Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: e newlands on May 25, 2010, 04:57:51 pm
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came round the back of sloane square there a fella up about 4 floors at least on a ladder its was bending like rolf harris, boomerang
i think he was up there cleaning out a parapet gutter
ive got a picture but cant seem to get it from my phone i can sms it to someone if anyone knows how to do it
top nutter totally unsafe--not sure where he got a ladder that long
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3rd floor for me, big building, big heavy triple wooden ladder! Cant remember doing higher on a ladder
Much easier now with the pole :)
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3rd floor for me, big building, big heavy triple wooden ladder! Cant remember doing higher on a ladder
same here m8 ;) but im sure my a hole was still attached 2the floor ;D
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this was a ali job also the nutter was own his own no one footing it
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just looked at the picture again i think the building is about 12 ft storey heights its about 60 ft plus up
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Triple 18ft for me, about 1990 :P
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i bet your ring was pulsating
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i bet your ring was pulsating
It was a regular thing up North in the old days. Thankfully we have wfp and cherry pickers now.
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suprised the fella got away with it right in the centre of london these days
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i go to 3rd floor ,long as moneys alrite. i had some c**** ask me to do their 4th floor seafront gaff but its to open,too windy,not worth doing
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a few years back in december i was on the parapet of the metropole hotel on brighton seafront about 7 floors up with a ladder leaning up the glass mansard roof had to climb up and over onto the lid to refix a lighting conductor tape
had 2 fellas holding the ladder in the wind
absolute sh****Ing myself
had the old bill helicopter hovering next to us filming
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Whats a ladder? ;)
What we wanna know is whats the highest amount of dosh youve done in a day WFP ;D
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Whats a ladder? ;)
What we wanna know is whats the highest amount of dosh youve done in a day WFP ;D
I earnt £60 in a day once
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Whats a ladder? ;)
What we wanna know is whats the highest amount of dosh youve done in a day WFP ;D
A pound for me ;D
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I've only been up two floors above ground - standard ceiling heights. That was enough thanks.
Come to think of it I did climb higher than that many years ago but that was just to access some high scaffolding on a chimney stack. I didn't work from the ladder.
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Triple 18ft for me, about 1990 :P
me too.
Probably the same ladder 8)
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3rd floor for me, big building, big heavy triple wooden ladder! Cant remember doing higher on a ladder
Much easier now with the pole :)
same here , i can still remenber the side ways sway on ladder as i climbed it .
daz
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i go to 3rd floor ,long as moneys alrite. i had some c**** ask me to do their 4th floor seafront gaff but its to open,too windy,not worth doing
whenever i used to go to seaside , for day trips or holidays, would always see window cleaners cleaning sea front hotels , used to think to myself , rather them than me.
daz
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I went to the top of my ladder once
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Are all these nutters heavily insured by their wives or partners ? Regards Hotsteam
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Elgin in Scotland :P ;D ;D
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triple 24.ONCE!
Got up there fine.
Getting down different story. Didn't know which foot to move first, so I decided it would be best not to move any. Stayed there for what seemed like ages. Its the only time I have ever been proper scared up a ladder.
Got down, chucked on top of our green Maestro van (should have seen the overhang, front and back) and dropped it back at the hire shop FOREVER!
Oh, the innocence of youth.
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I went to the top of my ladder once
was that on a snakes and ladder board ;D ;D
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I've been right to the top of a skirtingboard ladder and went no hands, and stood on one leg!
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you sure you wasnt balancing 2 budgies on your thingy as well
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When I was 14 got a part time job in local locksmiths ... one day the boss asked me to paint the gutters and drainpipe only problem was the end of the building had a waste stack all of the way up to the apex of the roof and this had to be painted as well ..... did it but was crapping meself must have been about 120 foot up !! ... thats what it felt like but went back to the area last year (old hometown) drove past it and realised it was actually only about 50 - 60 feet but didnt feel it at the time .... happy times ;D
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i used to use a triple 22 very regular when doing schools in manchester it was made of wood in summer we used to throw it in the river to soak as when it got too dry it would bend like mad, there where a couple of us who could carry it fully extended but most couldnt, it wasnt half tireing running up and down that thing all day.
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Three stories a month ago to fix a down pipe on a gutter. But I tye the ladder to other window ledges and alsp to gutter down pipe as well as to other glass windows.I have two of those sucktion hold ons use for carring glass panes.
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100ft plus now thats a ladder
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i have,nt there still hanging on my garage wall.
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I remember watching Fred Dibnah on the telly climbing up the outside of a high chimney stack. All he was using was the iron rungs set into the brickwork. About 100ft up he turns to the camera and says "Of course you have to be a bit careful with these cos they are over a hundred years old and a bit loose"
With that he pulls one out of the brickwork to illustrate his point.
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I remember watching Fred Dibnah on the telly climbing up the outside of a high chimney stack. All he was using was the iron rungs set into the brickwork. About 100ft up he turns to the camera and says "Of course you have to be a bit careful with these cos they are over a hundred years old and a bit loose"
With that he pulls one out of the brickwork to illustrate his point.
Reading the thread reminded me of that documentary. Fred Dibnah was a legend, his workmanship and humility is infectious and the scene you describe where he climbs the ladder is just mind boggling.
Theres no H&S, no fuss or big show about what he is about to do - he arrives on site and just starts climbing with no nerves even near the top. He then gets to the top and begins work.
This is the first part but there are five others - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuSW9kOBADo
As for me, I inherited three nursing homes with my round and one was on a hill so the back was two storey but the front was three storey. I did it a couple of times and sold it!!!
The biggest I have seen anybody climb physically was when I was in Amsterdam - five storey on wooden ladder on a busy Saturday with shoppers and tourists walking past the ladder etc.
Madness!
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Elgin in Scotland :P ;D ;D
jeez that's a fair bit up tell they say there's no atmosphere that far up, by the way you must be off yer marbles ;)
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Work at a height off a ladder was 80 feet from ground. but have done over ten storeys before but that wasn't off a ladder.