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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: AuRavelling79 on December 30, 2009, 02:00:56 pm

Title: Putting a new microbore hose on my reel.
Post by: AuRavelling79 on December 30, 2009, 02:00:56 pm

I thought I'd go out and put my new hose on the reel - should I put it on like it is coiled or should I "turn it" the other way if you catch my drift. Does it matter in regard to coiling in cold weather?

Title: Re: Putting a new microbore hose on my reel.
Post by: mark dew on December 30, 2009, 02:42:07 pm

In this weather i think you will have little choice in getting it on the reel properly unless you put it on like it is coiled.

Title: Re: Putting a new microbore hose on my reel.
Post by: tony talbot on December 30, 2009, 03:26:54 pm

i always take my new hoses to a big field drag it out to full lenght then wind on to reel , removes all the coil memory.

Title: Re: Putting a new microbore hose on my reel.
Post by: Window Washers on December 30, 2009, 03:42:06 pm

put it all in a hot bath, this will make it easier to coil the way you want it  ;D

Title: Re: Putting a new microbore hose on my reel.
Post by: john k on December 30, 2009, 04:00:52 pm

ive just done one last week i just wound in on as it came not had any problems ;) ;)

Title: Re: Putting a new microbore hose on my reel.
Post by: Ian Lancaster on December 30, 2009, 08:54:35 pm

Quote from: windowwashers on December 30, 2009, 03:42:06 pm

put it all in a hot bath, this will make it easier to coil the way you want it  ;D

Good tip, that.  ;)

I always end up in a total mess with tangled hose trailing all round my garden ;D

How do you put it on 'coiled'? Surely you would have to dismantle the reel to do that?