Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: JRDEasiReach on January 04, 2010, 11:39:31 am
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So the time has come for us all to own up and tell whats happened to our vans and if we are using a certain type of heater has it worked or did it still freeze up with it on in the van?
Well my van was bad and with a -12 on xmas eve morning and a -10 on xmas morning i didnt check my van and only checked it on boxing day and when i did i discovered that my pre filter bowls had cracked right through the top where they screw in and had dropped to the floor, my remaining water in my tank had frozen solid(3rd left in bottom maybe less) so i started up my van to try and generate some heat to try and take off the 3 microfibres that i had put around my strainer bowl at my pump to see if it was done too, well 3 hours later i had enough heat in van to find this out, took it off and the strainer bowl was fine or so i thought, kept defrosting so that i could find out if my pump was working or not and in the end it was thankfully so i left it then went to buy a heater as the van inside was able to take -5 the friday before with the duvet wrapped around it so i didnt buy one before(wish i had now) next morning i woke to find my drivers side footwell covered in water and it was frozen solid!!!! the wee bowl had a leak in it and it was just dripping steadily all night so i then made the decision to get rid of all remaining water in the tank so no more could drip out until i got a replacement part. Not a happy time, filters and filter bowl are replaced so i went to check to see if my RO was still working, first bit went through at 36ppm, started to panic so i tipped it out waited and checked again 16ppm and again 10ppm, then it went to to 4ppm and then back to 1ppm as normal so my bowls busting in a way saved my RO as did my duvet around it.
So what about you lot??
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I am lucky to have a carport which is covered...so I rarely get a frosted screen.
Have access to electric so I have a fan heater in the van..on a timer hour on hour off...between 22:00 & 07:00....have a tube style heater with thermostat in the 4040 cabinate now running at 7.5deg...leaving it set a anything lower in these temps is a false economy for me. Will re-think the whole insulation, heating issue in the spring but for now it works.
Damaged my inline stainer in the cleantech pump box cracked...that was the day I did not put the timer on!!
Oh I crashed into a tree whilst reversing so need a new back door on the van. ::)
But the biggest damage has been to my 'slush' fund...lucky I have it but still painful to use it. Had enough saved to pay the last 1/4 VAT bill due end of Jan and enough to pay all house/mortgage bills until start of March.
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So you are all frost free and working every day then? :o
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No JRD, have a look at the thread board over the last week mate, not many working at the moment.
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no damage to bucket or T MOP/squeegy! ;D ;D
yes i have been working in this cold weather albeit half days!
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daz not you :) i mean fellow pole guys :) stories please ;)
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thats diSCRIMination ;D ;D get it scrim ;D
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i read all the horror stories on here and took di inhouse with pole and reel, only thing in van is tank and pump and emptied these, woudl rather spend the time putting it all back in than paying out more money for new parts
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Have a bit of a hill in my street, and with the pasting Edinburghs had nobody could get up and out the street, apart from the smug windae cleaner in his wee Transit Connect (me) ;D ;D ;D
I'm working with 25 ltr containers and had taken them inside all bar one which i'd forgotten, phew i'm glad as it's a crackin big ice cube.
Will make an attempt tommorrow to get out and on with it, here's to better days
:)
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I put a chicken in the freezer last night and got up this morning and it was frozen solid and to cap it all it was dead as well
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrg its snowing again...thats it which one you dingle-berries is having a giraffe!!!
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its to snow here again too, and to stephen s im being serious here :)