Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: macleod on October 30, 2005, 05:10:15 pm
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hi everyone... im a message board virgin so be gentle
two bits of advice i was given by a window cleaner when i first started 1st jan 2005.
firstly) as you get better work (easier, more money etc) drop the harder work (infrequent, less profitable, time-consuming, bad payers etc). its scary at first, but really worth it.
secondly get through winter and window cleaning can be the best job you have ever had!
both true... :)
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when i first started 1st jan 2005.
youve not got through winter yet.
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It's good advice you've reminded us of macleod.
And if you started on Jan 1st you've been through a winter really. However, winters vary greatly so if you haven't ordered your gloves do it now!
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It's not the Winters, it's the burning hot Summers that bother me!
There's not much worse than being up a ladder, all sweaty, tired and hot, with the sun burning the backs of your legs and kneck.
Mountain climbers say there's no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong type of clothing.
I prefer the extreme cold to the extreme heat.
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Tosh
you wont have that ladder problem next summer or have you forgot you have a wfp now
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Tosh
you wont have that ladder problem next summer or have you forgot you have a wfp now
You've just made me aware of another benefit of WFP.. Instant shower on a baking hot day. Just poit the brush in the right direction and stand underneath.
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Tosh
you wont have that ladder problem next summer or have you forgot you have a wfp now
David,
I'm still water fed poling with a vengance.
I'm just saying there's nothing worse than the heat of Summer. In Winter you can add more clothing. In Summer you can only remove so much; and still you're boiling hot.
I hope using a WFP is easier in the heat than using ladders.
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Tosh wfp is also an instant cold shower ;D
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In Summer you can only remove so much;
How much, Im coming to Chepstow next summer just to take a look :P
Sarah
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In Summer you can only remove so much;
How much, Im coming to Chepstow next summer just to take a look :P
Sarah
Sarah - you can come and see me if you like - however Tosh turns heads - I only turn stomachs!
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LOL
Note in my diary already Malc ;D
Sarah
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The thing about clothing:
Mountain climbers say there's no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong type of clothing.
During the start of summer all the outdoor shops have sales of winter clothing and each year I spent about £300 on clothing for the next winter. Each winter the cold or the wet doesn't bother me at all except in that I prefer burning hot sunshine.
Each winter the other 2 I work with moan about the cold and the wet. Each winter they both say that for next winter they'll have proper clothing.
This year will be a repeat of previous years. I don't get it as who wants to be cold and wet while working outside?
Cheers
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If the forecasters are right, Tosh could well be rueing that statement!
I hate the winters, I love the summers 8)
I love being in shorts and a tee shirt, I hate having layer upon layer clothing on, feet that never quite get warm enough to be comfortable, cheeks and lips that are numb with cold, a nose that never stops running :'(
Apparently the previous 8 winters have given us average temperatures about 3 or 4 degrees above the average, they are saying we will have temperatures that are going to be 3 or 4 BELOW average.....
That is going to mean temperatures up to 8 degrees LOWER than we have had the last 8 winters :o
Now that is a prospect that leaves me cold with dread :-\ (cold....geddit ;D)
Shivering already in anticipation,
Ian
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Its an intersting thread because although we don't get particularly bad winters we don't get a lot of really hot days in summer either.
In America where my mate Jim lives their summers are relentless 100 + every day. Then comes the winter and its 20 degrees below.
How on earth do they make a living ? They must all have skin cancer and no toes.
Has anybody any experience of WC working in really hostile climates
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Has anybody any experience of WC working in really hostile climates
Yeah - the Lawrence Weston Estate in Bristol! ;D
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Come on Malc - cant be as bad as Pill in Newort.
Thieves are scared to venture down there ;D ;D
Sarah
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I clean windows in Pill beleive it or not!
Rod
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Hi Rod,
Bet they pinch your biscuits !!!!!
Sarah
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oops i meant believe :-[
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Biscuits are under lock and key when I cross into no man's land 8)
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Apparently the previous 8 winters have given us average temperatures about 3 or 4 degrees above the average, they are saying we will have temperatures that are going to be 3 or 4 BELOW average.....
That is going to mean temperatures up to 8 degrees LOWER than we have had the last 8 winters :o
Year in, year out, the weather forecasters always say on the run up to Summer or Winter that this one is going to be the 'hottest' or the 'coldest' since 1878 and stuff.
Just how do they really know?
They don't. It's statistical guess work.
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Nah, this time they have used a climate model based on the fact that the weather systems are going to be primarily coming in of the continent and not the atlantic.
The have (apparently) a statistically good chance of getting it right (so say) 66% chance of a siberian special ;D
A 33% chance they will be wrong.
Lets hope they are going to be wrong eh?
Still on for that pint tomorrow tosh?
The fisherman has reopened, we could sample their wares??
Ian
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Nah, this time they have used a climate model based on the fact that the weather systems are going to be primarily coming in of the continent and not the atlantic.
The have (apparently) a statistically good chance of getting it right (so say) 66% chance of a siberian special ;D
A 33% chance they will be wrong.
Lets hope they are going to be wrong eh?
Still on for that pint tomorrow tosh?
The fisherman has reopened, we could sample their wares??
Ian
4.30 pm, Ian!
Apparantly this Summer was forecast to be a heatwave; it wasn't!
I'm sure the weather forecasters just say each year, it'll be the 'hottest Summer', or 'coldest Winter'; just to make them look clever.
Of course they'll get it right one year.
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I thought summer was very good in w/c terms and autumn's been good so far too.
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There's been some odd weather patterns this year similar to one's where we've experienced bad winters in the past.
Also, it's been ages since a really bad winter - over 25 years (for most of us anyway) and the odds are increasing every year for a bad one.
I think it's all hot air and things will be much of 'it never happened' next spring or it will be a real freeze up winter.
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Told my mrs its coming in cold tonight
she replied no its not you can warm it up with your hands ;D
gaza