Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: combat1 on January 07, 2015, 06:14:00 pm
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I use wfp for the upper house and trad the bottoms, was wondering what everyone else does.
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same here still get ladder out for some houses but changing most of those to wfp throughout year
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pole the whole house.
tradding bottoms only saves water but costs time (for me it would anyway)
get a bigger tank if it doesn't last you the day currently
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i pole the lot un less its quicker to trad not often tho usly wfp faster
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come on!
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pole the whole house.
tradding bottoms only saves water but costs time (for me it would anyway)
get a bigger tank if it doesn't last you the day currently
Ditto
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We wfp everything, even shop fronts. Trad gear is only used for inside work.
Spoke to a guy the other day said he blades the bottoms because if not it's too quick. How bonkers is that? I don't see why anyone should apologise for being able to do a job fast, as long as the standard of work is high we should feel free to be as quick as we like.
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Don't see the point in mixing both. Trad a bungalow maybe, but trad downstairs and wfp upstairs...WHAT :o
Just WFP or TRAD ..you pick and stick to it.
On the note of doing it too quick. Did a custy other day. My 2nd clean with him. Hes a bit of a dick. Fussy as hell. He said his last windy did him and next door trade in 5 mins. He said longer than I did his by pole lmao. He wanted his moneys worth for his £10. Only took me 10 mins. When custy isn't in I feel I can rush, but when they are watching, I scrub away lol
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Shops by hand and front doors that are not PVC,I cannot see the point in tops only it's just a case of no confidence in the system. When I first went waterfed I was paranoid they were not clean enough but years on I now have the ability to know if there done right. You will only ever see the true speed of the pole when you do the whole job with it unless your doing awkward small jobs no offence intended there either if Chumbuckets watching lol
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Lol yeah I have some used to take hour and a half by hand now get done in half an hour poled and I find that a very accurate comparison. You should be doing most jobs 2 thirds quicker with the pole over trad,I know a WC has someone he pays to trad downstairs and wipe the sills lol,now if that ain't a waste of money I don't know,I first started with the pole I poled upstairs and my employee did bottoms trad I did all tops and 2 sides on the bottoms before he did his 2 sides downstairs.
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I like wiping the sills downstairs with a cloth saves water
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If anyone seriously wanted to save water they wouldn't be waterfed lol,I take it you mean you can't carry enough.its worth trying to get a vehicle so you can you will soon be earning more money. I find doing anything by hand makes me feel like I'm being held up
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No got a vw T5 highline uprated to 3200 payload
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No got a vw T5 highline uprated to 3200 payload
3200 payload?
Must be difficult to reverse your HGV in the culdesacs. ;D
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Not a case of confidence just not got van at moment . Was of long term sick that took up most of savings when came back to work some hit and run idiot wrote van off so brought car to pull caravan and another van out of insurance money van turned out to be death trap so scapped it maybe another van later in year
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not much point in having a wfp set up then using trad
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Where is the third option: "I've spend lots of money on a WFP system but screw it I'm only going to use it on 50% of my work because of the results of a poll on CIU"
;D ;D
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Obviously if you ve got enough water wfp the lot.if you've been trad for a long time though (17yrs in my case).I tradded a lot of ground floors when i first started using wfp.still do some in tight spaces but not much now.
I've got a few commercial jobs this morning that I priced up at £30 an hour (£60 each job) and they used to take me 4 hours trad.now these 2 jobs take me less than 2 hrs wfp
4hrs £120 trad
2hrs £120 wfp
So I doubled my hourly rate on these 2 jobs.
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Sorry it was late dazmond,
gross weight 3200 so I guess payload is around 1500 way more than I ever need
But the parking sensors make the HGV easier to reverse 😊
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ive found when rinsing ledges on bottom with pole brush, you can easilly get lots of gritty dust and muck left in your brush, im going to start to wipe ledges now with a scrim
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ive found when rinsing ledges on bottom with pole brush, you can easilly get lots of gritty dust and muck left in your brush, im going to start to wipe ledges now with a scrim
just run your hand through your brush when you get bits in it with the water flowing.thats what i do. ;)
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whats wrong with tradding bottoms? wfp use isnt just for speed, it maybe for safety reasons for some people. and to say its 2/3 quicker than trad, well that is debatable!
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whats wrong with tradding bottoms? wfp use isnt just for speed, it maybe for safety reasons for some people. and to say its 2/3 quicker than trad, well that is debatable!
Ooh-that hasn't been debated for days now.
Let's start that again
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whats wrong with tradding bottoms? wfp use isnt just for speed, it maybe for safety reasons for some people. and to say its 2/3 quicker than trad, well that is debatable!
Ooh-that hasn't been debated for days now.
Let's start that again
;D
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whats wrong with tradding bottoms? wfp use isnt just for speed, it maybe for safety reasons for some people. and to say its 2/3 quicker than trad, well that is debatable!
carp ;D
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Oh well at least it started a discussion!
At the moment I work with 200 litres out of the back of an estate.
Its worked well but this year is time for a van and more water.