[Neil Jones]

I've just bought a brodex wfp, I can see why someone who uses these everyday would pay more though as it's damn heavy.

I'll only be using this for cladding cleans, I turned two away last year because I didn't have the set up to brush them. I'll also be using it for my windows, before you say get a window cleaner I did have one but he can only do the fronts as there is no access to my garden when we aren't at home. Plus he was trad and because we have a tiered garden it is impossible to do the backs. So I'll be doing them, I know it isn't pure water but it will do for me.

Need your help though on a couple of things, ideally I want to hook this up to a mains source, outside tap really, but the hose is the small 8mm stuff I think, way to small for a tap. Do I have to change it all over?

Also what pump do you recommend for if I'm using it to pump chemical on cladding cleans? How would I power this?

I have no interest in a full pure water set up as it's overkill for what I need. Plus the other half would kill me seen as I've currently took over the garage with the business.

Cheers in advance

[dazmond]

you ll make a mess of your windows with tap water mate!

you dont need a pump if your connected to an outside tap.

fittings for hose can be found at lots of wfp suppliers,gardiners,pure freedom etc


pressure sprayer is what i use for applying cleaning chemicals.


regards


dazmond

[Don Kee]

You can get a male hoze lock fitting for your 8mm hose.
Your better off with the smaller pole hose, it'll give you a bit of pressure.

To spray chemicals, use a backpack :
http://www.johnhewitt.com/backpacks.htm

The esr18 is decent (although looks to be out of stock at the moment)

[Jonny 87]

Your gonna get very stained windows as the months go on.

Mineral deposits will build up so that eventually your will have frosted glass in all your windows.

Unless you want super private windows.

[Neil Jones]

I know what you're saying about using tap water but I have no choice, you literally can't get to the back of my house without going through it, that would mean i'm either in to let the window cleaner do his job (not practical for me or the window cleaner) and he would have to drag everything through the house. It's tap water or rain water and I prefer tap 

Not only that the windows are nackered, crap ones already here when we moved in, the main reason I want to start doing them is because we just had two new bay windows at the front, which are decent. I can either do them with tap water and wfp or let the trad guy carry on, but he doesn't do the frames.

As for a chemical feed, it would be used for any cladding cleans so a sprayer is not an option as it wont reach.

I think I go the hose size wrong, its the small clear hose used in the pole already, can this be connected to a tap somehow? Is a shurflow 60 psi pump enough to feed this when using chemical, do you run this off your van battery.

Cheers for all the replies so far.

[Neil Jones]

http://www.purefreedom.co.uk/metal-straight-18-male-bsp-thread-x-14-6mm-hose-tail-p-368.html?page=2

[Neil Jones]

I think this is what I need, small bard goes in the the pole hose and the other end can be used to connect up a hose lock attachment? My concern is that the pressure of the mains will just blow the connection apart?

[Don Kee]

run your brodex water fed pole off the sprayer so the chem reaches the cladding. Its like having a mini wfp system, fill the back pack and pump through the pole.

Use : http://www.purefreedom.co.uk/aluminium-male-hose-connector-with-8mm-hose-tail-p-569.html

For pole hose connector to connect to a hoselock (pick the correct size for your hose)

[Don Kee]

If you want to keep your trad guy doing fronts, just pole over your fames every few months or so, doesnt matter if you get water marks on the glass as he'll blade them off when he's due. (Or ask him if he'll do the frames)

Either that or get a wfp guy

[gary999]

I know what you're saying about using tap water but I have no choice, you literally can't get to the back of my house without going through it, that would mean i'm either in to let the window cleaner do his job (not practical for me or the window cleaner) and he would have to drag everything through the house. It's tap water or rain water and I prefer tap 

Not only that the windows are nackered, crap ones already here when we moved in, the main reason I want to start doing them is because we just had two new bay windows at the front, which are decent. I can either do them with tap water and wfp or let the trad guy carry on, but he doesn't do the frames.

As for a chemical feed, it would be used for any cladding cleans so a sprayer is not an option as it wont reach.

I think I go the hose size wrong, its the small clear hose used in the pole already, can this be connected to a tap somehow? Is a shurflow 60 psi pump enough to feed this when using chemical, do you run this off your van battery.

Cheers for all the replies so far.

dont know what your water quality is like,if its relatively soft wont
be a major problem,harris pole and a unger squeegee from a home base
few straight pulls will solve problem

[robert mitchell]

if you have a water but just use rain water for your windows , tis will be low enough to get a half decent result , you could fill a pressure sprayer with the rain water and connect that to your pole .

[Michael Peterson]

Buy a d I polishing vessel then have pure water just buy resin to fill it shouldn't be band for the amount of windows you need to clean

[Michael Peterson]

Or collect rain water