Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: tony talbot on August 31, 2009, 09:04:33 pm
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petrols going up again, never bothers me i only put £15 in each time ;D ;D ;D ;D
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just another way of the tax man doing the working class in the butt am afrraid
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Its just that soon your £15 will only last a day :)
Its gonna be 1.20 by end of the year,,,, time for a price rise i think!!
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either that or the old veg oil coming back out i dont mind it but wife moans van smells like a chippy
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veg oils gotten pricey now (in the shops) :(
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Its just that soon your £15 will only last a day :)
Its gonna be 1.20 by end of the year,,,, time for a price rise i think!!
didnt you put your prices up the last time it went to £1.20
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if it starts to rise to £1.20 a lt i mite sell the van and buy a Peugeot 308 1.6 hdi the m.p.g is 52/ 60 round town and the road tax for 12 months is £35 and stick me fingers up to the government ;D ;D
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i got know hope fully tuned v6, thats it time i started to use my mountain bike more.
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Its just that soon your £15 will only last a day :)
Its gonna be 1.20 by end of the year,,,, time for a price rise i think!!
didnt you put your prices up the last time it went to £1.20
Nope i havent really ever put ALL prices up been going for a couple of years, need too this year, and i think this might be the right excuse, i was going too a year ago but "recession" kicked in and i bottled out, although i have put a few up recently, one new person moved into house, and stuck a few quid in, and i doubled one the other day as the guy had a conny fitted which was huge and a porch on back door which was size of a small conny plus it was underpriced, also offered him a clean of roofs every other time, for 3x the original price.. He didnt look happy but paid up :)
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everthing goes up !
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I dont know whether it is a national thing but my local morrisons are not putting the extra 2p on a litre until next week
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I've just arrived back from Florida; I'm writing this whilst waiting for my connecting flight to Plymouth, and the petrol over there at the moment is $2.65 per GALLON!!
That's around £1.65 per gallon or 40p (ish) a litre.
And they were moaning!!!!!
Fuel is not a big overhead in Florida I guess; just sun cream ;D
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Dont forget a US gallon is different to uk gallon,theirs is 3.summit lts and ours is 4 1/2.
Makes it a bit dearer than 40p a ltr,but nowhere near the price of ours >:(
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just recieved my tesco delivery and got a 5p off per liter, just gone to the red so good timing
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lpg is 43p litre here so just over 20 quid to fill the tank in my van,
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hi ST1Allstar
what van have you got mate and what is the mpg for lpg.
say most diesel vans ave 40-45mpg (is that right?)
always wondered about lpg have had a lot of probs with my escort van 8 yrs old thought i could hang onto for another 2 yrs but in the last few months spent a grand on it tyres, fuel pump,wheel hub and bearing; servicing, now soon to need clutch :'(
keep thinking of leaseing but can't make mind up all keeps coming up at £200.
:'( :'(
thanks lee
ps have you seen this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AUurBnLbJw
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lee i have a 2003 astravan 1.6 duelfual,
it does about 31mpg average over 1 tank of gas about 360-380 miles which costs about 22 quid, (54 litres)
i used to have a diesel astravan before and it would cost me 40 quid of diesel to do the same mileage, when diesel hit its peak last year lpg only went up to 49p per litre (diesel was 130p) so filling my van went to about 25 quid.
lpg is dirt cheap i would never drive a diesel again, my van has a factory fitted lpg kit by vauxhall and has been ultra reliable never needed anything in the last year and a half that i have owned it, and i have put 30k more on the clocks
i paid 3400 for it but you can pick them up for about 2-2500 now
(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m248/markberesford/DSCF0595.jpg)
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I've just arrived back from Florida; I'm writing this whilst waiting for my connecting flight to Plymouth, and the petrol over there at the moment is $2.65 per GALLON!!
That's around £1.65 per gallon or 40p (ish) a litre.
And they were moaning!!!!!
Fuel is not a big overhead in Florida I guess; just sun cream ;D
when i was over in WDW last oct, they were complaining that it had risen above 2 bucks a gallon, at the the time the exchange rate was near 2 for 1 , thus it was slightly over 1 quid a gallon :o :o i laughed
at the start of the year is was down to $ 1.6 a gallon :o :o
make you think, why do we pay soooooo much
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thanks ST1Allstar,
so mpg is slightly less than diesel but lpg is half price( a bit more) ;)
nice tidy looking van you got there mate.
Are you trad or wfp?
I do like astravans but been told not prarical for wfp? due to being hatchback also is payload would be quite tight.
thanks lee.
Ps, always wondered is it anymore dangerous driving round with gas onboard in event of a crash (I just let myself in for major p taking ;D) it is late :)
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i don't see the petrol rise as an excuse as raising prices i'm holding off till next year , custys are still watching penny's
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lee i'm currently trad but i'm having a 250litre wfp fitted into my van soon,
I'm going to be changing it for a lpg vauxhall combo van at some point next year, a combo van would be much better suited to a wfp set up.
something like this
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VAUXHALL-COMBO-05-LPG-PETROL-CONGESTION-CHARGE-FREE_W0QQitemZ290345688768QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Commercial_Trucks?hash=item4399f39ec0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
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ST1Allstar,
I know nothing about vans (unfortunately :'()
but that one looks in pretty good nick!
I have freedom trolley, long story but van mount not pratical for me.
would you get away with just van mount?
I'm sure you all ready know all the options open to you.
wcw warehouse do backpack £100, everyone seems to like holds 15ltrs (for hard to park outside houses)
thanks for your advice on lpg very intresting.
are you a vauxhall fan they seem good to me, just seen there ford connect lpg's around also that's meant to be one of the most reliable vans in country according to parkers guide.
Vauxhall do seem up the front when it comes to lpg from what i have seen.
cheerio lee
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i like vauxhalls but i'm not a hardcore fan lol
i remember a guy on here posted pictures of his astravan with barrels in the back he used a freedom trolley and loved the astra he bought it brand new 10k.
heres the pics
(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m248/markberesford/wfpastra1.jpg)
(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m248/markberesford/wfpastra2.jpg)
i've never seen a lpg connect out on road before i know they do exist simular to vauxhall combo.
my van has been ultra reliable, i've serviced it twice and its only needed new front brake pads, its never failed to start, me and my missus went to france ski-ing and it took us all the way there and back, up and down mountains, it slid off the road up a mountain and i crashed it into huge mound of snow/ice, was a very scary moment but it only damaged the bumper and a guy on a 4x4 quad bike pulled it out, did 2000 miles in a week
even at -8 high up a mountain it never failed to start and i had zero problems with it i couldnt ask for more from it.
100 percent reliable
some of the combo vans use the same engine and gas system so are just same as astra.
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Think I will go trad ladder over shoulder and dig out bike
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ST1Allstar
thanks for pics of inside astra, i wonder what the pole rest is in that van?
I don't think i'd risk take my van up a mountain!
Unless i was planning to push it over for the insurance money ;D
thanks lee.