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« on: December 10, 2011, 06:41:41 PM » |
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I was working away today, when another window cleaner pulled up over the road. Unloaded his ladders and bucket etc, and started cleaning. I looked over about a minute later, and he had his ladder propped under the window sill and the 18ltr size bucket on the top of the ladder leaning on the sill in between him and the window  It is not rocket science to be a window cleaner, but some people have not got the common sense to tie a shoe lace! Let me know if you have seen any idiotic wanna be window cleaners, as i would love to hear some stories. |
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« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2011, 06:45:41 PM » |
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cill walkers are the most dangerous to me anyway
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« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2011, 06:49:57 PM » |
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Bertie , i've seen a similiar thing , won't call him a window cleaner , i saw a guy with a black bucket like builders use at the top of his ladder and he was sponging the windows with soapy water  ,not just a homeowner doing his own as he had a van with magnetic signs on advertising his window cleaning buisiness  |
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« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2011, 06:58:46 PM » |
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theres another guy i see he just scrims the windows monthly no bucket just crim 21years he has a big round
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« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2011, 07:15:47 PM » |
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theres another guy i see he just scrims the windows monthly no bucket just crim 21years he has a big round
He must be DIRT CHEAP. Like £3 a house or something. I saw a window cleaner with his ladder propped up against a wall next to a bay window, he had one foot on the ladder and one foot on the window sill |
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karlosdaze
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« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2011, 08:40:51 PM » |
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« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2011, 08:46:30 PM » |
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thats the worst cheers for that karl woooooooooooo
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« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2011, 10:22:11 PM » |
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wow what a fool....... |
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« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2011, 10:40:38 PM » |
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« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2011, 12:14:35 AM » |
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don't be so harsh lads that was the norm up until recently, I do few jobs that were done cill walking in the past I have a job that if done from a ladder would take 32 ladder moves per floor, I do it wfp but the lad before me did it with 4 ladder moves I took over a job that means going out onto cills/ledges and hooking onto eyebolts, all safe but I couldn't open a few windows and the guy in the office said no the lad before you never done that he went out the far away window and walked along then came in the end window, and this was at least 60 ft up |
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« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2011, 12:21:44 AM » |
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mmmmmmm i cill walk once on my round because the paintwork i so bad and the lady cant afford 3 grand to paint the fronts no bull she is 85 years old but yes i have looked and inspected very closely its the constant cill walkers i dont like because they laugh at me and say your ladderless so am i i apologise stu but i dont like cill walkers |
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« Reply #11 on: December 11, 2011, 12:33:59 AM » |
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mmmmmmm i cill walk once on my round because the paintwork i so bad and the lady cant afford 3 grand to paint the fronts no bull she is 85 years old but yes i have looked and inspected very closely its the constant cill walkers i dont like because they laugh at me and say your ladderless so am i i apologise stu but i dont like cill walkers I am not disagreeing my brother showed me a job they used to do that would need an eighty foot pole, it is a fair stretch of windows and they cill walked the lot it made me feel sick looking at it, it was that long they took buckets out with them, it would scare the sh%t out of me |
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« Reply #13 on: December 11, 2011, 12:50:06 AM » |
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Not worth any amount of money in my opinion! I would love to give the absailing window cleaning a go, that looks like work and play combined. But back to my first post, who the hell takes a 18ltr bucket up the ladder and props it between the window and there body to clean a bay window on a house? How many things can go wrong doing this... Beats me!  back to your subject no never seen anything so foolish as that doesn't make any sense at all |
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« Reply #14 on: December 11, 2011, 12:53:31 AM » |
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very 3 stooges. makes me feel professional  |
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« Reply #15 on: December 11, 2011, 02:09:03 AM » |
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Now back to the cill walking which brings back memories of more dangerous yet happier, simpler times. I, with my uncle used to clean a 4th floor office which went all the way round the 4 sides of a building. The main town shopping street was below. The only way to clean them was to hold onto the inside window frame with the tips of your fingers and lean out of the window and clean the one next to it which was on the other side of a pillar. One by one for what must have been 150 windows. Life was literally only held onto by fingertips and yet I didn't really think much about it, that's how it was 20 years ( and less ) ago. The building had a central courtyard with 50 or so windows around it. They could only be cleaned by going out of a window and going on a foot wide ledge and cleaning them one by one and then going in a window at the end. I would take my bucket with me. Had to be really careful bending down as there was no room to go backwards and 4 floors up. I used to be a nervous wreck after that bit but the money was so good I did it, there was no other method. How times have changed Re health and safety. Looking back i cant believe what an idiot i was (and still am, i still use ladders!) yet that was the norm. I only do ground and first now, no awkward windows, I value life more than money.
