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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: sparklebright on April 06, 2009, 07:06:13 pm

Title: Do you use a trolley and which trolley do you recommend?
Post by: sparklebright on April 06, 2009, 07:06:13 pm

I have always worked from my van no matter what but have pondering whether it might be better to do some of the backs my customers houses with a trolley/backpack. Save hassle with hoses wheelie bins, poo, bikes etc.

What do you use?
What would you not use again?

I see Omnipole do a trolley on ebay, any problems with those?

Title: Re: Do you use a trolley and which trolley do you recommend?
Post by: pjulk on April 06, 2009, 07:09:20 pm

I have the omnitrolly classic.
I don't use it often but its very handy for jobs with shed loads of plants round the garden or out of the way jobs.

I just fill it from my van system.

Title: Re: Do you use a trolley and which trolley do you recommend?
Post by: kris martin on April 06, 2009, 07:28:46 pm

purefreedom trolley and its bob on  ;)

Title: Re: Do you use a trolley and which trolley do you recommend?
Post by: weetot on April 06, 2009, 07:31:02 pm

Purefreedoms champion man!!!
Based in Grimsby.

Title: Re: Do you use a trolley and which trolley do you recommend?
Post by: matt on April 06, 2009, 07:31:41 pm

a sack truck with a 25 L barrel on

a small box under the barrel with the battery in it

and a pump in a box half way up the back of the trolley

job done

Title: Re: Do you use a trolley and which trolley do you recommend?
Post by: kris martin on April 06, 2009, 07:41:45 pm

Quote from: iwitot on April 06, 2009, 07:31:02 pm

Purefreedoms champion man!!!
Based in Grimsby.

yep thats where i travelled to, i tell you what though when i got it home and tried it out i must of looked like a circus act, tripping up, spilling water, snagging the hose etc etc etc etc etc etc, people were walking past laughing and the lad i work with looked on in horror wondering what the hell have we done.  All good now though  ;D

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Post by: tomy jackson on April 06, 2009, 08:04:40 pm

back pack for thos jobs

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Post by: weetot on April 06, 2009, 08:05:46 pm

Aye Iwas exactly the same, added a garden hose reel and got it off to a tee now!

Title: Re: Do you use a trolley and which trolley do you recommend?
Post by: sparklebright on April 06, 2009, 08:17:49 pm

Do you find they get stuck down people's alleys, trapped on wheelie bins and the like?

Title: Re: Do you use a trolley and which trolley do you recommend?
Post by: kris martin on April 06, 2009, 08:18:18 pm

yep!!!

Title: Re: Do you use a trolley and which trolley do you recommend?
Post by: peter holley on April 06, 2009, 08:21:46 pm

back pack for awkward back gardens :)

Title: Re: Do you use a trolley and which trolley do you recommend?
Post by: sparklebright on April 06, 2009, 08:24:42 pm

Thanks for the replies, I shall think this one over...


 :-\

Title: Re: Do you use a trolley and which trolley do you recommend?
Post by: kris martin on April 06, 2009, 08:25:02 pm

too much messing around changing from trolley to backpack, the guy who cleans the houses over the road from my house uses a back pack on a trolley and it looks really good to use..

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Post by: peter holley on April 06, 2009, 08:28:33 pm

i use avan mount and do fronts, my employee does backs with the back pack,,, but theres no fillinf or lifting with barrels involved,,,,, yhe uses 2 back packs ....while hes using one the other one is filling , he just switches over on each house ;D

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Post by: weetot on April 06, 2009, 08:38:07 pm

I think every bloody hose gets caught behind tyres, round plants, rose bushes being the worst and that proverbial dog s@@t.

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Post by: dai on April 06, 2009, 10:50:28 pm

Mines a sack truck with 2 x 25 ltr containers, fitted with hose reel and 30 mtrs micro bore, never have to take the trolley round the back.

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Post by: AuRavelling79 on April 06, 2009, 11:11:55 pm

I used Peter Fogwill's one (1 or 2 x 25L barrels)- it got me into wfp when working out of my Honda Estate.

Now I know what to do I would strap a 25L barrel to a sack track, make a pump board to carry a pump and motorcycle battery and loop a 10 metre run of hose around one of the handles.

I just use a van now tho'.