Just got back from a month off travelling around Australia visiting friends and family plus a couple of Ashes cricket matches. Its all systems go now until 23rd then I'll be off until 4th January. The joys of semi retirement.

Glad it's working for you Klean.

What's your schedule as a window cleaner now?

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I finish on Thursday 18th Dec and start back on Monday 5th Jan so 17 straight days off. Looking forward to the xmas break. I'm cooking  the xmas dinner for my family this year here.😎

Ive also filed my tax return early and paid up already so im ahead of the game this year.

Lazy days,eating plenty of food,xmas telly and family time beckon (and afternoon gym sessions!).

After 17 days off I'll be raring to go on the 5th Jan!

How much was your tax bill this year Daz?

Just under 5.5k (balancing payment and payment on account).

I finish on Thursday 18th Dec and start back on Monday 5th Jan so 17 straight days off. Looking forward to the xmas break. I'm cooking  the xmas dinner for my family this year here.😎

Ive also filed my tax return early and paid up already so im ahead of the game this year.

Lazy days,eating plenty of food,xmas telly and family time beckon (and afternoon gym sessions!).

After 17 days off I'll be raring to go on the 5th Jan!

How much was your tax bill this year Daz?

£280, a bottle of wine, a litre of Bailey’s and a box of chocolates. 

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Thanks for your replies everyone .

Here's an outlier.

I have 40m  reinforced pole hose connected to 60m if old microbore on my Claber hand reel. Light as a feather.

Why people use microbore let alone minibore is beyond me.

But then I don't use a pump controller either.

And I use an immersion heater for warmth.

 

How is the immersion heating fitted to your tank, is it a separate fitting or on the lid of the tank, got any pics or dealers that sell them?

Actually , no need , I’ve just looked at water heaters in a few websites, far too much money for me, 3  grand plus vat 😧

An immersion heater plus fittings is a couple of hundred quid. Should be fitted as close to the bottom of the tank as possible using a mechanical flange.

That sounds a much better price, have either of you got a picture of how they’ve  been fitted ?
The reason I whinged about the ones for sale on a few suppliers, I’m not doing as much work now, after I had that fall just about 41/2 years ago ,and had to have half my left skull removed to  stop the  inside bleed . So during my off for sickness , a lot of customers got a new wc . Enough of that it’s been on before during my sickness , but’m back to work which I enjoy doing .

If you’ve got a plumber mate that will be your best bet if you’re not confident on fitting it yourself. If it’s a flat tank it’s easy to reach down to the bottom, if it’s an upright tank you would probably need to lower the mechanical flange on a wire or similar. You fit the flange to the tank first then the immersion element screws into the flange.

TBH  I don’t think I’ll bother with a water heater, but I am seriously thinking of an electric hose reel, the local company have them for  about  50 quid cheaper than other companies , so I’m just going to ask the window cleaner who does our estate to have a look at his system, then I will wait and probably get one in new year. The van is already fitted with a relay system.,  it charges the battery although I’m thinking of getting a more powerful one.

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If you have a standard lead acid leisure battery, the battery will determine how much charge it will accept. So for example, your battery is 90% charged, I doubt very much you will get any more than 4 or 5 amps into your battery whether you have a 60 amp battery to battery charger of a 140 amp split charge relay. The fuller the charge in a leisure battery is, the higher the resistance  and the lower the rate of charge. My van is a 62 plate Peugeot Boxer and have run both a b2b charger & an SCR on the same van and didn't notice any difference in charge rate.

So for us, the run home taking 15 minutes, didn't put much of a charge back into the battery. (At 4 amps this will only add 1 amps worth of charge.) I put the 230v smart charger on every night to completely charge the battery.

However, changing to a lithium phosphate battery changed that, as the battery will accept a higher charge rate. My 105 amp lithium battery is charged at 30 amps until it's virtually full. I can only use a b2b charger to charge this battery. I often switched my charger off to let the battery capacity reduce to around 30% before recharging.