Simon,
Finding a tap not the problem, but where to fit it
If the pole is 40 ft in the air then obviously it needs to be 40ft from the brush, likewise if I am only using my 3ft extension pole it only need to be a few feet from me.
I could fit a shut off tap every 3ft I suppose
I did think about that, err...not every 3 feet of course
but now fold and pinch without a thought.
Now there are occasions when perhaps I have to go into an office to be able to get to a balcony on the first floor.
When things such as that happen, where a tap close to hand would be a bonus, where the smaller hose connects to the smaller hose, I just pop the connection, as the female connector on the larger hose automatically shuts of the flow I don't waste water.
I loop it in a knot around the brush head,
lift it up so that the brush is at the height of the balcony,
go into office,
up stairs, onto balcony,
whip off the brush head,
re-connect hose, wash window(s) and reverse procedure
I have my heavy duty Leisure battery chuntering away in the back of the car, I have gone two days without recharging (it runs for a minimum of 6 hours a day) so not bothered that it is being used while I'm not actually cleaning.
I'm learning all the time, new tricks to help me improve my efficiency all the time.
One I have just discovered:
I use the aluminium pole by unger that Peter supplies with his trolley system.
Prior to WFP I used a 5 ft (or is it 4ft 6in
) extention pole by Unger in the normal course of my window cleaning.
I have now started to substitute the first 2 sections of of the longer pole that came with the trolley system with my shorter pole.
Works great
And then when I drop down to the ground floor level, I simply use the shorter pole
More Manoeuvrable than the 2 metre sections of the longer pole, and extendable too
Well, ok, only a tiny wrinkle, but it saves me carting around extra poles to keep swapping with
Ian
