[Steve Chapman]

We use a truckmount, but i still find it easier in blocks of flats to take the sabrina maxi up than run up and down the stairs several times. and certainly easier than lugging all the hoses up.

You can carry the maxi's up in your arms but there still good enough to do small flats etc


Steve

[Phillip Mold]

ye thank christ. there isnt any insurance out there is there for us self employed guys so if we have injury were coverd or are we just on our own basically

You can get insurance for personal injury, its called Permanent Health Insurance (PHI).

Its not cheap though, costs vary according to when the payout would start fro being unable to work, usual minimum periods are 4, 8, 13, 26, 51 or 104 weeks. Obviously if it is to start paying out after only(?) 4 weeks disability it would be very expensive, but payments continue assuming continued disability until a selected retirement age.

[Andy Messias]

Pick up a airflex mini twin vac about £800 second hand very light with good stair climbing wheels
I've seen pictures of guys with hoses going up to flats wonder how they would stand if a hose fell and hit someone
 

I recently bought a Airflex mini twin vac as a 2nd machine (weighs only 28Kg) great for doing small jobs, bedrooms, flats etc.... have used it 5 or 6 times now and think it's an excellent little machine, great when I don't want to use my other machine (Airflex Pro 600).

[M.Acorn]

Dropped my powermax while half way up some stairs once,it also had 30ltr of solution in it at the time.
Bought extra hoses when I got home that afternoon,

[Carpet Dawg]

Dropped my powermax while half way up some stairs once,it also had 30ltr of solution in it at the time.
Bought extra hoses when I got home that afternoon,

You took your machine FULL OF WATER up a stair case!!!??!?! You fill it before you move it Mark.

[David MK Cleaning]

I feel for you Andy, quite regularly have to climb 5/6 flights of stairs for flats in Hastings/Warrior Square area, takes me abit of time to lump it up there as in have to have a breather after each flight lol.
Take your time and lots of energy drink i find works well though, i know its not good for you but neck 3 cans of a high energy drink and see you fly up those stairs with it on top of your head 

[robert meldrum]

Sooooooo easy to upset the t/m brigade by stating something they don't want to hear, eg, that hoses are heavy and awkward to carry up and down stairs,

I've done the " pull em up and hang em out the windows bit " and the only damage I ever caused in thirty years was to a window frame caused by hose  friction.

Just to clarify"..........I would not subscribe to hauling a heavy portable up stairs as there are other options. One would be to use a smaller portable for flats another would be to use a rotary which many are now doing.

Why would anyone argue that twenty five or fifty foot lengths of hose is not awkward and heavy ?

[maxcampbell]

Even when we used a porty we'd drop a bit of cord out of a window. The only hose we ever carry up is a 3m whip. With a TM you can go higher, but around here that's not an issue.

To think TM operators are struggling with "heavy hoses" is self deluding.

[Steve Chapman]

Ive had TM for 7 years and I still struggle with the hoses up and down the stairs

Its a fact they are alot heavier and cumbersome than portable hoses !


Steve

[pro-fresh]

anybody who has never used a truckmount uses access and setting up as an excuse not to have one, but even in most appartment blocks it is still easier  than taking up and setting up a portable. There is only an extra 10 ft of hose per floor so there really is nt a weight issue on the hose. I loathe having to take the portable out on t6he 1 or 2 occasion a year I may need to. We do not have to fetch and carry water it is just so much quicker.
Peter

There are 10000 apartments in Manchester City Centre, if you wanted to work here you would have to get a portable. You cant even park outside most of them and even if you could you would have to prop open half a dozen security doors, which  i'm sure would be a no no with most concierge. You can only hang your hose out of the window if the flat is overlooking the road and most of the time they dont.
Dont get me wrong I would love a truckmount, but I would still have to get the portable out at least once or twice a week.