[dudek]

Anyone have one?

Are they worth it?

Who supplies?

[Slash]

You lazy git!

[Mr H]

There was a post about this a while ago and the reel worked out at about £600 to buy off the shelf but a few had made up DIY versions with no real joy.

Regards
Mr H

[Dean Taberner]

£600

[NWH]

For our hose and fittings parts have to be specially made in order for it to be worth while,all the reels used at present don`t use purified water.

[niceandclean]

There was a post about this a while ago and the reel worked out at about £600 to buy off the shelf but a few had made up DIY versions with no real joy.

Regards
Mr H

What happened to that guy, he put up a vid showing how it worked. Thought he said around £300.

[stevieg]

im sure that a cordless drill was involved somewhere along the line .obviously some form of contraption would have to be fashioned to hold the drill in place ,but it would have to be able to be moved out of the way when the hose is being pulled out.

[Alex Gardiner]

There is an off the shelf one available, but it cost about £850. There is also another one in development by someone (not ourselves) that will retail for about £500.

These prices sounds expensive, but to produce a reliable working reel it really does add up in parts costs.

[Clive McDonald]

There was a post about this a while ago and the reel worked out at about £600 to buy off the shelf but a few had made up DIY versions with no real joy.

Regards
Mr H

Several people including me use one. I do use a cordless drill and have posted pics etc, but any electric motor will do. It is a massive benefit and worth paying the prices quoted.

[LWC]

v8edd uses a cordeless drill, makes me chucke whilst im sweating reeling mine back in and hes driving off down the road

[dudek]

Has anyone got the details for any of the suppliers?

[scud]

There was a post about this a while ago and the reel worked out at about £600 to buy off the shelf but a few had made up DIY versions with no real joy.

Regards
Mr H

Several people including me use one. I do use a cordless drill and have posted pics etc, but any electric motor will do. It is a massive benefit
and worth paying the prices quoted.

  How can they be worth £500+, some of you must be very unfit or have biceps like a little girl.

  Put a bit of elbow grease into it you lazy sods.

[Clive McDonald]

People who don't use one are called hand crankers scud, and do a funny little jig at the end of every job.

I use every advantage I can get and as a result of this probably do two to three more domestic jobs daily than a comparable operator.

This equates to £30-£40 a day, every day, 200 days a year, or 6k-8k extra income.

[NWH]

Hot hose reels in much much easier than cold.

[scud]

  I don't believe you do 2 or 3 more jobs a day more just because you use an electric winding hose reel.

  I have been wfp for over 4 years now and am pretty quick, an electric hose reel wouldn't make me 2-3 domestics a day quicker, not without it winding in that fast you are breaking things all the time.

  It is about vehicle positioning and using your head, not expensive automated gimmicks.

[Oakley Windows]

People who don't use one are called hand crankers scud, and do a funny little jig at the end of every job.

I use every advantage I can get and as a result of this probably do two to three more domestic jobs daily than a comparable operator.

This equates to £30-£40 a day, every day, 200 days a year, or 6k-8k extra income.

Id re-work your figures there Discount if I were you, cos if you make an assumption or two there (such as, how long it takes to do a 4 bedroom house, that reeling in takes about 10% of total time), then you earn £300.00 a day according to your figures.

Keeps your cholesterol levels down anyway.

[Clive McDonald]

I agree Scud.
I take it that.....
You've got george
you don't collect
you've got a van mount hot system
Call divert
In fact Anything that makes the job easier and faster!

You need an electric reel, if you employ your empoyees need one. Five years from now the majority will have one and will laught at the idea of not using one. I've got one now.

Just seen Matts comment, lets not make it into one of those threads, i'm not trying to wind anyone up but it stands to reason that if i let a machine do all the work i will- well there isn't really any other way to say this- earn more money than you do.

[Oakley Windows]

  I don't believe you do 2 or 3 more jobs a day

I agree Scud.

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Discount its no good having all those gizmos and trying to makeout you earn this/that or the other if your pricing is shot.
Anyway, my point wasnt about how much you earn (or myself, or if you earn more than me!).
I was disputing however the figures you put forward suggesting about how much MORE you can earn just from having an electric reel.

[Clive McDonald]

Don't get too hung up on how much I earn, this was mentioned only as a benefit of using a machine to do manual work.If you don't want an electric reel don't have one.

[Alex Gardiner]

I have looked at the advantages of an electric reel over manual. Whilst I believe that by next year they will be readily available for those who wish to spend the dosh, I really do not think that they will be faster for me than hand reeling.

Practically I would not want to reel the hose in any faster than I do now, due to safety and control issues. Yes it would save me a little arm work-out,but at least it saves me going to the gym as often!

Will I buy one, when they come out? Probably as it is the only way to really test a product out.
Will I like it? Probably as I'm sure they will be well made.
Will I keep it? I may well.
Will I be faster? I doubt it.