Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: dai on January 10, 2007, 07:30:58 pm
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I lost most of monday because I forgot my water proof jacket, and was working 25 miles away.
Only drove for 3 miles this afternoon to find I had not tied the ladder on. Anyone else done this and got away with it?Dai
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what was the question again???
;D ;D
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yeah a couple of times actually.
It was fine on my transit, but not too good when i did it on my peguot 306!! Had some nice ladder marks down my bonet. Could have been worse i suppose, it could have been someones elses mercedes bonet!
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I had a mini-trauma this morning when we cleaned a whole load of terraced houses and when I returned to the first one to put a 'Your window cleaner has been' chit through the door, I found I didn't have a pen!
There wasn't a pen to be found in my heap of a car, so I had to drive to a local shop and buy some.
What a pain!
Anyway, what were we talking about?
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We lost a ladder last year somewhere. It was on the van when we set off in the morning but wasn't there when we got to the first job.
Also last year, we do one job that needs a harness etc at the top of a block of tall offices. The lift takes forever to get to the top floor and then I had to go through a series of lock doors with rusty locks, out onto the roof and over something like an obsticle course (aircon units - 100's of them), and along a walkway which the harness has to be clipped onto and then dragged along, up two wall ladders and to clean 2 large windows which are in a really arkward place.
Then I realised I had no squeegie in my BOAB. So I go all the way back which takes about 20 minutes, back down in the incredibly slow lift, get my squeegie and go all the way back up etc etc etc and so on.
When I go to attach the strap to the overhead safety rail, I realised I had the a short strap which wouldn't reach. I go all the way back, over the obsticle course for the third time, curse and swear at the doors with the rusty locks, wait for ages for the slow lift, only to find that the safety strap I needed had been left at another job.
I was going to write something else but I can't remember what.