Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: The Jester of Wibbly on August 03, 2018, 07:23:38 pm
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Was thinking how long ago it all started and how it came about.
I have been wfp now for 10 years and even when I got my first set up I was told a few are trialing hot systems.
How long have you all been wfp set up?
Share your history.
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Been window cleaning 20 years wfp 15 started with cold ionics pro 5 system 650 ltr , last 4 years have added another one but this time 1000 ltr with a Grippatank 9kw boiler and modified filtration system . When I bought my first system off ionics they were doing a hot system that was gas fired but that was out of my price range at the time , but the diesel ones are very good
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Tucker are usually credited with starting wfp in the states
Over here I think ionics formally ott were the first to provide “ professional “ equipment - lots were doing diy stuff.
Been going 10 years -9 WFP and Alex was just getting established (thankfully) and the likes of Dazmond claiming trad was best and wfp was sh!t 😂
Darran
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Roughly 20 years wfp
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My mate bought a Merc Vito with a Tucker system about 17 years ago, that's in the UK.
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6 Years WFP - 7 months Hot
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WFP doesn't work, any traditional hot PPB and snake oil user will tell you that, luckily in 12 years of WFP cleaning none of my customers/clients/accounts have said the same.
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11 years WFP with 9 years trad before that.
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Close to 18yrs experience window cleaning but last three on wfp
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Tucker are usually credited with starting wfp in the states
Over here I think ionics formally ott were the first to provide “ professional “ equipment - lots were doing diy stuff.
Been going 10 years -9 WFP and Alex was just getting established (thankfully) and the likes of Dazmond claiming trad was best and wfp was sh!t 😂
Darran
I have been wfp about the same time and also remember Dazmonds posts ;D;D
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8 years WFP and 17 years on ladders before that.......been hot and cold for years! ;D ;D ;D
hot at the moment..... :)
started with a 50l PF trolley,orange glass fibre pole and 10 barrels,moved on to a 350L rachet strapped down tank ,CLX,SLX and a pumpbox,2 old vans(kangoo then a connect t230),messed around with various gas shower heaters, then finally to a 500L professionally fitted diesel hot water system fitted into a brand new van with all the trimmings,electric reel,xtreme poles etc.... 8)
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41 Years window cleaning so far. The last 11 wfp.
Started wfp with a PF trolley intending to get a small van system at some point, but the trolley worked so well for my work that I never made the change and probably nevr will.
I'll never forget the early days with wfp. The fibreglass poles with the heavy vikan brushes. The splinters in the hands were a nightmare and the poles seemed to only last 5 minutes. Now it's much more tuned to our needs it's much more enjoyable.
I can safely say that I wouldn't still be in the game if it weren't for the introduction of wfp
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I did come across my first pole at back of garage. Fibre glass heavy and bendy. I picked it up and felt the weight and could not believe I used to use it.
If there is any advice for my old self I would say don't bother with cheap poles.
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I went from a 25ft fibreglass Xtel with a brick on the end to a 25ft Brodex hydra alloy with a brick on the end, luckily I then joined this forum and discovered Gardiner poles which saved my joints, would say Alex Gardiner has saved the NHS a fortune by not having to treat us all for Brodexes of the joints. lol
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My first Pole six years ago was an 18ft Brodex hydra alloy with a brick on the end too :o, then a year
later i bought a 25ft SLX :), i could not believe the difference.
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window cleaning 21 years and 18 on wfp. First two poles were a 60ft Tucker pole and Ionic 45ft pole
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Started out trad in 2003, wfp since 2010, if I remember correctly my first pole was an N-tech 22 glassfibre pole with a breeze block on the end.....ouch!
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4 years in. Or maybe 5.
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11years 5 years wfp
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I stated in 1985 ratail mops and chamois leather and squeegee's, houses were a £1.50 - £2.00. Accounts were done in a simplex D accounting book, see photo of my 3rd week in December 1985. There was a supplier called Diswinco and Corwords for the window cleaners jackets. I still have the brass Diswinco squeegee from that time. I have been wfp now for about 20yrs, and it really did bring a big change to the window proffesion. I have enjoyed every day window cleaning, the reasons are every day you choose when you start and finish, you choose how much you want for a job, everyday is a pay day, working in fatastic country side, above all customers become friends.
Start my 34yr 1st of December
Dont laugh to much over the earnings back then ;D
What a fantastic place forums like this are, how now you can share and help others.
(http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i390/ROYS100/Simplex%20D_zps5hu0ntv5.jpg) (http://s1091.photobucket.com/user/ROYS100/media/Simplex%20D_zps5hu0ntv5.jpg.html)
Roy
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I remember the days when you could deliver 1000 leaflets and the phone would not stop ringing
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Started trad. part time in 1996, went full time 2000.
Changed to WFP over 2005/2006 with a PF Trolley and Unger aluminium poles. Then used backpack, trailer, then a 175L and reel out the back of a Honda estate.
2006 Bought "The Doblo" and self installed a 400L tank and soon after bought a Gardiner SLX35 pole which had a glass fibre bottom section. I had a splitter in the pole hose and ran it as an SLX20 and added the bigger sections when I needed to and took them off again.
Put in an immersion heater in the sharp winter of 2009/10.
Went to a 650L and new van in 2012.