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Title: traditional poleing tops today
Post by: monkeyboy950 on November 29, 2010, 09:57:30 pm
cleaned 2 nursing homes,couldnt be bothered with the water fed freezing up,there only cleaned every 6 months,was a pain at 1st but soon get the hang of it,must have been about 15 feet only a few windows had daft lines down them,anyone do this on regular work
Title: Re: traditional poleing tops today
Post by: GB Window Cleaning on November 29, 2010, 10:25:39 pm
im thinking about doing this on domestic houses if its freezing in the day this year with anti freeze or screen wash in my bucket! anyone else think this is ok ?
Title: Re: traditional poleing tops today
Post by: monkeyboy950 on November 29, 2010, 10:29:38 pm
i got the idea from a guy near my local work who does it,said he didnt lose a day last year and it was bad i was off for over 5 weeks,fair enough he didnt do as much in a day i would normally do with wfp,but im wanting hot water system set up(well the l5 system to get me started)so if i have to do it for a few weeks till it is delivered i have hot water to help me reclean them,so thinking of doing it,so done it on the nursing homes and when i went inside windows were fine
Title: Re: traditional poleing tops today
Post by: clearlyclean on November 29, 2010, 11:23:40 pm
I use to pole awkward windows above porches on decking before i had WFP,I think my customers were grateful they had a window cleaner :P just change rubber regular to avoid lines
Title: Re: traditional poleing tops today
Post by: KLEENAWAY on November 29, 2010, 11:47:46 pm
If you mean lines on the edge of your squeegee then all you need to do is wipe it and make it dry then it should be fine mate

Danny
Title: Re: traditional poleing tops today
Post by: monkeyboy950 on November 30, 2010, 08:52:01 am
More snow overnight looks like it's same again today
Title: Re: traditional poleing tops today
Post by: David OCuilleain on November 30, 2010, 11:15:33 am
I used trad pole when I first started. i`m crap though leaving smears and streaks on glass. not sure what I was doing wrong.
Title: Re: traditional poleing tops today
Post by: Jackal on November 30, 2010, 11:36:19 am
there aint an easy way to use trad pole, very slow but safer on awkward windows,just have to wipe blade after each time its used on glass,the pain in the ar*e bit is trying wipe the edges of glass after
Title: Re: traditional poleing tops today
Post by: clearlyclean on November 30, 2010, 02:17:28 pm
I use a 8" squeegee and wrap a scrim round it to do the edges
Title: Re: traditional poleing tops today
Post by: Matthew Bateman on November 30, 2010, 02:26:27 pm
What sort of hourly rate would you expect to do when doing upstairs poleing?
Title: Re: traditional poleing tops today
Post by: clearlyclean on November 30, 2010, 02:29:29 pm
about £2 ;D
Title: Re: traditional poleing tops today
Post by: Matthew Bateman on December 01, 2010, 10:48:14 pm
Somehow that doesnt seem too far from what Id envisage.
Title: Re: traditional poleing tops today
Post by: G Griffin on December 01, 2010, 10:50:24 pm
Somehow that doesnt seem too far from what Id envisage.

Show off  ;D.