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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: PurefectWindowCleaning on February 10, 2013, 09:51:32 pm
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Couple pictures of my employee and me on first job using CLX pole.
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Must also say, top service from Alex Gardiner and his team.
Looking forward to tomorrow using mixed sill brush and properlly appreicating the weight 8)
Also, what would you charge for this 3 story house? I charged £12 for this one but would have been £15 hadnt I known her from school.
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Chargeing £12 for simular at present,all new 3 storey houses i pick up will be at £15 per clean 4 weekly,£20 per clean 8 weekly. Find these houses a doddle do up to 6 an hour on maintance cleans.First cleans usually take me about 30 mins though,really fussy on first cleans makes life easy when it comes to the maintance cleans.
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its like a banana! ;D i have a 22ft clx but carbon fibre all the way for anything higher otherwise your pole looks like that :o
glad your enjoying it though james :)
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Chargeing £12 for simular at present,all new 3 storey houses i pick up will be at £15 per clean 4 weekly,£20 per clean 8 weekly. Find these houses a doddle do up to 6 an hour on maintance cleans.First cleans usually take me about 30 mins though,really fussy on first cleans makes life easy when it comes to the maintance cleans.
So your doing £90 per hour.....you've just join the club!!!!
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i would say £12.00 seems ok
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I'm only charging about 8-10 for jobs like this
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its like a banana! ;D i have a 22ft clx but carbon fibre all the way for anything higher otherwise your pole looks like that :o
glad your enjoying it though james :)
There is a unger sill brush on it mind ;D
Tomorrow it'll wont bend an inch... hopefully ;)
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Chargeing £12 for simular at present,all new 3 storey houses i pick up will be at £15 per clean 4 weekly,£20 per clean 8 weekly. Find these houses a doddle do up to 6 an hour on maintance cleans.First cleans usually take me about 30 mins though,really fussy on first cleans makes life easy when it comes to the maintance cleans.
So your doing £90 per hour.....you've just join the club!!!!
£720 a day is stuck in the 90's you want to put your prices up mate! ;D
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Chargeing £12 for simular at present,all new 3 storey houses i pick up will be at £15 per clean 4 weekly,£20 per clean 8 weekly. Find these houses a doddle do up to 6 an hour on maintance cleans.First cleans usually take me about 30 mins though,really fussy on first cleans makes life easy when it comes to the maintance cleans.
So your doing £90 per hour.....you've just join the club!!!!
looking at his old posts he does 25 to 40 houses a day,wish i could do that.
However in his area if you charge £10 your a chancer
Also average price is £8 for a 3 bed semi in south wales ;D
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I'm only charging about 8-10 for jobs like this
Sounds more realistic.
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take another pic fully extended with the gardiner brush on when u get it on there :)
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Couple pictures of my employee and me on first job using CLX pole.
Looking forward to tomorrow using mixed sill brush and properlly appreicating the weight 8)
They're certainley great poles James. I'd never dream of looking foreward to putting a sill brush on anything, not that i'm trying to sway you. If you where to try an extreme brush on the end of it then its the next best thing to putting a pole up with no brush on the end, the pole won't bend at all. CLX is certainley my fave pole anyway.
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Do you try and clean the window below?
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Dave0123 - Yeah I will do ;)
Dave Willis - Which ones? I cleaned all of them ( only the top half of the doors around the back)
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i dont see a problem with a slight bend in the pole,if anything you can use this too an advantage,over connys etc and you can use the whip effect to lessen the strain on the body...just imo :D
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when you can afford it buy an SLX 25FT with carbon gooseneck and extreme brush.itll blow you into the stratosphere when it comes to wfp cleaning.
the clx is great for a budget pole but full carbon SLX is the next step up as its even less strain on shoulders and arms.
glad you finally got rid of that big heavy pole james? ;D ;D ;D ;D
enjoy your CLX mate
best wishes
dazmond
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when you can afford it buy an SLX 25FT with carbon gooseneck and extreme brush.itll blow you into the stratosphere when it comes to wfp cleaning.
the clx is great for a budget pole but full carbon SLX is the next step up as its even less strain on shoulders and arms.
glad you finally got rid of that big heavy pole james? ;D ;D ;D ;D
enjoy your CLX mate
best wishes
dazmond
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£5 up here,assuming no side windows,
clean front door and top half of back window.
25'slx with mm extreme brush.Those sill brushes only last a few weeks,extreme lasted me over 4 months which im very happy with for price,best brush ive used but put new one on pole on saturday and broke my swivell :(
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I've the clx27 also (2+ years)
Happy using it all day on jobs like that, I have a smax40 also but prefer using the clx. Sure it flexes and maybe heavier but it feels more robust and I feel more confident being that bit heavier handed with it and I can work at a fast pace. I've replaced 2 clamps and all the barrel nuts and had to patch up a couple of worn sections with resin but its still going strong. I will buy another when I need to, why spend more ? but agree anything higher and fully carbon is the way to go ;)
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i dont see a problem with a slight bend in the pole,if anything you can use this too an advantage,over connys etc and you can use the whip effect to lessen the strain on the body...just imo
I would not use a pole that bent like that mate. As cleancare said, its like a banana.
Maybe keep that pole for ground and 1st floor only. Yes you had the big brush on, but from what I can see its leaning against the window.
You need carbon fibre for anything above about 20ft imo.
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I have the same pole. I find it fine for alday. Also I would charge 14.00 quid for that job inc conservatory windows
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Chargeing £12 for simular at present,all new 3 storey houses i pick up will be at £15 per clean 4 weekly,£20 per clean 8 weekly. Find these houses a doddle do up to 6 an hour on maintance cleans.First cleans usually take me about 30 mins though,really fussy on first cleans makes life easy when it comes to the maintance cleans.
So your doing £90 per hour.....you've just join the club!!!!
£720 a day is stuck in the 90's you want to put your prices up mate! ;D
only got 6 houses like those on 2 of my rounds.12 in total .I dont earn anywhere near £720 a day.
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currently using pheonix pro 22,the facelift carbon composite equiveilent of the clx.if clx is as rigid as the pheonix pro range
that bend in pole would be down to the weight of the brush.
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The weight of the brush can't possibly be causing it to bend when the brush is resting on the glass
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The reason that this pole has a noticeable bend in it in the 2nd photo (not so much in the first) is because of the inward pressure that the operator is putting on it to get the brush to move up the window. Because there is a heavier brush on the end and also because the brush is a flocked Vikan which 'grips' the glass quite well, more pressure is needed to move the brush upwards.
Looking at photo 2 the operator is standing about 15-18ft away from the building and quite a lot of the force used is being translated into lateral force on the pole itself. The first photo does not show this as the operator is either not pushing upwards in the photo or is slightly closer to the building hence creating less of angle for the lateral forces to work on the pole.
If the pole was just rested against the building there would appear to be very little bend in it. However the CLX27 is far more flexible than a full carbon pole and it is on these extreme angle situations that a full carbon fibre pole really pays off with more of the energy used to move the pole and brush against the glass being translated into movement on the window.
The CLX27 is one of our best selling poles because of the height/weight that it offers in the price range and I do understand why. However it is probably the one pole in our range that I would not work with as it is too much of a compromise for me. I would go for an SLX25 or SLX30 instead as the difference in handling and use is quite noticeable.
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So much better today using the CLX with my medium mixed sill brush.
I have got a slight issue tho, and that is that the jets are further apart, which made rinsing today awkward. Also, the jets spray out the water thiner, which was making me paranoid today that they are not gonna dry properly. But I loved the weight of it. It will just take some getting used to as Ive used that unger one for so long.