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Advantage Roof Cleaning wrote:

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Same here. We just wrap the chemical hose around two PVC posts on the rig instead of using a reel. Less equipment to maintain and replace...

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 Yep, we have run w/o hose reels over 4 years now, maybe longer, and have cleaned thousands of roofs w/o using hose reels.

One day, some company will make a hose reel for roof cleaning chemicals.

Liberty SoftWash wrote:

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We bypass our hose reel and just use it for storage.

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 That's a good plan, and what Marcus Raif does. Kevin from Peak Of Perfection just sent me a PDF file with a drawing of a hose reel that has eliminated the inner manifold!

http://roofcleaninginstitute.org/index.php?/topic/589-a-reel-solution/#entry5326

ksroofs wrote:

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I tried this swivel.. Lasted 2 weeks.... the stainless lasted 2 years...

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 Good Information Lee ! Perhaps they cheapened them, since we last used them ?

 Ity has been nearly 5 years since we used a hose reel! 

ksroofs wrote:

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maybe- I got it about 2 years ago and just opened the box this season.. Pwp threw it in for messing up my order so bad... Then they added 90$ on my credit card a week later and some nasty old man called me and said I was some dumb young kid who didn't know what he was talking about and no one at his business would give away such a expensive piece (when I guess it was his daughter Lori? who doesn't seem to know the business from a cow lol.. So i figured I would try it since I was forced into paying for it... The thing started leaking within a week or so, right where to 2 pieces meet together to form the actual swivel part..

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 Maybe after 2 years, the gasket dried up ?

They do sell rebuild kits. LOL, Lori and her Dad Rex (the nasty old man) sometimes are not on the same page! 

We do not use hose reels , we wind the 250 ft 1/2 in hose in a figure eight on the trayler , takes the twists out , easy on , easy off the hose also connects directly to the air diophram pump , works great , very little to go wrong ,  thanks Chris     Dabber

Doug R wrote:

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Yeah I am not leaving here anytime soon....but would like to eventually as all my family are in Clearwater, as is my good buddy Larry. My understanding is that it's been for sale for a year or so I think, or at one time was.

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 I know you are originally from here in the Tampa Bay area Doug, and Larry would like it if you came back here :)

Maybe you could make a go of it on the supply side of things ?