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NWH

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Re: Guttter vacs, are they worth it?
« Reply #20 on: November 21, 2018, 03:18:26 pm »
The only thing I would ever do with gutter cleans is leave them for a terrible day weather wise,when you turn up and start doing them you wished you’d sacked the day off. I only got one to offer as an option for existing customers because I clean there windows.

Splash & dash

  • Posts: 4364
Re: Gutter vacs, are they worth it?
« Reply #21 on: November 21, 2018, 05:45:30 pm »
Vaccing gutters is a good earned minimum £60 charge prices go up from there we do very well with it , we have several large commercial jobs that we do evey 3 months each one is over 300 meters long takes the morning to do absolutely full to the top each time with moss customers won’t clean the roof but happy to pay us loads to empty 4 times a year , licence to print money as far as Ime concerned I now have two guttervacs best investment I have made in a long time.

Tom-01

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Re: Guttter vacs, are they worth it?
« Reply #22 on: November 22, 2018, 02:59:36 pm »
Cheers guys.

If I get one, it’ll be a decent sky vac then.

You can have mine if you want.
Slacky, which vac is it and how much do you want for it? I could do with another one.
What size pole and hose?

Thanks
Tom

richyp

  • Posts: 593
Re: Gutter vacs, are they worth it?
« Reply #23 on: November 22, 2018, 05:35:19 pm »
20 minutes to set up wow.. takes us 3 minutes to set up and 15/20 mins on 80 percent of jobs....gutter vacs are great but you do have to get a ladder off van from time to time.

Splash & dash

  • Posts: 4364
Re: Guttter vacs, are they worth it?
« Reply #24 on: November 22, 2018, 05:51:19 pm »
It takes 20 mins + to set up a gutter vac, thats plopped your 4 jobs an hour right on the bonce Daz.

I’ve got a Spinaclean vac and would say it’s the most expensive piece of kit I’ve bought if you consider what it’s given back to the business.

I wouldn’t buy another. For me to consider it to have been worthwhile I’d need to pick up a £3K job that couldn’t be done any other way and that is finished in a week.


 Takes us less than 5 muinits to set up did a 6 bed detached Victorian house today with extension ,gutters full to the top with leaves and moss approximately 60 meters  in total took 45 muinits from start to finish including unblocking downpipes x5 , using a vac is so much quicker and only need ladders very occasionally it’s the best paying add on we do generaly earn 4 times per day gutter vaccing to what we do on windows , I wish we could do it 8 hours a day 5 days a week

John Mart

Re: Guttter vacs, are they worth it?
« Reply #25 on: November 22, 2018, 06:09:42 pm »
It takes 20 mins + to set up a gutter vac, thats plopped your 4 jobs an hour right on the bonce Daz.

I’ve got a Spinaclean vac and would say it’s the most expensive piece of kit I’ve bought if you consider what it’s given back to the business.

I wouldn’t buy another. For me to consider it to have been worthwhile I’d need to pick up a £3K job that couldn’t be done any other way and that is finished in a week.


 Takes us less than 5 muinits to set up did a 6 bed detached Victorian house today with extension ,gutters full to the top with leaves and moss approximately 60 meters  in total took 45 muinits from start to finish including unblocking downpipes x5 , using a vac is so much quicker and only need ladders very occasionally it’s the best paying add on we do generaly earn 4 times per day gutter vaccing to what we do on windows , I wish we could do it 8 hours a day 5 days a week
Did you unblock the downpipes with the vac? I’ve never managed to do that.

Nick Day

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Re: Gutter vacs, are they worth it?
« Reply #26 on: November 22, 2018, 07:48:07 pm »
We have used this for the last five years.  It has never let us down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=benuGVBWhlA

richyp

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Re: Gutter vacs, are they worth it?
« Reply #27 on: November 22, 2018, 08:03:34 pm »
Where do you get them Nick and how's it powered?

Slacky

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Re: Guttter vacs, are they worth it?
« Reply #28 on: November 22, 2018, 08:07:06 pm »
Cheers guys.

If I get one, it’ll be a decent sky vac then.

You can have mine if you want.
Slacky, which vac is it and how much do you want for it? I could do with another one.
What size pole and hose?

