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Title: Small contract
Post by: owen james on January 18, 2006, 06:11:00 pm: i have a contract that needs a new sub contract window cleaner.
About 4hrs work every month on windows approx 9m high (3rd storey).
Coventry area.

window cleaners who are unreliable, do not turn up for a week,do not answer the phone, miss out half the windows, pretend to have done the work and call round for the money need not apply !!!!!!!!!!

reply with contact number if interested so can discuss details.

many thanks.

SORRY NOT SUITABLE FOR WFPoles SORRY
Title: Re: Small contract
Post by: freshstartcleaning on January 18, 2006, 06:20:28 pm: Hi we are a window cleaning firm from leicester and we travel naitionwide doing reach and wash. we have a current offer at the moment which is 15% off any previous invoice. let me know if you are intrested in our services. thanks.
Title: Re: Small contract
Post by: owen james on January 18, 2006, 06:25:14 pm: Just modified original.
WFPoles Sorry,
Title: Re: Small contract
Post by: KJG on January 18, 2006, 06:53:52 pm: What sort of access is required - laddering, ledging, cherry picker or hanging out/harness? Is it outside only or inside too?
Title: Re: Small contract
Post by: TopGlass on January 18, 2006, 07:05:56 pm: Hi,

I'm interested! I used to live in Coventry and now I live in Northampton, only half hour away!

07814 952010

Cheers
Daz
Title: Re: Small contract
Post by: owen james on January 18, 2006, 10:34:58 pm: it is all ladder work its just some of the windows are balconies for flats so a leg over a balcony is required
Title: Re: Small contract
Post by: AuRavelling79 on January 18, 2006, 10:42:19 pm: 9 metres up off a ladder? That's illegal isn't it?

Methinks said offer of work in Coventry needs to be "sent to Coventry"!
Title: Re: Small contract
Post by: rosskesava on January 18, 2006, 10:56:09 pm: Yup. Over 4m needs some method of securing the ladder at the base.

Upto 9m is legal though with that condition.

Climbing from a ladder at 9m over a balcony is certainly not. And climbing back onto the ladder with no fall arrest stuff certainly is definately a big NOT.

In terms of risk, balconies are not meant to be climbed over. They are meant to stop people falling.

Having said that, leg over balconies - we've all done that. ::) .. but in terms of the law....

Cheers
Title: Re: Small contract
Post by: owen james on January 18, 2006, 11:02:45 pm: my insurance informed me anything over 4m was a seperate insurance and not illegal.
9m is my estimate it is 3rd storey.
im hoping whoever takes contract has all the necessaries

is the top of a 1st floor house window over 4m ???
Title: Re: Small contract
Post by: Grafters Cleaning Services on January 18, 2006, 11:27:46 pm: 3 storys high.......hmmm

sounds like a job for wfp or cherry picker

ladders? NO WAY
Title: Re: Small contract
Post by: rosskesava on January 18, 2006, 11:31:15 pm: Dunno.

I have a gizmo from B & Q that I point and it give the distance. Cost £30 quid but the problem is that a genuine mistake can happen as to the height.

The law has become somewhat tricky of late. My rule is now that unless we do it ourselves then forget it.

It limits our earnings but there again ....

Best be safe than sorry.
Title: Re: Small contract
Post by: Central Window Cleaners on January 19, 2006, 02:30:19 pm: Hi, where abouts in the Coventry area is the work, I maybe interested but would need to take a look first. Drop me an email at enquires@centralwindowcleaners.co.uk