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Customers tap water
« on: March 13, 2008, 07:01:40 pm »
I'm going to use an adapter so that i can plug my wfp into the customers water supply. I am wondering what the pressure will be like, will there be enough do you think to wash guttering and fascias?

Re: Customers tap water
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2008, 07:02:46 pm »
I'm going to use an adapter so that i can plug my wfp into the customers water supply. I am wondering what the pressure will be like, will there be enough do you think to wash guttering and fascias?
if it is a big job I ask if I can use there tap, if you are using pure full on it uses more than it makes if that makes sence.

Ian Lancaster

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Re: Customers tap water
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2008, 07:05:48 pm »
Why not wash the guttering/fascia with tap water?

Re: Customers tap water
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2008, 07:08:07 pm »
Eh ???
That's what i'm going to do i just want to know what the pressure is like up twenty odd feet of pole hose.

Re: Customers tap water
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2008, 07:08:36 pm »
Eh ???
That's what i'm going to do i just want to know what the pressure is like up twenty odd feet of pole hose.
fine I was doing it yesterday.

LWC

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Re: Customers tap water
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2008, 07:09:17 pm »
you get mega pressure out of peoples taps, wel most of them, some of them are pretty poor

i always hook up to people taps when doing conserv roof, fascias and all that...not wasting my pure water on them!

what hoe reel do you use? i just take my hose reel out and plug straight into theres

Re: Customers tap water
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2008, 07:10:48 pm »
I use my wfp hose for it, I wash down con roofs with pure after gives a better finish IMO

L.J.Thorpe

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Re: Customers tap water
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2008, 07:15:01 pm »
any one want to explain the technique they use to do fascias with a pole,i have tried and just cant get a decent finish :( always get the ladders out to finish em off

Sanity

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Re: Customers tap water
« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2008, 07:15:21 pm »
The distance of hose / height makes no difference to the pressure.  If water is going in one end at a certain pressure, provided the hose does not expand latterally, the water will come out of the other end at the same pressure because water cannot be compressed.

Re: Customers tap water
« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2008, 07:30:53 pm »
any one want to explain the technique they use to do fascias with a pole,i have tried and just cant get a decent finish :( always get the ladders out to finish em off

I use a cut down Bentley brush - only about six inches long re-jetted so that the water comes almost from the middle. I've also shaved some plastic from the back so i can push it further up behind the gutter. Sometimes i'll dip it in tfr first and presoak everything although i'm not a big fan of tfr.

geefree

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Re: Customers tap water
« Reply #10 on: March 13, 2008, 07:39:41 pm »
i do as windowwashers.... but i shy away from conservatory roofs to be honest.

i did one not long ago and water leaked down inside a customers newly painted wall,

it all turned out ok but i warn them of leaks now, but it really has put me off though i know i am missing decent money by not pushing them as i used to.

Gary.

L.J.Thorpe

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Re: Customers tap water
« Reply #11 on: March 13, 2008, 08:00:07 pm »
djw cheers ;) helpful that

Re: Customers tap water
« Reply #12 on: March 15, 2008, 04:00:38 pm »
Got my adapter yesterday from Gardiners, you could make your own fairly easily, i swopped the connection around cos i don't want to run tap water through my microbore but from a normal hose to my pole. The pressure is brilliant almost like a mini pressure washer out of the jets. Should have done it months ago. ::)