Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: williamx on August 09, 2005, 03:28:00 pm
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He are some photos of my new wfp trolley that quite a few of you wanted to see.
The trolley is not quite finshed yet ( It's having a metal rotating hose reel fitted with 50m of tricoflex hose also it will come with a flow control)
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I was thinking of building a bigger one, but I've only got a mini ;D
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whoosh its bigger than the white fiesta behind !
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Brilliant! - how many litres is that barrel and how do you fill it and move it around?
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I found by having larger wheels helped on gravely surfaces, By putting the wheight in this case the battery over the wheel axel made it easier to move, and on a later vershion I fitted a hose reel that wound the hose in from the side, found this to be a lot more stable, I do like the extra wheel I would imagine that this would take a lot of the strain out of pushing the trolley, As I,ve said before though towards the end I would leave it attached to the vehicle and just pull the hose as needed, and even later I put a large tank inside the vehicle and fed the system from that leaving the small 25ltr on the trolley for them times when I needed to be mobil.
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Malcg
It holds 120 litres of water which I fill using a 12v 75 litre per minute transfer pump which fills this barrel up, in 2 minutes 30 seconds.
Its excellent to move around now I have got it balanced, It goes down all the back alleys that I have so far come across with the greatest of ease, the only problem that I have come across is the hose reel, but thats being replaced with one that can rotate 180 degrees and be locked into various positions, it should also reel in faster.
The window cleaner
This trolley is for those who need a trolley that can reach the house that needs cleaning and they can't park close to it.
Also most other trolleys only hold 25 or 50 litres of water, which I have found is usless when I have 10 houses to clean and I have to keep going back to my vechicle for water, because 50 litres is only good enough for 4 houses.
An example of this happened last week, I have a road where I clean 7 houses front and back, well doing the front is a breeze but to do the backs I have to go down 1 alley for about 100 yards then I have to go across the back of these houses though another alleyway for 300 yards or so, then I have to go up their back gardens 75 yards and some have very big steps to gain access into their gardens.
Now I have been doing these houses for 18 months and it use to take me up to 90 minutes to do these houses, after keep on going back to fill up with water at least 3 times and walking what felt like a mathron, but last week it was like winning to pools, the trolley went down the alleyways with the greatest of ease, I left the trolley in the alley and ran the hose up the gardens and finshed the whole lot in 30 minutes.
Which is not bad now considering when I priced the job up in the first place it was set at 90 minutes of work, which I can now do in 1/3 of the time.
Since I have been using this trolley I have found that I can complete my round by upto 25% faster than before.
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SURELY BY THE TIME YOU GET IT ALL OUT AND SET UP ITS TIME TO GO HOME?
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So you say you did 7 houses F and B in 30 mins , by my sums thats just over 4
mins per house , surely it took longer than that to get your petrol tanker up and down the alleys !
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Rich P @ F
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It took 30 minutes to clean the backs.
As for setting up, all I do is pull up in the van open the backdoors lift the trolley out (which is already set up to operate) connect to water hose to fill up which takes a couple of minutes and thats it.
If I wanted to take the trolley apart (disconnect the control panel and water barrel from the trolley) this would take about 1 minute and to put together it would take around 3 minutes
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im getting confused now you say you open the van doors and away you go.......i thought you had a metro or mini in the photo?
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Where do you think I have to park the mini ;D ;D
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Superb!! ;D
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How much did it cost to make.
What are you using to purify the water?
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Like Ian says, how much did it cost to make...and would you make me one?
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I use a di tank to purify the water, as for the costs to build it looks like to going to cost upto £800, and I will be selling them for £1000 which includes delivery and training if anybodys interested.
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flipping eck!!!youd have to be "the thing" out of fantastic four to lift that in and out.i use a 50 ltr trolley and thats heavy enough!!! ;D
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Roo
I don't know about being the "thing" to lift it in and out of the the van.
But when its empty its quite easy.
Maybe you need some extra powers to empty the barrel before you pick it up.
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windowcleaner1,
that is an old photo but I hope them ladders have consigned to the local dump...non-trade and with a seriously worn out rubber base..!!
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windowcleaner1,
that is an old photo but I hope them ladders have consigned to the local dump...non-trade and with a seriously worn out rubber base..!!
well spotted Yes they have gone, well sort off I no longer use them as doubles but I have cut one section down to about 6 rungs fitted new rubber insert in the feet and use them when I need to reach over to open gates