Univalve Leaking

[peter rogers]

Does anyone know if there's any difference between a black univalve and a red one?
I've been wondering if black one leaks more / not as good quality etc

Yes it was made half red so people knew which in to install up and down if h get me

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[noddy]

so what you lot are saying the uni val is utter rubbish then ? and not up to the job because it needs pulling to bits and fixing all the time ?? I drive my new van everyday and it doesn't need to go to ford every few weeks to get fixed because it does what its built for !

ive not liked the looks of these things since they came out , we run 12 a.dapters on our vans and love them , even the mk1s are still going strong apart from the odd spring wish you could still get them as ive seen a lot of bad feed back from the uni val and its putting me off buy them

 

[spruce]

so what you lot are saying the uni val is utter rubbish then ? and not up to the job because it needs pulling to bits and fixing all the time ?? I drive my new van everyday and it doesn't need to go to ford every few weeks to get fixed because it does what its built for !
ive not liked the looks of these things since they came out , we run 12 a.dapters on our vans and love them , even the mk1s are still going strong apart from the odd spring wish you could still get them as ive seen a lot of bad feed back from the uni val and its putting me off buy them

If this is for me then no, I'm not saying the Univalve is rubbish - far from it.

However, I still prefer the on/off action of the aquadapter. I also like the wheel on the unit as I often used that to reduce the flow when needed. It also made cleaning the brush off easier. I also have 2 houses where my SLX22 with the AD was a full limit. Now, without the AD I can't reach. I have to either pinch my son's SLX25 or unpack my SLX40.

There was so much bull bantered around on how heavy the A/D was and how much better it would be if it lost weight. Steven tried and there was a few failures with the housing breaking.

When I removed my AD and fitted the UV I honestly didn't notice a weight difference on the front of the pole with normal usage. On more acute angles, yes, otherwise no.

I bought a third UV a couple of weeks ago and fitted to my son's SLX25. When I asked him how it felt he also remarked how he didn't notice any weight difference between the AD and the UV weight wise.

I mainly took mine apart to see how it worked and to measure the O Ring. I didn't notice that Steven had already put the size on the comments below the YouTube video. Had I see that I wouldn't have bothered.

I will still keep my AD's as a backup. In fact I may just decide to put my AD back on.

I'm not sure how Steven arrived at his pricing for the AD. I'm sure the initial ones were around £60 but prices were squeezed when the Aquatap was released by Peter Fogwill. It seems the prices crept back up again. At £30 I guess the UV is a throw away item. I got the first 2 UV when they were launched and they have worked fine, apart for one being a little stiff to operate. I certainly wouldn't have sent it back for repair.

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[noddy]

spruce I got to say I agree with you , me and my staff love the a.d. and love having the wheel to turn down the flow as we never had controllers fitted and never needed them using the a.d.

its a shame stev didn't run both units for sale side by side he will say people would buy the a.d. because is was more expensive we all know that's not true my ultermite poles are ten time the price of the slx yet I still buy them not all window cleaners want everything for northing

ive always found stev real quick and easy to talk too on the phone and very helpful even answers emails on a sunday ! going to order a uni value (mk2) I just hope and pray he finds a box of old a.d. in his shed one day as I would buy ten of them right away

 

[Green Pro Clean Ltd]

so what you lot are saying the uni val is utter rubbish then ? and not up to the job because it needs pulling to bits and fixing all the time ?? I drive my new van everyday and it doesn't need to go to ford every few weeks to get fixed because it does what its built for !
ive not liked the looks of these things since they came out , we run 12 a.dapters on our vans and love them , even the mk1s are still going strong apart from the odd spring wish you could still get them as ive seen a lot of bad feed back from the uni val and its putting me off buy them

I will just add that we are hearing of a couple of dodgy ones out of hundreds sold.

For every few hundred vans out there a couple are dogs.

I never had na AD but do love my UV. (Got 3)

Had one leak... nothing to do with unit to do with poor clamping of hose by me. Now sorted.

 

[Andy]

Only time I have a problem with my uni is if I have the pole extended out ward over distance and there is a dip in it then I sometimes have to give it a couple of tugs to turn it off. I have 3 uni valves.

 

[spruce]

We've got 2 x 'mk1's' and 1 x 'mk2'. They both work exactly the same @noddy . I seem to remember Steve did a little mod after the first univalves were released so that would be standard on all new ones now.

I think the move away from the a/d was weight driven to begin with.

I appreciate the tooling to make the univalve cost a fortune, but assembly costs will be a lot less. I'm guessing but the long term profitability of the univalve % wise is probably better than the a/d. He got it to market long before the Gardiner/Fogwill valve so time will tell how much of an impact that valve will have and if Steve will have to price his valve more competitively to compete. They may appear to be expensive for what they are (a ball point pen mechanism) but they will pay for themselves in no time with water savings for new users.

Because they are so small hundreds will fit in a small cupboard, whilst the a/d needed more storage space.

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[Green Pro Clean Ltd]

On a side note.

I love my UVs.

Best thing in years for WFP

IMO