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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: tompoole on January 28, 2009, 06:39:30 pm

Title: heavy snow and freezing !
Post by: tompoole on January 28, 2009, 06:39:30 pm
check out the forcast for next week! looks like I will be going sledging again
Title: Re: heavy snow and freezing !
Post by: pingu on January 28, 2009, 06:47:36 pm
Just over the water here in Holland we are still getting -4 nights and just around zero during the day...

My tank now has around 7.5% alcohol....sod putting all the salt down...now I know my water will not freez when it hits the ground.

Cheers
Dave.
Title: Re: heavy snow and freezing !
Post by: ftp on January 28, 2009, 06:54:13 pm
It will after the alcohol evaporates.  :o
Title: Re: heavy snow and freezing !
Post by: pingu on January 28, 2009, 06:55:49 pm
Done a few tests here when it was -10 etc over night and that proved successfull...beats not working though :)

Dave.
Title: Re: heavy snow and freezing !
Post by: ftp on January 28, 2009, 06:58:16 pm
Do you mean when you slosh it over the ground it still isn't frozen in the morning?
Title: Re: heavy snow and freezing !
Post by: windowwashers on January 28, 2009, 07:01:27 pm
Quote from: pingu on January 28, 2009, 06:47:36 pm
Just over the water here in Holland we are still getting -4 nights and just around zero during the day...

My tank now has around 7.5% alcohol....sod putting all the salt down...now I know my water will not freez when it hits the ground.

Cheers
Dave.
what are you using ? and can you get it online pingu if so do you have a link ?

Ian
Title: Re: heavy snow and freezing !
Post by: pingu on January 28, 2009, 07:04:14 pm
Methanol....I buy it by the 200litre barrels for making biodiesel and I have tried it using 2.5, 5.0, 7.5 , 10, 15 & 20% mixes and even down to -12 or was it -13...anyway the 10% mix was fine...but lesser mixes did suffer with freezing to various degree's...

Just contact a chemical dealer....and they'll deliver you a few hundred litres in a jiffy...


Cheers
Dave.
Title: Re: heavy snow and freezing !
Post by: trevor povey on January 28, 2009, 07:04:57 pm
Quote from: windowwashers on January 28, 2009, 07:01:27 pm
Quote from: pingu on January 28, 2009, 06:47:36 pm
Just over the water here in Holland we are still getting -4 nights and just around zero during the day...

My tank now has around 7.5% alcohol....sod putting all the salt down...now I know my water will not freez when it hits the ground.

Cheers
Dave.
what are you using ? and can you get it online pingu if so do you have a link ?

Ian

cheap Dutch vodka :-\ :-\
Title: Re: heavy snow and freezing !
Post by: East coast window cleaning Services on January 28, 2009, 07:33:43 pm
just read about it looks like eastern and the south only though

Not good for us southern softys  ;D ;D
Title: Re: heavy snow and freezing !
Post by: Pole 2 Pole on January 28, 2009, 07:43:37 pm
I looked at metcheck a few days ago and they forecast 2 weeks of sun ffs...... What's that all about???  :'(
Title: Re: heavy snow and freezing !
Post by: East coast window cleaning Services on January 28, 2009, 07:46:31 pm
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090128/tuk-temperatures-to-plunge-next-week-6323e80.html
Title: Re: heavy snow and freezing !
Post by: Oakley Windows on January 28, 2009, 07:57:32 pm
Quote from: Pole 2 Pole on January 28, 2009, 07:43:37 pm
I looked at metcheck a few days ago and they forecast 2 weeks of sun ffs...... What's that all about???  :'(

Metchecks short range forecast is generally pretty accurate I find, but once you get into the 8-14 day forecast they just put up the 'expected' weather for the time of year.

As those days get closer to the present day they miraculously change ::)
Title: Re: heavy snow and freezing !
Post by: pingu on January 29, 2009, 04:49:16 pm
Ok having gone out today with my 400l tank +around 6% methanol mix...I got to my first job and thought I was the dog danglies...no freezing for me I thought...smug grin locked on....got out the facelift 44ft for the very top windows and the thing would not extend in any section ...FROZE....even poured my flask of coffee over it and still frozen and refusing to extend.

Gets out the SL-X...now this is going to be ok...it was in the van last night...so pole works fine...then...doing a fully double glazed house......now see the pictures!! well as you cannot see the pictures...the windows just froze.

Just when you feel your winning somthing comes along and give you a dam good kicking....

Cheers Dave


ps FTP yep...you're right....evapouration...

Oh and if your wondering why there are no pictures...as my luck would have it the UPLOAD FOLDER is full...