New Micro Trolley For Window Cleaners From AquaTec

Photo courtesy of Paul Kelly (prototype tester) of Clean n Clear in Bathgate.

Introducing the new Micro Trolley, (makers of the Aquatap), the first ever trolley developed to replace the backpack. Features include pole carrier, DI carrier and Hose wrap. Now you can afford, for all your employees to have one.

Water Fed Pole equipment does not get any better than this, the Micro Trolley overcomes previous problems associated with trolley systems. All the parts you see on the trolley slide off in seconds. Even the handle is detachable. Now there really is no need to be lifting heavy weights around all day, as one 25L containers can be slotted in when needed. And refilled by your on board DI tank.

Other waterfed pole trolley systems have you lifting 60 litres of water at a time. Other trolleys have not been designed with lifting in mind or pulling with one hand like we regularly do. Large wheels for very easy manoeuvrability through loose chippings or up and down kerbs or stairs.

Detachable handle designed to pull or push the trolley with one hand to leave the other hand free for other use.

Centre of gravity very low, coupled with the large wheels means it is very easy to manoeuvre even in the tightest of places, and assures its very stable standing on its own while in use.

The Micro Trolley is not to be confused with an occasional use sack truck, this is made to last and Aquatec Systems are so confident of its strength they have put a lifetime guarantee on the trolley frame.

The water fed pole equipment you get;

• Trolley
• Pole carrier (optional extra)
• DI carrier (optional extra)
• Battery Charger
• Water Container
• AquaTap - Patent Applied For (saves water)
• Pump Box with the below fitted
• Pump (70psi)
• Flow controller
• Battery lasts all day and takes around 6 hours to charge.

DI carrier: Ideal to fill the container in a soft water area from the customers tap while you work. This carrier can be taken off in seconds if not needed. Most of the time you will just be replacing an empty container for a full one but in a soft water area consider this. You are working in a housing estate cleaning houses very close to each other. Now most people have garden taps. You have just cleaned a couple of houses and your container is nearly empty and as you go round the back of the house where there is a tap, you hook the DI up to the tap and carry on cleaning the back windows of the house. By the time you finish the back windows your container is full again and you are ready for another two or three houses. Sometimes it may not be worthwhile, but sometimes it will be very worthwhile. Technically speaking someone who cant manage to lift full containers easily will never have to lift one again.. Ideal for soft water areas. For a limited time only this carrier and the pole carrier will be supplied FOC with all trolley sales.

Pole carrier: Ideal for storing your pole while walking with the trolley. This carrier can be taken off in seconds if not needed. Also doubles as a handy place to wrap your hose round or hang your hose.

Sometimes it's handy to rest your pole on your shoulder while you walk from window to window or house to house, but sometimes it's really handy to just have your pole in a pole holder leaving one hand completely free while you pull or push your trolley around. Ideal for any size pole. For a limited time only this carrier and the DI carrier will be supplied Free Of Charge with all trolley sales.

The pole carrier can be taken off in seconds if not needed.

Securing Bracket: Ideal for securing your trolley or trolley's in the back of the van. Bolts to the van floor. Push the trolley over the receiving piece and insert the pin giving it a turn, and your trolley is secured. We worry about securing tanks and other items in the back of the van and forget about our trolley. A trolley hurtling forward in a collision can do quite a bit of damage. Ideal for Securing your trolley. For a limited time only this securing bracket, pole carrier and the DI carrier will be supplied Free Of Charge with all trolley sales.

Robinson-Solutions Finishes Off Mole & Jersey

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The Mole and Jersey Show Episode 18. Season Ender - Guest host... Me! Really! I think Michael & I talked for around an hour, but for your viewing pleasure it was cut down to around 8 min's before your eyes glaze over. The interview actually missed the deadline for the last show. It just happens that after the interview Michael decided to call it a day! Was it something I said? ....the guys are taking a small break for a few weeks & will be back in April. Own a small business? Are you a pressure washer? Maybe you are starting or own a pressure washing company. Well sit back, watch the last episode in this series or here on YouTube, and learn...

The Segments:

4:40 Marketing Madness...Bait & Switch

11:05 Jerseys Junk.. AquaTap

16:45 The Chop Chop... Some guy in Spain

24:45 Fail of the week

28:48 Top 5...... Alex's top 5 & others

Funny link from the show: Window Cleaner Robs Neighbour Bookies With a Pruning Saw

Wagtail & Aquatap get a mention as well.

