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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Window Lickers on August 13, 2014, 08:33:06 pm
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I had to get up on a flat-roof to do a couple of windows and also a couple of extra roof-lights. Anyway I tugged my pole-hose to get more hose up on to the roof. Unbeknown to me it was wrapped round the foot of the ladder, which subsequently tipped over.
So there I was up on the roof, with no ladder, and working by myself.
So I cleaned the windows and tried to hook the ladder up with the pole, which didn't work. Then tried to lower myself over the roof edge. Problem was my grip slipped and over I went. I was very fortunate as I landed on my heel, which I broke 15 years ago coming off a ladder. Very painful now, my heel, flat of the foot, and feel like I've been run over by a bus.
Could've been worse, so look out kids - accidents happen to the best window cleaners too ;D
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one thing I always do, pull the ladder up onto the flat roof when your up. then you can never get stuck.
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I had to get up on a flat-roof to do a couple of windows and also a couple of extra roof-lights. Anyway I tugged my pole-hose to get more hose up on to the roof. Unbeknown to me it was wrapped round the foot of the ladder, which subsequently tipped over.
So there I was up on the roof, with no ladder, and working by myself.
So I cleaned the windows and tried to hook the ladder up with the pole, which didn't work. Then tried to lower myself over the roof edge. Problem was my grip slipped and over I went. I was very fortunate as I landed on my heel, which I broke 15 years ago coming off a ladder. Very painful now, my heel, flat of the foot, and feel like I've been run over by a bus.
Could've been worse, so look out kids - accidents happen to the best window cleaners too ;D
Ive done exactly this a few months ago Matt!
I managed to hook my ladder up with my pole though.
Was a bit touch and go though as there's no mobile signal at this particular house!
Glad you're ok though
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Wouldn't it be quicker just to trad them?
No messing about carrying hose up a ladder
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Wouldn't it be quicker just to trad them?
No messing about carrying hose up a ladder
not my one...
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bet you come down with a BIG bump ;D
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Glad your ok Matt, reminds of that time your custy locked you in with the electronic gate
Darran
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Glad your ok Matt, reminds of that time your custy locked you in with the electronic gate
Darran
Remember that ;D A week later, he got locked in the public toilet while he went to meet a new contact. 80 quid fine for that one :D
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Did the rawl bolt pull out of the wall then or did you trip over the barrier you erected on the roof ???
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don't use ladder,don't have prob with that....
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don't use ladder,don't have prob with that....
So how would you have got up there maestro? Hoverboard?
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Glad your ok Matt, reminds of that time your custy locked you in with the electronic gate
Darran
I remember that. Still do her place. Julia. Nice arse. :)
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don't use ladder,don't have prob with that....
So how would you have got up there maestro? Hoverboard?
don't use ladder so i don't go,i am lucky enough to choose my work so i don't have a prob with that ;)
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don't use ladder,don't have prob with that....
So how would you have got up there maestro? Hoverboard?
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don't use ladder,don't have prob with that....
So how would you have got up there maestro? Hoverboard?
don't use ladder so i don't go,i am lucky enough to choose my work so i don't have a prob with that ;)
It's not about you, Ben.
Speedy recovery, Matt.
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Glad your ok Matt, reminds of that time your custy locked you in with the electronic gate
Darran
Remember that ;D A week later, he got locked in the public toilet while he went to meet a new contact. 80 quid fine for that one :D
Cozy usually goes for the Tea-boy when he's in town. Failing that he rubs tea-leaves round his privates and sells them on eBay to rich Arab sheiks who have a taste for camel dung and their cousins cousin.
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;D ;D
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don't use ladder,don't have prob with that....
So how would you have got up there maestro? Hoverboard?
don't use ladder so i don't go,i am lucky enough to choose my work so i don't have a prob with that ;)
It's not about you, Ben.
Speedy recovery, Matt.
Cheers Griff. :)
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bet you come down with a BIG bump ;D
You're right it was actually ;D
Time to do some more miles!
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don't use ladder,don't have prob with that....
So how would you have got up there maestro? Hoverboard?
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happy the mod now? if he can show a frog i can show that, he would understand....
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Could've been worse, so look out kids - accidents happen to the best window cleaners too ;D
And they also happen to you! ;D
Hope you're ok!
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lol. Cheer up Monsieur le grenouille.
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My Dad always tells me that 'the quickest way down from off a roof is to close your eyes and walk about'
I now say it to the guys who work for me = I'm getting old :-\
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lol. Cheer up Monsieur le grenouille.
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you mean la grenouille?
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No, I mean le. Stupid language.
