That's some good work Lee. I have to admit that I've never come across anything that badly blocked but no doubt I will at some stage My system would struggle with the long twigs but yours seems to swallow everything. Very impressive.
Can I ask :
- How did you make the clear tubing and does it bend a lot? How high can you go?
- Who was controlling the camera - was this another operator with the camera on a pole?
- Do you get blockages or does the vac just devour everything?
- Do you charge more if the gutters are this bad?
Really interesting to see - thanks for posting.
Laurence
Alright Loz,
Just before the camera cut off there were some large twigs which had to be taken out by hand. Twigs are the main problem with blockages no matter the size they are. Blockages mainly occur on the inlet to the vac.
We don't have a mounted camera, although should another job like this come up I'll be sure to get one but for this they were happy with me to just dash up a ladder and take a quick picture of each one cleared. Not exactly working at height is it.
The clear tubing I bought off a supplier on ebay in 1 meter lengths and joined each piece together with a 50mm black tube cut into 6'' lengths and sliced down the centre and 2 jubilee clips. Nice a sturdy but still light. I wouldn't recommend more than 2 storey with acrylic tube though. The bend I bought a silicone bend used in the car tuning game.
With this job each gutter run was the same price no matter what was in them. Some nothing, some dust, some just water, some leaves, some mud, some moss and twigs and many had bits of broken tiles and mortar from the ridge-tile pointing.