Pete,
Having an ionics system, doesn’t make you a window cleaner who ‘knows what they are doing’
It makes you a window cleaner who bought an ionics system rather than the tens of other options. That’s it.
I think many on here would argue that it’s actually more likely that window cleaners who buy ionics don’t know what there doing. Simply because, if they did, they wouldn’t be ripped off by buying it in the first place.
If you’ve got money to burn, then fair enough. But in the context of this spray thing they’ve released, it’s just a glorified backpack. That really is all it is. To me, I would never dream of buying it, when I can get exactly the same results from a gardiner backpack for £100’s less - that to me, shows a window cleaner who knows what he’s doing, not one that doesn’t.
I drive a top of the range transit custom, but have a diy (very good) system inside. This was my choice because:
A. It was a lot cheaper than a ‘branded system’ but uses essentially all the same parts.
B: I know exactly how it works, and can fix any issue easily.
C. No one sees the system, or cares what it looks like or weather it says ‘ionics’ on it. So I was never tempted with one.
The reason I got the nice van, is because it looks professional, it’s practical for my needs, and it’s comfortable to drive and work from. The same doesn’t apply to the window cleaning system, because no one sees it. It’s a waste of money to spend to ££££ on a system or a fancy looking sprayer when the cheaper alternatives do the exact same thing.
Vans poles and work wear for example, by all means get the best. Because there is a difference. Just not with a backspace sprayer or van system. A shurflo pump is a shurflo pump no matter how much you dress it up.
Ionics = good marketing = catches people’s attention = parting with unnecessary money.
By the way - ionics really aren’t the industry leaders. Hence everyone (alright not everyone but most) buy Gardiner poles. The ionics poles in my personal opinion are terrible. Really terrible. You’d think they’d have the best poles on the market if they were industry leaders.
They are industry leaders - in one thing, marketing.