;D
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Ben, I think Matt was-innocently- asking if you expected him to hop up on to the roof.
Don't be offended; we wouldn't be.
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lol. Cheer up Monsieur le grenouille.
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you mean la grenouille?
you're welcome Sir Rosbif
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lol. Is that meant to be some sort of an insult
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Ben, I think Matt was-innocently- asking if you expected him to hop up on to the roof.
Don't be offended; we wouldn't be.
It's the feminine Frenchman coming out in him. They're very sensitive those frenchies.
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lol. Is that meant to be some sort of an insult
;D ;D
not at all but when you were born? last night....? ;D
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rosbif
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Sorry, you're English isn't as clear as you might think. Start again. You appear to have lost the plot.
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Sorry, you're English isn't as clear as you might think. Start again. You appear to have lost the plot.
did you leave your brain in your cupboard like most of the window cleaners on here?
Can you read?
English roast beef, stereotypical food of the English.
Compare frog (“French person”), from frog legs, corresponding English term for French, likewise based on food.
rosbif (plural rosbifs)
(humorous) An English person (as viewed by the French)
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do you need another lesson? ;)
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;D ;D
(http://www.carpfishinginfrance.net/phdi/p1.nsf/imgpages/carp_NEWFISHEREMAN.gif/$file/NEWFISHEREMAN.gif)
G'night Kermit.
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good night Bife, before you go to bed, don't forget to learn your lesson ;D
Several European slang terms for the English are apparently derived from the association of the English (and the British more generally) with eating roast beef.
The original explanation of the French term rosbif is that it referred to the English tradition of cooking roast beef,[19] and especially to the song The Roast Beef of Old England.[20] Interestingly, it is reputed that Rosbeauf is from the Middle Ages when the King of France sent his Court Chefs to England to learn how to 'roast the beef', as the English were the experts. Hence, 'les rosbif'.
In Portugal, the term bife (literally meaning steak, but sounding like beef) is used as a slang term to refer to the English.[21] There is a feminine form, bifa, mainly used to refer to English female tourists[citation needed].
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did you leave your brain in your cupboard like most of the window cleaners on here?
Are you more intelligent than most window cleaners on here, Ben?
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[did you leave your brain in your cupboard like most of the window cleaners on here?
Are you more intelligent than most window cleaners on here, Ben?
more intelligent than a window cleaner is not difficult!
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[did you leave your brain in your cupboard like most of the window cleaners on here?
Are you more intelligent than most window cleaners on here, Ben?
more intelligent than a window cleaner is not difficult!
Even for another window cleaner?
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Inselaffe, (Island monkey) is what ze Gurmuns call the Brits. Really nasty innit. ::)roll
They bombed our chippy in the war you know. >:(
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happy the mod now? if he can show a frog i can show that, he would understand....
(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1407967359_images.jpg)
Yes, mate, very happy, thank you.
Do you French get taught about the Battle of Agincourt where British archers whopped a numerically superior French force? Prior to the Battle, the French threatened to hack the string-fingers off from every British archer they caught, but unfortunately the stupid French ended up getting slaughtered by them instead.
After the battle, the British archers showed their French prisoners their intact string fingers, like this (not to be confused with the 'Saturday night fingers'):
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But you probably didn't know that. They say 'history is written by the winners', which explains all the blank pages in French history books.
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You made me laugh, again, Tosh. You're getting funny.......for a window cleaner ;D.
I don't care where Ben comes from but said in the style of Norman Stanley Fletcher 'he's a charmless, Gallic nerk'.
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ive had ladders blow over in the wind when ive been on a flat roof leaving me stranded!ive also fell off twice and landed on my heels when ladders gave way and slipped. ::)roll
luckily i was ok apart from sore heels and a sore back(second time i fell off).
when i was stranded on the flat roof i lowered myself over the edge so i was hanging by my fingertips so the drop wasnt very high((im 6ft 2in) and let go making sure i landed on my toes not on my heels.
hope you ve not done any serious damage to your heel matt.sometimes you dont know how bad it is until a few days have passed.
i hope you "heel" soon.take it easy mate.
best wishes
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I don't care where Ben comes from but said in the style of Norman Stanley Fletcher 'he's a charmless Gallic nerk'.
He'll be back shortly doing this to his keyboard:
(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1408001930_bashing keyboard.gif)
Ruddy Frenchies eh!
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I don't care where Ben comes from but said in the style of Norman Stanley Fletcher 'he's a charmless Gallic nerk'.
He'll be back shortly doing this to his keyboard:
(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1408001930_bashing keyboard.gif)
Ruddy Frenchies eh!
hahaha!