Clean It Up

UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Richard Neal on October 31, 2011, 09:21:43 pm

Title: Anyone cleaning Colchester High Street this Morning?
Post by: Richard Neal on October 31, 2011, 09:21:43 pm
I was in the high street today doing a shopfront when i noticed a wfp 3 storeys up being used near the town hall, when id finished i went to have a look and this windy was parked outside the town hall then had the hose snaking down the pavement with him cleaning away with the public all around him, no signs, cones nothing, it all looked very dodgey!!
Title: Re: Anyone cleaning Colchester High Street this Morning?
Post by: bobby p on October 31, 2011, 09:28:29 pm
what van had he?  and what colour

i saw a grey hair flash harry at the bottom of the high street last winter  leave an real icey  mess on the hill pavement  .    white van ,newish
Title: Re: Anyone cleaning Colchester High Street this Morning?
Post by: stuart mc on October 31, 2011, 09:38:29 pm
stop fretting on what others do, just make sure you do it right ;) is molly malones still at the roundabout
Title: Re: Anyone cleaning Colchester High Street this Morning?
Post by: Richard Neal on October 31, 2011, 10:07:03 pm
he had a white connect  and using a green unger looking pole



which roundabout Stu?
Title: Re: Anyone cleaning Colchester High Street this Morning?
Post by: stuart mc on October 31, 2011, 10:09:36 pm
big one going up to the army camps, mersey rd If i remember right, it was a right tramps hangout in 97, good for a lock in though
Title: Re: Anyone cleaning Colchester High Street this Morning?
Post by: Richard Neal on October 31, 2011, 10:14:08 pm
im sure its there still near the takeaway and the town train station, never been there myself we used to go to the Hippodrome in the high street but thats all changed , sadly the 90's were a long time ago now  >:(
Title: Re: Anyone cleaning Colchester High Street this Morning?
Post by: BORBRYCE on October 31, 2011, 10:20:31 pm
I have no cones or sign's either. What will happen if they fall over the cone or sign then? Seriously, have you ever gave this any thought? You put the thing there and they fell over it because they were not watching where they were going as we all do at times. So do we put out signs to warn of our sign's to warn of our sign's to warn of our other sign's?
Title: Re: Anyone cleaning Colchester High Street this Morning?
Post by: stuart mc on October 31, 2011, 10:23:21 pm
yes the hippodrome was the main one for me to, well till my mrs moved down ;D
Title: Re: Anyone cleaning Colchester High Street this Morning?
Post by: stuart mc on October 31, 2011, 10:33:06 pm
I have no cones or sign's either. What will happen if they fall over the cone or sign then? Seriously, have you ever gave this any thought? You put the thing there and they fell over it because they were not watching where they were going as we all do at times. So do we put out signs to warn of our sign's to warn of our sign's to warn of our other sign's?

same here ronnie, I have two cones that very rarely leave the van, but knowing colchester high st I would not wfp anything after 7am anyway
Title: Re: Anyone cleaning Colchester High Street this Morning?
Post by: bobby p on October 31, 2011, 10:39:45 pm
such a busy place . i read somewhere that the elderly" fall hard and fast " and i believe they do.
Title: Re: Anyone cleaning Colchester High Street this Morning?
Post by: Richard Neal on October 31, 2011, 11:03:29 pm
i trad my work on the high street and have to watch the numptys bumping into me, i wouldnt wfp down there during the day but each to there own, i know what you mean about cones and signs as well, the general public especially when out shopping seem to be in a world of their own.
Title: Re: Anyone cleaning Colchester High Street this Morning?
Post by: Craig Trevain on November 01, 2011, 08:52:02 am
Lots of cones here at our trade counter for the Colchester chaps;)
Title: Re: Anyone cleaning Colchester High Street this Morning?
Post by: C.C.S. on November 01, 2011, 09:52:40 am
I was in the high street today doing a shopfront when i noticed a wfp 3 storeys up being used near the town hall, when id finished i went to have a look and this windy was parked outside the town hall then had the hose snaking down the pavement with him cleaning away with the public all around him, no signs, cones nothing, it all looked very dodgey!!
i saw the van myself yesterday morning.transit connect with xline system(the back doors were open) unsigned.i don't think he's local as i haven't seen him around.it was about 8.30 am i think .
Title: Re: Anyone cleaning Colchester High Street this Morning?
Post by: Richard Neal on November 01, 2011, 09:11:33 pm
I was in the high street today doing a shopfront when i noticed a wfp 3 storeys up being used near the town hall, when id finished i went to have a look and this windy was parked outside the town hall then had the hose snaking down the pavement with him cleaning away with the public all around him, no signs, cones nothing, it all looked very dodgey!!
i saw the van myself yesterday morning.transit connect with xline system(the back doors were open) unsigned.i don't think he's local as i haven't seen him around.it was about 8.30 am i think .

Thats him, he was still there at 10 and looked like he still had loads to do  :o
Title: Re: Anyone cleaning Colchester High Street this Morning?
Post by: AS Window Cleaning on November 01, 2011, 10:31:12 pm
Ive had customers so nearly trip over my bucket back in the trad days. 

I have a couple of bollards, these days you have to be seen to be warning the public, so i feel better with some cones out, esp in public places.  Cant be too careful, and its all about being seen to be doing the right thing!