Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: markybop on February 05, 2007, 01:14:36 pm
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This is what gives window cleaners a bad name!
Thats him rumbled!
Pics on page 3 o the daily record.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_headline=window-silly%26method=full%26objectid=18576723%26siteid=66633-name_page.html
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It must be the effective licencing policy Scotland has.
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He's a bloody fruitcake and you can't even do a good job that close up to the glass....well I couldn't.
They certainly breed 'em hard in Boney Scotland! Thank God I'm a southern Jessie ;D
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I'll second that Simon.
The bloke is a true nutter!!
I wonder if he is on this forum?
Rob.
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when i first started 25yrs ago a lot of jobs where done this way its certainly easier than ladder and not as dangerous as it may look because there are always lots of hand holds to get hold of on buildings like that. Although i havent done stuff like that for the past ten years due to health and safety laws i can honestly say i enjoyed doing it ,infact we had jobs 10 storeys high which where done by climbuing out on ledges.
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And when he hasn't been on the whisky he actually does the top floor too.
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You're all worrying too much. He'll be fine if he falls, cos spidey is right below him!
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I dont know how he can work with a boab i just find they wet your leg ;D but when he falls it wont be the only thing that gets smashed, idiot :o :(
Brett
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I bet that was his last clean; no doubt the manager of the premises will find out about it now.
Also, cut him some slack lads; he's just earning an honest-living; he's not out robbing or mugging people.
He looks older than 18 years old, so is old enough to make up his own mind; unless he's got some sort of 'learning disability'.
I've seen a Moderator of this forum doing similar before they got a WFP! ;D
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Very silly thing to do but can you what all his customer's are thinking i'm sure he'll lose a few customer's after this newspaper! :)
Shaun R.
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Two things strike me in people who do this:-
1) They have no respect for their life, one slip and they could be history
2) They have no respect for other peoples lives, one slip, lady pushing pram, would hate to think.
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Two things strike me in people who do this:-
1) They have no respect for their life, one slip and they could be history
2) They have no respect for other peoples lives, one slip, lady pushing pram, would hate to think.
I see what you mean Doug! :)
Shaun R. :)
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Same old, same old... yawn...
As Tosh says, it's up to him. He knows what he's doing.
Stop picking holes in trad users.
I've seen some pretty dangerous wfp use.
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Sorry Mr Squeaky I'm trad and it's up to me how much risk I take but this geezer is putting other peoples lives in danger and that can never be acceptable.
Two things strike me in people who do this:-
1) They have no respect for their life, one slip and they could be history
2) They have no respect for other peoples lives, one slip, lady pushing pram, would hate to think.
I see what you mean Doug! :)
Shaun R. :)
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Anyone who cleaned commercials before wfp came along, and before there was such a thing as a "Facilities Manager", will have got up to stuff like this. And, as you can see, it still happens today.
The person MOST to blame here will be the person in charge of the office he's cleaning - or the owner of the building - because you can bet your bottom dollar that when they got a flyer from the firm who install safety bolts, it got binned because it would have cost too much to install. Ooh, wafered poles, what are they? Hmm, sounds good, much safer you say? The street's going to be closed because you need to stand in the road to get to these windows? Never darken my door again, you reprobate!
If the guy was wearing a harness, would anyone have bothered? NO!
If he was walking a ledge on the ground floor, would anyone have bothered? NO!
Want to bet the daft laddie gets a bigger telling-off from HSE than the office manager who's going to get it in the neck for letting him work like that? NO!
How long do you think the job's been done like that if there's no safety anchors? From whenever the building was built, of course. Why has it just come to light now? Because somebody who should have been concentrating on their own work in the office opposite was bored, and decided to play with the camera on his mobile phone.
Oooh, I'm off for a lie-down.
