Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: jeff1 on February 08, 2007, 01:52:49 pm
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sitting in my front room and I noticed a pair of ladders walking past my window,checked it out and it was 3 new wc in my road, doing the odd one or 2 houses,
then I noticed the one in the picture,leaning his ladder over a glass roof pourch, with 2 other guy's there you would have thought one of them would foot the ladder, but no he used a sand bag, I would have got a bit closer to take a closer photo, but they looked like they would have took offence and stabbed me. ;D
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WOW :o :o :o
His ladders nearly vertical! :o :o
Shaun R. :)
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And with just a sand bag holding it, he even has it below the window sill and not resting on it. ???
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how would you do it if you did trd method ? ???
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Telescopic poles or just totally miss out!
Shaun R. :D
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I wouldn't do it. full stop, is that worth a £1
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Jeff,
What country do you live in?
We have snow here in England!
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Andy
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I'd us the ladder to the left of the window and lean accross
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Jeff,
What country do you live in?
We have snow here in England!
:)
Andy
Sunny Somerset ;D
I'd us the ladder to the left of the window and lean accross
I see what your saying but if you look closely the pourch covers half the next window, so you would have some stretching to do.
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This is where ladder mitts on the upper stiles are a godsend - I would put them against the upper frame of the transom window.
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I would put my ladder above the window onto the soffits. On a more serious note how on earth do people like that get any work? Using a ladder like that is just plain stupid and without a doubt, an accident waiting to happen.
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that's crazy!
Obviously the safest way to clean it would be footing, but if i was on my own, i'd try the way Mike_G metioned.
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Don't think it would post what i was going to call him :o
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may be he had a midgit footing it and you just cant see him ;D ???
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WOW :o :o :o
His ladders nearly vertical! :o :o
Shaun R. :)
I think you mean Horizontal :)
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We have dozens of guys setting up like that round our area under cutting the proffessional window cleaners prices. It is hard to compete price wise. Maybe we should be licensed like Scotland.
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NUTTER ::). His days are well numbered.
Macc
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If they work like that though i wouldn't worry as it won't be long before they fall and either seriously injure themselves or even kill themselves.
I saw a bloke a while ago i've never seen before with his ladder at a really stupid angle. I stopped to say hello. I asked him if he wanted me too foot his ladder whilst he was cleaning the window and got told too "F - OFF".
My reply was " No problem mate - it won't be long before i'm cleaning that house if you work like that",. He asked me what did i mean so i just replied COMMONSENCE which he obviously didn't have.
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I did similar stuff to that years ago. I wouldn't have relied on a sandbag though. I would only have done it with the ladder well dug into the ground. I got an Unger telescopic pole after a while and would then have cleaned that window from ground level.
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Scary, very very scary!!! :o :o :o
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WOW :o :o :o
His ladders nearly vertical! :o :o
Shaun R. :)
I think you mean Horizontal :)
Oh Yeah!
;D
Shaun R.
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maybe his ladders were stabbed into the grass????
can you imagine if they slipped though face full off roof! :o
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Wasn't you car vandalized a while back, Jeff?
Maybe they're the nutters that did it.
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;D ;D seriously guy's there were no migets footing the ladder, and it was set on a Concrete path, so it wasn't dug in.
'O' and the sand bag looked like it had been used on the target ranges at bulford Army camp ;D
This is probablly the only guy's that would do it, I don't work in my own road, I don't like to be on call 24/7 as people in my road seem to think I am. ::)
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Wasn't you car vandalized a while back, Jeff?
Maybe they're the nutters that did it.
Yes it was my car Pj, but it wasn't these guy's, other wise I would have pulled the ladder from underneath him myself.
That little problem was sorted a few weeks back for me Pj ;)
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He's confused ??? It should be 4 up 1 out not 1 up 4 out....der!
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well there were three of them, perhaps they multiplyed it by three and came up with four ;D ;D
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In the words of Mr T i pitty the foo, that kinda stupidity cannot go on for long.
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we should all get a collection of these photo's together and put together a portfolio for when we quote jobs, adding is this what you want, ie putting your property and insurance in jeperdy
simbo
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Wasn't you car vandalized a while back, Jeff?
Maybe they're the nutters that did it.
Yes it was my car Pj, but it wasn't these guy's, other wise I would have pulled the ladder from underneath him myself.
That little problem was sorted a few weeks back for me Pj ;)
Well go on Jeff - give us a little clue how you arranged for the problem to be sorted. ;)
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Wasn't you car vandalized a while back, Jeff?
Maybe they're the nutters that did it.
Yes it was my car Pj, but it wasn't these guy's, other wise I would have pulled the ladder from underneath him myself.
That little problem was sorted a few weeks back for me Pj ;)
Well go on Jeff - give us a little clue how you arranged for the problem to be sorted. ;)
I thought you were more switched on Malc ;D
I never did a thing and apparently I wasn't the first wc he did it to, but I think I will be the last ;)