LooBlade - a revolution in toilet-cleaning!

T2 near the front of the queue
almost 10 years ago – Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 07:13:06 PM

It's easy to think from within a Kickstarter project that nothing else exists. But the world does go on elsewhere...

We are hugely grateful to the teams at Prover and Sauba for the amount of effort and overtime they have already put in to push LooBlade forward. Sometimes their existing customers must take priority, and quite rightly. So we are hopefully just about to run T2 in the next 2-3 days and we will update asap thereafter, but we wanted to keep you advised.

Here's the packaging design that we are working on:

T2 test run imminent
almost 10 years ago – Fri, May 27, 2016 at 07:02:44 PM

A quick round up of activities this week:

The head tool is now back from the workshop with the revisals completed and is scheduled to be test run again on Monday. We'll update again once we've done the T2s. These will hopefully be the final test stage.

Packaging design is almost complete and we'll share that once we have images of the final version during next week.

We have secured European Trademark  for 'LooBlade' this week, and will be applying worldwide in due course. 

We now have reseller partnerships on every continent and the worldwide demand for the product is shaping up to be truly significant. From homes to offices, hotels to hospitals the forward orders are growing weekly. 

As backers you can all be extremely proud that you've significantly helped to make that happen, and you were in at the start. We are enormously thankful for your vision and support, and your kind patience in seeing this through. We will have our full website up and running in the next couple of months and all who wish to be on it, will be gratefully recognised on our LooBlade Founders page.

It may seem strange to feel proud about a humble toilet 'brush', but it is a fundamental human tool, and was in dire need of reinvention. It's been fun hearing from so many people that the idea, design and features have made them enthusiastic about this usually ignored implement!

Hang in, we are almost there!

German T1 update
almost 10 years ago – Wed, May 18, 2016 at 03:29:10 PM

Having now completed our (T1) second runs to test the head tool, we are very happy with the overall form, surfaces and performance. It's a huge difference from the previous tooling source, and we'll share photos in due course. We've certainly made the right decision, tough as it was to make...there's no comparison.

One small problem we are finding is a tendency on certain shots for the leading edges to have small pockets of air-inclusion. Clearly that needs fixed and the Prover team are right on it. 

The solution is to have an injection port added on the other end of the tool. Rework is ready to go on that and we'll update in the next 7-10 days. This work will take a little longer to do but we'll then run the next test batch and report asap. 

Thank you again for your support and patience, and if it sometimes feels like a marathon (as it does to us!)at least the team of new runners are moving at a sprinting pace for us now, and we are tremendously appreciative of that.

Quick tool update
almost 10 years ago – Thu, May 12, 2016 at 12:20:54 AM

We've now completed the first testing runs with the tool and its 95% there. It needs tweaked in terms of the cooling system and a little surface finessing. It's back to the workshop today and we hope to be able to run it again by Monday. 

We're very happy with the absence of part-lines and the very high quality of the tool.

More shortly...

Tooling testing
almost 10 years ago – Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:15:01 AM

We are now progressing with testing on the tooling and should hopefully have most of that completed today. We'll give you an update as soon as possible thereafter.  

For now here's some shots of the beautifully made German head tool.