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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: AuRavelling79 on May 10, 2011, 02:37:07 pm

Title: Cowboy in a "10" plate zafira car.
Post by: AuRavelling79 on May 10, 2011, 02:37:07 pm: Talk about mixed messages!

I'm working on some 1930's bay windowed terraces this am - in blocks of six or four - and a guy pulls up about 100 metres away on the opposite side of the road and pulls a ladder out of the Zafira and puts it so that the top is about 2ft below the upper window cill.

I surreptitiously watch him as I pole away on my side of the street.

He climbs the ladder so that he can do the main pane below the transom, misses the transom completely and wipes it with a cloth, uses the same cloth to wipe the cill and then climbs down.

In the time it has taken me to do the top two bays and two upper bedroom windows of adjoining houses he has put his ladder on the front facet of the bay and to one side so that he can reach round and do half the bay.

He then gets an applicator on a 3ft pole and does the front and side face of the upper bay and leaves the far pane and all the transoms completely! :o

I've now finished the fronts of my two houses and am reeling out to do another house front four doors away and closer to him.

He now does the lower bay - using the same rag to wipe its transoms and then applicating and blading the bottoms. he then wipes the cill with the rag and ignores the door completely. Then he writes something down and puts it through the door and drives off.

So in the time it has taken me to do the fronts of three houses he has "done" one front, not touched the upper or side frames missed out the upper transom windows and the upper bay on one side; then he has re-arranged the dirt on the rest! Oh, and missed the door! ;D

Yet he's got a "10" plate Zafira to work from - I must be doing something wrong!

;D
Title: Re: Cowboy in a "10" plate zafira car.
Post by: Steven Shoreditch on May 10, 2011, 02:40:29 pm: Fireman I expect.
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Post by: BORBRYCE on May 10, 2011, 02:44:34 pm: Gold, you aint half nosey. What rubber was he using? You probably missed most of your own glass breaking your neck watching him.
Title: Re: Cowboy in a "10" plate zafira car.
Post by: AuRavelling79 on May 10, 2011, 02:53:43 pm: Quote from: Ronnie B on May 10, 2011, 02:44:34 pm
Gold, you aint half nosey. What rubber was he using? You probably missed most of your own glass breaking your neck watching him.

;D

No Ronnie, I clean to such a high standard that I can see in the reflection!

SSWC - Fireman eh? Hadn't thought about that ... but a fireman who is afraid to go up a ladder and use the right gear?
Title: Re: Cowboy in a "10" plate zafira car.
Post by: K.J.M on May 10, 2011, 02:55:08 pm: The motors probably a D.L.A car

saying that tho i done a cpl of shifts for a fella a cpl of weeks ago hes driving a 09 avensis so i guess you never know
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Post by: mci services on May 10, 2011, 03:35:34 pm: At least he wiped the cills, that is more than most round my way
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Post by: Dean Taberner on May 10, 2011, 04:03:23 pm: Yeah probably a disability car.
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Post by: CLEANCARE WC on May 10, 2011, 04:12:48 pm: GOLD WHATS A TRANSOM?
Title: Re: Cowboy in a "10" plate zafira car.
Post by: AuRavelling79 on May 10, 2011, 04:15:14 pm: Quote from: CLEANCARE WINDOW CLEANING on May 10, 2011, 04:12:48 pm
GOLD WHATS A TRANSOM?

If you have a window with a top and a bottom pane then the bar that separates the two is the transom bar and the pane/opener above is the transom window.
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Post by: CLEANCARE WC on May 10, 2011, 04:24:42 pm: Thanks. didnt know that :)
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Post by: Klean07 on May 10, 2011, 04:46:04 pm: We learn something new everyday. Thank god for this site!!
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Post by: Frankybadboy on May 10, 2011, 04:59:27 pm: so at long last gold you got to see trippy at work. ;D ;D ;D ;D

welcome to trippys world ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: A & J Owen Window Cleaning on May 10, 2011, 05:09:57 pm: got me stumped for a while cheers goldie. now i can blart it to all the thicko custies with a posh voice.
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Post by: AC Window Cleaning on May 10, 2011, 05:29:33 pm: thats the funniest thing ive read all day haha what a joke
Title: Re: Cowboy in a "10" plate zafira car.
Post by: dave0123 on May 10, 2011, 06:05:20 pm: more likely some idiot that has been made redundant
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Post by: Johnny B on May 10, 2011, 06:23:14 pm: Malc,

Looks like you could be getting a new customer next time you're in that road!

Yeehah!

John.
Title: Re: Cowboy in a "10" plate zafira car.
Post by: cozy on May 10, 2011, 06:38:51 pm: Quote from: Gold on May 10, 2011, 04:15:14 pm
Quote from: CLEANCARE WINDOW CLEANING on May 10, 2011, 04:12:48 pm
GOLD WHATS A TRANSOM?

If you have a window with a top and a bottom pane then the bar that separates the two is the transom bar and the pane/opener above is the transom window.

I didn't either. Not many variations on widows here though.
Title: Re: Cowboy in a "10" plate zafira car.
Post by: Panorama on May 10, 2011, 09:20:28 pm: Quote from: sswc on May 10, 2011, 02:40:29 pm
Fireman I expect.
. No I'm wfp ;D