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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Ice and Minus Temperatures
« Last post by AuRavelling79 on Yesterday at 08:45:09 pm »
My immersion heater keeps everything supple and ice free.

Open the back doors of the van first thing and I feel like warmth from 400 plus litres of water.

Lovely.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Ice and Minus Temperatures
« Last post by The Jester of Wibbly on Yesterday at 08:26:29 pm »
I can't believe no ones mentioned it yet? 😂😂

Front protection system ot heaters in the van?   Or do you just put a box set on and think sod this.  😂

Oil filled radiator in van next to my hose reel overnight

Broom and ice melt grit for customers that want me to grit their driveway/path.

That's it. Business as usual.

Are you not using the frost protection system on your hot water system?

Frost protection on PF heater only protects heater, not the rest of your kit in van.

Not on the Grippatank hot water setup.  It works a treat for me.  It circulates hot water through the hoses and back to the tank.   When water temp drops to 2 degrees it kicks in for 5 mins. 

Keeps everything fully defrosted.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Ice and Minus Temperatures
« Last post by simon w on Yesterday at 08:23:21 pm »
I can't believe no ones mentioned it yet? 😂😂

Front protection system ot heaters in the van?   Or do you just put a box set on and think sod this.  😂

Oil filled radiator in van next to my hose reel overnight

Broom and ice melt grit for customers that want me to grit their driveway/path.

That's it. Business as usual.

Are you not using the frost protection system on your hot water system?

Frost protection on PF heater only protects heater, not the rest of your kit in van.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Ice and Minus Temperatures
« Last post by The Jester of Wibbly on Yesterday at 08:17:40 pm »
I can't believe no ones mentioned it yet? 😂😂

Front protection system ot heaters in the van?   Or do you just put a box set on and think sod this.  😂

Oil filled radiator in van next to my hose reel overnight

Broom and ice melt grit for customers that want me to grit their driveway/path.

That's it. Business as usual.

Are you not using the frost protection system on your hot water system?
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Ice and Minus Temperatures
« Last post by NBwcs on Yesterday at 08:04:48 pm »
First job and it froze on the glass  :o it wasn't like this years ago I'm sure.

Of course it was! I remember when I was a cold water cleaner back in 2010 and the same thing happened to me on very cold days.

No problems with hot water. In fact I've been defrosting skylights and window sills all day!😄

I arrived at my first job to find one of my customers frantically trying to scrape the ice off her car so I defrosted the whole car within a minute! She was so happy and grateful!👍

I wouldn't dare put my brush on a custys car, i cleaned my lads car and found scratch marks on the roof. Dont care about my own vehicles but plenty of people are very precious about theirs.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Ice and Minus Temperatures
« Last post by dazmond on Yesterday at 07:27:14 pm »
I can't believe no ones mentioned it yet? 😂😂

Front protection system ot heaters in the van?   Or do you just put a box set on and think sod this.  😂

Oil filled radiator in van next to my hose reel overnight

Broom and ice melt grit for customers that want me to grit their driveway/path.

That's it. Business as usual.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Ice and Minus Temperatures
« Last post by dazmond on Yesterday at 07:24:33 pm »
First job and it froze on the glass  :o it wasn't like this years ago I'm sure.

Of course it was! I remember when I was a cold water cleaner back in 2010 and the same thing happened to me on very cold days.

No problems with hot water. In fact I've been defrosting skylights and window sills all day!😄

I arrived at my first job to find one of my customers frantically trying to scrape the ice off her car so I defrosted the whole car within a minute! She was so happy and grateful!👍
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Snow
« Last post by dazmond on Yesterday at 07:16:17 pm »
Same here Dazmond well organized short days so if i need to catch up most times i can.

It just makes sticking to my cleaning schedule that bit easier with flexibility built in....

Doctors,dentist appointments,etc can all be pencilled in around work,same for lots of other things that can get in the way of working 👍
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Snow
« Last post by Jay Le Huray on Yesterday at 04:12:02 pm »
It's not often we get snow here but when I got up this morning we had a fair bit so went for a cup of tea did some shopping and by then it stopped so we managed to get our scheduled work done albeit 2 hours behind. 
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Ionic V4 Thermopure
« Last post by Splash and dash on Yesterday at 11:48:11 am »
Thank-you all for taking the time to respond.
I was only asking the question as the way its worded on Ionics website appears to suggest that you can heat pre-heat to aid with the prevention of frost damage when the temperature drops (perhaps, so i thought, with an inbuilt immersion).
It really is a fantastic bit of kit but unfortunately does not have a 'frost stat' to prevent any damage in sub zero temperatures and can't understand why Ionics have produced a state of the art system IMHO but you have to pop a £20 radiator, or similar, in the back to protect it from damage!

Personally I prefer to put an oil filled radiator in the back than relying  on the frost stat...

The problem with the frost stat is it's fairly loud and can come on 3 or 4 times in the night using fuel and electric. Mine used to wake me up(and the neighbours sometimes)...


Just fit a silencer in the exhaust pipe that will make it much quieter
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