[Ben wood]

I have the same pole. I find it fine for alday. Also I would charge 14.00 quid for that job inc conservatory windows

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Chargeing £12 for simular at present,all new 3 storey houses i pick up will be at £15 per clean 4 weekly,£20 per clean 8 weekly. Find these houses a doddle do up to 6 an hour on maintance cleans.First cleans usually take me about 30 mins though,really fussy on first cleans makes life easy when it comes to the maintance cleans.

So your doing £90 per hour.....you've just join the club!!!!

£720 a day is stuck in the 90's you want to put your prices up mate!  

only got 6 houses like those on 2 of my rounds.12 in total .I dont earn anywhere near £720 a day.

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currently using pheonix pro 22,the facelift carbon composite equiveilent of the clx.if clx is as rigid as the pheonix pro range
that bend in pole would be down to the weight of the brush.

[scottt24]

The weight of the brush can't possibly be causing it to bend when the brush is resting on the glass

[Alex Gardiner]

The reason that this pole has a noticeable bend in it in the 2nd photo (not so much in the first) is because of the inward pressure that the operator is putting on it to get the brush to move up the window. Because there is a heavier brush on the end and also because the brush is a flocked Vikan which 'grips' the glass quite well, more pressure is needed to move the brush upwards.

Looking at photo 2 the operator is standing about 15-18ft away from the building and quite a lot of the force used is being translated into lateral force on the pole itself. The first photo does not show this as the operator is either not pushing upwards in the photo or is slightly closer to the building hence creating less of angle for the lateral forces to work on the pole.

If the pole was just rested against the building there would appear to be very little bend in it. However the CLX27 is far more flexible than a full carbon pole and it is on these extreme angle situations that a full carbon fibre pole really pays off with more of the energy used to move the pole and brush against the glass being translated into movement on the window.

The CLX27 is one of our best selling poles because of the height/weight that it offers in the price range and I do understand why. However it is probably the one pole in our range that I would not work with as it is too much of a compromise for me. I would go for an SLX25 or SLX30 instead as the difference in handling and use is quite noticeable.

[PurefectWindowCleaning]

So much better today using the CLX with my medium mixed sill brush.

I have got a slight issue tho, and that is that the jets are further apart, which made rinsing today awkward. Also, the jets spray out the water thiner, which was making me paranoid today that they are not gonna dry properly. But I loved the weight of it. It will just take some getting used to as Ive used that unger one for so long.