Blue Centre Feed Rolls

We are fully aware that our blog relates to Operated Road Sweeper Hire which is a type of cleaning.

With that in mind, from time to time we have a need for Blue Centre Feed rolls, these are the blue paper rolls that you would be familiar with on a petrol station forecourt. Also, a form of cleaning, right?

Well, if you ever have a need for this cleaning product in your company look no further than here. This has to be one of the cheapest prices we have seen for these blue paper rolls and we’ve been in this game for a considerable length of time.

You may expect that being a cheaper cleaning product that they are of a lower quality, these blue rolls are not, they are 150mtrs in length and 21cm’s high, which is the larger size of the common blue paper rolls you find on the internet and they are supremely absorbent.

Don’t take our word for it, pop over to their site and order some and give them the test.

Operated Sweeper Search Engine Success

Just a short post to congratulate our in-house SEO team on their recent successes with the following terms which are all now first page of Google Search!

Operated Road Sweepers
Operated Sweepers

Along with the singular terms of the above…..

Well Done Team!

Keep up the good work!

Roadsweeper Terminology

As with all companies, Internet marketing has become a huge part of JPM Contractors Ltd day to day running of the company. Part of this marketing campaign is the inevitable need for a website that can be found by our customers looking for our services.

This has lead me on the quest for relevant keywords for our main core of activities. This has lead in turn to a long list of different words used to describe our offering. While i can fully understand that people refer to items and services from a broad perspective and that names used for services may vary, i had no idea of the exhaustive nature of the list that i would be confronted with for such a relatively simply service as Roadsweeping.

With this in mind i thought i would share some of the names that i have uncovered and offer our readers the opportunity to add to this ever growing list.

Below are the names that have come from a small group of people in the office (4 to be exact):

  • Mechanical Road Sweeper
  • Mechanical Road Sweeper Hire
  • Mechanical Road Sweeper Rental
  • Mechanical Roadsweeper
  • Mechanical Road Brush Hire
  • Self Drive Road Sweeper
  • Self Drive Road Brush
  • Johnston 600 Road Sweeper
  • Johnston Road Sweeper
  • Roadsweeper Rental
  • Operated Roadsweepers
  • Operated Road Brush
  • Road Sweeper
  • Roadsweeper
  • Sweeper Hire
  • HGV Roadsweeper Hire
  • 7.5 tonne Roadsweeper Rental
  • Scarab Minor Hire
  • Scarab 3.5 tonne Hire
  • Scarab Minor Rental
  • VT650 Road Sweeper Hire
  • Johnston VT650 Road Sweeper Hire
  • London added to all of the above as a variable
As you will see from the list above (and that’s not all of them) it’s quite a wide and varied range of different terminologies for the same service, the sweeping of a road by a mechanical machine.
Lets have your thoughts, please add a comment below.

Johnston Compact Sweepers

JPM Contractors Ltd is proud to announce the addition of Johnston Compactor Sweepers for self drive hire through it’s sister company UK Sweepers Ltd.

These smaller road sweepers are ideal for public areas due to the low noise of the sweeper. Compact sweepers are also highly manoeuvrable making them extremely versatile in areas with large amounts of street furniture.

One of the most attractive features of the Compact Sweeper is the ability to tip the waste collected into standard height wheeled bins, avoiding the need for costly journey’s to and from prearranged tipping sites.

With this amount of sweeping power in such a small road sweeper, Trigger will soon be out of a job!

Below is the promotional video from Johnston Sweepers with more information regarding these powerful, versatile sweeping machines.

Should you like to enquire into the availability of these machines for self drive hire
please call
0845 601 0752.

Operated Road Sweeper Hire

People often ask what is Operated Road Sweeper Hire.

The simple answer to this question is that the company providing the road sweeper also supply a fully qualified operator as part of the hire along with the machine.

Some companies specialise in the plant hire aspect only which is simply the road sweeper without an operator. Allowing the hiring company to use their own operator. Some companies prefer to work this way.

JPM Contractors Ltd provide fully trained and vetted operators with all road sweeper hire.

While this appears to be the more expensive option on the face of it, a poor operator can cause extensive damage to the road sweeper which can result in a greater cost for the entire period of hire.

Any damage caused to the road sweeper by the operator supplied by JPM Contractors Ltd is covered under the hire agreement. Keeping overheads to a minimum.

A recent unnamed company recently ran up a repair bill of £2678 for damage caused to a hoover box. The untrained operator made the school boy error of reversing the vehicle with the hoover box in the “down” position, not something that a fully trained operator would do.

The only other point worthy of consideration when using Road Sweeper Hire with or without an operator is that a fully trained road sweeper operator will also be much more efficient at carrying out the task required and therefore a time saving aspect will come into play, which in turn will allow the hire period of the road sweeper to cover larger areas quickly and without any down time.

