What is your worst water fed pole purchase

[dmw]

thats a decent street where you can do that

did you ever clean the back of the wrong house when you started doing them lol

Too right I have.... i once did the back of the wrong  house for nearly a year until all parties realised I'd effed up. 

Thankfully after many apologies and feeling like a wally they had a good laugh about.. I didn't mention any refunds though......

 

[Five star cleaning]

Too right I have.... i once did the back of the wrong  house for nearly a year until all parties realised I'd effed up. 

Thankfully after many apologies and feeling like a wally they had a good laugh about.. I didn't mention any refunds though......

thats brilliant ? 

 

[Pjj]

Bought a Power Up HD reel just after Xmas. Ignored the warnings about the chain coming off and ordered one. On the second day of using it, the chain came off and twisted and bent and really disappointed me. The customer service of Window Cleaning Warehouse was fantastic though and they issued a full refund there and then. 
 

So went with my other choice, which was a Pure Freedom Reelmaster and, despite being more expensive, was and is a million times better than the other one. It’s engineered fantastically and everything has been thought of, in case anything ever needs replacing. Have had it in the van for a few weeks and am very, very happy with it.

Lol I had the total opposite experience pure freedom was rubbish and had to be returned due to numerous issues , waterworks reels I now have 6 are and have been brilliant I would thoroughly recommend them 

 

[RWCleaning]

It’s window cleaning related:

My old little Astra van which was £1000ish when I bought it, I loved it, but it ended up revealing a dark history. It had 135,000miles on the clock, but when it had its first mot 9 months later, my mechanic said it was on 180,000miles on the last mot last year.!! So had over 40,000 miles taken off lol. He also said the the chassis number doesn’t match the registration. And the mot bill is over £300 haha! 
 

I sold it for £500 in the end. It was in good nick I was completely up front and honest in the sale but the guy didn’t mind. Then bought my caddy, by far the best buy in anything I’ve ever done. 
 

Tools wise..... bought a crappy £20 +pp hose reel retaining steel clip/clamp from Brodex. The hose reel was still loose!
Was so annoyed. Such a waste. A pack of screwfix pipe clip holders for like a fiver are way better!

 

[Five star cleaning]

It’s window cleaning related:

My old little Astra van which was £1000ish when I bought it, I loved it, but it ended up revealing a dark history. It had 135,000miles on the clock, but when it had its first mot 9 months later, my mechanic said it was on 180,000miles on the last mot last year.!! So had over 40,000 miles taken off lol. He also said the the chassis number doesn’t match the registration. And the mot bill is over £300 haha! 
 

I sold it for £500 in the end. It was in good nick I was completely up front and honest in the sale but the guy didn’t mind. Then bought my caddy, by far the best buy in anything I’ve ever done. 
 

Tools wise..... bought a crappy £20 +pp hose reel retaining steel clip/clamp from Brodex. The hose reel was still loose!
Was so annoyed. Such a waste. A pack of screwfix pipe clip holders for like a fiver are way better!

its amazing the great alternatives you can pick up at screwfix  im in there all the time and really should get myself a trade card

 

[THL4KEL]

I will start mine is the pure freedom nano trolley even though it is a mobile unit and the lightest trolley by pure freedom i bought it to take through terraced houses but its still to bulky and heavy i wish i went for the gardiners v3 backpack 

I dont think it was ever designed to be getting carried through someone houses. 15kg plus 25kg barrel and no handle...

Its a lot better trolley than a Gardiner back pack on a trolley because its narrower, if you're wheeling down back entries.

Ive got both and they both have a place for different jobs.

The worst backpack on the market is Streamlines back pack.

 

[Five star cleaning]

I dont think it was ever designed to be getting carried through someone houses. 15kg plus 25kg barrel and no handle...

Its a lot better trolley than a Gardiner back pack on a trolley because its narrower, if you're wheeling down back entries.

Ive got both and they both have a place for different jobs.

The worst backpack on the market is Streamlines back pack.

pf nano is great but i just never use it. your so right though when i have used it its been great. what i really need is a bigger van

 

[oldtimer]

wow they are some great answers thank you. My tanks a wydale ?

ive got a small van and 350 tank ? lol

great post   the worst rip off for me was the 40ft ova8 pole    waste of time bloody grap wippy as hell and bloody heavy    sits in my shed dont use it   £630.00      rip off 

 

[oldtimer]

I dont think it was ever designed to be getting carried through someone houses. 15kg plus 25kg barrel and no handle...

Its a lot better trolley than a Gardiner back pack on a trolley because its narrower, if you're wheeling down back entries.

Ive got both and they both have a place for different jobs.

