Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Londoner on August 11, 2010, 06:55:58 pm
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I was at my first customers today just getting paid. The customer was talking to me but staring over the road, finally he said "Cor look at that"
The house over the road was a pre 1920s detatched house, on the very top of the roof stood a man with a pressure washer cleaning the roof.
It was a high roof too and quite steep yet he was strolling around without a care in the world. He wasn't some young kid either, quite an old bloke with a bald head. Old fashioned bib and brace overalls.
It never ceases to amaze me what some people find acceptable as a way of earning a living.
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lol crazy nutter
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Where I live, I saw the exact same thing last Friday.
It's obviously catching on ;D ;D
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seen that a few weeks ago in cornwall, running out of a old transit, ladders up to roof and then they climbed up, idiots
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The only thing this man had going for him was that he looked relaxed and totally at ease. If he had been tense he probably would have fallen off.
Not a mile from where this happened a paddy fell off a roof last week and they had to get the air ambulance out to him. He's in a bad way I'm told.
I still see people working on roofs all the time without scaffolding. It puts the window cleaning debate into perspective. About eight doors down from me they have just re-roofed a house working only from a single tower. This is totally illegal as well as stupid. Why aren't H&S jumping all over these cowboys?
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say a painter on a ladder on a sloping street and he had a scraper under one side as a wedge,it made my wooden wedge look cutting edge :D
last year a plumber used a screwdriver as a wedge :o
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say a painter on a ladder on a sloping street and he had a scraper under one side as a wedge,it made my wooden wedge look cutting edge :D
last year a plumber used a screwdriver as a wedge :o
you still using a wedge stan :o I stopped using one when I realised the ladder works just as well on one style as two ;D you start with two on the ground then the weight turns and you have one at the bottom and two at the top ;)
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say a painter on a ladder on a sloping street and he had a scraper under one side as a wedge,it made my wooden wedge look cutting edge :D
last year a plumber used a screwdriver as a wedge :o
you still using a wedge stan :o I stopped using one when I realised the ladder works just as well on one style as two ;D you start with two on the ground then the weight turns and you have one at the bottom and two at the top ;)
i do that on slight slopes but we have some steep streets around here ;)
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yes I know I carried a wedge for years still have one in my van ;)
as for the guy on the roof I see that all time round here and not just the cowboys some reputable firms as well ::)
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It never ceases to amaze me what some people find acceptable as a way of earning a living.
Pressure washing? Don't even get me started,no hard hat, no high viz or goggles i'll bet too !!!
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why would a hard hat or high vis vest help on a roof
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why would a hard hat or high vis vest help on a roof
Stop the helicopters flying into you.
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why would a hard hat or high vis vest help on a roof
Stop the helicopters flying into you.
;D
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Just before xmas as the snow was just starting i saw someone pressure washing a roof strolling about without a care and he would dissapear into his van when the snow got too heavy only to come out and blast the snow off the roof and start cleaning again.
Either he some kind of gravity defying top secret NASA boots on or he was just plain loopy,i think the latter.
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I've even seen a fella up a ladder cleaning windows, believe it or not. No saftey devices at all, anything could happen?!! Leanin' over with a rag or summat he was too !!
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I've even seen a fella up a ladder cleaning windows, believe it or not. No saftey devices at all, anything could happen?!! Leanin' over with a rag or summat he was too !!
have you been stalking me ;)
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I was at my first customers today just getting paid. The customer was talking to me but staring over the road, finally he said "Cor look at that"
The house over the road was a pre 1920s detatched house, on the very top of the roof stood a man with a pressure washer cleaning the roof.
It was a high roof too and quite steep yet he was strolling around without a care in the world. He wasn't some young kid either, quite an old bloke with a bald head. Old fashioned bib and brace overalls.
It never ceases to amaze me what some people find acceptable as a way of earning a living.
I bet he`s claiming benefits too- Fiddler On The Roof.
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I agree that it is stupid and not just dangerous to them but anyone walking close by but what really makes them cowboys is the use of a pressure washer on a roof.
My god how awful is that ?
Doesn't he know he will loosen slates by removing the dirt from between them,the very dirt that bonds the roof together?
Will he be found with his insurance in five or six years when the roof rots through the damp he caused?
Will he comfort the neighbours family when old grandad gets struck by a flying slate?
And what about the foundations what about them when they are flooded with his excess water. Has he cleared the gutters and downpipes BEFORE he starts spraying gallons of water everywhere?
No of course not, because he doesn't know what he is doing, the money grabbing roof wrecking danger man, professional eh? He couldn't even spell it!
Hi Ho Silver Away
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I've even seen a fella up a ladder cleaning windows, believe it or not. No saftey devices at all, anything could happen?!! Leanin' over with a rag or summat he was too !!
have you been stalking me ;)
There's loads of them at it Stan !!! :)
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I was at my first customers today just getting paid. The customer was talking to me but staring over the road, finally he said "Cor look at that"
The house over the road was a pre 1920s detatched house, on the very top of the roof stood a man with a pressure washer cleaning the roof.
It was a high roof too and quite steep yet he was strolling around without a care in the world. He wasn't some young kid either, quite an old bloke with a bald head. Old fashioned bib and brace overalls.
It never ceases to amaze me what some people find acceptable as a way of earning a living.
I bet he`s claiming benefits too- Fiddler On The Roof.
;D ;D ;D
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Just before xmas as the snow was just starting i saw someone pressure washing a roof strolling about without a care and he would dissapear into his van when the snow got too heavy only to come out and blast the snow off the roof and start cleaning again.
Either he has some kind of gravity defying top secret NASA boots on or he was just plain loopy,i think the latter.
my mate puts scrims under his ladders when its wet or icy (antislip) and says that if you put them under your boots using strong elastic bands you will never slip on wet decking/ice etc....maybe it was him up the roof that day :D
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Just before xmas as the snow was just starting i saw someone pressure washing a roof strolling about without a care and he would dissapear into his van when the snow got too heavy only to come out and blast the snow off the roof and start cleaning again.
Either he has some kind of gravity defying top secret NASA boots on or he was just plain loopy,i think the latter.
my mate puts scrims under his ladders when its wet or icy (antislip) and says that if you put them under your boots using strong elastic bands you will never slip on wet decking/ice etc....maybe it was him up the roof that day :D
a damp scrim under the ladder works better than most of the anti slip devices, we used this method for years on slippy floors in schools, your mate is right about tieing fabric around shoes in icy conditions to stop you slipping as they have been doing this for years in poland infact if you google tyre socks then this method is being used instead of snow chains and works brilliantly.
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I was at my first customers today just getting paid. The customer was talking to me but staring over the road, finally he said "Cor look at that"
The house over the road was a pre 1920s detatched house, on the very top of the roof stood a man with a pressure washer cleaning the roof.
It was a high roof too and quite steep yet he was strolling around without a care in the world. He wasn't some young kid either, quite an old bloke with a bald head. Old fashioned bib and brace overalls.
It never ceases to amaze me what some people find acceptable as a way of earning a living.
sounds like Irish, i know some local to me they do that as well as block paving
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had some boys round here, pressure washing roofs, just standing on the roof, no gear on at all.
Their sealing the roofs, which involves spraying them with a sealer.
One neighbour had it done about six months ago.
When they went in the loft all the sealer had come through causing a right old mess, also all the sealer is now off the roof! cowboys.