[Ian Rochester]

Need some help, going to price up to clean a "ball pool" tomorrow, size is 10ft x10ft x3ft deep and is 3/4 full of plastic balls.  It's for the NHS and they want the washed and sanitised.

Someone give me some idea as to how long this will take and price!!

[BDCS]

It will take f8888 ages - sub it to a ball cleaner. We did one at Madplay in Greenhithe, took forever to bag them up and the bloke turned up with a machine that sucked them up, forced them through a solution with a brush set up and blew them out. It took him most of a day. The empty ball pool was full of dust, plasters, socks and every other thing kids have. There was a machine advertised in the INPA - TIPE magazine this month. You will be sick of the sight of balls - BE WARNED

[Ian Rochester]

LOL, just been on a site who have just such a machine, may be giving them a call in the morning.
 

[BDCS]

http://madplay.co.uk/index.php?page=4


http://madplay.co.uk/gallery/2/

Look at the picture on the right - we only put half the balls back in ! You should have seen the place before we started on it, I doubt if the kitchen had been cleaned for months and there was 136 points of note on the play frame inspection.

[Ian Rochester]

Been to look at the job, roughly 20,000 balls to be cleaned.  Just been enquiring about a ball cleaning machine...............£4200!!!! for basically a vacuum to suck them up and a tank with a brush paddle in it to wash them.

[jasonl]

They go for about a grand on e bay from time to time ,  can be made back in one job , but then like most of this type of thing the machine will sit for 3 years waiting for the next job .

[BDCS]

I'll see if I can find the bouncy castle magazine for that machine

[BDCS]

Found it eventually  : The blokes name is Rob 0208 166 5772 and its £495 with additional vacuum £295. It was in the Autumn magazine

http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/launch.aspx?referral=other&pnum=&refresh=J0m58E1wr4L0&EID=38dcd1c6-6c9d-47ad-971d-8aa0920f9f6d&skip=