thanks for the advice (and the sarcasm lol)

. yeah as MWC say's surecleansystems.com sell them - which i had already found - which is why i asked incase anyone else sells them too. in fact a lot of manufacturer/sellers sell things more expensively direct from their own website than their distributors sell them for - just not gardiners by the looks of things.
while i've got all your attention, i was going to get a gardiners clx18 for general 2 storey cleaning and a clx27 for 3 storey work, i'm on a fairly tight budget, does that sound like a good choice or has anyone got any better suggestions for that sort of money?
thanks in advance
roly