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Title: Too windy for WFP??
Post by: Clearview on January 27, 2016, 09:23:32 am
Its pretty windy out there today but no rain. Should be working but not sure i'll be able to control the brush & water jet. Was just wondering how you guys get on in these conditions. How windy is too windy?
Title: Re: Too windy for WFP??
Post by: SeanK on January 27, 2016, 09:40:11 am
I was getting 40 to 50 mile an hour gusts on Monday and yesterday, the water was blowing back onto the glass from the walls and sills plus I don't like leaving beads of water on rubber seals and so on which I was finding impossible not to do because of fighting
to control the brush, so for me that was too much wind.
Title: Re: Too windy for WFP??
Post by: Clearview on January 27, 2016, 09:50:07 am
I had to pack it in yesterday lunchtime as well. Blowing a gale & horizontal rain... These lost days ae starting to add up though, my bank manager will be on the phone if im not careful  ;D
Title: Re: Too windy for WFP??
Post by: deeege on January 27, 2016, 10:54:47 am
Internal build cleans on 45 apartments this week, will be finished at lunchtime today, priced for the full week x2 men. Not all bad these build cleans.
Title: Re: Too windy for WFP??
Post by: Cookie on January 27, 2016, 11:33:50 am
I think I remember reading somewhere that the recommendation is not to use WFP in winds of over 35mph.
Title: Re: Too windy for WFP??
Post by: S.A.J on January 27, 2016, 02:45:34 pm
Luckily no wind down here today as this might have been a tad tricky  ;D

Which it was with no wind  :o

(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1453905863_image.jpeg)
Title: Re: Too windy for WFP??
Post by: Walter Mitty on January 27, 2016, 02:54:32 pm
Luckily no wind down here today as this might have been a tad tricky  ;D

Which it was with no wind  :o

(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1453905863_image.jpeg)

It's blown the building over sideways.
Title: Re: Too windy for WFP??
Post by: Clearview on January 27, 2016, 05:03:32 pm
 ;D
Title: Re: Too windy for WFP??
Post by: Smurf on January 27, 2016, 11:01:56 pm
Internal build cleans on 45 apartments this week, will be finished at lunchtime today, priced for the full week x2 men. Not all bad these build cleans.

Those are the short of jobs that come in very handy when the weather is crap for sure.
Title: Re: Too windy for WFP??
Post by: dazmond on January 29, 2016, 08:37:54 am
its bad out there today.....60-70 mph gusts........i think ill leave it for another hour or so! ;D
Title: Re: Too windy for WFP??
Post by: JSMC on January 29, 2016, 09:05:37 am
Shop fronts for me today. Was out earlier. Back home. Brutal working in it. One eye on bucket at all times as it was gonna go for a walk.
Title: Re: Too windy for WFP??
Post by: Jonny 87 on January 29, 2016, 09:08:10 am
This will be the second day I've had to take off in January! Not too happy. Lol

It's 70mph here in Scotland, and raining too.

Title: Re: Too windy for WFP??
Post by: deeege on January 29, 2016, 09:13:00 am
its bad out there today.....60-70 mph gusts........i think ill leave it for another hour or so! ;D

It really isn't Daz. The occasional strong gust but otherwise calm here and I'm literally working 2 miles down the road from you today!  ;D
Title: Re: Too windy for WFP??
Post by: dazmond on January 29, 2016, 09:17:11 am
its bad out there today.....60-70 mph gusts........i think ill leave it for another hour or so! ;D

It really isn't Daz. The occasional strong gust but otherwise calm here and I'm literally working 2 miles down the road from you today!  ;D

im still not going out til 930 though danny! ;D
Title: Re: Too windy for WFP??
Post by: deeege on January 29, 2016, 09:24:49 am
its bad out there today.....60-70 mph gusts........i think ill leave it for another hour or so! ;D

It really isn't Daz. The occasional strong gust but otherwise calm here and I'm literally working 2 miles down the road from you today!  ;D

im still not going out til 930 though danny! ;D

That's not how an efficient, motivated window cleaner should be behaving Daz!  ;D
Title: Re: Too windy for WFP??
Post by: dazmond on January 29, 2016, 09:30:49 am
 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Too windy for WFP??
Post by: chris turner on January 29, 2016, 09:49:10 am
F@ck it its Friday, I'm grinding through no matter what the weather!
Title: Re: Too windy for WFP??
Post by: dave f on January 29, 2016, 09:51:01 am
just got back in think ill sack it to day wind and rain in west Yorkshire .also had a couple of comments
Title: Re: Too windy for WFP??
Post by: Klean07 on January 29, 2016, 09:59:26 am
Only got 3 jobs to do then that's me done for this month! Off then until 1st Feb! Bliss!
Title: Re: Too windy for WFP??
Post by: Smurf on January 29, 2016, 10:34:17 am
I'm sat indoors watching me self cleaning glass work or not is the case  ;D
Title: Re: Too windy for WFP??
Post by: kempy on January 29, 2016, 10:36:20 am
DaveF
Where in west Yorks . I'm Wakefield based but going up to do a 2 hr commercial at Weatherby
Title: Re: Too windy for WFP??
Post by: combat1 on January 29, 2016, 11:38:20 am
Blowing a gale here on Thorney Island.
The harder the wind blows the faster the windows dry and fewer people will moan about us leaving wet windows.
I knew there was a positive!
Title: Re: Too windy for WFP??
Post by: dave f on January 29, 2016, 08:52:05 pm
rain stopped so back out  ;D half expected some sarkey comments when out collecting  but nowt said