Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: LWC on January 13, 2009, 06:58:01 pm
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I have just fitted a Morco gas boiler in van, works a treat
It is HOT, should i be worried about cracking glass, ive been old about the local Ionics guys hes crackeed about 6 with it
What temp should i be working at?
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I have just fitted a Morco gas boiler in van, works a treat
It is HOT, should i be worried about cracking glass, ive been old about the local Ionics guys hes crackeed about 6 with it
What temp should i be working at?
Have you got insurance for it? Was it any extra to have it included?
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I have just fitted a Morco gas boiler in van, works a treat
It is HOT, should i be worried about cracking glass, ive been old about the local Ionics guys hes crackeed about 6 with it
What temp should i be working at?
Have you got insurance for it? Was it any extra to have it included?
Hi Chris, was not asking about insurance if you read it properly mate
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Hi Matt
tried to email you but couldn't.
With hot topics there tends to be lots of negative comments. Some of these are passed onto to custies and become urban legends.
Can i ask you not to post about this as it gets us all a bad name.
Cheers Clive
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Just wondering buddy, what temp do you work with?
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I have just fitted a Morco gas boiler in van, works a treat
It is HOT, should i be worried about cracking glass, ive been old about the local Ionics guys hes crackeed about 6 with it
What temp should i be working at?
Have you got insurance for it? Was it any extra to have it included?
Hi Chris, was not asking about insurance if you read it properly mate
No i was asking you ::)
Sorry, I'll create a seperate thread directed to you asking shall i? whoops, again you didn't ask did you, I did ;)
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25 degs max imo ok
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Double glazed sealed units are the ones to watch out for and any old glass held tightly in with no room to expand. Had 3 units damaged. 2 shattered and one cracked. I use 60C btw
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Blimey 25? thats just above room temperature - can't be far off swimming pool water - is it worth it?
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I don't measure the temp. You want it on the very lowest setting you can get.
This is going to sound like i'm making it up, but you need a new technique. The flow will be much highter, you will use more water so you need to work faster. This is called advanced technique.
Put simply wash all windows like uptstairs windows. Use a longer lever on the pole and let it and the flow and the hot do the work. Rinse on.
Concentrate on what you are doing and you will fly and never have a complaint.
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I have just fitted a Morco gas boiler in van, works a treat
It is HOT, should i be worried about cracking glass, ive been old about the local Ionics guys hes crackeed about 6 with it
What temp should i be working at?
Have you got insurance for it? Was it any extra to have it included?
Hi Chris, was not asking about insurance if you read it properly mate
No i was asking you ::)
Sorry, I'll create a seperate thread directed to you asking shall i? whoops, again you didn't ask did you, I did ;)
Apologies Chris thought you were being funny. ;D
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I have just fitted a Morco gas boiler in van, works a treat
It is HOT, should i be worried about cracking glass, ive been old about the local Ionics guys hes crackeed about 6 with it
What temp should i be working at?
Have you got insurance for it? Was it any extra to have it included?
Hi Chris, was not asking about insurance if you read it properly mate
No i was asking you ::)
Sorry, I'll create a seperate thread directed to you asking shall i? whoops, again you didn't ask did you, I did ;)
Apologies Chris thought you were being arsey.
No not originally... I honestly wanted to know..
I read from NWH that about 40 degrees C is about the max head temp, he does.. (least i think it was NWH)
Im off down the gym, i got free membership, not used it yet.. get my bum into gear for the new year
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Apologies again bud, things read wrong on forums.
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okay while you're in a good mood sub edit the threas title to hot and cracking.
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okay while you're in a good mood sub edit the threas title to hot and cracking.
Hows this?
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Brilliant.
Thankyou.
Ask questions by all means, but don't give people an excuse to slag us off.
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Sorry just worries me thats all.
All about being careful i suppose init.
Be nice on the caravan cleans i do sometimes, whack it up to full temp!!
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I use it at 40 degrees and have had no problems just a couple of creakers but nothing to worry about,25 degrees is not hot water window cleaning you might aswell work with cold water.If your cracking windows with water at that temp i reckon your rubbing a hole in the glass or spending far to long on the glass.The glass will only creak-sound like it`s going to crack if it`s that really really thin glass the sort that you feel if you pushed to hard with the brush you`d smash it all other windows unless the temp is silly cold 40 is fine,i havn`t used cold since going hot.
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has anybody tried circulating water from the tank thru the heater? Then taking another feed from the tank to the pump. If the tank is well insulated, there shouldn't be too much loss. You should get more control of temp on the glass. Thoughts?
Kevin.
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Well kevin, my one pump is running the heater and the hosereel whilst also circulating back into tank which will in turn heat the tank which is feeding my other seperate hosereel and pump.
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Well kevin, my one pump is running the heater and the hosereel whilst also circulating back into tank which will in turn heat the tank which is feeding my other seperate hosereel and pump.
With a proper heater designed for window cleaning with 2 reels working from 1 heater you`ll only get about 30 degrees at the brush,circulating the water won`t give you hot water to work with it would take ages to heat unless you work with a 100ltr tank.I will be using Thermobore soon to retain more heat,although my minibore still keeps the water hot.
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On frosty mornings I turn mine right down,. its 20 - 25 degs Celsius at the brush head depending on how much hose is out,.. lukewarm to the touch, but defo below body temp. Still much better than using cold.
Once its not frosty, I'd go 40 degrees, up to 60 degrees or so on a nice warm day. I haven't cracked a single window yet and I've been hot almost a year.