[m.b.s.]

thats the baby !

how id you connect it to your pole cheers

[johnny_h]

m.b.s sorry mate i havnt i have about 40 ft of micro bore wrapped around it just hold it with the pole

[m.b.s.]

m.b.s sorry mate i havnt i have about 40 ft of micro bore wrapped around it just hold it with the pole

[Alex Gardiner]

Is it just me, but I always seem to work about 10% more quickly in the cold than when it's warmer.

Alex,

Very true. It's also quite amazing how fast you can plough through work on a wet day too. Turns a negative outlook day into good positive income.

On a different note. Did a close full of 3 storey town houses today using the SL-2. Having only used it on a few blocks of flats before now I thought that it would be slower on these terraced three up monsters. Very pleasantly surprised to be wrong.

Once the routine was in place it was quick. It was also a darned sight easier to reach over parked cars and conservatories than with our previous setup (Unger Tele-heavy-banana).

Thank you Alex. It used to ache. Now it felt like one of our easier days. Before you ask - I am not on commission.

I could do with speaking to a few milkman to learn the best ways of transporting five bits of pole around and making it look easy 

Ben

(P.S. Does anybody else get funny looks when they wheel out the SL kitbag. I swear a few customers curtain twitched and thought they were going to get shot by a trained assassin setting up near their house)

Someone I know who has an SL uses a light golf-bag strapped onto his back!

[Tim Rose]

You might think you work faster, but in fact you slow down in the cold...

Water moves more slowly the colder it gets, to the point where it frezzes and doesn't move at all
Hoses stiffen and are less likely to move smoothly
Rubber diafraghms (sp?) in pumps stiffen and are not so flexible, move less water
YOU stiffen, your muscles tighten and you do not operate like the well-oiled mahine you are (!)
The cold affects your thinking and slows down your judgement and ability to respond to situations and you have more accidents
and on and on.

You think you are working quickly becasue in reality you wish you werent out there at all and cant wait for it to be over.

Hot systems have the edge over cold, and dressing properly will help, but big heavy clothes will weigh you down like lead.

Cuts hands are painful when they thaw.

[windowwashers]

You might think you work faster, but in fact you slow down in the cold...

Water moves more slowly the colder it gets, to the point where it frezzes and doesn't move at all
Hoses stiffen and are less likely to move smoothly
Rubber diafraghms (sp?) in pumps stiffen and are not so flexible, move less water
YOU stiffen, your muscles tighten and you do not operate like the well-oiled mahine you are (!)
The cold affects your thinking and slows down your judgement and ability to respond to situations and you have more accidents
and on and on.

You think you are working quickly becasue in reality you wish you werent out there at all and cant wait for it to be over.

Hot systems have the edge over cold, and dressing properly will help, but big heavy clothes will weigh you down like lead.

Cuts hands are painful when they thaw.

100% agree with that 

[Alex Gardiner]

You might think you work faster, but in fact you slow down in the cold...

Water moves more slowly the colder it gets, to the point where it frezzes and doesn't move at all
Hoses stiffen and are less likely to move smoothly
Rubber diafraghms (sp?) in pumps stiffen and are not so flexible, move less water
YOU stiffen, your muscles tighten and you do not operate like the well-oiled mahine you are (!)
The cold affects your thinking and slows down your judgement and ability to respond to situations and you have more accidents
and on and on.

You think you are working quickly becasue in reality you wish you werent out there at all and cant wait for it to be over.

Hot systems have the edge over cold, and dressing properly will help, but big heavy clothes will weigh you down like lead.

Cuts hands are painful when they thaw.

Extreme cold will do the above, but standard cold I find does not. On Monday I finished every job at least 10% more quickly because it was too cold to hang around!

[Tim Rose]

'Standard' cold?   

[Alex Gardiner]

A new expression! Basically the cold we are enduring now is fairly normal for winter-time in Britain.