Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Dora Jarr on December 13, 2012, 04:50:43 pm
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Mark this: you can have all the fancy kit to heat your van and water, but if you ain't warm, you stand a good chance of having a stroke or heart attack if you push it too far in the cold. All the thermals/gloves etc won't help when you're breathing in freezing air.
If you are in any doubt about your physical ability, don't go out there. Especially if you're an old git, and especially if you are an old git with circulation issues.
I think it's a matter of time before we hear of windows dying from being in the cold, not because they was on a ladder.
Think I'm wrong?
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Man up i used to work in -20
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Plunging in an ice bath yes, just going out properly dressed for the weather no. If you are that fragile, you shouldn't be going out, let alone working, really! :-\
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you'd be far worse off going out in this weather and not working. bit of a silly post really
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Why would you be worse off? 'Cos you don't get paid? Stuff that, mate.
In five years time, the stats will be death from cold, not death from ladder falls.
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Why would you be worse off? 'Cos you don't get paid? Stuff that, mate.
In five years time, the stats will be death from cold, not death from ladder falls.
Because most people use poles
5 years time we wont be having very cold winters
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think youve misunderstood me. worse off as in just stood there outside not working. there would be a far greater chance of you dying if you just stood there then doing hard physical work.
we live i england, not Russia. it doesnt get very cold here at all. breathing in cold air is not going to give you a heart attack. next thing you'll be warning us to look left and right before we cross the road
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Its only - 5 with no wind...hardly the Arctic Circle...
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Why would you be worse off? 'Cos you don't get paid? Stuff that, mate.
In five years time, the stats will be death from cold, not death from ladder falls.
Because most people use poles
5 years time we wont be having very cold winters
we're actually getting colder winters ;)
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Its only - 5 with no wind...hardly the Arctic Circle...
+1 ;D
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I better have 3 months off then I got a defibrillator implanted .
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I haven't been cold once this week ??? Just wear the right clothes.
I did find half a dozen dead postmen stuck to the pavements though.
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Man up i used to work in -20
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Someone is going to die. Full stop.
You can say "it's a matter of time before we hear of windows dying from being in the cold" but in 6 months time it'll be "it's a matter of time before we hear of windows dying from being in out in the hot all day"
People die.
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I agree about the thickening blood issue but surely its like saying..when its a heatwave dont wear jumpers! If its cold stick an extra layer on, a hat and gloves too. can anything be more obvious ?
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I used to cycle to school for 35 minutes through the fields of the Netherlands every day during winter. Very often way below zero, with winds to match. It was so cold my hair was frozen by the time I got to school and used to de-thaw over my desk. Everyone used to cycle everywhere in the cold, young and old. Lets not start with the ice skating when not being able to see 5 meters in front of you through a snow storm. Lets not think about the new years dip in the sea at Scheveningen ( I wasn't that mad ) I think I can cope with some so called winter weather most of the UK gets. :D
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Good grief! People are giving this way too much thought! Some Brits are trekking across the whole of Antarctica soon. Temps will be -70 degrees C! THEY will be breathing in the cold air for weeks, not us at -5 for perhaps 3 hours a day!
Maybe the whole skiing industry better close down for fear of people dying! :P ;D
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Mark this: you can have all the fancy kit to heat your van and water, but if you ain't warm, you stand a good chance of having a stroke or heart attack if you push it too far in the cold. All the thermals/gloves etc won't help when you're breathing in freezing air.
If you are in any doubt about your physical ability, don't go out there. Especially if you're an old git, and especially if you are an old git with circulation issues.
I think it's a matter of time before we hear of windows dying from being in the cold, not because they was on a ladder.
Think I'm wrong?
what about summer will i die of heat stroke :P
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Mark this: you can have all the fancy kit to heat your van and water, but if you ain't warm, you stand a good chance of having a stroke or heart attack if you push it too far in the cold. All the thermals/gloves etc won't help when you're breathing in freezing air.
If you are in any doubt about your physical ability, don't go out there. Especially if you're an old git, and especially if you are an old git with circulation issues.
I think it's a matter of time before we hear of windows dying from being in the cold, not because they was on a ladder.
Think I'm wrong?
what about summer will i die of heat stroke :P
Some here will say yes, but not me. ;D
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did you know a cause of death in very cold climates is often heat stroke?
remember to strip layers as you get hotter while working ;)
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Didn't you know all window cleaners are p heads so no chance of thick blood lol ;D
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did you know a cause of death in very cold climates is often heat stroke?
remember to strip layers as you get hotter while working ;)
i thought you scots only where a t shirt in this weather ;D
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did you know a cause of death in very cold climates is often heat stroke?
remember to strip layers as you get hotter while working ;)
i thought you scots only where a t shirt in this weather ;D
not this scot, I have been in longjohns and thermal vests since october ;D
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Your'e all laughing now....
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wrap up warm and wear a warm hat. Most body heat loss (the main cause of thickening blood), is through the head.
No it isn't. We lose heat equally from all parts of the body.The parts that aren't covered up lose it quicker. So if you had a hat on and no gloves you would lose heat quicker from your hands. ;)