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My review of the Sonberg 5.1 KW water heater single operator unit.
I bought this after a Squeaky clean Dave review did on YouTube.
Bought and fitted in April and I used it throughout the summer. I had steam on the glass everyday, customers also noticed enough to ask if the water was hot.
November I came back to the van after the unit had run for 5 hours to find the van full of smoke. I turned the unit off and finished my day.
Sonberg’s customer service was excellent, nearly.
I returned the unit myself as they are 40 miles from me. It was repaired and returned via post within a week. Brilliant. However they would not say what was wrong with it other than it needed a service.
Refitted and two days later it filled the van with smoke again. Sonberg arranged collection this time, I refrained from asking if it required another service and it was repaired and returned within a week again. Excellent service.
Sadly they would only tell me that I must have used poor diesel. Where would you buy poor diesel, I only ever used a high street fuel station. I honestly wouldn’t know where to buy poor diesel.
I lost confidence in it after the second return and now rarely use it. When I do it doesn’t seem to get as hot as it used too, I’m sure they’ve dumbed it down.
So do I rate it, yes, it initially worked very well with hot water to the touch.
Sonberg have been good but I feel frustrated in their reports they claimed that it needed a service or poor diesel was used. On each return they had replaced parts.
It works, recycles each time the univalve is used so it continuously runs avoiding the shut down/recycle, choke it up bit!
I think I’m going to try another unit from another supplier.
Open to offers on this if anyone wants to tinker with it.
Tony
The first 5 years are hard because of all the equipment needed to run the business. I'm after that stage and could go all in and try and grow my customer base but I like doing other things so have got best of both worlds. I think ones age has alot to do with it. I'm near 60 now and just want to plod along and do 3 days a week window cleaning. In life, I never would have thought I would be a window cleaner its one of those trades that operates under the radar of life.
A lot of us started off with a jalopy, a ladder and a bucket. Nothing hard in that.
The hardest part for me was discipline, growing a round from bugger all and working with a ladder when the wind is coming in from the north and you’re squeeging.
I’m doing it all over again over here. But I have one thing on my side, self belief. I know I know what I’m talking about out here now, a good proportion of my work coming in now is from recommendations. Doesn’t take long if you’ve already done it once.
The first 5 years are hard because of all the equipment needed to run the business. I'm after that stage and could go all in and try and grow my customer base but I like doing other things so have got best of both worlds. I think ones age has alot to do with it. I'm near 60 now and just want to plod along and do 3 days a week window cleaning. In life, I never would have thought I would be a window cleaner its one of those trades that operates under the radar of life.
As for your question I would assume eveyone started off with no round who is now a cleaner ?
Yeah i get that, i meant who started off not knowing anything and learnt it all from here, getting jobs, scheduling, equiptment etc....
As for your question I would assume eveyone started off with no round who is now a cleaner ?