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Re: New tool for dealing with water escapage
I’m not selling them myself, or on any commission but anyone wanting to try a pack of 5 can get them at £14.99 +vat + post to any UK address = £20.20.
Re: Whitegoods September ’08 Meeting
Can you book me a room please K? For the Thurs & Fri evening. Looking forward to it already.
Andy.
Re: New tool for dealing with water escapage
DentedPorsche wrote:BG have been using these for a few years now.
Absolutely brilliant item. Only drawback for me is having to carry them around in the van until the next pickup of waste. They smell terrible after a week or so, especially in the summer. 😆Brian
Brian, why can’t you place them in the customers bin? They are totally environmentally friendly and can be disposed off in the normal wastebin.
Re: New tool for dealing with water escapage
Martin: I’m sure something could be arranged.
Squadman: The three in one vac is a great idea for dealing with dishwashers full of water. I use one myself to great effect for things like removing all the water from my header tank prior to replacing the ballcock. However, they aren’t always to hand in situations where sudden escape of water occurs or for simply placing to protect something in case of a leak. I can’t imagine you actually take it in to a customer’s house on each job. I would still say having some of these pads would be a useful additional tool.
Bob: I haven’t seen the product you use Bob, I would need to know more about them before being able to compare them properly. Have you seen the video test that I did? Does the product you use do a similar job? Will it soak up to 5 L?
K: Towels are not really a match for something like this although clearly much cheaper. One of these pads would just to soak up the 5 L after just placing it in the water. There’s no mopping required. Then you lift it up and throw it in the bin as it becomes a water tight self containing bag. My experience of towels is that they require constant ringing out and drip water at all over, plus once used they are then wet through, and have to be dried out.
Re: New tool for dealing with water escapage
Madmac wrote:The only situation i think these would be useful for me is when trying to clear a dishwasher base flood. Always get raised eyebrows when i ask for some large towels ! These pads might look a tad more professional.. sound a little wasteful though.. 😯
I wouldn’t say wasteful if they make you look more professional. Let’s not underestimate how upset many women actually are when they see their towels being used to mop up water like that. It’s a woman thing, men see them as just cotton but women can get quite upset about them being abused.
Plus, I would charge the customer for them too, by either listing them on the bill or by adding a few quid on to something. Sod’s law dictates though that if you charged them – at least the odd one would complain you didn’t ask to use their towels 😉
I would also use them if I accidentally flooded the kitchen, or the cupboard under the sink when I’ve disconnected the drain hose, or if I had a smelly washer full of water and it was hard to disconnect it etc.
Re: New tool for dealing with water escapage
The full RRP is £14.99 + vat per pack of 5 or £2.99/sheet but trade prices are available.
As I say in my review, I retrieved one from the garage to deal with a leaking dishwasher which had saturated my kitchen floorboards. The one in the garage had been used to soak some water up from my condenser dryer which had all water in the bottom the previous week. It continued to soak up water fine.
If you just use one to soak a bit of water you can keep using it until saturated although once wet if you catch it on something sharp it will tear. In this situation you would get spillage of some of the crystals but they are perfectly safe.
Re: Zanussi washing machine takes 6 hours to wash, no error
I think I’ve got my answer. It looks like it’s, NO there isn’t a known common problem that would account for this. Maybe that’s why the guys have tried 3 parts and not fixed it. These are the IG engineers.
Re: Zanussi washing machine takes 6 hours to wash, no error
Sorry, my wording possibly implies I’m trying to fix it. I’m not looking at this machine myself I was just seeing if it was some known issue I could advise her to tell her repairman about.
If it wasn’t heating or filling up too slow wouldn’t it trigger an error code and abort? This one appears to just keep washing until eventually finished which in theory they shouldn’t do because how can it take that long and not time out on somethin?
Re: Is the end of our world nigh..?
kwatt wrote:Looks like some :whip: on Monday. 😕
K.
With respect K, I think you should look into the issues raised here rather than self indulgant sex games 😉
Re: Got A Website?
Martin wrote:SEO is a fascinating aspect to website construction I have to admit, though I am somewhat puzzled as to how ones website can be optimised by linking it to other sites?
As K said Martin, it’s not linking to other sites that is effective, it’s other sites linking to yours. Google revolutionised search engines by counting inbound links as a vote of confidence. In a way it’s a cop out because instead of trying to work out if a site is any good themselves they simply decided that if lots of sites linked to it then it must be good. They also use the logic of, if a really big prominent site links to a related site then it is a trustworthy vote of confidence.
They had big problems though because people started selling links and setting up link farms so they had to adjust accordingly and inbound links are only a small part of the way they evaluate a site.
These days inbound links don’t have any where near the power they once had and if the link isn’t from a related site it’s probaby counting for very little or nothing at all, but links from a poweful site still count as part of the algorythm that Google uses – as long as it’s on topic.
A link from UKW to a site about ice cream is probably pointless from a search engine point of view but a link to a washing machine site should be worth brownie points.
Re: SLOW ISE 5
I just meant a 40 degree wash taking 3 hours (if it was indeed taking 3 hours) shouldn’t be normal. It sounded a bit sharp the way I wrote it, didn’t mean it to be.
Re: SLOW ISE 5
kwatt wrote:Usually a 40C wash will run about 2 hours to two hours twenty … Or is it perhaps the customer being more and more impatient? 😉
K.
Accusing the customer of being impatient because a 40 degree wash takes 3 hours is a bit … er .. impatient?
3 hours is a joke. No one can spare 3 hours for a 40 degree wash in 2007.
Re: Fault Code Guide
kwatt wrote:
andy_art_trigg wrote:
Irony warms me cockles sometimes 😉Indeed, but at least I had the decency to rewrite it all and not just blithely copy what was already there. 😉
K.
No one could ever accuse you of not putting in the work K. Just saw an obvious joke and couldn’t resist. 🙂
Re: SLOW ISE 5
40 degree wash taking 3 hours? There must be something amiss that needs dealing with properly.
Re: Got A Website?
kwatt wrote:
I can tell you why you should bother, because I know a lot more about SEO than I sometimes let on and I’m sure that Andy will back me on this one.K.
You know a lot more, about a lot more than you let on K 😉
Good quality inbound links are vital for any web site and a link from UKW is definitely good quality.
