Squeaks says to let them get on with it, I am not sure what we could do about it anyway, but unfortunately it is fools like this that increase the risks of ladder bans coming along.
The sensible window cleaner working off a ladder will draw no attention, it's the brainless ones taking outrageous risks that stand out from the ground.
Fingers get pointed and these idiots are then used as examples of why working off ladders is so dangerous and why they need protecting from themselves
I was lucky yesterday, the house I was cleaning was completely wind free and it was 3 storey too
The last time it was cleaned it was down by Squeaks when he worked for me, and that was a few years ago now.
A very old house with really ancient window frames and absolutely minging with cobwebs and grime, half the windows needed repainting too
Some were oxidized, some weren't.
Using my WFP the bristles were coming off the glass full of old cobwebs, pine needles, leaves, bits of dead insects.
I was dreading what the final finish was going to look like
A couple of the windows the oxidization was so bad it looked like I was washing them down with milk!!
But after two and a half hours and after cleaning an attached office (a converted barn) I checked them over and apart from a few panes here and there they had come up really good.
A couple of panes on the badly oxidixed frames needed touching up, and there were a few other spots here and there but I was relieved and surprised they had come up so well.
All the frames were also washed down, the difference was amazing, I wish I'd taken some before and after pics.
Now if this place had been the other side of the hill and exposed to the wind I don't think I'd have stood a snowballs chance in hell of getting a good job done, trad or WFP.
Before doing this place I did a few local shops, did them trad but as it was so windy I squeeged them off.
By 3pm they were spotty and in need of cleaning again
Was so windy that muck was being blown on the glass, and if I hadn't squeegeed them off afterwards I would have looked at them and blamed myself for not doing a proper job with the WFP because of the spots
So just because you are working trad it doesn't mean you won't get spots!
Very heavy wind mixed with showers is bad news for both methods, whether you are doing bungalows or not it makes not a whit of difference.
You may well be able to work at height with your WFP, but in those conditions you shouldn't because there are always going to be some windows that are going to be mucked up because of the weather.
It's a catch 22 position isn't it?
The wind doesn't stop you working quite safely at heights that would be really dangerous off ladders because of the wind, but the severe conditions make it a waste of time cleaning the windows anyway
Still, I had a £100 house done out of the wind, so I got lucky
And had a lovely flash of a lithe, shapely 22 year female bum in the process
Ian
