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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: David Healey on May 08, 2013, 04:39:24 pm
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Hi,
I'm just looking for some feedback on members' opinions/experience about the use of ladders -vs- a telescopic pole/water fed system to clean domestic properties when it comes to:
1. Employee safety
2. The Work at Height Regulations and "reasonable practicability"
3. Alternatives to using ladders
All comments greatly received...
Thanks
David
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There's no reason to use ladders for domestic work anymore - WFP is much safer, quicker, more profitable.
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> David Healey
Try the bumped "Why do they continue trad?" thread ... ;)
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wfp for most domestic work for me.the only acception is sometimes i have to go over a flat roof to access the backs with a ladder but they are very few and far between.i also use mop and squeegee on some ground floor windows if access is awkward or the windows are in poor condition(dodgy rubber seals or old wooden windows with flakey paint).
WFP is the safest method for upper windows and you can clean 99.9% of the awkward windows as well with a pole system.
regards
dazmond
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What is your reason for asking?
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i can feel the tension already... who will be the first to spark an argument ;D
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david Healey , you know in your heart that Trad is best AS LONG AS YOU ARE FIT AS A FIDDLE
thats the riser, it all hinges on "fit for purpose" , nobody unfit or big should entertain cleaning windows by the ladder method
wfp is absolutely suited to folk with worn bodies and/or excess weight issues /vertigo and i heartily say WFP is the very best in that scenario
why you are posting your question leads me to think you are wanting to stir things on the forum
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david Healey , you know in your heart that Trad is best AS LONG AS YOU ARE FIT AS A FIDDLE
thats the riser, it all hinges on "fit for purpose" , nobody unfit or big should entertain cleaning windows by the ladder method
wfp is absolutely suited to folk with worn bodies and/or excess weight issues /vertigo and i heartily say WFP is the very best in that scenario
why you are posting your question leads me to think you are wanting to stir things on the forum
he might be looking to set up a business in the window cleaning industry im guessing?
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they will always be a place for ladder work example flat roofs , were wfp does not work well leaks inside window , customer does not like it , to much hard work to drag pipe for one house , proberly more .
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Anyway David who are you playing for these days . You were crap when you were at Leeds .
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All you need to know :
http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=170006.0
And a few hundred other examples, dead, disabled, quadriplegics etc etc. No brainer really.
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All you need to know :
http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=170006.0
Thanks Tim, I was just about to do this ;)
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http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=161732.0