Road Sweeper Hire

Road Sweeper Hire
Road sweeper hire from JPM Contractors Ltd is provided on an hourly basis. You have hire one of our road sweepers for as little as two hours on site. This would provide you with just enough time to have the main roads in and out of the site swept thoroughly.
If you need to have the machine on site for longer, we can provide you with hourly increments on the initial two hours or you can have our road sweeper on site for the whole day if you need.
Our road sweepers are also available for night work, why not get in touch to find out more.
Just a few shots of one of our road sweepers.

Road sweeper cleaning

As many users of Road Sweeper Hire services will be fully aware, down time of the road sweeper can cause your job to run in to delays which in turn can affect many of your on site services and plans.

Most of these down time problems can be eliminated with good “house keeping” techniques, some of which are explained below. While these techniques are wholly the responsibility of the hire operator and should be carried out as a matter of course, as a site manager you can help to ensure these steps are being taken care of as they should be.

Before i go on i would like to bring to your attention one of the most innovative designs to hit the Road Sweeper industry in a long time. This is the “Tempest” leaf blower developed by Stocks Sweepers Ltd, which can be seen in the video below:
GOOD HOUSE KEEPING
Below is a short list of some of the items that site managers should look out for while utilising road sweepers on their sites to ensure ultimate use of the hire period and to maintain good cleaning of all areas: 
  • Regular tipping of waste collected from site.
  • Filter screens are cleaned after each tipping of waste.
  • All brushes attached to the vehicle have a good amount of bristles.
  • Inlet hoover boxes are cleared of any blockages.
  • Water levels are topped up during use if required.
  • Vehicle is travelling at an appropriate speed during sweeping 2-3mph.
  • Thick and stubborn debris is cleared prior to sweeping.
  • High pressure water is used in the correct manner.
  • Fuel is topped up before the day begins.
  • Oil levels are checked regularly to avoid engine ware.
The above is not a completely exhaustive list, it will however help to prevent the most common stoppages of the road sweeper and alleviate unnecessary down time.
Here at JPM Contractors Ltd all of our operators are trained in the above techniques and our machines are checked every evening to prevent these kind’s of problems arising.

Sponsor a guide dog update


As regular followers of JPM Contractros Ltd blog and facebook pages will be aware, earlier this year we gave our support to two puppies, Amy & Angus (above) who are part of the Sponsor A Puppy cause which provides homes for puppies to begin the journey with the ultimate aim of becoming a full time guide dog for the blind or partially sighted.

JPM Contractors Ltd believe this is a marvellous charity to be involved with and would urge our followers and customers alike to get involved and offer their support.

This is the first update that we have received regarding the incredibly handsome Angus above, as you will see from the image below, this little chap is settling in with his puppy walker and becoming quite a crowd pleaser.

JPM Contractors Ltd are very proud to be associated with http://www.sponsorapuppy.org.uk/.

We would like to wish Janet and Angus all the best and thank Janet for the wonderful work that she is doing.

Westfield Shopping Centre

The Westfield Shopping Centre Stratford finally opened on Tuesday 13/09/2011 to massive crowds hungry for the new shopping experience, which boasts to be the largest in Europe.

JPM Contractors Ltd arrived on site during the summer of 2008 and was present right up to the morning of the opening, after completing a last shift of 24hr’s, which had been proceeded by a full month of 12hrs, 7 days a week in order to ensure the opening went ahead as planned.

Our operated road sweeper hire service was the partner of the major contractor, providing full time cover for the entire site. Truck mounted road sweepers and Scarab Minors were only part of the machinery used during this contract. Also on site were our Tractor and Bowser combinations for the supply of clean water for various tasks, whilst other units were being further applied to the removal and supply of hygiene facilities in the many portable toilet scenarios.

JPM Contractors provided a mixed fleet of vehicles to cover the various indoor and outdoor areas along with our own fuel service, tyre replacement service, 24hr breakdown cover and low loader vehicles offering a complete hassle free contractor. Our continued presence on site led to greater exposure to the other sub contractors at the venue which in turn led to more enquiries for the services of JPM Contractors Ltd, being able to provide staff and vehicles for a wide range of applications.

The continued security restrictions of the site were met with typical professionalism by JPM Contractors Ltd . Our ability to provide fully CRB checked staff was critical to the delivery of this contract and we are pleased to announce that over a period of over 3 years, not one member of our team ever fell foul to any of the anti-drug policies which were quite correctly in place on this major international location. Further to this exemplary record none of our staff or vehicles were ever reported for any violation of the strict health and safety rules that were in place and rigorously enforced. This level of success and achievement can be attributed to our continued investment in our staff.

Our work at the Olympic site is not over as we are currently still providing staff and services to what will become the Media Village for the entire 2012 Olympic games. No doubt you will see our vehicles during the games, keep your eyes and ears open, we plan to be doing big things next year.

JPM Contractors Ltd is quite simply the only business partner that you would ever need in any high profile building project.