Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: DaveG on March 31, 2011, 08:05:24 pm
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What do you reckon?
Some old bloke told me that what I'm doing is illegal
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thats what old people do, moan.
I cant see any problem, you have your warning cones out.
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Tried telling him that Lee. After all, roadworkers have air lines etc accross roads all the time
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Someone once posted here a witty retort to such remarks.
It went something like:
"Pal, if I want to listen to a 'bottom hole', I'll fart. Okay?"
And was it really illegal, or was it unlawful? This is an important point, so does anyone know the difference?
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pmsl thats my new one liner! thanks Tosh! ;D
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What if some kid was to skateboard down the road and cant "olly" properly ?
and btw your blocking the neighbours driveway :D ;D
looks a quiet street, cant see the problem
do you do several there ? e.g. park once and run out the hose, only ask because I'd probably have parked on the other side of the road, I know its on a bend but it looks like theres room
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It's a hazard we create & hope it's OK. Who knows?
What happened to me-
In almost the exact same situation as your pics, an old woman came down the causeway on one of those disabled buggy things. It picked the hose up & before I knew it my pole had been whipped out of my hands & the reel was spinning like lightening!!! :o She was approx 90m down the road when either by luck or force the hose released itself from the buggy!
Now, what would have happened had she been brought over by this & fell off her buggy? ???
I'm glad it didn't happen!
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thats fine
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frankybad boy was told by a highways dept guy that it wasn't allowed ???
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One Local authority stoped one wfp guy from running his hose across the pavement let alone the road.
Told him it was breaking health and safty regs.
The subject was brought up on one of the forums last year.
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Well if it is illegal then you carn't bloody win can you!! can't use ladders cant have trailing hoses ..
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it looks fine to me mate, what I was asked to do by a facilities manager of a very large job I was doing was to put a warning sign or a cone on the hose where it goes over any public walkway but that was a commercial job.
I know the same should apply to domestic but I suppose someone would still find something to moan about.
you should have just smashed a chair across his teeth mate as that would have shut him up ;D ;D ;D ;D
only joking dont do the last bit :D
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Well if it is illegal then you carn't bloody win can you!! can't use ladders cant have trailing hoses ..
you could use a trolley or a backpack
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lets be honest guys we all do it!i never bother with the warning signs though unless its a commercial job! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Yes it is illegal.
Although i do it occasionally on quite roads. :)
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What if some kid was to skateboard down the road and cant "olly" properly ?
and btw your blocking the neighbours driveway :D ;D
looks a quiet street, cant see the problem
do you do several there ? e.g. park once and run out the hose, only ask because I'd probably have parked on the other side of the road, I know its on a bend but it looks like theres room
Cheers!
I do 5 in this road and leave the van where it is. 3 on the side where van is parked and 2 opposite
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you should have just smashed a chair across his teeth mate as that would have shut him up ;D ;D ;D ;D
Did cross my mind mate. But wasnt a chair !
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next time ask the guy if he would sooner you risk your life up a ladder instead, ;D
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lets be honest guys we all do it!i never bother with the warning signs though unless its a commercial job! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Funny thing is Daz, as soon as the tailgate is open on the van, the cone goes out first (Mr sensible me) ;D
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winpro while reading your post about the disabled buggy it brought back a scene from JAWS...
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[quoteyou could use a trolley or a backpack][/quote]
true but if your only only doing one house it could take a long time to set up.. just health & safetly gone mad to be honest
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It would have been better to move the van, just to be sure. Perfectly safe non the less and well highlighted by cones and yellow hose. If anyone pulled you up for that, they would need to have a very good reason in writing I would have thought. I also like the fact you have your hose reel at a sensible working hight and do not lift it in and out on the job all day long. For those who say this is impractical, have a look and see how to enable slack on the hose so it drops immediately to the ground. Without this "slack" the hose would rise up when pulled and create a real hazard. It all seems as safe as it possibly could be to me, given the position of the van.
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Cheers guys
Ronnie, I put a platform in for the hosereel and its so much better working at that height and the reel stays in the van all day. When pulling the hose out, it just falls down without creating a "trip hazard".
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frankybad boy was told by a highways dept guy that it wasn't allowed ???
i was just about to say that stu.causing a hazard on road and path by some low life of the highway agency,and this was in a dead end cul d sack :P
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winpro while reading your post about the disabled buggy it brought back a scene from JAWS...
;D ;D ;D
Yeah, it was pretty similar, trust me! ;D
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slightly off topic but sometimes you can make a better desicion than authorities, a few years ago we were working on main rd with cherry picker and van on rd, although all all were sectioned off we were told that as we only had permit for cherry picker to be on rd we would have to move van - i replied that the speed on the road was 30mph and we had deliberatly put van up from where we was working so if someone hit the van it would mean they didnt hit us in cherry picker, therefor safer for it to be there. good point he said, leave it where it is then.
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I think a lot of us do it!
although it is illegal. van parked facing oncoming vehicles ( its there in highway regulations but who on earth takes any notice) no one unless someone hits you and immediately your in the wrong.
warning signs giving notice to an obstruction or hazard should be placed were they can be seen by oncoming vehicles in both directions ( your OK there)
they must clearly indicate the type of hazard ?
they can be placed of the carriageway (road) so long as any public footpath is not reduced to a with no less than 1.2 Mtrs
all the legal wittering can be found at the ministry of transport, its all under "traffic signs manual"
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i do it.
Im finding my hose starting to split after doing this for many years, (cars, trucks, buses etc) its starting to get very short!
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im sure its not illegal,but id be scared a chancer might trip on purpose and be straight onto claims direct . im not w/f/p but i am aware of the chancer personality and they are very common now. i was once wed to one for starters and her sis was another chancer who threw herself under a bus to get compo . on my round an elderly chancer followed me and walked into my ladders on purpose as i was carrying them to my van but failed to break his skin . that Billy Murray is advertising it on telly and it gives people ideas
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Hi,
Crikey :
I am traditional. This looks dangerous to me. Why not move van over to other side
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looks dangerous?ITS A BLOODY HOSE ACROSS A ROAD!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
ITS HARDLY A HAZARD REALLY!! ;D ;D ;D
bobby sounds like you should choose your girlfriends more carefully!try and go for one with a career or job prospects!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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I'll run it across the footpath - with a rubber mat and a warning sign on it. I won't run it across the road though. It probably is illegal or unlawful. Bear in mind that not all vehicles have got four wheels.
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Those cones could be construed as being a hazard :)
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Those cones could be construed as being a hazard :)
I've tripped over a warning sign in a supermarket before; honest! ;D
With life comes an element of risk, but I'd guess with some certainty that we've a greater risk of crashing into someone and killing them on the way to work, than a trailing hose we put out tripping someone and killing them.
Of course there's a risk. There's two blind fellas I know in Chepstow who walk with just a cane (though I think one has a guide dog now, and I clean the windows of the other). And I once reversed in a tight spot and trapped the stick of one of these blind blokes under my rear wheel, which caused a bit of a kerfuffle.
Ian_Giles has also had problems with trailing hoses and getting 'told off' from the wife of this same blind bloke; he put a post about it here. She's very protective of her blind husband.
But I think we can only take reasonable precautions and make sure we're insured and keep our fingers crossed that nothing happens.
It's only a hose at the end of the day and there's far greater hazzards out there caused by other tradesmen.