{"id":938,"date":"2008-01-14T17:10:32","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T17:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2008\/01\/14\/guttercleaning\/"},"modified":"2008-01-14T17:10:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T17:10:32","slug":"guttercleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"In and out of the gutter."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/gutterclean-1.jpg\" title=\"Cleaning gutters\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/gutterclean-1.jpg\" alt=\"Cleaning gutters\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"421\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"191\" \/><\/a>Whilst walking to the bank, to pay in my Premium Bond winnings :-), I came across  Andy &amp; Dave  cleaning gutters on the Cambridge Apartments building using an innovative\u00a0 heavy duty vacuum cleaner, long pipe and a camera.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty neat idea, especially in these health and safety times we live in, where any work on a ladder is frowned upon.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting business promotion tool using word of mouth method to spread the idea &#8211; <em>&#8220;If you ask for 10 postcards and deliver them to your neighbours. If 2 bookings are made then your gutters are cleaned for free.&#8221;<\/em> Not sure how this idea works if I direct people to their, rather annoying, website!<\/p>\n<p>Apparently it cost between \u00a330 and \u00a340 for an average house  and you can call 0800 5677800 to get in touch with them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/cameragutter-1.jpg\" title=\"Camera Mount\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/cameragutter-1.jpg\" alt=\"Camera Mount\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"158\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"133\" \/><\/a>The idea is pretty new as you can see from the jury rig of the camera to the pipe, so they need the business!  I suggested that the guy with the pipe should be using <a href=\"ttp:\/\/www.amazon.com\/ezVision-Video-iWear-Sunglasses-Goggles\/dp\/B000HCL622\">video goggles<\/a>. to make it less tiring.<\/p>\n<p>It all bought back memories of my early days working with <a href=\"http:\/\/news.thomasnet.com\/companystory\/516638\">Pete Lorenz<\/a>  of Olympus Industrial on optical remote inspection \ud83d\ude42 Except then they were wanting to look into vast chemical tanks and nuclear reactors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst walking to the bank, to pay in my Premium Bond winnings :-), I came across Andy &amp; Dave cleaning gutters on the Cambridge Apartments building using an innovative\u00a0 heavy duty vacuum cleaner, long pipe and a camera. Pretty neat idea, especially in these health and safety times we live in, where any work on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[207],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-products","tag-guttertogutter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}