Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Rcs on February 25, 2010, 06:59:39 pm
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Caught a thieving rumanian pikey rifling thro the back of my van
only stopped to do quick for a friend on my way home had the hose out the back of the van and luckily i was just setting up
and came back to find him having a good rummidge
anyway
how easy are van ports to fix and where can the best deal be had
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Hi
You had a lucky escape it just makes you take more care in the future.
found this on pure freedom
http://www.purefreedom.co.uk/store_genspares.html
I too would be intrested to no how easy it is to fit
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Caught a thieving rumanian pikey rifling thro the back of my van
only stopped to do quick for a friend on my way home had the hose out the back of the van and luckily i was just setting up
and came back to find him having a good rummidge
anyway
how easy are van ports to fix and where can the best deal be had
What did you say/do to him, Rcs?
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Easy enough to fit, but be careful where you fit it. You don't want to have exposed hoses under the van cos in the winter they will freeze.
I have mine fitted on the back door so hoses are inside.
You just have to drill individual holes for each hose or one larger hole for all the hoses to go through. The rest is just anchoring the port to the van with the aid of self tapping screws.
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Caught a thieving rumanian pikey rifling thro the back of my van
only stopped to do quick for a friend on my way home had the hose out the back of the van and luckily i was just setting up
and came back to find him having a good rummidge
anyway
how easy are van ports to fix and where can the best deal be had
They are very easy, I have just fitted my van port today, took me oooo half hour. ;D
Matt
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Easy enough to fit, but be careful where you fit it. You don't want to have exposed hoses under the van cos in the winter they will freeze.
I have mine fitted on the back door so hoses are inside.
You just have to drill individual holes for each hose or one larger hole for all the hoses to go through. The rest is just anchoring the port to the van with the aid of self tapping screws.
so do you just drill a hole through the van door
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I done everything both the police and government ask of us
I gave him a bag to carry my kit in then give him a lift home just in case he strained himself as I did not want to get sued
right I did
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Easy enough to fit, but be careful where you fit it. You don't want to have exposed hoses under the van cos in the winter they will freeze.
I have mine fitted on the back door so hoses are inside.
You just have to drill individual holes for each hose or one larger hole for all the hoses to go through. The rest is just anchoring the port to the van with the aid of self tapping screws.
so do you just drill a hole through the van door
Yes. You need holes big enough for each hose or one elongated hole for all the hoses.
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I see a port fitted to a fiesta van a few days back it looked like a triple and had been installed in the rear side panel looked like the panel had been cut out and the port riveted in postion
looked a bit of a pro job cut clean and smart
and the lad was working with the van locked
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i just need one hose and i was thinking of just glueing a hozelock connector into place. my last van i drilled a hole through the floor. but as you say it froze up in winter
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I done everything both the police and government ask of us
I gave him a bag to carry my kit in then give him a lift home just in case he strained himself as I did not want to get sued
right I did
;D ;D ;D
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i would of shown them how the hose can double up & makes a really good scarf >:(
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I'm going to get something installed asap
you've only got be out of site for a minute and your kits gone
I think I stick the hose through the window until I get it done at least I can lock the van up
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You should have shut the door, locked upnand gone for a drive :)
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i would of shown them how the hose can double up & makes a really good scarf >:(
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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should have rung he police mate 8)
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You should have shut the door, locked upnand gone for a drive :)
and jammed the brakes on hard a few times!!
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ho'wd you know he was Rumanian? Are you multilinguist or something?
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I lift the hosereel out then close the back doors on the pump-to-reel hose. The doors close but there's enough clearance in the hose for the water to still flow. Then I can lock the doors and carry on working. At least if someone is going to nick my gear, the worst he can do is nick the hose and reel, and I'd soon know because he'd have to cut the hose.
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hit first, questions later. as my old man said " you get further with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone"
as for fitting outside ports, drill and fit hoses through van floor and use some L shaped aluminium and make your own bracket for the hozeloc connectors, 3 mm should be ok and fix under back bumper.
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he stunk like a rumanian
and was wearing a rumanian football shirt
so i put the 2 together and came up with that conclusion
also he was knicking something
so i suspect i was right