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Topic: water

Posted By: clovis
Subject: water
Date Posted: 20/September/2006 at 5:38pm

What is the best way to fill your portable machine on a job? Do you connect a hose to the kitchen sink or use the tub? If anyone can help I'd like some input. Thanks

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Posted By: John Bolton
Date Posted: 20/September/2006 at 7:12pm

Clovis,

Connecting a hose to the tap of the kitchen sink can be an accident waiting to happen. Aside from the risk of something going wrong and you facing a claim for water damage, you also saddle yourself with the job of locating all the connectors for all the various taps, you also have the job of swapping them over.

And how much time can you save on a job? Add up the time fiddling around, unwinding and winding up the hose and you might as well use a bucket.

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John Bolton MBICSc
http://www.worldofclean.co.uk - World of Clean
http://www.cleantalk.co.uk - Cleantalk

Posted By: indigoblueis
Date Posted: 20/September/2006 at 7:40pm

I have found that it takes far longer to fill from a faucet oposed to a tub spout. Just my two cents...

Posted By: John L
Date Posted: 20/September/2006 at 11:35pm

Leave your machine at the front door. Hooking up a adapter to a hose to your solution tank will save you a ton of labor over hauling a 5-gal pail 3 times (15gal tank) back and forth.

After years of bucket brigading from the tub to a porty,,, the hose hookup was a godsend.

As it fills, watch it so it don't overflow, and if it did your on cement..

Posted By: John Bolton
Date Posted: 21/September/2006 at 4:02am

John,

My concern is that you cannot watch both ends at the same time!

If the machine is fitted with auto-fill that is a different matter. But my machines never enter the building unless it is a requirement of security so running an extra hose (perhaps 100'+) through the premises, with the attendant increase if trip hazard and the inconvenience of having to clean around it, coupled with the concerns I mentioned earlier, lead me to abandon auto-fill about thirty-five years back.

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John Bolton MBICSc
http://www.worldofclean.co.uk - World of Clean
http://www.cleantalk.co.uk - Cleantalk

Posted By: Ninja-wand
Date Posted: 21/September/2006 at 3:23pm

Get a TM and be happy.

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I'll make you TAP OUT!!!

Posted By: John L
Date Posted: 21/September/2006 at 6:51pm

I have a TM 26/45...

Posted By: jtuseo
Date Posted: 21/September/2006 at 11:28pm

I fill a bucket in the bathtub

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Posted By: dennis_is_ok
Date Posted: 21/September/2006 at 11:58pm

votex

Posted By: G&M Cleaning
Date Posted: 08/October/2006 at 7:23pm

I use the bathtub and a 5 gallon pail, if they only have a shower and no utility sink, then I use the kitchen sink. I always bring a smaller bucket and no problem little slower but hey you got the job. And it pays.

Greg

Posted By: John L
Date Posted: 08/October/2006 at 7:37pm

I can see you guys know the meaning of "Work Harder, Not Smarter"..

Enjoy your bucket brigade's....

Posted By: dennis_is_ok
Date Posted: 08/October/2006 at 8:22pm

enjoying the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Posted By: jpv65
Date Posted: 21/December/2006 at 4:26pm

what bathtub adaptors are on the market?\

Posted By: John L
Date Posted: 22/December/2006 at 11:42pm

none