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Title: Safe ladder use (NOT)
Post by: Central Window Cleaners on December 18, 2006, 02:21:10 pm
found this service being advertised on ebay look at the pics of ladder work every one of them shows the over stretching and working of the top rungs

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/domestic-commercial-window-cleaning-services_W0QQitemZ190063610038QQihZ009QQcategoryZ112579QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Title: Re: Safe ladder use (NOT)
Post by: D woods on December 18, 2006, 03:19:28 pm
They are using some sort of ladder stabiliser at the top of the ladder. Still looks
doggy though.
Title: Re: Safe ladder use (NOT)
Post by: simon knight on December 18, 2006, 03:34:55 pm

The bit that always makes me laugh, (and it's not just in w/c adverts) is the "Free Estimates" bit!....I mean does anybody actually charge to do an estimate?

Title: Re: Safe ladder use (NOT)
Post by: [GQC] Tim on December 18, 2006, 03:39:34 pm

The bit that always makes me laugh, (and it's not just in w/c adverts) is the "Free Estimates" bit!....I mean does anybody actually charge to do an estimate?



Well, if I would be a customer, then I'd have no idea if they would charge me or not to quote my house, I mean, they have to drive to me, costs time and petrol. It would make me think about having to pay for a quote, so if a WC puts 'free quotes' or whatever on it, that would help me as being a noob customer.
Title: Re: Safe ladder use (NOT)
Post by: simon knight on December 18, 2006, 03:47:01 pm

The bit that always makes me laugh, (and it's not just in w/c adverts) is the "Free Estimates" bit!....I mean does anybody actually charge to do an estimate?



Well, if I would be a customer, then I'd have no idea if they would charge me or not to quote my house, I mean, they have to drive to me, costs time and petrol. It would make me think about having to pay for a quote, so if a WC puts 'free quotes' or whatever on it, that would help me as being a noob customer.

Yeah I take your point!
Title: Re: Safe ladder use (NOT)
Post by: KarlJones on December 18, 2006, 03:53:39 pm
I have just bought it!!!

dvd-dawn, thats me :)

From reading the description I now own
"PRESSED 4 TIME CLEANING SOLUTIONS"

I am not sure how many customers they have though so maybe it was a bad deal.  When should I inform the DSS?

Title: Re: Safe ladder use (NOT)
Post by: Paul Coleman on December 18, 2006, 05:05:01 pm
The bit that got me was where it says:

"Poles are never used.  That means much cleaner glass and no drips."  The no drips I could go along with (though they are only temporary) but I would take issue with the "cleaner glass" claim.
Good luck to the guy but he might find the H & S on his back one day.
Title: Re: Safe ladder use (NOT)
Post by: poleman on December 18, 2006, 05:08:04 pm
Could be wrong, but this bloke comes on here! well if that's the case bit of a own goal wouldn't you say, there should be 3 points on contact when using a ladder - even my old gran can see that's not the case  ::)

Andy   
Title: Re: Safe ladder use (NOT)
Post by: ducky on December 18, 2006, 05:09:15 pm
is that not jv price cherry picker ???
Title: Re: Safe ladder use (NOT)
Post by: JM123 on December 18, 2006, 05:10:23 pm
yeah thats at least the same pic as taken from their website

www.jvprice.co.uk (http://www.jvprice.co.uk)
Title: Re: Safe ladder use (NOT)
Post by: Sir Squeaky on December 18, 2006, 05:50:14 pm
The bit that got me was where it says:

"Poles are never used.  That means much cleaner glass and no drips."  The no drips I could go along with (though they are only temporary) but I would take issue with the "cleaner glass" claim.
Good luck to him.
That's what I tell people, because it's the truth.

That's why I get so much work from ex-wfp accounts. ;)

Title: Re: Safe ladder use (NOT)
Post by: Paul Coleman on December 18, 2006, 05:59:21 pm



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Good luck to him.
That's what I tell people, because it's the truth.

