[Ian Rochester]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/10533376.stm

Starts on Friday, if you are in this area you need see how it affects you if you are WFP.

[weetot]

Water levels in many areas and resevoirs have depleted probably because of wfp.
When you think, unless your,re harvesting, a third probably goes down th drain!

Now expect the w/cs to come on and say their not a high user, their main business is traditional.
 

[ccmids]

this might sound daft but what if you used a back pack , its not a hose pipe realy is it , could this be a way round this ban.
after all the pipe up the poll is only about 6 mm anyway.

[Gordon_Taylor]

this might sound daft but what if you used a back pack , its not a hose pipe realy is it , could this be a way round this ban.
after all the pipe up the poll is only about 6 mm anyway.

I think you'll find if you talk to your local water board it's the fact that you use a hose pipe to produce the pure water in the first place.

Gordon

[ccmids]

so what about big garden centres then , they wont use a watering can to water thousands of plants

[Jack Wallace]

this might sound daft but what if you used a back pack , its not a hose pipe realy is it , could this be a way round this ban.
after all the pipe up the poll is only about 6 mm anyway.

I think you'll find if you talk to your local water board it's the fact that you use a hose pipe to produce the pure water in the first place.

Gordon

I have about 5 metres of hose to my RO, if I were to replace that with copper pipe fixed to the wall, then it’s no different to a fixed appliance in my home such as a washing machine or shower.
Once the water is produced does the use of hoses to get it to the pole still count?

We have all these so called Federations and Guilds, which are there to represent "the window cleaner at work" how come no one seems to know what can and can’t be done?

[dazmond]

i will have just got my first cleans out of the way by friday!

the hosepipe ban does NOT affect us!!as we purify it for commercial reasons!

im DI ONLY and use no more than 250L a day so ill just carry on as normal.

now if a drought order was issued id just go back to ladders and trad pole for my work until the order was lifted.

[dazmond]

i think my conny roofs with hose on custys outside taps will have to be put off for a while though!! : : :

[Roy Harding]

As I understand it a hose pipe ban does not effect you. But a drought order does two different thing's.

Roy

[AuRavelling79]

A hosepipe ban in the lake district! Pathetic!

What next? Snowdonia?  :

[tws]

Water levels in many areas and resevoirs have depleted probably because of wfp.
When you think, unless your,re harvesting, a third probably goes down th drain!

Now expect the w/cs to come on and say their not a high user, their main business is traditional.
 

i agree wfp is a very un-economical way to clean windows but i dont think business users will be banned unless it turns into a proper drought like we had in 1976 when everyone's water supply was cut off and standing tanks placed in each area, but long way from that yet.  

[richywilts]

makes ya laugh doesnt it especially with all that rain we had over the winter

[Sunshine/Cleaning]

We seem to be OK in Derbyshire (Severn Trent Water) 81.6% overall with 2 of the Dewent res at just over 50%.

I think you only need to wory when a drought order comes in. That said it doesn't look good if customers cant use water and we do.

[dazmond]

i have to run a hosepipe down my stairs through a di then fill up my barrels as i live in a first floor flat!

is this illegal then from friday morning??

[tws]

makes ya laugh doesnt it especially with all that rain we had over the winter

this whole country makes me laugh its destroying itself and anyone trying to build a business will get the life taxed out of them or regulated to death haa great britian  what a joke.

[adixon]

i was just thinking the same as dazmond just posted
i can see some moaning customers next week

andy

[soapy]

Does not affect commercial business untill it gets really bad.
Anyway i thought it was always raining up north.

[tws]

look what happened in the winter with all that snow no side rounds and many main routes never got gritted complete nightmare than it come out most of the rock salt had been sold abroad, now who,s been buying up all our water reserves.

[tws]

i can confirm it is raining in Bolton as we speak"

[adixon]

what about domestic work