[Tom White]

I've just had my kit from Gardiner Poles turn up (thanks Gardiners; you were the first delivery from the three different companies I've used), and I've just had a massive fight trying to load the hose onto the reel - I had it wrapped all round the house:



I was ready for sending it all back and selling the van at one point.

So, after an epic struggle with loads of sweating and swearing, I eventually got it onto the reel. 

Now with the second lot of hose and reel I realised that if I started winding in from the INSIDE of the hose, rather than the OUTSIDE, it would be a lot easier.

Now why haven't I heard anyone mention that before?
 

[simbag]

Haha  Probably coz I haven't been on here since I did that myself! 

I completely sympathise. Except when I first did it, I had to walk 70m down the street twisting and twirling the hose round until all the kinks and knots had smoothed out, looked like a right numpty!!

[AuRavelling79]

That's a posh garage Tosh - did you spill battery acid on the rug?

[mci services]

last time I did it, I put a brush handle through the loop and my son held onto it while I wound it on from the outside

[Tom White]

I completely sympathise. Except when I first did it, I had to walk 70m down the street twisting and twirling the hose round until all the kinks and knots had smoothed out, looked like a right numpty!!

That's what I was going to do as a final resort! 

[Klean07]

My pole hose looks like that after every clean. Damn stuff!!

[♠Winp®oClean♠]

I hate new hose, even when it's on the reel. I find it a lot better after a few weeks once it's stretched & bedded in a bit!

[Tom White]

I hate new hose, even when it's on the reel. I find it a lot better after a few weeks once it's stretched & bedded in a bit!

Thanks, that's good to know; things will get better!

I can see Wor Lass (whose not the most patient of women) clonking me on the 'ead with a pole and telling me I've made a massive mistake with this van mounted business when she was quite happy plodding on with an A-Frame and squeegie.

I'll show her your post later, 'cos I'm sure she reckons I make things up that I read on here (not that I believe everything I read on 'ere mind).

[gto]

had the same problem, i ended up dragging it down the street to untangle it.

[Dennis Taylor]

Tosh that looks bad, but you want to try loading a hose reel with thermobore...... now that takes some doing.
Its like trying to wind barbed wire, the memory in the hose just makes the job a bloody nightmare.

Dennis

[Dave Anderson]

Lube the whole lot with baby oil and it'll slip onto the reel in a jiffy

[dave0123]

I hate new hose, even when it's on the reel. I find it a lot better after a few weeks once it's stretched & bedded in a bit!

is this microbore form gardiners? i haven't bought any for about 3 years but i thought it had changed from the last stuff

[H S and Son]

 

Tosh, THINK THINK THINK.


You should have walked one end down the road, fitted the other end to the reel and then reeled it in.

[Tom White]

Right, sorted, and since the pics were taken my aquadapter things arrived and after a bit of a kerfuffle, I've fitted those too:



Hopefully my protecote comes tomorrow along with my pumps and flow controllers; and then I should be about ready to get out and work, 'cos I'm getting pretty skint.

Is there any tips (apart from wearing gloves) that I should know about protectakoting the bottom of a van?

[dave0123]

Tosh, thought you already was wfp?

[weetot]

Bloody hell, has thee won the Lotto

[Tom White]

Bloody hell, has thee won the Lotto

I wish and I wouldn't be cleaning windows.

To be honest, I've got a dodgy shoulder, maybe from years of lugging barrels and Harris Poles?  It got quite severe last year and I had to take a few courses of Naproxen; I needed help taking off my coat it was that bad, (but at work it was fine unless I jarred myself and then the pain was crippling).

There's days when I can put 200 litres through a backpack; and that's adds upto a fair bit of lugging water around.

My shoulder is good now, but if I want to keep window cleaning, I need to work smarter instead of just using brute strength and ignorance.

And I'm sick of working from the family car.  

[christopher b]

if you think thats hard try 1/2" and not the light weight hose pipe stuff, or like Dennis said thermo bore.
I handle a fair bit of hose, not just WFP stuff, the small stuff up to 8mm bore i sit on the radiators for a while ( cats bed!) or for the larger stuff I have an old electric blanket. just warm the reel of hose up a little and it gives up the fight a bit better.
"O" and as you found out always take it from the center and never cut all the wrapping off, just a slot in the middle will do

[Richard Neal]

When i got my new reel there was no instructions, i had to dismantle it  3 times before i got it right.

[Tom White]

When i got my new reel there was no instructions, i had to dismantle it  3 times before i got it right.

The instructions are the pictures on the OUTSIDE OF THE BOX!

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