[Chris Galloway]

So, hows things with the gutter vac now? What is your set up exactly so far?

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Hi Chris, i just have the vac as supplied but with a couple of small changes. I am using the 38mm hose and not the 51mm because i can't see much point in using the larger diameter due to being restricted by the superlight pole size and small nozzle size for houses. I have five sections so should reach three storey but haven't tried it yet. I made various nozzles from 38mm plastic waste pipe - they are a good tight push fit. Have the looped hose at the top very similar to the omnivac. Thirty metres of Artic cable with splash proof connectors with an rcd to plug into the customers power. All the vac parts were sourced by Gardiners - probably cheaper to do it yourself but easier to use them. I removed the flange inside the drum to allow debris through. Made up a cctv camera to run off rechargeable battery and converted a reciever/monitor to run off a bicycle 13v battery and mounted that to a tripod.
 Thats it really, not rocket science, i've only done four houses and found it very easy so far. Thinking of mounting a plunger to a nozzle to pick up kids balls and might try to make a square nozzle for big box gutters, maybe try a small bore hose to poke down the drainpipe to the elbow joint.
It's very very simple the biggest problem  for me was sorting out the electrical requirements - fortunately Jeff is about.
Total cost about 1k and that included fitting a tow bar and having the electrics wired up.
Looking into providing power in the future but don't fancy the expense/bulk/weight of a large 5kv generator at the moment. Who knows?

[Chris Galloway]

I got the vac, but not gone from there, been too busy with home life and designing my new flyers.

I will have to look into getting hose length, prob from gardiners, and get the lecy cable sorted etc. Ive not got any spare cash to get the sl2 base sections yet, so have decided to just try it with plastic down pipe for now, it fits well, will be ok for standard 2 storey resi homes, but any higher than that it will be toooo whipy.

Still going to look into getting a trailer as the darlek (vac) i like to call it is a bit big for the van, and i have enough stuff in there already. So need to get towbar fitted and but a trailer - but the trailer can be usefull when i do end of tennacy cleans, with and without the vac - as i wont just be using it for gutters.

[Chris Galloway]

Hi Chris, i just have the vac as supplied but with a couple of small changes. I am using the 38mm hose and not the 51mm because i can't see much point in using the larger diameter due to being restricted by the superlight pole size and small nozzle size for houses. I have five sections so should reach three storey but haven't tried it yet. I made various nozzles from 38mm plastic waste pipe - they are a good tight push fit. Have the looped hose at the top very similar to the omnivac. Thirty metres of Artic cable with splash proof connectors with an rcd to plug into the customers power. All the vac parts were sourced by Gardiners - probably cheaper to do it yourself but easier to use them. I removed the flange inside the drum to allow debris through. Made up a cctv camera to run off rechargeable battery and converted a reciever/monitor to run off a bicycle 13v battery and mounted that to a tripod.
 Thats it really, not rocket science, i've only done four houses and found it very easy so far. Thinking of mounting a plunger to a nozzle to pick up kids balls and might try to make a square nozzle for big box gutters, maybe try a small bore hose to poke down the drainpipe to the elbow joint.
It's very very simple the biggest problem  for me was sorting out the electrical requirements - fortunately Jeff is about.
Total cost about 1k and that included fitting a tow bar and having the electrics wired up.
Looking into providing power in the future but don't fancy the expense/bulk/weight of a large 5kv generator at the moment. Who knows?

How much was the RCD, wat rating is it, and where did you get it from?

Off to B&Q's for a quick look round, but i suppose you need a 16amp rating rcd for use with everything else thats 16amp? The ones ive seen so far come with 13amps. Unless it a case of swapping the fuse?

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I've put a 13a one on the end. i wondered if i should fit a 16a fuse too but i don't know enough to say. Jeffs the man to ask.