Looking to buy a water fed backpack/trolley system

Hi guys I’m looking to start my own business, I want to buy a water pole system with backpack/trolley as I will be working from my car.

Im new to all this so I don’t know which ones are reliable/good.

I would need it to fit in my car and hopefully be below £200.

I have 2 gardener backpacks plus unger N-lite poles and its great 

https://gardinerpolesystems.co.uk/

Above is a good place to start and a CLX is a great beginners pole as well as their backpacks.

Iain jones said:

I have 2 gardener backpacks plus unger N-lite poles and its great 

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Any links mate 

scottish cleaning service said:

https://gardinerpolesystems.co.uk/

Above is a good place to start and a CLX is a great beginners pole as well as their backpacks.

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Is there somewhere where you can buy backpack with the pole aswell, do you have link to the CLX ones?

Hyzer373 said:

Any links mate 

Is there somewhere where you can buy backpack with the pole aswell, do you have link to the CLX ones?

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https://gardinerpolesystems.co.uk/all-products/water-fed-poles/telescopic-poles/clx-ii-carbon-composite-pole.html

Or look out for a second hand pure freedom trolley

https://gardinerpolesystems.co.uk/

One pole from window cleaning warehouse the other ebay

Unger N-lite glass fibre 

Unger N-lite Aluminium 

Gardiner backpack great for the money.

Like you, i'm starting out. I recently bought the Gardiner Backpack, CLX27 pole (plus brush, hose, and hose fitting - all on the same page), 6 blue 25L water containers from ebay and some shoe covers (also ebay) and already had my own clarke strong arm folding trolley.

My costs - approx:

£107 for the back pack

£260ish for the pole, brush, hose and fitting

£28 water containers from ebay

£3.75 for the shoe covers (for putting over shoes when walking through someones house to back garden - saves taking shoes off)

£10 for my first 172L of pure water from my local supplier.

Roughly £400 all in - give or take a couple of tenners. Oh and i have a folding clarke strong arm sack truck thing that i bought moons ago - you can find cheaper versions around these days for about £20. I've not printed any leaflets yet though - not had chance, still working on the missus's flaming car (nissan micra - total pain - avoid!)

There's cheaper back packs on ebay - some with poles, some without. I went with Gardiner as our own window cleaner recommended it to me saying it was the best one she found and having used it today for the first time, i was well impressed - I expected it to be really noisy but it's rather quite and just sort of bumbles. Awesome invention. I also opted for the Gardiner CLX27 pole too. For the price and price range it was the best they've got (IMO) with the highest reach. I've read people saying nothing but good things about Gardiner poles. Can't give you any feedback on it myself as i've used it just once - today but other people seem to love them!

Not exactly a cheap start.. but compared to other business's it's peanuts.

Hyzer373 said:

I would need it to fit in my car and hopefully be below £200

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A decent pole will eat your budget straight away. All of the above recommendations are good but if you want to keep anywhere near that budget you're gonna need to start trad.

A DI vessel and resin alone would be £150 and thats assuming you don't need an RO.

To put it in perspective I made £120 today and only worked for 4 hours... If you could get near that on such a small budget you would offset your costs within a week. If it was that easy literally everyone would be doing it.

Most of the lads on here will have worked more hours and earned more but I think thats a good example of what a newbie could be doing within a few weeks. 

P4dstar said:

A DI vessel and resin alone would be £150 and thats assuming you don't need an RO.

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I don’t even know what any of those things are?

i could go over 200 if I really needed to but I thought I’d be able to get a pole + water tank for under 200 to be honest, are the ones on eBay no good? 

Hyzer373 said:

I don’t even know what any of those things are?

i could go over 200 if I really needed to but I thought I’d be able to get a pole + water tank for under 200 to be honest, are the ones on eBay no good? 

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Haha they're water purification devices mate.

The eBay ones are the pound shop version of window cleaning equipment. Mass produced Chinese cr4p. They will last all of 5 minutes, they're not very good and you certainly won't be able to replace many parts on them. Absolute waste of money if they're gonna last 3 months.

In my opinion the cheapest way to start would be;

• Gardiner back pack - £110
  
• Gardiner SLX18 - £165
  
• Water containers - £30 (eBay)
  

You can just purchase the pure water somewhere and you're away, worry about DI and RO later if you like.

P4dstar said:

Haha they're water purification devices mate.

The eBay ones are the pound shop version of window cleaning equipment. Mass produced Chinese cr4p. They will last all of 5 minutes, they're not very good and you certainly won't be able to replace many parts on them. Absolute waste of money if they're gonna last 3 months.

In my opinion the cheapest way to start would be;

• Gardiner back pack - £110
  
• Gardiner SLX18 - £165
  
• Water containers - £30 (eBay)
  

You can just purchase the pure water somewhere and you're away, worry about DI and RO later if you like.

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I appreciate your help and advice mate, those prices are a bit better, where would I purchase pure water and roughly how much is that? 

Having to use the pure water has honestly put me off going wfp slightly, I’m considering just getting a long non water fed pole, can anyone recommend a good trad non water fed pole? Or could I buy one that is water fed but just use it like a trad pole? 

P4dstar said:

• Gardiner SLX18 - £165
  

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Actually it's a bit higher than that at £190

Tango said:

Actually it's a bit higher than that at £190

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I meant CLX, that £190 is plus vat, the price of the equivalent CLX is £165 including vat... Long day yesterday, and today come to think of it haha, apologies.

Hyzer373 said:

I appreciate your help and advice mate, those prices are a bit better, where would I purchase pure water and roughly how much is that? 

Having to use the pure water has honestly put me off going wfp slightly, I’m considering just getting a long non water fed pole, can anyone recommend a good trad non water fed pole? Or could I buy one that is water fed but just use it like a trad pole? 

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Some garden centres sell pure water or there is a company called spotless water that have filling stations. Its about 3p per litre. Not a good long term solution but in the short term.

Gardiners backpack and clx pole , sack truck from Homebase will cost a bit more than £200 but that’s the cheapest and best option and easier to lift in and out of a car , trolleys are better as they hold more water but you won’t want totry and lift it into the car with much water in it