Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Dave Willis on February 25, 2016, 07:37:02 am
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What's the difference between cleaning windows at height and solar panel scrubbing? Not much really. So how come people are let lose with 60' carbon poles to waggle amongst the power lines.
I think it would be a great idea if I offered a training course, printed some T shirts made people sign up to my company and made sure nobody could clean outside of my company.
Will it catch on?
Why not?
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Where do I sign? Do I get a van sticker?
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Cheesecake ok with you?
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It's a deal. ;)
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if you are going to waggle any form of pole between power lines then you must be a complete and utter nut sack and deserve to go out in a blaze of glory lol
why not licence the industry as they have in most parts of scotland and introduce a mandatory training course operated by health and safety with national recognition with a card and certificate at the end of the course if this were done over a five year period like the driver cpc it would give everyone in the industry fair time to do the relevant training course required to the methods of cleaning they use
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Could you send my custies on a course on how to leave their fookin gates open!
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Why not start a National Grid Power Line Cleaning Course?
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Yeh bloody gates
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Personally I'm against licencing our industry as they have in Scotland.
All it means is we would have to pay a licence to operate in each borough we work in.
No one will police the guys not paying taxes or for licences etc.
As per usual the large percentage of the population that obey the rules get their pants pulled down.
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if you are going to waggle any form of pole between power lines then you must be a complete and utter nut sack and deserve to go out in a blaze of glory lol
why not licence the industry as they have in most parts of scotland and introduce a mandatory training course operated by health and safety with national recognition with a card and certificate at the end of the course if this were done over a five year period like the driver cpc it would give everyone in the industry fair time to do the relevant training course required to the methods of cleaning they use
Please no. We don't need more bureaucracy. Plus the Scottish guys on here regularly point out that licensing's not enforced so it'll just be a tax on people who obey laws.
Vin
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What's the difference between cleaning windows at height and solar panel scrubbing? Not much really. So how come people are let lose with 60' carbon poles to waggle amongst the power lines.
I think it would be a great idea if I offered a training course, printed some T shirts made people sign up to my company and made sure nobody could clean outside of my company.
Will it catch on?
Why not?
You naughty boy... ;D
Anyway it don't matter how much training you give people will still do stupid things.
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Bloody right, I did this yesterday.
(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1456405030_IMG_6755 copy.jpg)
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Bloody right, I did this yesterday.
(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1456405030_IMG_6755 copy.jpg)
Told you so folks ;D
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On that job why risk life & limb clambering over that roof as the solar panels could have been cleaned if not from the ground using a long enough pole easy enough from a ladder setup like this surely ???
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Bloody right, I did this yesterday.
(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1456405030_IMG_6755 copy.jpg)
Told you so folks ;D
;D ;D
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On that job why risk life & limb clambering over that roof as the solar panels could have been cleaned if not from the ground using a long enough pole easy enough from a ladder setup like this surely ???
You wouldn't do them from the ground, the roof pitch was 23 degrees, you'd need a 70' pole, which would then make it impossible due to the flex. I could have done it from the top of a ladder but fancied getting up there. I did it yesterday knowing the roof would be dry and at 23 degrees your not going anywhere once your on the ridge. I accessed the roof from one end of the house, the ladder was tied off round the chimney and secured at ground level. I felt perfectly safe throughout. The only thing missing was that I wasn't able to use a harness and ties on the roof.
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On that job why risk life & limb clambering over that roof as the solar panels could have been cleaned if not from the ground using a long enough pole easy enough from a ladder setup like this surely ???
You wouldn't do them from the ground, the roof pitch was 23 degrees, you'd need a 70' pole, which would then make it impossible due to the flex. I could have done it from the top of a ladder but fancied getting up there. I did it yesterday knowing the roof would be dry and at 23 degrees your not going anywhere once your on the ridge. I accessed the roof from one end of the house, the ladder was tied off round the chimney and secured at ground level. I felt perfectly safe throughout. The only thing missing was that I wasn't able to use a harness and ties on the roof.
sod that.theres easier,safer work out there.if i couldnt clean them from the ground then i wouldnt have bothered personally.
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On that job why risk life & limb clambering over that roof as the solar panels could have been cleaned if not from the ground using a long enough pole easy enough from a ladder setup like this surely ???
Why? Because you wouldn't have 3 points of contact on the ladder would you!
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I would have stood in the guttering and cleaned them from there.
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why not use a drone with a rag on it
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Having worked the wire in the circus for 11 years these jobs are nothing.
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I would have stood in the guttering and cleaned them from there.
;D
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On that job why risk life & limb clambering over that roof as the solar panels could have been cleaned if not from the ground using a long enough pole easy enough from a ladder setup like this surely ???
That looks a good bit of kit Smurf.
Never fancied cleaning solar panels off a ladder really.....
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Bloody right, I did this yesterday.
(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1456405030_IMG_6755 copy.jpg)
do you really think he could get his fat ass up one rung of a ladder let alone that high ,and the roof wouldnt take his weight ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Im just back from the gym.
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Im just back from the gym.
more weight put on then ;D
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I wasn't doing weights, Im not a mirror-queen like you ;)
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On that job why risk life & limb clambering over that roof as the solar panels could have been cleaned if not from the ground using a long enough pole easy enough from a ladder setup like this surely ???
Why? Because you wouldn't have 3 points of contact on the ladder would you!
If you look close that rope on the ladder is a vertical life line for a ladder fall arrest harness so that's yer 3rd point of contact.