just got a 36ft powerpole...cleaning flats at 30ft or so and it is seriously heavy going...impossible to pull off the window and rinse...well maybe not impossible but a serious strain on the body. Just moving it from window to window was hard graft.
I also found that the jets in the brush head are tiny and push the water out at a great pressure...like a pressure washer at the brush head.
I honestly am fit and pretty strong and have tried all methods of rinsing. I am now only going to rinse by holding brush at top and let a large amount of water runthrough brush head if its a good sheeting window.
I`ll hold it at an angle and run it down either side of glass for beading glass...BUT...the 12" white plastic brush head supplied gets pretty fouled up with dirt, cobwebs, leaves etc. I never had this with a Vikan brusk and thought the powerpole brush was self cleaning in as much as I thought the water running through the brush would be capable of clearing out any debris in the brush fibres.
I cannot imagine how an extra 24ft of pole with water is physically managed...
£500+ for a pole that left me feeling like I had been on an army recruit course after 2 hours...any advice or observations on this would be greatly appreciated and hopefully reassured.
If Glyn is on, should I have opted for the Vikan brush...I didn`t initially because I feel the 16" is a bit too big and has no protective rubber buffer unlike the 10" brush.
Can I take off a section of my 36" pole to clean these 30ft flats a bit more comfortably? if so, is it the bottom pole I take off and how?
If John Garnett is on... when you are cleaning bottom end of your area...a bit nearer to the pool of life...give me a call so I can get up there and see how you use the bigger powerpoles...it CANNOT be this physically difficult or NO-ONE would be able to sell these things
Windows Chepstow... a couple of days of this and I will be back on the road to P-Company fitness...might even dust off the beret and give HQ a ring to see if they want an old sweat back in the ranks.