[Roger Oakley]

f***in' hammered mate, 4 weeks booked in, all mostly commercial and a couple of roof cleans. Taking her to Barca in 2 weeks for her birthday for 3 days and the calls coming in are stressing me out when I have to tell them how long they'll have to wait.

Only 4 weeks Lee?

[Blast Away]

Yep, take it you're booked up until June...? 

It doesn't worry me, there's work coming all the time.

Besides your market and custom base is completely different to up here. People wouldn't wait until June to have their decking or patio cleaned, they'll go elsewhere no matter how good we are.

[Roger Oakley]

Yep, take it you're booked up until June...? 

It doesn't worry me, there's work coming all the time.

Besides your market and custom base is completely different to up here. People wouldn't wait until June to have their decking or patio cleaned, they'll go elsewhere no matter how good we are.

June going into July, annoying having to turn work away this early in the year.
The thing you have to remember is we do a full service on decking, so people will wait, plus you need the better temps/weather to complete them really.

This year does seem busier then most as in people booking early.

[BDCS]

I'm book til next Tuesday 

[Darranvps]

Rhino man I've been offered the same machine from Malcolm smith pressure washers for £2575 + vat or the 30ltr @ 200 bar for £100 less

Just bought the 200 Bar 30 lpm with port for two operatives from MSPW - seem like a good company. We should get it Monday.........

[Blast Away]

Yep, take it you're booked up until June...?  

It doesn't worry me, there's work coming all the time.

Besides your market and custom base is completely different to up here. People wouldn't wait until June to have their decking or patio cleaned, they'll go elsewhere no matter how good we are.

June going into July, annoying having to turn work away this early in the year.
The thing you have to remember is we do a full service on decking, so people will wait, plus you need the better temps/weather to complete them really.

This year does seem busier then most as in people booking early.

I don't like letting people down. To keep commercial happy we'll work day and night. Just had a call 5 mins ago for an urgent clean for a filming company in front of a store, so will be back out tonight if his boss approves the price.

Edit: Not going now, it's not in their budget. 

[david washbrook]

Rhinoman was it the price I said to you, another supplier advised me today to go for the 23 ltr @ 250 because on domestic work a 30ltr would flood the garden

Will be interested to hear how you get on with it

[Darranvps]

Rhinoman was it the price I said to you, another supplier advised me today to go for the 23 ltr @ 250 because on domestic work a 30ltr would flood the garden

Will be interested to hear how you get on with it

I just need to find some work for it and I will let you know...............

[david washbrook]

Ok good luck looking forward to your thoughts as I hope to be ordering mine very soon

[Roger Oakley]

Yep, take it you're booked up until June...? 

It doesn't worry me, there's work coming all the time.

Besides your market and custom base is completely different to up here. People wouldn't wait until June to have their decking or patio cleaned, they'll go elsewhere no matter how good we are.

June going into July, annoying having to turn work away this early in the year.
The thing you have to remember is we do a full service on decking, so people will wait, plus you need the better temps/weather to complete them really.

This year does seem busier then most as in people booking early.

I don't like letting people down. To keep commercial happy we'll work day and night. Just had a call 5 mins ago for an urgent clean for a filming company in front of a store, so will be back out tonight if his boss approves the price.

Not letting anyone done, if we ain't available then that's it, we do, do commercial decking but again they would have to book early, due to the sizes and what's usually needed.
Working on one at the moment that's sort of commercial, they left it late but we should complete on time.

[Great Outdoors]

Rhino man I've been offered the same machine from Malcolm smith pressure washers for £2575 + vat or the 30ltr @ 200 bar for £100 less

Just bought the 200 Bar 30 lpm with port for two operatives from MSPW - seem like a good company. We should get it Monday.........

Would be interesting hearing honest feed back, ref to fuel consumption (Daily) and water flow rates. Hope you dont mind me asking with twin ports/split is it possible on this model to switch to single op and restrict / reduce water flow from 30 to say 20 ? thks

[Darranvps]

Rhino man I've been offered the same machine from Malcolm smith pressure washers for £2575 + vat or the 30ltr @ 200 bar for £100 less

Just bought the 200 Bar 30 lpm with port for two operatives from MSPW - seem like a good company. We should get it Monday.........

