I tried out my new system today; van mounted, microbore, SLX poles, and Aquadapter - very nice - but to be honest I wasn't that impressed with the Aquadapter and I'm thinking of taking mine off, and using an external pole hose which has an on-off switch everywhere you can grab and bend a bit of hose.
Wor Lass, whose pretty cack-handed 'cos she's brand new to WFP likes the aquadapter, since it gives her time to clean the sill and position herself at the next window without fumbling about and wasting 200 litres of water while she does it.
But the jury is out for myself. I think the SLX would be a far nicer pole to use without one; and I'm happy to use an external pole hose.
What do you think?
Tosh
You've got to used to your fishing poles. You need to give the hose on the inside a bit of time to get used to. No more spinning the pole around to take up the hose as I did.
Take the adqua-daptor off and put the Gardiner hose on the outside of the slx and then you will see what a pain having the hose on the outside is especially if you spin the pole around to coil the hose round it. You will see how the hose grips the pole and makes raising and lowing it a bit of a pain.
If you are having a problem with the hose coming out of the bottom of the pole hooking itself onto plants etc., then adjust the pole to be a little shorter.
The other thing is you must uncoil the Aqua-daptor hose first before opening the pole, because if you don't it will get knotted up at the base of the pole as it doesn't uncoil itself.
This is a whole new learning curve for you so its bound to feel uncomfortable. Just think how much more difficult it would be for you if still had to learn the wfp process, convince customers why it's better and then go through the process and pain of all those first cleans.
Edited.
Bumper is right. Its a pain looking for the hose tap and having to bend down every few moments to switch it on and off. If you put the tap on your belt then you can never be guaranteed that the hose couplings or tap are leak proof - a wet trouser leg is very uncomfortable. When I did drag the tap on the floor to the next window without switching the water off, I've lost count of the times the tap got hooked on some paving gap and switch itself of when giving it a tug. The tap handles were forever coming loose and if you didn't keep on top of it the screw comes out and gets lost.
Spruce
