Bob, you are really going to get your wrenches out and disconnect your customers plumbing? Jury rig a hose so you can fill a pail or connect a machine? What if you strip the connector nut and it starts leaking? I think you are smoking the same stuff as Zee. You could siphon out of the toilet tank unless there is something added. It's just clean water. I wouldn't do it out of the bowl. All I am saying is, it is easier to have the right machine for the job. There is no such thng as one machine for all occasions.
It takes 30 seconds. Turn off at the wall the shut off and unscrew at bottom- The Hot is the supply line on the left. Go to Home Depot and buy a long supply lines- 2 because there are 2 different sizes at wall- Go over and find a brass fitting that will screw into the end for your garden hose screw that into the shut off valve and connect your garden hose- turn the water on and you are in business. Saving you 4 trips inn the elevator. Your welcome. Yes I did it at least 100 times and maybe more and no issues at all. Do the same thing on a job with your TM in situation where there is no water outside to connect to... use the cold water side unless your TM needs help. Bring a towel to wipe the small amount of water that will drain out of existing supply line.
It's the difference of doing a job and not doing the job Fred. It is easy and fast and if you have ever replaced a faucet in your house you would realize how fast and easy that is. In this case you are only doing step one- turning off the supply line to the sink... look under your sink.
Mark was probably just being nice. FU Fred...that wasn't me calling you a name either.
he did it but that doesn't mean his dumbass idea should go unchallenged
Fred, go to Home Depots website and type in kitchen faucets. Usually the first 8 that show up are ones that cannot be hooked up to. In bathrooms, we are also finding new faucets, duck bills and others that don't have an aerator.
Where we typically find them are in new condo developments. The very buildings where we need a portable. Most of the new commercial buildings have somewhere to hook up to. A lot of the new condo buildings have mainly hard surface flooring, except for the bedrooms. We charge $150.00 to go and clean 1 or 2 bedrooms and most of these places are pretty small. I am looking at building a smaller machine but with the same power as my big machine, just to accommodate these places. A dwell pro would be overkill in these little places but the good thing is that a lot of them are now coming with 20 amp kitchen plugs. The hallways and common areas of these building are carpeted and are not accessible with a tm and there is no where at all to hook up a autofill/dump machine. These are very profitable jobs but required a box extractor carrying it own water or some vlm method. I don't want to be knocking the Dwell Pro because it looks like it is a well designed machine. I just don't think it is practical for some of the jobs I do on a regular basis.
I have never had that happen. I carry a couple of different sized pails and some times I have taken a large diameter hose and clamped over the existing faucet. It will work for filling a pail or portable but if you hooked it up to a machine it would spray water out as it only loosely fits over the faucet.
