[geefree]

Hi

Im just curious.. (again lol)

as to how you all stop your hose reel in the van from moving around... i have a flat tank, and i like to work from the side door,

but if i drop it in front of the tank, it gets trapped in the door when i pull it out,

and if i sit it on the tank it slides everywhere or drops in the slit in the tank centre...

thats where i would like it but how i tie it down please guys.

Gary.

[Pole2pole]

I gought a couple of exhaust clamps for pennies Gazza, drilled 4 holes and clamped her down. You gotta be sure you're not drilling into anything you don't want to like fuel tanks and spare tyres  :

[Pole2pole]

Hi

Im just curious.. (again lol)

as to how you all stop your hose reel in the van from moving around... i have a flat tank, and i like to work from the side door,

but if i drop it in front of the tank, it gets trapped in the door when i pull it out,

and if i sit it on the tank it slides everywhere or drops in the slit in the tank centre...

thats where i would like it but how i tie it down please guys.

Gary.

Sorry misread i think...........DON'T DRILL HOLES IN TANK.........REPEAT......DON'T DRILL HOLES IN TANK.     

[geefree]

  :

Haha

[Sir Squeaky]

I've clamped mine to a 4ftx2ft piece of chipboard.
Spreads the weight, and it doesn't slide around.
If it did, it can't move far, it's almost as wide as where it's sat.

[Davew]

I had a crappy Hozereel that could be wall mounted. I kept the brackets and dumped the reel. They have a simple release catch so you can take your reel out whenever you want. I mounted it to the floor near the back door.

[steve smith]

I bought some water pipe clamps frpm B&Q only a couple of quid for 10 and my Metal hose reel snaps into this and i can snap it in and out easily, these hold it very steady in the van and doesn`t move, it only has 1 screw through it, i have mine screwed into the floor for using the rear door but these are superb for holding it in the van

[Davie T]

Screw an appropriate piece of external plywood to the floor and attach reel via brackets ( round ones that secure plumbing pies to the wall) or,  simply create, by same ply, a long canal shaped opening sufficiently wide enough to slide the hose reel  legs into and then place another piece of ply over the canal to form a bridge. The overall result will have the reel enclosed entirely by the ply. Difficult to explain- hope you understand.

[East coast window cleaning Services]

here mate mines bolted to my tank

[mike richardson]

ive got 2 both are bolted to the van roof on a frame, there brill never move anywhere,gona fit new ones to my ibc tank nxt time,

[windowwashers]

here mate mines bolted to my tank

not thought of getting a bigger van    as look a little cramped

[Trevor Knight]

All our hose reels are bolted either to the floor (100m microbore) or to the ceiling for the smaller 60m hose reel.

[East coast window cleaning Services]

here mate mines bolted to my tank

not thought of getting a bigger van    as look a little cramped

you gonna buy me one

[windowwashers]

here mate mines bolted to my tank

not thought of getting a bigger van    as look a little cramped

you gonna buy me one

if the 6 number i have come up tonight I will OK 

[East coast window cleaning Services]

hold you to that sunshine

I'll have that primastar setup which is in the for sale section

[geefree]

Thanks once again for your replies,

i do need to put the reel on top of flat tank tho,.. as its useless for side doors on the floor...

i think i have sussed it,
i will use the narrow slit in the middle of the tank,  and put something like a flat piece of wood on top and  a leg into the slit joined together.... and screw my reel to that.  :