The worst backpack on the market is Streamlines back pack.

yaa   streamline stuff is grap anyway   and there after sales is bloody ****  never deal with them again   gardiners  are ok  but they all rip us off with  there wing wongy grap 

 

[Nudel]

I regret my slx18. When fully extended its like whipping a cooked noodle about. I only use it when we are two man out and doing low windows. Xtreme poles is just so much better.

I also regret buying a small 25cm brush head for my first xtreme47. That just took forever to clean large panes. With a 45cm it's a breeze.

 

[Marko067]

What was my worst wfp purchase? 
 

My first two poles!

The first was a horrendous fibreglass thing that came with my first wfp kit that I purchased in 2007. It lasted all of two weeks. Not because it broke, but because it was ludicrously heavy, too short for most upstairs work and too long for ground floor work. If memory serves it was 7’ closed and only had two sections. It must have been about twice as heavy as my SLX25. Ended up cutting it up and throwing it away. The next pole I bought was another fibreglass jobbie. It was lighter but only lasted six months before snapping in half. I bought two Unger poles after that before discovering Gardiner’s. Since then, Gardiner’s have been the only poles I’ve purchased.

 

[Five star cleaning]

great post   the worst rip off for me was the 40ft ova8 pole    waste of time bloody grap wippy as hell and bloody heavy    sits in my shed dont use it   £630.00      rip off 

ouch 

 

[Five star cleaning]

I regret my slx18. When fully extended its like whipping a cooked noodle about. I only use it when we are two man out and doing low windows. Xtreme poles is just so much better.

I also regret buying a small 25cm brush head for my first xtreme47. That just took forever to clean large panes. With a 45cm it's a breeze.

ive got the slx 25 as my daily pole i don't think its too bad but having said that i do have extension number 6 and 7 which ive never used god knows why i bought them ?

 

[Five star cleaning]

recent mistake i made i filled up with too much water and its some how got into my electrics ? i say some how but its my own bloody fault for not water proofing but in my defence i didn't expect it to leak out of a tightly closed lid and i did want to see if my tank took 350l but it only took 328l?

 

[Marko067]

recent mistake i made i filled up with too much water and its some how got into my electrics ? i say some how but its my own bloody fault for not water proofing but in my defence i didn't expect it to leak out of a tightly closed lid and i did want to see if my tank took 350l but it only took 328l?

Don’t know how water found it’s way into your electrics of course, but you could employ a similar tip that aquarium keepers use to help prevent this in future. Creat a drip loop in your wiring so that should water find its way onto your wiring it will always drip off before it reaches any electrical component.

 

[Five star cleaning]

Don’t know how water found it’s way into your electrics of course, but you could employ a similar tip that aquarium keepers use to help prevent this in future. Creat a drip loop in your wiring so that should water find its way onto your wiring it will always drip off before it reaches any electrical component.

good tip, but the waters got into my van electrics somehow 

 

[scottish cleaning service]

Probably a carbon gooseneck, bought it for a solar panel clean but never used it. I did a test yesterday on my patio doors. Scrubbed both of them with pure and only rinsed one to see what the difference was. The one I rinsed was fine but the other door still had light dirt all over the glass. Its now clear that rinsing is very important to wash down any dirt on the glass after scrubbing.

 

[Five star cleaning]

Probably a carbon gooseneck, bought it for a solar panel clean but never used it. I did a test yesterday on my patio doors. Scrubbed both of them with pure and only rinsed one to see what the difference was. The one I rinsed was fine but the other door still had light dirt all over the glass. Its now clear that rinsing is very important to wash down any dirt on the glass after scrubbing.

yeah i remember hearing someone on the forum saying you dont need to rinse on regular cleans im still rinsing on every clean the rinsing is something ive never skimped on  

 

[wezza13]

Probably a carbon gooseneck, bought it for a solar panel clean but never used it. I did a test yesterday on my patio doors. Scrubbed both of them with pure and only rinsed one to see what the difference was. The one I rinsed was fine but the other door still had light dirt all over the glass. Its now clear that rinsing is very important to wash down any dirt on the glass after scrubbing.

yeah i remember hearing someone on the forum saying you dont need to rinse on regular cleans im still rinsing on every clean the rinsing is something ive never skimped on  

Of course you need to rinse, it’s the most important part to guarantee a perfect finish!

 

[Barney]

for me it's got to be the blue flat hose brought from machine mart. Absolutely useless. The pressure of pump does does not fill it and it kinks and the flow is rubbish. stick to the black or green pond hose.( I actually think someone recommended it on here)

 

[Mx19]

Probably a carbon gooseneck, bought it for a solar panel clean but never used it. I did a test yesterday on my patio doors. Scrubbed both of them with pure and only rinsed one to see what the difference was. The one I rinsed was fine but the other door still had light dirt all over the glass. Its now clear that rinsing is very important to wash down any dirt on the glass after scrubbing.

I thought you would have learnt your lesson from when you ended up giving **** loads of work for free because of inadequate rinsing?!