Buying/selling kitchen mops
Discussion
TobyLaRohne said:
On the subject of the hallway record, I don't get it, most people have a carpeted hall so it's totally meaningless in the real world, now if the mop manufacturers concentrated on real world use (like in kitchens), that would be much better!
Well, several mops have a life of cleaning long, tiled hallways under their belts, as you would find in a school or commercial building. These mops tend to be a better second hand buy than the "kitchen" vareity which often have faced a life of stop-starting, wringing out, bashing into washing machines, different cleaning solutions and poor storage.Give me a mop with high hallways anytime, these days it doesn't matter as much as it used to, I've even seen one with over 100,000 hallways on it and all it had was some pitting on the galvanised clip and a bit of discolouration on the handle.
Perhaps the only drawback of a high hallway mop is the fact they're used to clean up vomitus more often than their kitchen counterparts, however, it's an industry fact that kitchen mops clean up "poo" more regularly. This might lead to problems in later life.
texaxile said:
Perhaps the only drawback of a high hallway mop is the fact they're used to clean up vomitus more often than their kitchen counterparts, however, it's an industry fact that kitchen mops clean up faeces more regularly. this might lead to problems in later life.
Does your house double as a pub toilet?
I originally posted this in Readers' Mops but I thought it may reach a wider audience here.
My dad and I have just finished a mop restoration. We've never tried anything like this before but we found my grandfather's mop under some old tarps in the garage while we were clearing it out ready for a garden broom project.
Now we've finished I can honestly say that there were moments that I wondered if we'd done the right thing. I never knew that some of the parts would be so hard to source. Several times we ran into European traders who were a bit heavy handed with the 'classic mop tax' but we got there in the end.
After we'd cleaned it up a bit it started out like this:
As you can see the head is in a right state. That came off right away and was sent off to a specialist for skimming and Daz porting.
The next problem was the shaft/head interface. We were hoping that we could save some of the original metal but it was just too far gone. When I spoke to a specialist mop restorer he said we should have gone for a dry state mop, not one that had been standing out here in the UK and getting wet every week.
Anyway, we soldiered on and eventually got it into some kind of shape.
Then we started thinking about upgrades. In the real world it is nice to have a concours example but with modern underpinnings. Thus we decided to upgrade the shaft/head interface with a modern GRP unit. It is not quite as pretty but I think you'll agree it is going to stand up to modern use a lot better. We have also considered some form of competitive mopping at a local mop club so the strength will be a bonus there too.
Then we considered the shaft. Wood is great and light but the mop world has moved on a bit and the modern, light and strong composite shafts are hard to ignore. After a lot of head scratching we decided to go for this one. It is an homage to the Eccurie Emopp racing mops of the 40's and 50's.
Overall I'm pretty pleased with the restoration. It may not be to the purists tastes but I can live with that. There is no hiding the modern upgrades but, in the main, I think we've got something to be really proud of.
My dad and I have just finished a mop restoration. We've never tried anything like this before but we found my grandfather's mop under some old tarps in the garage while we were clearing it out ready for a garden broom project.
Now we've finished I can honestly say that there were moments that I wondered if we'd done the right thing. I never knew that some of the parts would be so hard to source. Several times we ran into European traders who were a bit heavy handed with the 'classic mop tax' but we got there in the end.
After we'd cleaned it up a bit it started out like this:
As you can see the head is in a right state. That came off right away and was sent off to a specialist for skimming and Daz porting.
The next problem was the shaft/head interface. We were hoping that we could save some of the original metal but it was just too far gone. When I spoke to a specialist mop restorer he said we should have gone for a dry state mop, not one that had been standing out here in the UK and getting wet every week.
Anyway, we soldiered on and eventually got it into some kind of shape.
Then we started thinking about upgrades. In the real world it is nice to have a concours example but with modern underpinnings. Thus we decided to upgrade the shaft/head interface with a modern GRP unit. It is not quite as pretty but I think you'll agree it is going to stand up to modern use a lot better. We have also considered some form of competitive mopping at a local mop club so the strength will be a bonus there too.
Then we considered the shaft. Wood is great and light but the mop world has moved on a bit and the modern, light and strong composite shafts are hard to ignore. After a lot of head scratching we decided to go for this one. It is an homage to the Eccurie Emopp racing mops of the 40's and 50's.
Overall I'm pretty pleased with the restoration. It may not be to the purists tastes but I can live with that. There is no hiding the modern upgrades but, in the main, I think we've got something to be really proud of.
TobyLaRohne said:
benjj said:
HOGEPH said:
As long as she's not selling her mop...
I would quite like to rent her mop for an hour. 
Timmy35 said:
I once had a friend who worked in Brazil whose arrangement with the girl who cleaned his apartment was along those lines.
My maid in Venezuela multi-tasked the same way. Seems to be quite normal over there. I only tried to tell her, on the first day, that no Hoovers were to be used before 10am, as I can't stand the sound. My Spanish wasn't very good, so I made some sucking noises.Things get lost in translation.
TobyLaRohne said:
what are the rules on using the mrs to sell your mop?
Looks a right scrubber.Anyhow after days of searching I've just ordered a new Vileda Activemax from Mopperpoint of Derby,comes with 12 months warranty,and got some mats thrown in on the deal,very happy,highly recommended.
This is exactly the type of trade that will disappear overnight if UKIP get us out of the EU.
No messing - first day of an independent UK and watch the tariffs on 100% cotton mop heads for EU use rise to 350% or more (it's already been debated in the Bundestag).
Kleeneze have confirmed they expect to have to lay off ZERO workers as a result - that's a massive difference to all those indentured 'manual domestic cleansing operatives' relying on this key British industry.
But try telling that to these petty little-Britisher thinkers.
Thankfully Vince Cable has fully costed policy for re-booting online mop apps. Bless.
No messing - first day of an independent UK and watch the tariffs on 100% cotton mop heads for EU use rise to 350% or more (it's already been debated in the Bundestag).
Kleeneze have confirmed they expect to have to lay off ZERO workers as a result - that's a massive difference to all those indentured 'manual domestic cleansing operatives' relying on this key British industry.
But try telling that to these petty little-Britisher thinkers.
Thankfully Vince Cable has fully costed policy for re-booting online mop apps. Bless.
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