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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Klean07 on January 16, 2013, 05:55:16 pm

Title: Trad cleaners read this?
Post by: Klean07 on January 16, 2013, 05:55:16 pm
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/emergency-services/2013/01/14/man-killed-in-fall-from-kidderminster-roof/



Title: Re: Trad cleaners read this?
Post by: Klean07 on January 16, 2013, 06:10:49 pm
We've all stood on roofs like this in our trad days but as you get older or are wfp you realise life is too short to take unessersary risks! ???
Title: Re: Trad cleaners read this?
Post by: gavinb on January 16, 2013, 06:22:38 pm
But he wasn't even cleaning windows , he was taking down decorations !!
Title: Re: Trad cleaners read this?
Post by: Ian Lancaster on January 16, 2013, 06:51:00 pm
Tragic for the mans family. 

His wife expressed concern because the porch roof was 'slippery', but he still went up there.  I guess it was a pitched roof.

In the wrong hands ladders are dangerous, many times I've seen people using ladders in unsafe ways especially at this time of year putting up and taking down decorations but I'm loath to interfere and get told to mind my own business!

Unfortunately this will become part of the annual statistics and impact on everyone who uses a ladder properly.
Title: Re: Trad cleaners read this?
Post by: bumper on January 16, 2013, 07:00:04 pm
Leave ladder work to the professionals and fishermen.
Title: Re: Trad cleaners read this?
Post by: Klean07 on January 18, 2013, 01:21:45 pm
Theres a trad guy that comes down our street thinks hes Superman walking all over sloping roofs etc!
Title: Re: Trad cleaners read this?
Post by: gavinb on January 18, 2013, 01:39:56 pm
Quote from: Klean07 on January 18, 2013, 01:21:45 pm
Theres a trad guy that comes down our street thinks hes Superman walking all over sloping roofs etc!

They idiots , I seen 2 last week clambering all over a roof to clean .
For the sake of a fiver and they even laughed at me when they seen me using the wfp for the tops .

Had 1 guy say to me before " whats wrong you scared of using a ladder "
Title: Re: Trad cleaners read this?
Post by: jon lorentsen on January 18, 2013, 07:00:33 pm
I had that where your ladder you can't be a proper wc' just laugh, pick up six jobs because their old cleaner kept breaking tiles when he walked on them to reach windows. Real shame someone lost their life taking down decorations from their house
Title: Re: Trad cleaners read this?
Post by: kikjason on January 18, 2013, 08:00:03 pm
What has that got to do with trad cleaners?
Title: Re: Trad cleaners read this?
Post by: ben M on January 18, 2013, 08:20:30 pm
Quote from: kikjason on January 18, 2013, 08:00:03 pm
What has that got to do with trad cleaners?
good point, he wasn't a window cleaner!
Title: Re: Trad cleaners read this?
Post by: Richard60 on January 18, 2013, 08:27:31 pm
the guys are just telling u about the risks in using ladder
s .weather its window cleaning .or taking down decorations etc .that is why we went wfp .to cut down on the risks of window cleaning .we are not saying wfp is 100% safe .but we think it is safer than ladders .life is to short .be safe out there . think of your safety .because your custies wont .
Title: Re: Trad cleaners read this?
Post by: ben M on January 18, 2013, 08:31:06 pm
Quote from: Richard60 on January 18, 2013, 08:27:31 pm
the guys are just telling u about the risks in using ladder
s .weather its window cleaning .or taking down decorations etc .that is why we went wfp .to cut down on the risks of window cleaning .we are not saying wfp is 100% safe .but we think it is safer than ladders .life is to short .be safe out there . think of your safety .because your custies wont .
he didn't fell from his ladder??????
nothing to do with window cleaning or ladder!
Title: Re: Trad cleaners read this?
Post by: ronnie paton on January 18, 2013, 08:41:06 pm
how did he get on the roof....fly
Title: Re: Trad cleaners read this?
Post by: ben M on January 18, 2013, 09:56:15 pm
Quote from: ronnie paton on January 18, 2013, 08:41:06 pm
how did he get on the roof....fly
and?
Title: Re: Trad cleaners read this?
Post by: Craggs on January 18, 2013, 10:27:26 pm
ladders are safe if you're sensible

I say 50% of my work is done using ladders and not once I had accident, I never go higher than 2 story anyway.