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I find it strange that this isn't really mentioned online with window cleaners, as it is an obvious thing to do. Maybe people do make these but don't mention it???
I have made a couple of these ground floor water fed poles, so I thought that I would take a few photos when I made my latest one. Personally, I find a ground floor water fed pole very useful as I really like using a short, light pole, especially when space is tight. It makes cleaning downstairs windows much faster than using my Gardiner SLX-30 (my normal pole for the rest of the residential windows).
NOTE: I use the Gardiner Quick-Loq system, and have used it here. So, if you use a Euro Thread, then you will obviously need to find a substitute for the Quick-Loq Insert I have used here.
You will need a pole that is long enough for downstairs windows. The last one of these I made, I used a cheap, short extension pole. This time I used a fixed length pole, as I ended up keeping the other pole to the same size all the time anyway.
STEP ONE
Buy yourself a cheap floor brush, you can pick one like this up for about £3 in one of the discount shops or even a supermarket.
STEP TWO
These brush all appear to have the same sort of threaded insert just pushed in and held by a couple of points in the metal dented in.
You only need the handle, and so need to remove the threaded insert. You can do this easily by gripping tightly and twisting out. I grabbed the pole with my grippy work gloves, and the threaded end with a pair of vice grips and it came out pretty easily.
STEP THREE
Now you need a Gardiner Quick Lock pole insert.
Or you could get a Quick Loq angle adaptor and add your own Quick Loq male end the way H Man has shown on here- http://windowcleaningforums.co.uk/threads/how-to-fit-diy-quick-loq-tip-onto-any-pole.11281/
The insert's external diameter is about 19mm and the internal diameter of the pole is about 20mm, so there is some play, but not too much. You have a choice on how you fix the insert to the pole:
Pop Rivet through both pole and pole insert
Self Tapping screw through both pole and pole insert
(Both of these have the advantage that removing the insert should you wish to would be reasonably easy. But the disadvantage of not being able to put the pole hose inside the pole if you want to)
Third option, and what I choose to do – epoxy resin and electrical tape.
I put a wrap of electrical tape around the insert part to take up the slack.
Then covered it in epoxy resin
Continued on next post due to limits on 7 images per post...
I have made a couple of these ground floor water fed poles, so I thought that I would take a few photos when I made my latest one. Personally, I find a ground floor water fed pole very useful as I really like using a short, light pole, especially when space is tight. It makes cleaning downstairs windows much faster than using my Gardiner SLX-30 (my normal pole for the rest of the residential windows).
NOTE: I use the Gardiner Quick-Loq system, and have used it here. So, if you use a Euro Thread, then you will obviously need to find a substitute for the Quick-Loq Insert I have used here.
You will need a pole that is long enough for downstairs windows. The last one of these I made, I used a cheap, short extension pole. This time I used a fixed length pole, as I ended up keeping the other pole to the same size all the time anyway.
STEP ONE
Buy yourself a cheap floor brush, you can pick one like this up for about £3 in one of the discount shops or even a supermarket.
STEP TWO
These brush all appear to have the same sort of threaded insert just pushed in and held by a couple of points in the metal dented in.
You only need the handle, and so need to remove the threaded insert. You can do this easily by gripping tightly and twisting out. I grabbed the pole with my grippy work gloves, and the threaded end with a pair of vice grips and it came out pretty easily.
STEP THREE
Now you need a Gardiner Quick Lock pole insert.
Or you could get a Quick Loq angle adaptor and add your own Quick Loq male end the way H Man has shown on here- http://windowcleaningforums.co.uk/threads/how-to-fit-diy-quick-loq-tip-onto-any-pole.11281/
The insert's external diameter is about 19mm and the internal diameter of the pole is about 20mm, so there is some play, but not too much. You have a choice on how you fix the insert to the pole:
Pop Rivet through both pole and pole insert
Self Tapping screw through both pole and pole insert
(Both of these have the advantage that removing the insert should you wish to would be reasonably easy. But the disadvantage of not being able to put the pole hose inside the pole if you want to)
Third option, and what I choose to do – epoxy resin and electrical tape.
I put a wrap of electrical tape around the insert part to take up the slack.
Then covered it in epoxy resin
Continued on next post due to limits on 7 images per post...