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Tecbuk hybrid

yep not sure with the one i am using at present...so just pondering a change....but they can be a bit pricey...though i always buy from tuffers online.....some great prices on there...:rofl:

 
bloomin heck at the prices i looked at they had better last a bit longer...suppose...it does depend how much work you do...and i do more moaning than working...

 
yeh fancy having names for your equipment...oh i want to play with banana again...:rofl:and i was so sad to lose my big norris blade....

i am still hoping ...but i doubt it...that when i get my £35 she has found big norris on her lawn and i get him back:gush:

 
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Whoa its heated up and cooled down again on here since i last looked lol

As has been said.......brushes are a very personal thing, but once i started lurking on here the popular choice seemed to be a gardiners of some description, so i followed suit. And as everyone was suggesting, oh yes they are very very good brush, very good indeedy..........but!!!! I have found their limits many a time hence buying 6 variants of their fine brushes in a bid to find either the perfect brush or have a brush for every job.......mission accomplished!,!!

But my intense intrigue into tecbuk/richards claims led me to try one, still not perfect!!! I.e. Weight, but starting to realise a little girth is required for full on scrubbing occasionally. But for out right cleaning power and compromise for the perfect brush ( in my opinion ) the tecbuk hybrid kicks ass.

With this knowledge, in hindsight if i had to buy ONE brush alone i'd plump for a tecbuk.

But gardiners are also a fantastic brush, but for light maintenance work only

 
Whoa its heated up and cooled down again on here since i last looked lol
As has been said.......brushes are a very personal thing, but once i started lurking on here the popular choice seemed to be a gardiners of some description, so i followed suit. And as everyone was suggesting, oh yes they are very very good brush, very good indeedy..........but!!!! I have found their limits many a time hence buying 6 variants of their fine brushes in a bid to find either the perfect brush or have a brush for every job.......mission accomplished!,!!

But my intense intrigue into tecbuk/richards claims led me to try one, still not perfect!!! I.e. Weight, but starting to realise a little girth is required for full on scrubbing occasionally. But for out right cleaning power and compromise for the perfect brush ( in my opinion ) the tecbuk hybrid kicks ass.

With this knowledge, in hindsight if i had to buy ONE brush alone i'd plump for a tecbuk.

But gardiners are also a fantastic brush, but for light maintenance work only


Thanks keir,

Unfortunately you will get a lot of that on forums, a barrage of recommendation for one particular supplier, it wont matter if the item isn’t suitable, because your interest aren’t taken into consideration, only the suppliers interest, and its all at your expense of course.

Some of my customers say the same as you; although I think this is the first time I have heard of a customer plump for ONE Tecbuk Hybrid brush over 6 variants of the Gardiner brushes, by the way the Tecbuk Hybrid is for light maintenance work, its just very good at what it is made for, so window cleaners use it for most cleans.

Personally I think 2 different brushes is a minimum requirement that would probably cover most work - a maintenance clean brush, such as the Tecbuk Hybrid, then a more aggressive brush for first clean such as, the Tecbuk Nylon monofilament.

After these 2 main brushes are sorted, you then can start to think of other brushes that will save more time, such as a Full Trim Polyester Brush for maintenance cleans of small Georgian windows, Full Trim version is much easier and quicker to use on small panes of glass, than its equivalent in Dual Trim. A Boars Hair Brush for self cleaning glass etc. For the amount of use these extra brushes would get, they could last you years.

 
Usually the market speaks for itself IMO. If one brush stood head & shoulders above the rest we'd all be using it.

It doesn’t work that way, price will always be a factor for some and most buy a so called ‘brand’ because of marketing, keir posted and I quote “the popular choice seemed to be a Gardiner’s of some description, so I followed suit” You could say on the forums, the main reason for using a Gardiner’s brush is because someone else on the forum uses one.

Keir has brought 6 Gardiner’s brushes and 1 Tecbuk brush, Gardiner’s outsold my brush in this case by 6 to1, but keir recommends if you buy 1, buy the Tecbuk Hybrid Brush. Keir probably spent over £200 on Gardiner’s brushes and £50 on Tecbuk brushes.

According to Gardiner’s, he sells 1,000 brushes per month, 12 times what I sell (not 6 times) the market does speak volumes, not quality.

 
It doesn’t work that way, price will always be a factor for some and most buy a so called ‘brand’ because of marketing, keir posted and I quote “the popular choice seemed to be a Gardiner’s of some description, so I followed suit” You could say on the forums, the main reason for using a Gardiner’s brush is because someone else on the forum uses one.

