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How often does your station dedicate time to cleaning and maintaining your appliances

each week
12 (54.5%)
once a month
3 (13.6%)
Whenever needs cleaning
6 (27.3%)
Very Rarely
1 (4.5%)

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Offline D_wan

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Pride
« on: July 10, 2006, 04:09:58 AM »
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Re: Pride
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2006, 10:32:02 AM »
We usually dedicate one trainng night a month to maintenance and cleaning. The trucks are washed and cleaned after every messy job (stinkin' grass fires are a great one!!!)

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Re: Pride
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2006, 01:43:24 PM »
We usually dedicate one trainng night a month to maintenance and cleaning. The trucks are washed and cleaned after every messy job (stinkin' grass fires are a great one!!!)

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Re: Pride
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2006, 06:59:05 PM »
Our station (MFS Mt Gambier) does a minimum of 1 hour per week for station duties, appliance checks and cleaning.

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Re: Pride
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2006, 03:23:37 PM »
Wash our truck as required.  Remember the water restrictions people!!! haha

Also sweep the station floor whenever the dirt starts to build up.  No real point in cleaning the station too often as its not a sealed shed and the dust builds up over night and stuff sweeping it on the daily.
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Re: Pride
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2006, 11:58:25 PM »
we just go under the old "if it looks like it needs to be cleaned, we'll clean it" mentality. it works fine.
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Re: Pride
« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2006, 09:22:01 AM »
How many brigade's have taken up the offer of helping to reduce the amount of water we waste?? by that I mean how mauch water can be safed if we where to use a high pressure cleaner rather than run out a garden hose?? or have you installed a rain water tank for cleaning of appliances and to save the water that sometimes come's out of the town mains?? did you know that the goverment will help community groups with the cost of installing water tanks so as to save water?????

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Re: Pride
« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2006, 11:36:04 AM »
Why waste your time with things like that. We use the simple bucket and sponge with that truck cleaner stuff. Works fine, if a couple of ya do it it takes 20 mins tops. best of all is you only use about 10 litres of water!
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Re: Pride
« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2006, 12:45:59 PM »
I don't know if I'd call it wasting his time....

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Re: Pride
« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2006, 12:59:40 PM »
Wash our truck as required.  Remember the water restrictions people!!! haha

Also sweep the station floor whenever the dirt starts to build up.  No real point in cleaning the station too often as its not a sealed shed and the dust builds up over night and stuff sweeping it on the daily.

We are the same as Camo...we have all dirt to and from the station..it's very hard to keep the appliance clean..we've implemented a policy that if it's wet and muddy, take the truck for a run another day...no point in making it filthy!   :-D

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Re: Pride
« Reply #10 on: July 18, 2006, 01:47:36 PM »
I don't know if I'd call it wasting his time....

oh yeah was just a figure of speech! :mrgreen:
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