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UK General Cleaning Forum => General Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: drive surgeon on January 07, 2010, 03:33:01 pm

Title: snow vaccing or clearing and gritting peoples drives?
Post by: drive surgeon on January 07, 2010, 03:33:01 pm
have you seen anyone snow vaccing?

i have heard of a guy who uses a wet and dry vac run from a generator from his van and he has fitted a heated coil inside of his vac drum so its heated. the vac sucks up the snow off the drive and melts when inside the drum and he has a hose running from his soil pipe down a grid to expell the water when the vac if full of water.

it sounds a good idea but is it just a gimmick?

could we market it and make money in these conditions?
Title: Re: snow vaccing peoples drives?
Post by: thewaterwizard on January 07, 2010, 05:54:49 pm
 snow vaccing peoples drives?

whatever next ds sounds like your going to be busy this year
you must have had a good 2009
all this equipment you will be buying !!
still cant find your web-site   
Title: Re: snow vaccing peoples drives?
Post by: mark.laycock1@ntlw on January 07, 2010, 07:50:50 pm
think theres a book somewhere 100 things you can do with snow.
Title: Re: snow vaccing peoples drives?
Post by: thewaterwizard on January 07, 2010, 07:51:45 pm
 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: snow vaccing peoples drives?
Post by: drive surgeon on January 07, 2010, 07:52:06 pm
just thought we could all come up with ideas to get work as a lot of people are not working.
Title: Re: snow vaccing peoples drives?
Post by: mark.laycock1@ntlw on January 07, 2010, 07:59:20 pm
rock salt sold out where i been.
Title: Re: snow vaccing peoples drives?
Post by: drive surgeon on January 07, 2010, 08:06:14 pm
if you cann get hold of any mate your onto a winner as its going to be frozen solid everywhere for the next week at least. non of us guys are gonna get much work unless we get some salt and clean the drive of snow.

saw a van go past before with magnnetic signs over his van saying snow clearing from £20. he had a massive long wheel base van with a load of grit in back. people were stopping him as he went past to book him.
Title: Re: snow vaccing peoples drives?
Post by: drive surgeon on January 07, 2010, 08:16:26 pm
someone has been after grit that badly they nicked the yellow grit box from by my cousins in wales. my auntie just said they used a lorry with a crane on.  she was going to grit her drive but its gone  ::) :-\

has anyone thought of getting grit from them boxes?
Title: Re: snow vaccing peoples drives?
Post by: richywilts on January 13, 2010, 11:02:16 am
mark dandys topsoils in sealand road have rock salt for 90 quid a tonne

me n ste are going up there now
Title: Re: snow vaccing peoples drives?
Post by: drive surgeon on January 13, 2010, 11:07:07 am
is it real rock salt or the crap that we have been getting which is just sand with gritty stuff in?

been clearing school paths and entrances and gritting.  ;)

good luck rich
Title: Re: snow vaccing or clearing and gritting peoples drives?
Post by: richywilts on January 14, 2010, 12:58:06 am
real stuff i think they were shiftin allsorts subbyin the work out to lorry drivers who were takin it to brighton n that!!!
Title: Re: snow vaccing or clearing and gritting peoples drives?
Post by: stevef78 on January 15, 2010, 02:12:17 pm
mark dandys topsoils in sealand road have rock salt for 90 quid a tonne

me n ste are going up there now
there is and was absolute mountains of the stuff up there at dandys,ive never seen anythin like it,they will deliver anywhere for an extra 50quid as well....good luck ;))
Title: Re: snow vaccing or clearing and gritting peoples drives?
Post by: stevef78 on January 15, 2010, 02:13:08 pm
mark dandys topsoils in sealand road have rock salt for 90 quid a tonne

me n ste are going up there now
there is and was absolute mountains of the stuff up there at dandys,ive never seen anythin like it,they will deliver anywhere for an extra 50quid as well....good luck ;))

looks like the snow is shifting and though ;((
Title: Re: snow vaccing or clearing and gritting peoples drives?
Post by: drive surgeon on January 15, 2010, 03:53:08 pm
thanks richy and steve for advice.

i ordered new unloader valve so will try to fit it myself wen it arrives.