Keir has brought 6 Gardiner’s brushes and 1 Tecbuk brush, Gardiner’s outsold my brush in this case by 6 to1, but keir recommends if you buy 1, buy the Tecbuk Hybrid Brush. Keir probably spent over £200 on Gardiner’s brushes and £50 on Tecbuk brushes.

According to Gardiner’s, he sells 1,000 brushes per month, 12 times what I sell (not 6 times) the market does speak volumes, not quality.
Price would only fuel the market for so long IMO- people wouldn't re-order a substantially inferior product just because it was cheap, that would be false economy. Granted, many companies can sell on brand alone but these are completely different markets to the one we are discussing- this wouldn't wear long in the face of our ultra prudent market!!

 
Price would only fuel the market for so long IMO- people wouldn't re-order a substantially inferior product just because it was cheap, that would be false economy. Granted, many companies can sell on brand alone but these are completely different markets to the one we are discussing- this wouldn't wear long in the face of our ultra prudent market!!

Prices do fuel the market, alongside supply and demand; and you get different people who choose to buy quality and those that choose a cheaper version, false economy or not.

Some wfp equipment is based on brand, I agree about window cleaners being prudent, but to have to hear the same products being pushed on all the forums, all the time, can mean behaving prudently on a forum is easily forgotten.

 
Prices do fuel the market, alongside supply and demand; and you get different people who choose to buy quality and those that choose a cheaper version, false economy or not.

Some wfp equipment is based on brand, I agree about window cleaners being prudent, but to have to hear the same products being pushed on all the forums, all the time, can mean behaving prudently on a forum is easily forgotten.
This is the market speaking for itself. If these constantly "pushed" products were no good then this just wouldn't happen.

It's also not easy to build a "brand" & in this market it can only be done on merit IMO. People will buy for various reasons but a "brand" in this market wouldn't last unless it continued the path on which it got there to begin with. Look at Unger, great brand for trad gear, not so good with wfp though.

 
I speak for myself as consumer/product user whatever that might be and I happen to have a brain rather than acting sheep like. The reason why one brand is favoured more than another I guess is partly due to price point, recommendations by others actually using the product and liking it for one reason or another.

Richard you have had at least 4 years banging on how you have the fastest brushes in the world on different forums but slagging off other suppliers that you seem to do so well only makes you look bad.

If your brushes were that good you would be in mass production by now selling worldwide thousands of brushes not operating a cottage industry still.

Maybe you should go on dragons den :rolleyes:

Just my thoughts you understand./emoticons/smile.png

 
I speak for myself as consumer/product user whatever that might be and I happen to have a brain rather than acting sheep like. The reason why one brand is favoured more than another I guess is partly due to price point, recommendations by others actually using the product and liking it for one reason or another.
Richard you have had at least 4 years banging on how you have the fastest brushes in the world on different forums but slagging off other suppliers that you seem to do so well only makes you look bad.

If your brushes were that good you would be in mass production by now selling worldwide thousands of brushes not operating a cottage industry still.

Maybe you should go on dragons den :rolleyes:

Just my thoughts you understand./emoticons/smile.png


You’re making a good point Smurf, price point is one of many deciding factors; but too often you do speak for a particular supplier.

I would like you try my brush, and judge it objectively. Only then do I feel you are qualified to comment on it.

As for being only a cottage industry, they are not massed produced, like my competitors brushes. The quality of each brush is important to me, and I am not prepared to compromise on this, and I don’t think my customers would appreciate this, if I did, so this speaks for itself.

My brushes are sold worldwide, with sales in Europe and Asia in this month alone, furthermore, the only marketing I do is through my own website, many of my sales are generated through word of mouth.

 
I will be happy to try your selection of brushes and give my honest comments on here.

Send me a pm and I will give you the postal address for the trial brushes to be sent to :rolleyes:

 
You would be MUCH better off to have your brushes mass produced, I can only assume low volume sales prevents an economical prospect for this? There is no reason whatsoever why your brushes should suffer in quality via a higher production level, if you are able to offer up a decent enough volume you would get the exact quality you require- if you go about it the right way. Unless your brushes are 100% better than the competition then they'll struggle to command a 100% higher purchase value.

 
I tell you what, i'm off this week. If i get a chance i will do a vid, i have one particular window on my house which gets dirtier than the others.

What i'll do out of interest is do one half with the tecbuk and the other with a gardiners, and to see if there is a difference i will do one pass of each stroke and rinse instead of doing two or three passes on the same bit of glass.

Which gardiners should i use? Medium mixed sill, medium mixed superlite or medium hybrid?

 

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