New October Window Cleaning Magazine UK - With Video

October edition of Window Cleaning Magazine UK out now!

The October edition of the UK Window Cleaning Magazine is out now & available to download now from here. Pdf file, direct link here. Or for html flash, click here. It's great that logging in is no longer required. Stuart Webster, is also in charge of the editorial section in this edition. The contents of this issue are listed below, but there's much much more inside!

• AquaTap - Latest water saving device 
• High rise with Empire - Read the intervew, watch the film (video below)
• Britain’s unlikliest window cleaner - Is Gerald the UK’s heaviest window cleaner? 
• Window cleaning in the Redneck Riviera - We catch up with Jeff Temperley (video below)
• New from Brodex - The new range of poles from Brodex 
• Victoria Giebe - Single mum achieves success in business 
• Darron’s story - Darron Mothersby talks about his life changing accident

AquaTap - A New WFP Controller

The AquaTap - will probably replace all existing methods of water control you have at the moment.

Peter Fogwill of AquaTec is on the verge of releasing a new AutoBrush (original AutoBrush here) to be named the AquaTap. An update on the new Aquatap: - The tooling has started and the Aquatap will be in full production & on sale by the end of July at the latest. It will be be available to buy widely in the UK & at WCR in the States. The buzz is on Peters forum here & will probably replace all existing methods of water control you have at the moment. Peter explains..

In a nutshell: "It's a simple device on top of the waterfed pole (before the angle joint) for water control weighing in at 2.5 ounces or 75 grams (75 grams feels like the same as a black plastic angle joint.)" "It fits on any pole in seconds, makes no difference if the hose is internal or external, makes no difference if the pole is telescopic, modular, or whatever." "It makes use of your own hose, your own brush, your own gooseneck or angle joint." "Controls water from a trickle to full blast as well as off and on." "A simple quarter turn on the bottom of the pole operates it." "No need to remove your hands from the pole, or even reposition a hand on the pole, or take your eyes off the brush." "It only takes seconds to fit." "Works as good with hot water as it does with cold." "Only one moving part, so very reliable." "You work the way you have always worked, with the equipment you have always worked with." "And for the unscrupulous among us Patent applied for."

Peter says, "there's been a delay due to me wondering which direction to take with it, however its full steam ahead now. Peter goes on to explain "it fits on any pole, with any brush." "1/4 turn to start the water, 1/4 turn to stop the water, and like a tap you may want anything in between." "This means no adapters are necessary & fits on to any pole in about the same time it takes to fit an angle joint," Peter says "it really is just plug and play." "The cost is another significant factor, and at around £35, it is priced to sell."

Peter explains how it works.. "The water passes in the top connector and when the valve is open passes down the tool and out the bottom connector." "When the valve is closed the water is held in the top part of the tool and not allowed to move down and out the bottom part." "The valve is opened and closed with a quarter turn, the brush being held against the window, and the bottom of the pole being turned" "The hose connections you see in the picture is for 4mm inside diameter hose, but they can be changed for any size of hose."

"Maybe this will help."  "Imagine just now you are holding the pole with your brush on the glass, you try and turn your pole a quarter turn and it won't move." " Now imagine putting the AquaTap on the top of the pole, it can turn a quarter turn, so now when you turn the pole the bottom of your pole will make a quarter turn, and when it does it turns the water on.""And when you turn it back a quarter turn it goes off again."  "If you hold the bottom and the top of the Aquatap it will turn and stop one way, then you can turn it back." "That turning back and forth is moving something inside the Aquatap that allows the water to pass through, or its stopped by passing through depending if its open or shut."

So it's pretty maintenance free?

"Yes there is only one moving part." "If you think of your household tap and how that works, it's much the same, and should be that reliable." "You turn the tap on water flows, you turn the tap off water stops." "You are doing the exact same thing with this except instead of turning a lever on the tap, you are turning the bottom of the pole." 

• Takes seconds to fit
• Variable flow control
• Water control on/off by 1/4 turn of WFP
• Lightweight, 2.5 ounces or 75 grams
• No need to remove your hands from the pole
• Only one moving part, so very reliable
• Fits any pole
• Any hose configuration (outside or in)
• Can take hot/cold water
• Safe operation, no need to take your hands off the WFP

Original video of the prototype below..