine needles interlace with each other make a mat that traps leaves which rot, turn to soil, fill in the mat which makes perfect growing media for weeds etc. The whole length of the gutters were matted into one long piece of turf. It was hard to pull apart by hand let alone remotely.
So beware gutter vac users - Omnivacs + pine needles don't mix so well, so go prepared with a ladder, a suitable risk assessment, some gloves and a bucket !!!
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Yep they give you pins and needles ;D. I live in a rural area and there are loads of them in some gutters, they just block the nozzle fast.
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kevin were you based???
do you have a break down of price per foot to give me a rough idea
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Hi Kevin
I will look into this problem and see if we can possibly make an attachment to help tackle this .
I recall when we used to carry out communal area cleaning at blocks of flats - vacuuming carpets after Christmas used to be a nightmare to dislodge pine needles from carpet as they got tangled into the pile.
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sorry for asking all the questions but how many feet on average do you clean per hour?
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so do you tell them what your pricing per hour or do you price per job and estimate the time it will take?