[angela carlton]

Hello Ian,

My wife thought I should respond to this, partly due to the stete of my back, partly due to my experience in remedial therapy.
I have the 135 model, but it has the dry solvent system, built in, making it pretty heavy and normally I left it outside, using up to 100 ft of hoses when necessary.
This enabled me to work 2 levels up and by attaching the inline heater at the join closest to the tools I got exceptional results and am teaching my son to follow suit.
In spite of my back I was able to take the machine up the occasional flight of stairs, without mishap, but you must have footwear, which is non slip and use common sense when pulling up / easing down stairs.
Using body mechanics, and avoiding jerky movements anyone of average fitness / strength  should have no problems.

The obvious alternative, is to have a lightweight extraction machine for difficult access jobs, we have used the little Karchers for years and in spite of rubbish tools, they have earned a lot of money.

Best wishes

rob m

[Mike Osbourne]

Thanks for the replies, lots of options now on how to tackle it. I'll let you know what happens. Hopefully I will have some 'extra' help as it's to do the flat of the Vicar's mother in law.

My machine is 135psi with the hot solvent kit (which I haven't used yet). I am weary of my back as I have had trouble in the past but it's been fine since I strengthened it and had some corrective work.

[brew]

just seen the last pic, wouldn't it be funny if someone nicked the van, followed closely by cc.
hehe, sorry for going off topic

Paul

[matt jones]

What is the matter with some of you lol. I done a job for a friend of ours who lives on the top of a 4th floor aparment block i carried my rhino 500 psi model up there on my own aswell as my drier, sebo bs36 and a load of other bits and pieces. My machine weighs about 55 kilos. The job was a complete nightmare aswell inch thick very dense turfted carpet (which was black) and very badly stained, aswell as a very stained hallway. Produced very good results but recently had to go back and redo for free as some stains had re-appeared this meaning carrying all my equipment back up to this appartment on my own. Probably not a great idea doing this on a daily basis though,
matt

[Mike Osbourne]

In the end found this. Now I have no problem.

http://www.charlesatlas.com/

[Robert Watson]

 
Cyber Charlie.
Cant belive he`s still around.
Where do I sign.

[Lavinia]

With the Alltec advantage you can take the moters out and put them back again in 5 mins makeing it easy to lift. If you have someone work for you there is also a maximum wait that they can lift due to health and safty i think.

[Terry_Burrows]

we just put the other hose on we try to avoid lifting the ninja up stairs
when poss,50ft no problem still get the suc and performance