£720 lighter ;)

BringTheRain · 17 Jun 2011 at 16:17

Ordered this bad boy

Mainly wanted it due to the weight of it. 720g compared to the shockers of 1500g!

So what's the most expensive thing you have bought for your business?

£620 is probably a drop in the ocean compared to other tools (snap on)!

LeJosh · 17 Jun 2011 at 16:18

I honestly thought it was going to be a zippo or something...

4T5 · 17 Jun 2011 at 16:19

I've seen these in use & it's cheating. :mad:

I buy nowt for work as I hate it.

alex24 · 17 Jun 2011 at 16:20

So are you a window cleaner? The only windows I clean is XP, I imagine that's true for a lot around here.

Can you count company cars? They're pretty expensive investments and you could regard it as a tool.

Edrof · 17 Jun 2011 at 16:20

Expected bikini-clad lovely with a box of matches

aardvark · 17 Jun 2011 at 16:20

LeJosh said:
I honestly thought it was going to be a zippo or something...

me too.

arknor · 17 Jun 2011 at 16:26

4T5 said:
I've seen these in use & it's cheating.

I buy nowt for work as I hate it.

i think health and safety put a stop to window cleaners using ladders?

also the topic says £720 the post says £620

BringTheRain · 17 Jun 2011 at 16:26

4T5 said:
I've seen these in use & it's cheating.

I buy nowt for work as I hate it.

Yeah i must admit, it is too easy. But to be fair, 99.9% of my customers would only use this system now. As long as you know what you are doing, they will be 99% perfect!

alex24 said:
So are you a window cleaner? The only windows I clean is XP, I imagine that's true for a lot around here.

Yup went back to window cleaning due to the costs of pure water technology going down. Couldn't be happier!

BringTheRain · 17 Jun 2011 at 16:28

arknor said:
i think health and safety put a stop to window cleaners using ladders?

also the topic says £720 the post says £620

forgot about VAT

and the 4ft extension i ordered

4T5 · 17 Jun 2011 at 16:29

I've heard it's the only legal way to clean windows these days with all the Health & Safety BS, Apparently if you put a ladder up to the 2nd floor you have to fix it. True ?

Tom0 · 17 Jun 2011 at 16:29

Watching him extend that is like a comedy sketch, just goes on and on...

BringTheRain · 17 Jun 2011 at 16:31

4T5 said:
I've heard it's the only legal way to clean windows these days with all the Health & Safety BS, Apparently if you put a ladder up to the 2nd floor you have to fix it. True ?

Urm kinda, its a bit :confused:

on the actual rules. Triple ladders are banned for window cleaning. BUT you can get round the rules with dead weights, anchors and footings.

TBH you are not going to employ someone just to foot the ladder all day long.

Tonyator · 17 Jun 2011 at 16:31

LeJosh said:
I honestly thought it was going to be a zippo or something...

Me too... I am Dissapoint.

4T5 · 17 Jun 2011 at 16:33

BringTheRain said:
TBH you are not going to employ someone just to foot the ladder all day long.

Can you imagine what an owner would say if you started to drill & fix your ladder to his house about 20 times whilst you work around the windows.

I'd say the tool is Superb especially as it saves you a mans labour. :cool:

Biohazard · 17 Jun 2011 at 16:33

BringTheRain said:
Urm kinda, its a bit on the actual rules. Triple ladders are banned for window cleaning. BUT you can get round the rules with dead weights, anchors and footings.

TBH you are not going to employ someone just to foot the ladder all day long.

Ahh but do you get good banter out of dead weights?

LordSplodge · 17 Jun 2011 at 16:33

What the hell. I just send her indoors up a ladder with a squeegee.

BringTheRain · 17 Jun 2011 at 16:35

4T5 said:
Can you imagine what an owner would say if you started to drill & fix your ladder to his house about 20 times whilst you work around the windows.

I'd say the tool is Superb especially as it saves you a mans labour.

These are the rules, its still a bit iffy for window cleaning. As like i say you can get round em

http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg401.pdf

Efour · 17 Jun 2011 at 16:35

Disappointed.

alex24 · 17 Jun 2011 at 16:35

4T5 said:
I've heard it's the only legal way to clean windows these days with all the Health & Safety BS, Apparently if you put a ladder up to the 2nd floor you have to fix it. True ?

Noticed that a lot recently round here. Guys with a fan a long extensions up to 1st, 2nd, 3rd floors. Failing that, I've seen lads putting up scaffolding to clean the higher levels! What a waste of time, I'm sure they'd rather be on a ladder and earning more than all that faffing surely?

My old man used to be a roofer - just used to climb up and tile away, no harness or any of this and was fine as long as there was a scaffolding around the outside. Now I see they have to be on a line and allsorts, no wonder it costs a fortune to get any work done nowadays.

Greebo · 17 Jun 2011 at 16:35

BringTheRain said:
So what's the most expensive thing you have bought for your business?

!

Bought one of these a couple of months ago