That's why I get so much work from ex-wfp accounts. ;)



I have checked a fair bit of my work from the inside at times and sometimes it is true what he says.  However, most of the time I reckon my WFP work is cleaner than my trad work.  I am excluding the first clean or two though as sometimes it can take a while for WFP to get the detergent film off.
I say good luck to the guy as well Squeaks but I wouldn't fancy doing what he's doing on a ladder.
Title: Re: Safe ladder use (NOT)
Post by: Mike_G on December 18, 2006, 06:01:11 pm
I wonder what this protective spray he uses is?
Title: Re: Safe ladder use (NOT)
Post by: Sir Squeaky on December 18, 2006, 06:06:20 pm
I'd rather not have to bother with jobs like that, but if I did I wouldn't feel unsafe doing it.
I've done loads of jobs like that over the years, and I expect the rest of us have too.

Since wfp everyone's hypocritical and changed their opinion. ::)
Don't be such girls, he knows what he's doing.
Title: Re: Safe ladder use (NOT)
Post by: Easyclean Windows on December 18, 2006, 06:08:28 pm
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yeah thats at least the same pic as taken from their website

www.jvprice.co.uk

Im sure it says at the bottom of this website copyright...therfore the person on ebay must be infringing upon this by stealing the pictures to go on his listings...i maybe wrong?
Title: Re: Safe ladder use (NOT)
Post by: H h20 on December 18, 2006, 06:27:18 pm
Seems this guy has been on a few other websites  :-X
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.silver-window-washing.com/window-washer/window_washerprices.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.silver-window-washing.com/&h=194&w=253&sz=8&hl=en&start=43&tbnid=vkxnkqtRCgl7hM:&tbnh=85&tbnw=111&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwindow%2Bcleaning%26start%3D40%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26channel%3Ds%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://purewindows.com/reside6.jpg&imgrefurl=http://purewindows.com/Res.htm&h=283&w=185&sz=19&hl=en&start=63&tbnid=wEMRz7sSz5CmDM:&tbnh=114&tbnw=75&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwindow%2Bcleaning%26start%3D60%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26channel%3Ds%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN
Title: Re: Safe ladder use (NOT)
Post by: Paul Coleman on December 18, 2006, 06:31:59 pm
I'd rather not have to bother with jobs like that, but if I did I wouldn't feel unsafe doing it.
I've done loads of jobs like that over the years, and I expect the rest of us have too.

Since wfp everyone's hypocritical and changed their opinion. ::)
Don't be such girls, he knows what he's doing.

There were things I used to do on a ladder some years ago that I stopped doing.  Long before I switched to WFP, I used a telescopic pole with applicator/squeegee on the end.  This was after I had a couple of near misses that got me looking at other ways to clean certain windows.
So I suppose I became a girl a long time before I started on the WFP road.  Nope.  Just looked.  I'm definitely still male.   ;D
Title: Re: Safe ladder use (NOT)
Post by: H h20 on December 18, 2006, 06:34:14 pm
can somebody modify my last post i seem to have morphed it a bit  :-X,Gaz
Title: Re: Safe ladder use (NOT)
Post by: Mike_G on December 18, 2006, 06:39:36 pm
Do it yourself Gaz     Press the modify button on the right hand side and away you go
Title: Re: Safe ladder use (NOT)
Post by: H h20 on December 18, 2006, 06:46:44 pm
Do it yourself Gaz     Press the modify button on the right hand side and away you go
I want to add just the pics but my pc won`t do it  ???,Gaz
Title: Re: Safe ladder use (NOT)
Post by: Mike_G on December 18, 2006, 06:51:28 pm
On your own there mate, I would not know where to start.
Title: Re: Safe ladder use (NOT)
Post by: S.A.J on December 18, 2006, 07:00:54 pm
Here you go gaz

http://www.silver-window-washing.com/window-washer/window_washerprices.jpg

http://purewindows.com/reside6.jpg

http://purewindows.com/Res.htm

Stuart
SAJ WIndow Cleaners Ltd
Title: Re: Safe ladder use (NOT)
Post by: Pat Purcell on December 18, 2006, 07:07:06 pm
I dont know if it makes a diference but those pics on the pure windows site are in the Us and so is the co.