Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Londoner on January 12, 2010, 09:52:28 pm
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I want to get some road grit/salt for next time it freezes up like this. I've seen it sold in bags but can't remember where. Does anyone know who sells it?
I realise it will all be gone now but I want to get some for next time.
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I phoned b&q last week for some but the council had been that morning and taken loads away because they were short.
Im thinking of doing same thing but only for round my house and street
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Try a local DIY store or a builders merchant..
Wicks did have some but you need to ask them if you cant see it.
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i filled my bucket from the yellow council bins ;)
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i filled my bucket from the yellow council bins ;)
same here i cant understand why ppl buy it, i filled 5 buckets up, we pay council tax so technically we have paid for it
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i filled my bucket from the yellow council bins ;)
same here i cant understand why ppl buy it, i filled 5 buckets up, we pay council tax so technically we have paid for it
Yes. I believe one of the local wags nicked a police car to drive home in one night and said the same. S'funny, but the magistrate didn't seem to follow his reasoning and banged him up for a couple of months.
It's probably safer to buy the stuff from your local builders yard.
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:o well round here the bins are for residents of which i am one to get a bucket of grit for their propertys and i have the commen sence to use a car and only take a bucket at a time, they are on every other street up my way
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Hi,
We offer a gritting service to our commercial clients. Gone through over a hundred tonnes so far this season. Happy days.
Cheers,
Huw.
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Isnt JD off here?
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JD what a loon. Lol he's on a c s forum. I'll have to go and see what he's said about this.
Well spotted Nat.
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My SIL is a manager at our local Builders Merchants and all his stock pile has been seized by the council.
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My SIL is a manager at our local Builders Merchants and all his stock pile has been seized by the council.
Seized? Did they march in wearing jack boots?
Is this what GB's Britain has come to when the council stazi can order the seizure of goods from a builders yard?
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My SIL is a manager at our local Builders Merchants and all his stock pile has been seized by the council.
Seized? Did they march in wearing jack boots?
Is this what GB's Britain has come to when the council stazi can order the seizure of goods from a builders yard?
With Government backing they can do what they want
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My SIL is a manager at our local Builders Merchants and all his stock pile has been seized by the council.
Seized? Did they march in wearing jack boots?
Is this what GB's Britain has come to when the council stazi can order the seizure of goods from a builders yard?
With Government backing they can do what they want
Vive la révolution.
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in our local paper there has been critisism of people
who been using the grit from the bins for clearing
their drives and the roads in front of there homes.
far as im concerned every bit of road or path freed
of snow got to be safer.
if the public wasnt using it,it would be still sat
there i guarantee there wouldnt be any council
workers using it
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on my way home there was a lorry paked at the side of the road and a sign saying grit £5 a bag,they wernt very big but the lorry was full,he probley emptied the bins
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Thats being flexible and diverse to the situation.
If i could get out my street i would be cleaning more driveways/paths for £5-£10 and if i had salt as there is a shortage i would also offer it for sale. Its making money were the other area of our business (window cleaning) is on its a*se.
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;D gutted having your company splashed all over the papers, didnt realise you cant help yourself?
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I've just been looking into getting a snow plough and grit spreader for the pick-up, could get all the kit for about 2K, wonder if it might be a good add-on to the window cleaning for months like this.
I have a lot of commercial custys with car parks that I could offer the service to.
I know it might be a bit late for this year, but maybe next.
what do you think?
You buy it and then it doesn't snow again for three years
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that jd window cleaning is well unlucky lol...
however there is a place in chester called dandies topsoil that are doing a ton for 91 quid or 140 delivered,hope this helps for anybody in northwest
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Last winter i got stuck on a private road which was iced over and it took an hour and a half to get off the job and after that i went to B&Q and got a bag of grit.
It lay in the van unused till summer when i dumped it as it was just extra weight to humph about and you can guess what happened to me before xmas.
Only took an hour of digging out two tyre tracks up the drive to get off the job this time but i am going to get a sealed bucket full of grit to carry about and keep it this time thus guaranteeing a mild winter next time round.
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I'm definitely going to get a few bags and put them behind the shed out of sight until next year.
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Can you send me a link for where to get them from as we have a 2 mile lane to our yard and we have not seen a gritted and don't expect too would be good for next time
think it would be a good idea for you would just have to pray for snow
cheers
I've just been looking into getting a snow plough and grit spreader for the pick-up, could get all the kit for about 2K, wonder if it might be a good add-on to the window cleaning for months like this.
I have a lot of commercial custys with car parks that I could offer the service to.
I know it might be a bit late for this year, but maybe next.
what do you think?
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What is the point of a grit bin if you cannot use it ! Regards Hotsteam ::)
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My SIL is a manager at our local Builders Merchants and all his stock pile has been seized by the council.
Seized? Did they march in wearing jack boots?
Is this what GB's Britain has come to when the council stazi can order the seizure of goods from a builders yard?
With Government backing they can do what they want
Vive la révolution.
Wally, how did you get that accent on the 'e'?
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fao charlie jvprice
heres the link for dandies top soil there based in chester up the road from my unit
http://www.dandystopsoil.co.uk/Rock-Salt-Grit-Stone-Salt-Grit-Salt-Bins-amp-Spreaders.html?jos_change_template=ROCKSALT
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sorry charlie didnt realise u meant a ling for a snow plough!!
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My SIL is a manager at our local Builders Merchants and all his stock pile has been seized by the council.
Seized? Did they march in wearing jack boots?
Is this what GB's Britain has come to when the council stazi can order the seizure of goods from a builders yard?
With Government backing they can do what they want
Vive la révolution.
Wally, how did you get that accent on the 'e'?
It's a bit complex, but here goes...
First of all, I use StarOffice 8 rather than MS Word, but I guess it would work on MS Word as well.
1 - write the word "revolution" on the word processor
2 - change the language for the document to French
3 - do a spell check it will change "revolution" to "révolution."
4 - copy it and paste it into CIU
5 - close the word processor document remembering to change the language back to English (uk)
Is that a bit sad? Why should anyone be quite so anal as to want to do that? It's just me being me, I'm afraid.
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If you have a fertilizer factory near you try them . We have 1 in next village and they are giving away salt ( used in some fertilizers)to penshioners or £1 to pensioners outside village also will sell to local businesses was going to get some but going down with flu oink oink