Sigh, Roger, Roger......
It no good you know Rog, WFP is quicker per window, you can run but you can't hide
In a RACE, trad will win, you only have to see Turbo Terry in action to see that.
And it is unlikely you will clean the window I described in my previous post in under 1 minute, you might if you treat it like a race, but that is very different.
Windows do not get covered in grease either, water alone will not remove grease, grease is not water soluable.
Over the years I have done a great many 'proper' time and motion studies, and the time taken for the window described is 90 seconds, not counting positioning the ladder, climbing up and climbing down the ladder. That is cleaning time only.
I have also watched other window cleaners and stop-watched them too.
I was chatting to another window cleaner last month, there happened to be yet another one across the road, cleaning exactly the window I have described, I timed him....yep, 90 seconds.
He wasn't as quick as you Roger, I do accept you are pretty quick (lets face it, I trained you
) But he wasn't a slouch either.
Done correctly the WFP will get into the corners far more thoroughly than trad, sills aren't a problem either, if it is an existing account of your own, the sills will be clean anyway, and a quick wipe is all that is needed, you are continually rinsing them as you are cleaning the glass.
When I pull up to a house (prior to the van) I would pop the hatch, pull out pole hose and pole, turn on pump, pinch hose, walk to furthest point, extend pole and clean the upstairs of the house, lower the pole and clean the downstairs of the house. walk back to car, and pack gear away.
At this point, the packing away is slower than putting a ladder on a roof rack, you would gain a minute on me here.
Getting the gear to the first window to clean would not be very different though.
More than a couple of houses close together, the ones where you wold park up the car and walk from house to house doing it trad, well I spend 5 minutes getting out the trolley and connecting everything up.
If it needed more water than the trolley could carry then I would drop off a couple of containers first.
Wheeling a trolley around is very fast...unless you run, and then its even quicker
The pole can be extended as fast as you can climb up and down a ladder, if you wanted to race up and down the ladder then you are welcome, you'd also be kind of stupid...thats really asking for trouble.
The faster you go, the more errors you will make, being very fast with trad is bloody hard work, and mistakes will happen.
Being fast with WFP...er...well, it isn't hard, you simply don't need to rush. 30-40 seconds for that standard window is well within even the slowest of workers comfort zone.
For the trad window cleaner, to acheive that kind of time he is going to be bloody flying, few quick ones will match that time, the average window cleaner certainly won't.
The AVERAGE window cleaner will take around 90 SECONDS.
Cleaning time will be quicker on an average house with WFP, but time would be lost in the packing up and moving on to the next one, but over a days work the WFP user will end out doing that days work 25-30% faster.
Thats also assuming that the work in question is lots of small houses, all with straight forward, easy clean windows.
Slip in some large acounts, or georgian and leaded windows, then WFP is so much faster it isn't worth the effort trying to compare times.
And if you are a competant and fussy window cleaner, even with WFP your quality will match that or exceed that of the trad cleaner, remember, quality depends not on the tools, but on the operator, and that of course applies equally to both trad and WFP.
they will also be less tired, and though you might fall over, you can't fall OFF the floor
Regards,
Ian
