Ian, I remember you timing me years ago on the far left window of Herbert Lewis when I was much slower.
Similar pane, maybe bigger.
I could reach it all off a pointer, and it was about 30 seconds.
....and that was years ago......
Slowcoach!
That far left window is in fact smaller than the far left one on Peter Briggs, I remember timing you, but there was no way it was 30 seconds!!!
And there is very little chance of you being quicker than me on the Peter Briggs window either, you won't get remotely close to 30 seconds on it.
you think I am not that quick?
Check out below.
I've a couple of pics showing certain windows I did today, and I turned on the old stopwatch again.
This first one is an entrance to a Greggs cake shop.
Now this was cleaned as quickly as I could go, first off was the 'Turbo Terry' technique.
both panes done in 18 seconds, no detailing was required.
Second attempt was done in the normal cleaning mode of wash first and then squeegee off.
time taken, 22.55 seconds
Again, no detailing was required.
The average window cleaner would not do them this quickly, I certainly don't normally!!
This next one is the shop next door, and all done trad too.
I had a couple of goes at this because I made a few mistakes!!
But my timed runs that didn't need detailing, and included squeegeeing off the sills was....
66.87 seconds.
This one is easy enough to reach without using a pole, just a bit of a stretch for the first pass.
But I decided to add a pole into the equation....I've been working on pole techniques and have developed quite a quick method.
The time above was using this method.
Attempt 2 was without using a pole.
Time taken 70.05 seconds.
so I was marginally faster with the pole...even though a pole wasn't actually needed!!!
Another window cleaner happened by as I was atempting these timed cleans, 'Bloody hell,' he said, 'You won't get fat working at that pace!!'
Well I am fat...and I don't work at that pace! lol
final pic is a single pane of glass, the top edge of the window is approx 9ft off the ground, it is approx 5ft 8in wide, the pane itself is about 7ft 6in high.
This entire front is done by me using WFP, so I also timed myself on this pane with it.
Time taken WFP 30.67 seconds
Done trad (pole most certainly needed on this one)
The best time of 6 attempts was 29.65 seconds.
Slowest was 36 seconds and the fastest time was my second attempt! (slowest was the first though)
Now all trad attempts on all the work was done flat out hell for leather!
I'm not Terry Burrows, but I'm no slouch, but I must point out that these times were way quicker than my normal work rate, but my normal workrate with trad tools is still reasonably quick.
Squeaks claims times I could not possibly match (though I am going to have a go on the window he mentioned on Monday morning
)
And he reckons he's even faster now
I've given him the opportunity to show me and all the rest of you how quick he is, he may well make me look like a right old slowcoach!
but I don't mind, it'll be nice to have some comparisons for the identical work.
and nothing to do with WFP either!!!
Ian