This is my WFP set up. I’m running the Unger nLite Hydropower system. I use the customers hose and attach it to a hose reel that I have with about 50ft of garden hose, which then runs to the unit (pictured by the grill) and then the yellow hose and the pole.
I’ve only been using a WFP for a couple months now and this system has been working, but I feel like there is probably a more efficient way of doing things as I find I have to move my hose reel once or twice per job, which involves disconnecting the unit and reeling up the hose and moving the entire system from one end of the house to the other, then hooking it all back up.
Do you have any tips or advice to make my system more efficient?
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If you are residential mostly, get some very soft non-kink 1/2" hose in 30 ft lengths with quick couplers (Gardena being the easiest ). 30ft of 1/2" fits in your hand with 3 ft loops.
Try and park your vehicle within 30ft of a spigot - and run one hose from Spigot to your filter.
Depending the size of your 50ft tube /hose, you want to run 30 ft lengths from the vehicle to the farthest corner of your job ( diagonally opposite to where your vehicle is parked)… 1, 2, 3 x 30 ft lengths -
Now follow your hose and work back towards your vehicle - then continue in the same direction around the building to your starting point ( hose fully extended again )
For pack down, discouple your quick connects and loop hoses in your hand - no obstacles can bother you, and the water drains easily…
RHINO-TUBE or equivalent is from hose to pole, and is your ‘work zone’ tube - light, kink-free, and easy to manoeuvre with.
Pack-out and Pack-down are big areas to save time…
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Daniel, what type of vehicle do you have?
If you have a truck with an open bed, or even a van I suppose, you can carry 100’ or more of garden hose and run it from vehicle to the water source. You can connect the male end of the garden hose to the inlet of your Hydropower and connect the outlet to a hose reel. The hose reel would need to hold a few hundred feet of 3/8" or so hose to allow you to keep your system in one place. Finally connect your pole hose to the hose on your reel. This works well for me.
No insult to Perry intended,
but I assume the yellow Rhino Tube would be much better for using outside of your wfp as opposed to inside. Running mine inside is not working out very well for me.
Yes 3/8 , there is about 160’ on there. Then I have a few lengths of rhino tube hanging in my van.
I don’t think that reel would hold 300’ of 3/8". Maybe 5/16". I don’t think they sell these feels anymore.
The cox caddy looks ok. Or the one I posted above. A friend of mine has that one above. A little pricey , but I think he likes it.
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The tangling/getting caught inside? It bugged me, too.
I stumbled upon a fix, by accident…
Cut the tube and use a brass barb fitting to reconnect.
I did mine about 6 feet, I think.
The weight of the barb is just heavy enough to keep the rhinotube straight, inside the pole.
And for some reason, the rest behind it seems to want to stay straight.
I no longer have to do the “step on tube/and lift-up move” to get the tube to drop, when lowering the pole.
(does this make sense?)
Truly glad to hear it, sometimes I say things that makes sense to me, but nobody else.
I crimped/cut my line by my feet, with it fully extended, and it was spraying all over my feet, so I got the barb.
(I was dead in the middle of a big job and needed some kind of quick repair to finish)
And then the lightbulb went off, and I flipped it and put the barbed section IN the pole.
that hose reel is the claber metal 40, and it’s awesome for wfp hose. we have one and love it. light weight but pretty solid. unfortunately it’s almost impossible to find in the states, usually have to have one shipped from the UK. ours has 300’ of 1/4’ air pro poly air hose (the same hose as mean green, for you pressure washing honks, just smaller).
i’ve been searching for a stateside supplier, but i might have to break down and just get a couple from the UK for each crew.
