[David Kent @ KentKleen]

Come on! lets have it!

[trippyboy]

we gonna play the drums with these poles?

[LWC]

Harris pole 

[gary999]

Harris pole 

+1

[Clever Forum Name]

What no Chinese option. Ptttfff

[rosskesava]

She lives along Anzac Close in Peacehaven (near Brighton).

She is absolutely gorgeous both in looks and mannerisms.

[Ian101]

you should know that only gardiner users are allowed into this forum 

[PurefectWindowCleaning]

I use CLX 27 every day, works for me. Yes, the closed length can be be annoying in some tight spaces, but on the whole its great.

[Arnold Palmer]

Tried 4 of the 5 recently.

Brodex - solid but very heavy and outdated.
Facelift - good poles - too expensive.
Ionics - surprisingly poor quality.
Gardiners - SLX-22 - pole of choice for me.
Reach it? Never even heard of it?

[heath verrall]

what are the gardiner pole mad of?

[Arnold Palmer]

Carbon.

[Stephen.C]

SLX 35ft for me, town house and velux  window all very reachable with that size pole.
Very good pole.

Equally as good is the Glyder mk2 from Ionics very good pole but dreadful brush.

[Arnold Palmer]

Really? I bought an Ionics pole - a Glyder or Grafter or summat. It was kak. Very surprised as ionics stuff is normally top drawer. You certainly pay the premium for it.

I now use it as a squeegee pole.

[Stephen.C]

How can you comment when you don't what you had? Grafters are rubbish that's why they don't make them any more.
They Glyder has been improved and is a very good pole and is more or less the same price as a slx.

[PAUL ERITH]

i voted for gardiners because i have only every used brodex or gardiners.

i might have tried facelift but gardiners was a better deal with brush ect

Paul

[Arnold Palmer]

Must have been a Glyder then as it was just last month I bought it.

I was most surprised that the ionics pole was kak. Everything I have bought from them in the past has been good - overpriced - but good.

The pole itself was OK - although the middle section was cut too long, first time I collapsed it the end flew off. The pole hose supplied with it was too stiff and as previously stated the head is guff.

I can comment as I was giving my opinion on what I did have, as the op asked.

[PoleKing]

Really? I bought an Ionics pole - a Glyder or Grafter or summat. It was kak. Very surprised as ionics stuff is normally top drawer. You certainly pay the premium for it.

I now use it as a squeegee pole.

Glyders & grafters are both crap.
The swift+ is a superb pole.
Completely different to the others.

[wfp master]

what are the gardiner pole mad of?

gold

[Ian Lancaster]

We use this one:  http://www.windowcleaningwarehouse.co.uk/shop/index.php?option=com_aceshop&route=product/product&path=75_15_297&product_id=1322

With a Gardiners type 2 aluminium end cone - this is the nearest I can find on their site: http://www.gardinerpolesystems.co.uk/acatalog/Aluminium-Pole-End-Screw-Type3-Alloy_Pole_Adaptor.html -  seems to replace the earlier types.

With a standard plastic gooseneck and a hole drilled in the base cap for internal pole hose you have a good, serviceable 18ft pole that lasts forever.  The clamps have inner locking collars that cost £1.31 to replace and last for months.

Won't satisfy the 'Super-doopa bells and whistles' brigade but it does the job, year after year and weighs about a third of a comparable glass fibre pole.

[Spruce]

We use this one:  http://www.windowcleaningwarehouse.co.uk/shop/index.php?option=com_aceshop&route=product/product&path=75_15_297&product_id=1322

With a Gardiners type 2 aluminium end cone - this is the nearest I can find on their site: http://www.gardinerpolesystems.co.uk/acatalog/Aluminium-Pole-End-Screw-Type3-Alloy_Pole_Adaptor.html -  seems to replace the earlier types.

With a standard plastic gooseneck and a hole drilled in the base cap for internal pole hose you have a good, serviceable 18ft pole that lasts forever.  The clamps have inner locking collars that cost £1.31 to replace and last for months.

Won't satisfy the 'Super-doopa bells and whistles' brigade but it does the job, year after year and weighs about a third of a comparable glass fibre pole.

Hi Ian
Do you mean this?
http://www.wintecs.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=406&osCsid=kl8pv72b625bhhs6gusrhtqnn5

No hole through the middle though - hose on the outside