Thanks
Tom

Off the top of my head its this one.

https://www.spinaclean.com/skyvac-industrial-85-wet-dry

It has 37' of pole, would be 40' but I had to lose a few feet off one section as two sections got stuck one day.

50mm hose.

Its had very very little use. The machine is still gleaming basically. I'd want £1,650.00. with camera.

SB Cleaning

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Re: Guttter vacs, are they worth it?
« Reply #29 on: November 22, 2018, 08:23:09 pm »
Cheers guys.

If I get one, it’ll be a decent sky vac then.

You can have mine if you want.
Slacky, which vac is it and how much do you want for it? I could do with another one.
What size pole and hose?

Thanks
Tom

Off the top of my head its this one.

https://www.spinaclean.com/skyvac-industrial-85-wet-dry

It has 37' of pole, would be 40' but I had to lose a few feet off one section as two sections got stuck one day.

50mm hose.

Its had very very little use. The machine is still gleaming basically. I'd want £1,650.00. with camera.
Where abouts you based?

Splash & dash

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Re: Guttter vacs, are they worth it?
« Reply #30 on: November 22, 2018, 11:12:11 pm »
It takes 20 mins + to set up a gutter vac, thats plopped your 4 jobs an hour right on the bonce Daz.

I’ve got a Spinaclean vac and would say it’s the most expensive piece of kit I’ve bought if you consider what it’s given back to the business.

I wouldn’t buy another. For me to consider it to have been worthwhile I’d need to pick up a £3K job that couldn’t be done any other way and that is finished in a week.


 Takes us less than 5 muinits to set up did a 6 bed detached Victorian house today with extension ,gutters full to the top with leaves and moss approximately 60 meters  in total took 45 muinits from start to finish including unblocking downpipes x5 , using a vac is so much quicker and only need ladders very occasionally it’s the best paying add on we do generaly earn 4 times per day gutter vaccing to what we do on windows , I wish we could do it 8 hours a day 5 days a week
Did you unblock the downpipes with the vac? I’ve never managed to do that.




Yes just used the vac , to be fair the bends at the top were full of leaves with moss on top so it was an easy job , we generaly unblock the downpipes from the ground with the vac , as a rough guide I suppose we get the ladders out on one job in every 20 . If you are prepared to spend a bit of time and use different techniques I would say 99 out of a 100 can be done from the ground oviously if there is a three foot high tree in it it’s going to need a ladder but there are many different ways to clear s bends from the ground , we have done loads of jobs that others have said cannot be done and they have given up and walked away , we specialise in this type of job but again we charge a premium for it . I have only had one job that I couldn’t clear and that was a cast iron Victorian cast s bend and pipe that was a very small diameter and the blockage was ten feet long in the down pipe tried everything including the pressure washer
 

Slacky

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Re: Guttter vacs, are they worth it?
« Reply #31 on: November 22, 2018, 11:48:24 pm »
Cheers guys.

If I get one, it’ll be a decent sky vac then.

You can have mine if you want.
Slacky, which vac is it and how much do you want for it? I could do with another one.
What size pole and hose?

Thanks
Tom

Off the top of my head its this one.

https://www.spinaclean.com/skyvac-industrial-85-wet-dry

It has 37' of pole, would be 40' but I had to lose a few feet off one section as two sections got stuck one day.

50mm hose.

Its had very very little use. The machine is still gleaming basically. I'd want £1,650.00. with camera.
Where abouts you based?

Hampshire.

SB Cleaning

  • Posts: 4287
Re: Guttter vacs, are they worth it?
« Reply #32 on: November 23, 2018, 11:25:07 am »
Cheers guys.

If I get one, it’ll be a decent sky vac then.

You can have mine if you want.
Slacky, which vac is it and how much do you want for it? I could do with another one.
What size pole and hose?

Thanks
Tom

Off the top of my head its this one.

https://www.spinaclean.com/skyvac-industrial-85-wet-dry

It has 37' of pole, would be 40' but I had to lose a few feet off one section as two sections got stuck one day.

50mm hose.

Its had very very little use. The machine is still gleaming basically. I'd want £1,650.00. with camera.
Where abouts you based?

Hampshire.
Bit too far for me or I would of had it...

