Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: dazmond on November 25, 2010, 05:10:28 pm
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are any of you guys tradding more ground floors due to the very cold weather?ive been cleaning nearly all ground floors trad today and salting the odd doorway(below a window ive just wfpoled).i was surprised!its not slowed me down one bit!! :D :Dmind you i was fully trad for 17 years before wfp!i also use a bottle on a belt so no carrying bucket.
dazmond
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dazmond , once youve been using wfp on any window never go back to blading it in the winter , youve spent time getting all the soap and crap off it ,now youll just put it back on,
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Only front doors on the shady side of the houses today. A good wfp'er can easily get rid of a bit of soap from doing it trad.
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I did trad a few ground floor ones last Winter but only on very vulnerable paths - particularly if an older person lives there. Remember, a fall is much more likely to kill an older person. There are only a few paths where it is necessary (IMO) though. I think it's about using your skill and judgment in playing it right. I've already got a fair supply of rock salt in. I got some of it over a week ago but as it's become clearer that there is likely to be a cold snap, I bought some more. I don't want to be left without like last year. All tax deductible too remember.
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ive just cleared out the local shop of salt(22 bottles of it!!)it cost me just under a tenner.hopefully ill be ok for a few weeks.the woman behind the counter was not impressed with me clearing out her stock though!she started ranting at me then realised she was showing herself up in front of a big queue of people! ;D ;D
im sure i wont have too many problems with reverting back to wfp on ground floors once the weather has warmed up a bit!!just a good extra rinse should do the trick.
im just not prepared to leave big puddles of water around every custies house(just small puddles!)in this freezing weather.also i enjoyed the change!wfp is too messy sometimes IMO!! ;D ;D
DAZMOND
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you might as well start tradding the tops as well ;D
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DAZMOND if you have to trad use ecover+pure water as it leaves no film on the windows,
it`s easy to wfp the next time!
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i use squeegee off or gg3.never had a problem wfpoling them again next time.just give an extra scrub and rinse. ;) ;D ;D
dazmond
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Only front doors on the shady side of the houses today. A good wfp'er can easily get rid of a bit of soap from doing it trad.
Spot on! It's the biggest myth in wfp anyway! ;)
I have windows I trad one month & wfp the next.
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why would you do that ???.get all the custys on side regarding wfp and then start using a blade every other time . no thanks
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I quite often trad big windows (patio doors etc) downstairs because its actually the one type of window that is better done trad. You save on water ( a throwback to the days when I had a trolley), its just as quick and you have the confidence of a visual check that nothing has been missed.
These are "eyeball" windows, marks get noticed and they are most likely to attract sticky handprints, pigeon hits, snail trails etc.
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I quite often trad big windows (patio doors etc) downstairs because its actually the one type of window that is better done trad. You save on water ( a throwback to the days when I had a trolley), its just as quick and you have the confidence of a visual check that nothing has been missed.
These are "eyeball" windows, marks get noticed and they are most likely to attract sticky handprints, pigeon hits, snail trails etc.
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I quite often trad big windows (patio doors etc) downstairs because its actually the one type of window that is better done trad. You save on water ( a throwback to the days when I had a trolley), its just as quick and you have the confidence of a visual check that nothing has been missed.
These are "eyeball" windows, marks get noticed and they are most likely to attract sticky handprints, pigeon hits, snail trails etc.
Spot on. I do on some of these too
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just sprinkle pure water on your mop and your away!! dont need detergent ;D
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just sprinkle pure water on your mop and your away!! dont need detergent
Not another cowboy! ???
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why would you do that ???.get all the custys on side regarding wfp and then start using a blade every other time . no thanks
Two houses next to each other. one is a large 5 bed detatched on 2 monthly the other is a small bungalow. When I do them both I wfp them both, when it's just the bulgalow it's faster trad! ;)
I've done countless builders cleans trad then wfp from next time, no problems with soap. I could give you many examples & I've never had any "issues" regarding soap from previous cleans. ;)
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just sprinkle pure water on your mop and your away!! dont need detergent
Not another cowboy! ???
i sometimes blade it off :-*