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Squeaky Clean for a clean it up god u talk a fair bit of rubbish
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Rubbish to you because you're too much of a noob to understand. ;)
Obviously an amateur wfp user... ;D
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Does anybody know the building,we have a lot of buildings like that over here and usually up to the 3rd level can be done by ladder so no anchors and above that there would be anchors for an aker&mann belt on each window
Just wondering if the lad was doing it the best way he could or if he was cutting corners figuring ledge walking was faster than ladders
And yes been there done that
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3 floors !!!! thats nothing ! 8)
/ian
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thats the problem wee squeak you dont know who i am but i am far from an amateur just thought ur comments were a bit strange coming from a so called professional
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thats the problem wee squeak you dont know who i am but i am far from an amateur just thought ur comments were a bit strange coming from a so called professional
Only repeating what someone else said though wasn't I? ::)
...and no I haven't done a wee.
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Is this what our friend should have looked like , me today getting the H & S treatment
Rich P @ F
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thats the problem wee squeak you dont know who i am but i am far from an amateur just thought ur comments were a bit strange coming from a so called professional
sounds like somone woke up on the wrong side of bed!
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thing of the past now window wonder man !
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In todays climate what that window cleaner was doing was stupid, but big deal, I've done far worse than that in the past...
Of course if he fell and landed on someone it would be shocking and appalling, and it is possible that it could happen, but on that building it never has yet and as Wavie davie says, it will have been cleaned that way for generations.
Accidends happen of course, but the reality is that accidents such as a window cleaner falling off a window ledge and landing on a baby in a pram are very unlikely to happen.
But it is just this kind of thinking that lead to nanny state thinking...
Conkers falling off trees and landing on a baby in a pram, smashing it in the face...
Answer?
Either cut the tree down or but up barriers around the tree (s) to create a nice, safe exclusion zone (it has happened by the way (the baby bit was my own though ;)))
Children banned from running in the playground in case they fall over and hurt themselves or others. (yep, that's happened too)
It's right that window cleaners should be stopped from doing as this guy has done, I accept that, and the possibility of an accident is certainly there, but the chances of that accident actually happening is very low.
A local carnival wanted to hang up a banner on a building, but to do so meant a staggeringly high insurance to do so.
The reason for the high insurance?
Well if one of the lines holding it in place came loose, it might flap around in the wind and wrap itself around a childs neck and kill him or her.
This was the reason given for the high cost of the insurance.
In all the decades it has been held (and advertised) it hasn't happened yet...but it could do, it could be done just that way for the next hundred years and the most likely outcome is that it would never happen, but on the infinitismally tiny chance that it might, to get insurance to put up this banner for a few days the cost would have been up around a grand to do so...
Health and safety my arse >:(
But of course that window cleaner was caught on camera though, so someone will be for the high jump I'm sure.
Ian
Ian
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well said ian because something looks dangerous it is imediately seized upon by health and safety officers to justify their own jobs , but in reality lots of things in life carry a risk but we do them anyway ie how many killed driving every year but we dont ban cars how many fly every year but we dont stop even though scientists say global warming will kill millions , they always qoute european laws yet when you look abroad at how they carry on in their jobs we seem to be only country implementing these laws ,oh well thats my moan for the day.
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Fast Eddie. ???
Ahh I know it reminds me of my all time fav film.
The Hustler. ;)
Paul Newman played Fast Eddie Felson.
Absolute classic ;D
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a neighbour came out a few months ago whilst i was wfp'ng a 2nd floor and said her wc'r used a ladder and climbed along the ledge, I mentioned how un h&s that was in todays climate to which she replied "well you have to take some risks" :o
Another place where I used a 40 ft pole on a 4th storey , one of the old dears there remembers the days the wc tied himself off to the radiator and climbed out. Maybe times have changed, I for one would never take that risk anymore although I have once or twice, there are plenty of windows we can clean without such danger
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I wouldnt fancy being tied to a radiator, speaking as a plumber I'd rather risk it freestyle, nowadays you'd end up layed out on the grass and then get smaked in the head with a radiator.