If your popping up Herefordshire way anytime soon I will have it off you ;D

John Mart

Re: Guttter vacs, are they worth it?
« Reply #33 on: November 23, 2018, 04:06:15 pm »
Cheers guys.

If I get one, it’ll be a decent sky vac then.

You can have mine if you want.
Slacky, which vac is it and how much do you want for it? I could do with another one.
What size pole and hose?

Thanks
Tom

Off the top of my head its this one.

https://www.spinaclean.com/skyvac-industrial-85-wet-dry

It has 37' of pole, would be 40' but I had to lose a few feet off one section as two sections got stuck one day.

50mm hose.

Its had very very little use. The machine is still gleaming basically. I'd want £1,650.00. with camera.
Where abouts you based?

Hampshire.
Bit too far for me or I would of had it...

If your popping up Herefordshire way anytime soon I will have it off you ;D
How much are they new then? I could buy two of the ones we use for that.  ;D

John Mart

Re: Guttter vacs, are they worth it?
« Reply #34 on: November 23, 2018, 04:08:03 pm »
Cheers guys.

If I get one, it’ll be a decent sky vac then.

You can have mine if you want.
Slacky, which vac is it and how much do you want for it? I could do with another one.
What size pole and hose?

Thanks
Tom

Off the top of my head its this one.

https://www.spinaclean.com/skyvac-industrial-85-wet-dry

It has 37' of pole, would be 40' but I had to lose a few feet off one section as two sections got stuck one day.

50mm hose.

Its had very very little use. The machine is still gleaming basically. I'd want £1,650.00. with camera.
Where abouts you based?

Hampshire.
Bit too far for me or I would of had it...

If your popping up Herefordshire way anytime soon I will have it off you ;D
How much are they new then? I could buy two of the ones we use for that.  ;D
Just looked. £2,200. I could buy three for that.   ;D ;D

Sorry Matt.  :-[

robbo333

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Re: Gutter vacs, are they worth it?
« Reply #35 on: November 24, 2018, 04:18:27 pm »
Just used my new Sky Vac Atom today, in the rain; worked a treat. Two more jobs booked in as well.
I think i'm going to enjoy this.
Thank you also to Spinaclean, great service, very helpful lady!
"Thank you for calling: if you have a 1st floor flat, mid terraced house, lots of dogs, no parking, no side access, or no sense of humour, please press hold!
For all other enquiries, please press1"

lee_dewing

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Re: Gutter vacs, are they worth it?
« Reply #36 on: November 24, 2018, 07:31:15 pm »
Robbo

What’s your opinion of the atom?

Too early to say?

Remember asking about the atom the other year and people slated it saying it was under powered and not up to the job 😳

Hopefully your not finding this robbo

Good luck to you 👍
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.     - Aristotle

Nick Day

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Re: Gutter vacs, are they worth it?
« Reply #37 on: November 24, 2018, 07:32:17 pm »
Once your filter gets thoroughly soaked, your romance with gutter cleaning will be over.

robbo333

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Re: Gutter vacs, are they worth it?
« Reply #38 on: November 24, 2018, 09:30:27 pm »
Robbo

What’s your opinion of the atom?

Too early to say?

Remember asking about the atom the other year and people slated it saying it was under powered and not up to the job 😳

Hopefully your not finding this robbo

Good luck to you 👍

Hi Lee

Yes, too early to tell yet, but I was surprised how well it coped today.

Also my mate has the same gutter vac, which he purchased 50/50 with another window cleaner, so between them it gets a lot of use. He's never really had a problem with his, (think he's had it a few years) so I am hoping mine will be good too.

Price wise, WCW were doing a slight discount, so I phoned Spinaclean and they matched it. I don't think they are doing it now!
Camera wise, I purchased a (go pro type) camera from Robert Dyas for £25, fits straight onto my slx and works a treat.



"Thank you for calling: if you have a 1st floor flat, mid terraced house, lots of dogs, no parking, no side access, or no sense of humour, please press hold!
For all other enquiries, please press1"

Splash & dash

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Re: Gutter vacs, are they worth it?
« Reply #39 on: November 24, 2018, 09:50:45 pm »
Once your filter gets thoroughly soaked, your romance with gutter cleaning will be over.


The words sour grapes come to mind 😂😂😂😂 they are a very good vac  one of the best on the market