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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: gsw on August 20, 2006, 02:03:43 pm

Title: doing bottoms?
Post by: gsw on August 20, 2006, 02:03:43 pm

another idot question!!
does anyone wait for the tops to stop dripping when do the bottoms wfp or do you just go straight ahead and do the bottoms after the tops.

at the moment i am wasting alot of time running around houses doing all tops first and then going back to the start and doing bottoms after the dripping has finished. I am worried about water running off of brickwork/rendering contaminating the bottom windows. is this necessary?

thanks again
greg

Title: Re: doing bottoms?
Post by: JM123 on August 20, 2006, 02:09:10 pm

why not use a waterstop connector then once you have finished the tops just disconnect or use a flow control valve.

Title: Re: doing bottoms?
Post by: gsw on August 20, 2006, 02:19:11 pm

i do use a flow control valve so turn off the flow inbetween windows. i meant the water that is dripping off the top sills after the top windows have been cleaned.

Title: Re: doing bottoms?
Post by: JM123 on August 20, 2006, 02:22:22 pm

sorry i misread your post.
by the time you get the top finished and walk back round to where you started it'll be fine to start the bottoms. 

Title: Re: doing bottoms?
Post by: Pdh on August 20, 2006, 02:24:34 pm

change your heading  :D :D :D

Title: Re: doing bottoms?
Post by: gsw on August 20, 2006, 02:32:06 pm

thought the heading would get a laugh!


the walking back round the house is the bit I am trying to cut out. so ideally i would like to do the top windows at the front and then immediately clean the bottom windows then go round to the back of the house and do the same. does anyone else clean like this?

as opposed to clean the tops at the front then going to the back and cleaning the tops, then going back to the front to clean the bottoms and then finally round the back again to clean the bottoms there. it seems to be a lot of time wasted when totalled up at the end of the week.

Title: Re: doing bottoms?
Post by: JM123 on August 20, 2006, 02:35:52 pm

if we have a number of props together we do tops for all of them then do the err bottoms

Title: Re: doing bottoms?
Post by: squeaky-clean 1 on August 20, 2006, 02:47:45 pm

hi

i just start with top left then top right

bottom left then bottom right

that way you give yourself 20 seconds for drips to stop.


you cant wait to long theres money to be earnt. ;D ;D ;D

Belinda

Title: Re: doing bottoms?
Post by: gsw on August 20, 2006, 02:51:42 pm

Quote from: squeaky-clean 1 on August 20, 2006, 02:47:45 pm

you cant wait to long theres money to be earnt. ;D ;D

Exactly!!

Title: Re: doing bottoms?
Post by: JM123 on August 20, 2006, 02:55:21 pm

what have you got your flowrate set at?

Title: Re: doing bottoms?
Post by: gsw on August 20, 2006, 03:04:51 pm

roughly between 1.5 and 2 lpm.

Title: Re: doing bottoms?
Post by: JM123 on August 20, 2006, 03:06:37 pm

that should be alright.

Title: Re: doing bottoms?
Post by: gsw on August 20, 2006, 03:09:32 pm

i think i spend too long at each window! found it much easier to walk away when I was trad.

Title: Re: doing bottoms?
Post by: JM123 on August 20, 2006, 03:11:34 pm

thats something that affects everyone when they change over, you just have to feel more confident in order to walk away, something that will only come with time.  on some props we do its only a matter of rinsong - no brushing needed!!

Title: Re: doing bottoms?
Post by: gsw on August 20, 2006, 03:21:17 pm

thanks for the help

Title: Re: doing bottoms?
Post by: master cleaner on August 21, 2006, 10:35:07 am

a lot of the water gathers on the sill so turn your water off then rub your brush along the sill to clear the water off it saves a lot of time that way

gary