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[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

My mate rang me today singing the praises of one he bought from Tile Giant. It has holes in the rollers, might get one he was raving about it

 

[merlecollins]

he reckon some sites in germany banned them for the overwetting problem, not karl dahm but washboys in general

It's incredible how things do a full circle:yikes:It was the Germans that introduced them to the tiling fraternity and swore we couldn't live without them - now they're banning them:yikes::lol:

 

[Stephen@Weber]

I've seen a German system where they tile a floor without going on there knees!

They also have closures in the middle of windows rather than key cuts?

 

[Peter]

The perforated rollers definately seem to make a difference to water ending up on the floor.

This type of roller is the way forward imo

 

[White Room]

Mine are the smooth rollers, can't see how the holy ones make it better

 

[Peter]

I find that water rolls off the sides of the smooth rollers and finds its way onto the floor. Whereas in the system above, the chances of this are greatly reduced.

 

[White Room]

I've never had that problem with the smooth rollers or not that I've noticed anyway, I'll be going all paranoid now:yikes:

 

[Peter]

Maybe it's just me being ham fisted. :lol:

 

[doug boardley]

no. I haven't had a problem with water spillage either, I tend to run my finger along the sponge just before I take it off the rollers, this seems to take any surplus water off it. Does anybody else do this?

 

[grumpygrouter]

Got a £25 one off eBay but it was a false economy - turned out to be very cheap plastic. Will probably update to a Karl Dahm one in the foreseeable future.

Lidl were selling good quality washboys/grout baths for £20 a few years ago. The rollers weren't great but the quality of plastic was excellent for the price.

Does anyone ever use their washboy on walls?

Yes...

 

[White Room]

no. I haven't had a problem with water spillage either, I tend to run my finger along the sponge just before I take it off the rollers, this seems to take any surplus water off it. Does anybody else do this?

Never found I needed to Doug

 

[White Room]

I tried using the washboy on walls, could'nt get on with it.

Just use a sponge

 

[DHTiling]

I tried my wash-boy on walls but i couldn't keep the water in the bucket for long..:lol::lol::lol:

 

[White Room]

Thats where I was going wrong:lol::lol:

 

[Peter]

Definately not as good a finish on walls as a well used hand sponge imo.