Would be interesting hearing honest feed back, ref to fuel consumption (Daily) and water flow rates. Hope you dont mind me asking with twin ports/split is it possible on this model to switch to single op and restrict / reduce water flow from 30 to say 20 ? thks

I will report honestly when we get the chance to try it.

[david washbrook]

Rhinoman why did you end up changing your mind from the 23ltr @250 to the 30ltr @200 bar I'm still undecided as to which 1

As another supplier said to me with 30 ltr you will need a good water supply and it will flood any type of domestic job, and with 250 bar one you can always turn the pressure down

[Darranvps]

For us - we won't be doing any domestic jobs so flooded gardens wont be a problem.

We have 1000 ltr water tanks in the vans - plus 200 litre drums - as long as we get a decent water supply we shouldn't have too many problems with lack of water.

Why I changed - remembered that flow rate is more important than pressure

I used to import Kranzle pressure washers into Bulgaria when I lived there - great piece of kit and I still have one in the uk for washing the car -140 Bar 11 ltr per min and one at my home in Bulgaria 170 Bar at 15 ltr per min - that sits mainly in the garage with an old petrol honda thats about 150 Bar 10-12 lpm - which is great for cleaning the swimming pool and driveway when I go there in Summer.

We've also ordered a Lavor Thermic 17HW - and hope it turns out to be the dogs b******s as recommended highly by a member on here - hope by Monday, as we have a huge shed to clean soon near Nottingham.

[david washbrook]

Fair comments good luck and looking forward to hear your thoughts

[chris scott]

Rhinoman was it the price I said to you, another supplier advised me today to go for the 23 ltr @ 250 because on domestic work a 30ltr would flood the garden

Will be interested to hear how you get on with it

If you can get 30lpm from a garden hose to flood the place. Were is everybody getting there water from for these big flow machines?

[chris scott]

We have 1000 ltr water tanks in the vans - plus 200 litre drums - as long as we get a decent water supply we shouldn't have too many problems with lack of water.

Are you having a giraffe ...You are going to run a 30lpm machine from a 200 litre drum .One full IBC and one full 200 litre drum along with the weight of your machine and you will be overloaded. Unless you run a seven and a half tonner?  Have you done any pressure washing?

[Darranvps]

Chris
We use Puegeot Boxer Vans - with 1500KG payloads - the 200 ltr drums are empty and all you do is start filling them from a supply tap on site - usually enough water flow to keep going..............

And yes - we've done a hell of a lot of pressure washing - 7 days last week on one job in Aylesbury which made me decide to get better flow rates than the 15 ltr per min we have been using.......

Most of the stuff we clean is cladding/facades and large car parks

Lads will be up in Newcastle in a few weeks........

Take a look through my home made website http://pressure-washing-services.webplus.net/

[chris scott]

Chris
We use Puegeot Boxer Vans - with 1500KG payloads - the 200 ltr drums are empty and all you do is start filling them from a supply tap on site - usually enough water flow to keep going..............

And yes - we've done a hell of a lot of pressure washing - 7 days last week on one job in Aylesbury which made me decide to get better flow rates than the 15 ltr per min we have been using.......

Most of the stuff we clean is cladding/facades and large car parks

Lads will be up in Newcastle in a few weeks........

Take a look through my home made website http://pressure-washing-services.webplus.net/

1000litre IBC full = 1000kgs  200litres= 200kgs 1 machine=200kgs 2men =150 kgs . 2 men standing around waiting for an ibc to fill while the customer is watching? I could not see the point of taking empty containers .Different if they are a reservoir then a 200litre drum would do and the IBC could stay at home all cosy!!!  Sorry just me being cynical..it just seemed like you had not thought about it much

[Darranvps]

A 200 ltr drum doesnt weigh so much - we always take it empty.

Don't want to get in a girly fight Chris but we often take more than one van on a job!

Good luck with whatever you are up to, - we've been doing this long enough to know what we need Thank you very much.