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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Forrest Wheatey on May 21, 2014, 04:59:26 pm
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Hello guys, the topic says the most. Here is an infographic with a comparison between the WFP and Traditional method, hope this will be interesting for you - http://www.reddit.com/r/cleaning/comments/264ld8/water_fed_poles_vs_traditional_window_cleaning/ (http://www.reddit.com/r/cleaning/comments/264ld8/water_fed_poles_vs_traditional_window_cleaning/)
It's a little survey of around 100 window cleaners from UK. I'd be more than happy if it helped some of you make a choice.
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Also, i'd really appreciate it if you type your own preferences about the matter.
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There is absolutely no comparison between the two, its chalk & cheese!
One method earns you a very good wage, is extremely safe & has superior cleaning results.
The other makes you work like a donkey, earns you a pittance & could very well kill you!
When will people ever take their heads out of their asses and wake up! >:(
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Hang on, I'm just popping out for some popcorn
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Horses for courses bud.
End of the day, we're in business.
Making the most money in the shortest time (for most) is the only constant.
There are pro's & con's if both methods.
Depending on how your list falls dictates which path you take.
To the lads making good money WFPing though, it is a wrong assumption to make thinking all tradders are 'ladder monkeys' & 'doley's', I know some who make a very good living from trad. Same as I know a few dossers poling.
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(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1400691456_images (1).jpg)
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Hang on, I'm just popping out for some popcorn
LOL ;D
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Horses for courses bud.
End of the day, we're in business.
Making the most money in the shortest time (for most) is the only constant.
There are pro's & con's if both methods.
Depending on how your list falls dictates which path you take.
To the lads making good money WFPing though, it is a wrong assumption to make thinking all tradders are 'ladder monkeys' & 'doley's', I know some who make a very good living from trad. Same as I know a few dossers poling.
good post darren.i agree.
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Hang on, I'm just popping out for some popcorn
Already popped mine. And the beer is near :) It wasn't that big of a survey so all foreign opinions are welcomed. If i get them with a brawl, so be it ;D
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I have never done traditional, but i have no opinions that wfp is 'superior', it is just a different way of doing it. Having said that, there is no way i would be working up a ladder for the kind of money tradders work for!. Even if i wanted to, i couldn't work my round traditional, it is too spread out. The travel costs would outweigh the profits.
But at the end of the day, each to there own :)
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Hang on, I'm just popping out for some popcorn
(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1400692999_popcorn_yes.gif)
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my mop and blade do come out and get used nearly every day for certain work but its only the odd windows here and there.
once you get into your stride with wfp there is no going back providing you have a big enough tank. i have 500L of pure to take with me to work every day.perfect size for wfpoling all day for me. ;)
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my mop and blade do come out and get used nearly every day for certain work but its only the odd windows here and there.
once you get into your stride with wfp there is no going back providing you have a big enough tank. i have 500L of pure to take with me to work every day.perfect size for wfpoling all day for me. ;)
+1
I went from a vw caddy with 350 litre tank, to toyota hiace with a 650 tank. Wish I'd done it sooner.
I pole pretty much everything now. Still use pad and blade a bit, but prefer to pole it if possible.
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And this years "resurrections of topics that make Lazerus's pale into insignificance" thread award goes to ...
Drum roll ...
Forrest Wheatey!
Yay!
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Hello guys, the topic says the most. Here is an infographic with a comparison between the WFP and Traditional method, hope this will be interesting for you - http://www.reddit.com/r/cleaning/comments/264ld8/water_fed_poles_vs_traditional_window_cleaning/ (http://www.reddit.com/r/cleaning/comments/264ld8/water_fed_poles_vs_traditional_window_cleaning/)
It's a little survey of around 100 window cleaners from UK. I'd be more than happy if it helped some of you make a choice.
It's only like Family Fortunes, you miserable lot.
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Well myself i prefer to use both depending on the job requirements. I never rush a job cos window cleaning fits in around my main job. I think rushing is a bad business move people pay for a job well done not slap dash. I know time is money in your game but in my game im about quality over time.
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You just can't beat a properly conducted scientific survey with peer reviewed statistics can you.
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You just can't beat a properly conducted scientific survey with peer reviewed statistics can you.
;D ;D ;D
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I have never done traditional, but i have no opinions that wfp is 'superior', it is just a different way of doing it. Having said that, there is no way i would be working up a ladder for the kind of money tradders work for!. Even if i wanted to, i couldn't work my round traditional, it is too spread out. The travel costs would outweigh the profits.
But at the end of the day, each to there own :)
Hi Simon, you mention above you have never done traditional, how do you clean inside windows when requested by
customers ?
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im loosing the will to live with wfp v trad. lock it
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I do wfp tops as I won't use ladders any more (hurt my back a couple of years ago, not going through that again), not happy with results but hopefully it's because I've only just started and am slow.
Trad the bottoms, far more comfortable with trad and feel that I'm quicker and probably not used to the pole but it's knackering my hands, arms, elbows, shoulders already! And I use an SLX with Xtreme brush - maybe I'm just not built to be a windie!
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Clean the whole house with wfp Chris. Your obviously not feeling confident and you need to shake that off!
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There is absolutely no comparison between the two, its chalk & cheese!
One method earns you a very good wage, is extremely safe & has superior cleaning results.
The other makes you work like a donkey, earns you a pittance & could very well kill you!
When will people ever take their heads out of their asses and wake up! >:(
+1
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Great minds and all that Colin... :)
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I do wfp tops as I won't use ladders any more (hurt my back a couple of years ago, not going through that again), not happy with results but hopefully it's because I've only just started and am slow.
Trad the bottoms, far more comfortable with trad and feel that I'm quicker and probably not used to the pole but it's knackering my hands, arms, elbows, shoulders already! And I use an SLX with Xtreme brush - maybe I'm just not built to be a windie!
Assume you're doing domestic 2 storey places?
If you're aching poling that with SLX, I wonder if you're stressing a bit?
It could tense your body up.
It's easy to say and harder to do but, try to relax a little.
It may just help the aches.
Maybe just do your own windows and experiment on hand positions, shoulders, neck, distance from glass etc.
If it is that, once you relax, you'll be able to pole top & bottom.
That'll be quicker overall.