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« Reply #16 on: December 11, 2011, 09:34:21 AM » |
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learnt my lesson on a wide sill below a victorian bay. well id walked round it several times ,each time it had saved me moving the ladder . then one day as i was stepping off the ladder onto the sill a big chunk gave way and tumbled to the ground . luckily i clung back on to my ladder . closer inspection revealed it had all broke away in the past and had been simply glued back into place with mastic smeared on the joins . Left me wondering if a windie had once fell there ,the homeowner said he had just stopped coming for an unknown reason |
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« Reply #17 on: December 11, 2011, 05:07:01 PM » |
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« Reply #18 on: December 11, 2011, 07:20:39 PM » |
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That video is nothing!!!!..compared to what I have to do on a regular basis.There is a traditional clean that I have to do at a local office block where the height I'm working at exceeds 500ft!!!...The cill is only 5 and a half inches wide and I have to clean while wearing a pair of old rollerskates with a broken wheel (as by wearing these I can scoot along the cill of the building faster and more efficiently)..
This sounds bad enough,but add to that,that I am 73 year old with only one leg (which I lost on the same clean 5 months previous)...and the fact that I am scared of heights..I think that this makes me the most daring window cleaner in the country!
The only drawback from doing this dangerous clean,is that when I have finished...it takes me around 3 hours to remove the sh#t from the inside of my trousers...this sounds like a long time...but it would be a lot worse if I owned a pair of trousers with two legs...so I think myself lucky.....
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« Reply #19 on: December 11, 2011, 08:40:17 PM » |
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That video is nothing!!!!..compared to what I have to do on a regular basis.There is a traditional clean that I have to do at a local office block where the height I'm working at exceeds 500ft!!!...The cill is only 5 and a half inches wide and I have to clean while wearing a pair of old rollerskates with a broken wheel (as by wearing these I can scoot along the cill of the building faster and more efficiently)..
This sounds bad enough,but add to that,that I am 73 year old with only one leg (which I lost on the same clean 5 months previous)...and the fact that I am scared of heights..I think that this makes me the most daring window cleaner in the country!
The only drawback from doing this dangerous clean,is that when I have finished...it takes me around 3 hours to remove the sh#t from the inside of my trousers...this sounds like a long time...but it would be a lot worse if I owned a pair of trousers with two legs...so I think myself lucky.....
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« Reply #21 on: December 11, 2011, 10:59:57 PM » |
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thing is, with you posting it, i almost believe it. the 500 ft gave you away, that's the height of blackpool tower |
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« Reply #22 on: December 11, 2011, 11:17:17 PM » |
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well guessed chip blackpool tower is my trad clean..... weekly in the height of season an every 2 months in winter..
but i prefer to do it when illuminations are on.. so ican see if i done a good job
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« Reply #23 on: December 11, 2011, 11:19:53 PM » |
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they have asked me to do under the peir............. BUT ONLY WHEN THE TIDES IN
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« Reply #24 on: December 12, 2011, 02:55:41 AM » |
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what u want photo for? Never seen a window cleaner on roller skates. |
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