Backpack users, bit of advice please...

[cheapncheerful]

ahhhhhh jakey ....a lift....now that makes sense...

dont forget to keep us informed on what you get and how you get on...

and watch you dont catch any porsches with your sack trolley..!

 

[Jake]

ahhhhhh jakey ....a lift....now that makes sense...
dont forget to keep us informed on what you get and how you get on...

and watch you dont catch any porsches with your sack trolley..!

Ha ha yeah, this time there shouldn't be a Porsche in sight! Don't start the job till end of year earliest as its still in the building faze...

 

[cheapncheerful]

building faze...

hate building cleans...

have some stuff on some of the windows on an industrial unit and cant shift it...

other than scraping with a blade ..

but thats too slow and the owner wouldnt pay extra for a builders clean but its annoying..

tried sticky stuff...visorol...and a custy told me about a spray used for cleaning the insides of log burners...

and that did nowt....although to be fair it said leave on for half an hour but I cant hang around for that long...

I did start scraping it off did three panels and thought Im doing charity work so I left it...

oh and the latest I tried was silicone eater..but again that wanted a long time..

dont know what some of the bloomin builders use but wish they wouldnt leave it on my windows../emoticons/biggrin.png

 

[Jake]

Ah it's not like that cheap, it's a former office block thays being converted to apartments, so windows outside won't be touched or dirtied up, it's a monthly clean I'll Be doing for a guy I have a couple of contracts for already, so should be nice and clean after the first time doing them....

Builders cleans - I don't do them, hate them!!!

 

[cheapncheerful]

here in sandbach next to maccy d we have two brand new well almost office blocks...

they tried to rent them but for some reason they couldnt..

and they are now purchased by McCarthy and Stone and....

they are being torn down..

nowt wrong with them all very new and they are going just for more retirement flats.

I used to cringe at the scene in i robot where the demolition robot knocks down such a beautiful house full of beautiful things but here in real life you can see it happen..

 

[Jake]

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Here's the front of the building cheap, nice building, it goes back to another street behind, and there's two courtyards in the middle - which is why I need a backpack, I would just drag the hose through, but infortuabkty to get to the courtyards you have to go up one flight of stairs/the lift!

 

[SolarPanelCleaning]

Just bungee another tub of water on top of the main one and you'll be fine. Top up when you need to.

Can't imagine not having pneumatic wheels????????

 

[Jake]

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[Jake]

@cheapncheerful why can't I pm you? Won't let me? Can you pm me, got something to tell you!!!!!!!

 

[Jake]

Cheap you need to click the envelope but and write a private message to me... It won't let me write one to you..? @cheapncheerful

 

[Posh]

Good luck carrying a backpack on yer back!!

 

[Taxlossloz]

Yeah that's what I mean, a sack trolley for the 2 barrels? Then backpack on back whilst waking through lobby and Up the lift...

FIRST RULE OF BACKPACK

Never talk about backpack going on your back ! It weighs a ton and will seriously give you injuries

Just carry it or wheel it mate

 

[Jake]

FIRST RULE OF BACKPACKNever talk about backpack going on your back ! It weighs a ton and will seriously give you injuries

Just carry it or wheel it mate

Yeah that's what I planned to be fair, although was gonna give it a go just for walking to the spot I'll be using it! But yeah 25 odd kg on ya back is a bit of an ask!

 

[Alien Human]

Recently used Gardiner and very impressed.........

But......

Thanks guys, appreciate it,
I'm gonna need a lot more than 25littrs.. Perhaps I'll get the Gardiner one, then get a trolley to place it on with a couple of extra 25l barrels?

That's what I did with a recent clean Jake. I bought a Gardiner backpack for a tricky job and I just put a 25 l barrel on the shoulders and carried it up the stairs each time I needed to refill.....hard graft /emoticons/smile.png

Other benefit with having the backpack is that I then used it to pre-spray the metal cladding of an industrial unit (with some diluted general cleaning liquid - can never remember the name.....'Xodo?).....and then washed it down with pure - worked a treat but would not have felt happy running that through mee van.

So in short - hardly use it but it's sooooo helpful when I do.

As we always say : 'it's just another tool / option to add to the .......tool collection thingy ma bob.....'

 

[albootyerbaws]

gardeners backpack empties quickly even on slowest speed.got one but never use it. ws18 from http://www.johnhewitt.com/backpacks.htm is what i use had it about 7 years. stick it on a trolley.

 

[Jake]

gardeners backpack empties quickly even on slowest speed.got one but never use it. ws18 from http://www.johnhewitt.com/backpacks.htm is what i use had it about 7 years. stick it on a trolley.

He does a 35 litre trolley system that looks pretty good... Bit cheaper than others as well...

 

[Andy]

dont carry it on your back and what ever you do DONT pick it up by the lid with handle as surgessted by the manufacturer even more so if it has water in it

 

[cheapncheerful]

yep its just great when 20litres of pure hits the ground and you get a lovely cool shower...

yeh did it today....I knew the lid hadnt gone on right but did I listen...

twice in one week...what a divvy still it does cool you down having a shower of pure..

nobody else flicks the pure off their brush straight onto their face....ahhhhhh

 

[Poles Apart]

View attachment 4859 Here's my 35 litre trolley system only I haven't got to lift a trolley out of the van:thumbsup:

 

[cornishcraig]

This trolley takes up to 4 barrels but you need to be Arnie to push up the hill!

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[SolarPanelCleaning]

**** man, that'd weigh more than me!