Ice melt grit at the ready and a sweeping brush. I always offer to grit customers driveways and paths esp if they are elderly in this weather.

I'll head off at 9am for a 930am start. Most of the kids are back to school today so I like to miss the morning rush.

The main problem is side roads. My car is a small SUV and is fine on icy/snowy roads but my van,not so much. I don't have winter tyres on my van. I'm mainly cleaning estate work this week so not much driving about.

On the plus side it's going to be nice and sunny!🙂👍

Quote from: KS Cleaning on January 04, 2026, 04:23:21 pm

Is there a way to switch off power to the digital display or does it stay on all the time?

Of course you can turn it off but obviously the reel won't work if it's turned off!🙂

It works just like any other digital display just hold the right hand button down until it turns off.

I turn mine on in the morning and put it on battery display and turn it off after my last job. I run mine on 99 all day.👍

Yes I was aware the reel wouldn’t work if it was switched off, but when I connected it up to the battery the digital display was on and I couldn’t get it off. My other controller for the pump has an individual power switch, this one doesn’t and it didn’t come with any instructions.

Snowing here now.

Yep snowing and frozen outside and minus temps till 11am tomorrow. Should be an interesting start back.

Snowing here now.

Quote from: Stoots on January 04, 2026, 01:38:27 pm

I never used cp to record expenses as that was too much hassle. I would have to remeber every time I ordered something or went in a shop to update it on cp or it wouldn't match my bank. Rather than having to be totally accurate with expenses and payments in cp I just use it as a tool to organise my round and see debts.

Always found it easier to just download a bank csv file year end open in spreadsheet. See my turnover easily by summing the incoming column.

Then with the outgoings just match them to receipts I either had online or in paper form.

Took about 2 hours once a year rather than having to record data ongoing through the year.  1 mistake in cp and it wont match my account.  What actually goes in and out of the bank is what matters not what ive recored in cp so thats where i prefer to get the data from. That's still the way I do it now then send it to my accountant because im Ltd.

But that can't possibly work if you pay for some expenses in cash.

It works perfectly well if you don’t pay for anything business related in cash, which I don’t.