Flexible Bucket Liners - Market Research!

[Chalker]

Thanks all. I've had a look at the bucket glove. At the moment it's only available in a 300mm diameter by 300mm high bucket which is not even big enough to fit a tiling trowel into to be honest.

Those ones are around £20 each and you would need 3 realistically. I think the larger ones that are supposed to be coming out soon are for their own 30L buckets and you could imagine them being around £35 each.

I'm not convinced they would work with flexible tile adhesive either. Certainly my attempts to knock flexible tile adhesives off a flexible bucket don't work very well!

Guys, those of you who said you might be interested if the product ever did come to market, I would be really interested to know what price you would be willing to pay for a pack of 10 liners. They would be made out of 2mm thick plastic and definitely stand up to a mixer paddle knocking them around, based on the prototype ones we've tried already.

I'm also going to investigate whether it's possible to make it so that the plastic liner can be reversed inside out and used a 2nd time too.

2 mm ? That's as thick as a bucket!

 

[Dougs Third Go]

Thanks all. I've had a look at the bucket glove. At the moment it's only available in a 300mm diameter by 300mm high bucket which is not even big enough to fit a tiling trowel into to be honest.

Those ones are around £20 each and you would need 3 realistically. I think the larger ones that are supposed to be coming out soon are for their own 30L buckets and you could imagine them being around £35 each.

I'm not convinced they would work with flexible tile adhesive either. Certainly my attempts to knock flexible tile adhesives off a flexible bucket don't work very well!

Guys, those of you who said you might be interested if the product ever did come to market, I would be really interested to know what price you would be willing to pay for a pack of 10 liners. They would be made out of 2mm thick plastic and definitely stand up to a mixer paddle knocking them around, based on the prototype ones we've tried already.

I'm also going to investigate whether it's possible to make it so that the plastic liner can be reversed inside out and used a 2nd time too.

on a trial basis I'd probs fork out £15 for a pack of 10, if they proved good I'd possibly pay more in future, if they turned out to be lemons well £15 aint that much to loose.

 

[cr0ft]

2 mm ? That's as thick as a bucket!

You don't use Rhino buckets then I take it?? Most of the flexible ones are about 6mm thick.

 

[cr0ft]

Cheers, I need to pay you a retainer to keep coming up with these ideas lol!

Personally I think the best thing about this is that it is throw away. That should be your usp.If you can get quality that will last a few mixes at a good price, I think it will work.
as for other trades.
plasterers and bricklayers will not spend any money on tools. Plaster doesn't go off and stick like rapid set. Bricklayers just use a bucket to put their entire collection of tools in.
plumbers ( me) do not mix much, and if they do they just chuck the bucket.
i think there's more possibilities to this, i.e. Food manufacturing, where they mix products in buckets and need a clean liner each time.

 

[Andy Allen]

Imo if your making it disposable it going to have to be really cheap.....or I would just carry on cleaning out my buckets.....the only thing I buy thats disposable are gloves and they cost around £7.00 for 100 that works out at 0.07 p each .....for a bucket liner that you just throwing away would have to be coming in at well under 50 p each

 

[Rookery]

I see the theory but in practice, my labourer cleans out the first bucket while I'm using the second one. That's what he does, as well as knock up mixes, fetch tiles, remove rubbish, put kekkle on etc etc. In other words, cleaning buckets costs me nothing so I wouldn't buy them. I'm sure that some would buy them but not sure you'd get the volume to get the cost low enough.

 

[widler]

Not sure I'd buy them, I'm using standard set more and more,I only wash the bucket out at the end of the day.
Personally I can't see it taking off, not sure the bucket glove has either, but I ain't no Alan suger so I wouldn't listen to moi [emoji41]

 

[nybor62]

another good idea is putting a bin liner in your wash boy. esp when on big commercial jobs , and no were to get rid of the water

 

[Fliselege]

Sounds like a good idea in theory, but how strong are they going to be? Would they churn up on the mixer wisp?

 

[cr0ft]

Sounds like a good idea in theory, but how strong are they going to be? Would they churn up on the mixer wisp?

The prototype is a 2mm bucket liner which stands up to a dirty mixer drill very well.