Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: john tomkins on March 02, 2007, 12:44:07 pm
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How about this, I know we all have done things we shouldn't have....but....
1 side of the ladder on the frame the other an inch from the glass.
I didn't hang around long enough to see how he did the window above the porch.
Not very good quality coz it was my camera phone through the van window.
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What a spanner
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what an idiot
al
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Just a fool!
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I wonder if he does dormers the same way?
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Stupid thing is, he only needs to push the ladder up another few inches and he could rest it on the brickwork! Ok he might need to bring the base of the ladder out a little way, but I know what I'd prefer...
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Dear me.
Just step on to the roof and hang on to the sill.
Or is that wrong too? :-X
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Just step on to the roof and hang on to the sill.
Or is that wrong too?
So one hand on the sill the other cleaning mmmm so you havent got any insurance then as you well know if your using a ladder you should alwasy have one hand on the rung and if you fall the first thuing the insurance company will say is well were not paying out beacuse he obviously wasnt using his ladders correctly.
Accidents dont happen they are caused
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i don't know if its luck ...
but if its not ,his got a good balancing technique....
his missed his vocation ,he should be in the circus...
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Well I wondered how exactly he was gonna clean those 3 panes, he can't reach the left side, the ladder is stopping him doing the middle, so he can only do the right hand side unless I'm missing something ???
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probably move the ladder under the alarm box
and bobs your uncle ... ;)
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probably move the ladder under the alarm box
and bobs your uncle ... ;)
Same distance though to the center pane if he put it on the right hand wall side of the window to start with, I just couldn't see why he put it where he did to start :-\
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This is where ladder mitts are so useful.
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Stupid thing is, he only needs to push the ladder up another few inches and he could rest it on the brickwork! Ok he might need to bring the base of the ladder out a little way, but I know what I'd prefer...
He could extend the ladder more and would need to bring the ladder out as you say but maybe the car parked below him would stop him from doing that?
Maybe he could even rest it on the fascia but it might be hard cleaning the glass - especially nearer the bottom when he would have to reach in more.
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Use the car to stop the ladder slipping!
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Use the car to stop the ladder slipping!
I've used my van that way occasionally in years gone by. Wouldn't do it now though.
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madness...even more obvious,why doesnt he use a Pole?
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Upon closer inspection of the picture I'm thinking that he forgot he wasn't using a pointer ladder. On the other hand he could just be an idiot.
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What a nerd! ;D
This is why training is esential! :o :o
Shaun R.
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What a nerd! ;D
This is why training is esential! :o :o
Shaun R.
Shaun,
If someone needs to be trained NOT to do what that chap is doing, then there really is something wrong.
Common sense should kick in ::) surely
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No part of the frame is touched by his ladders - because the ladder is only balanced against the guttering.
Now, I've done stuff like that in the past, but all our ladders have safety feet on them and the feet would also be against something like a kerb or a wheel, so they couldn't slip backwards.
YeeHaa - when's the next rodeo?
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No part of the frame is touched by his ladders - because the ladder is only balanced against the guttering.
Sorry, but driving past real slow I can assure you that one side of the ladder was resting on the pvc frame.
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What a nerd! ;D
This is why training is esential! :o :o
Shaun R.
Shaun,
If someone needs to be trained NOT to do what that chap is doing, then there really is something wrong.
Common sense should kick in ::) surely
I know what you mean mate you're right!
How stupid can you get?
Shaun R. ;D
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No part of the frame is touched by his ladders - because the ladder is only balanced against the guttering.
Sorry, but driving past real slow I can assure you that one side of the ladder was resting on the pvc frame.
Even if one side of the ladder is on the frame its no safer, an accident going to happen sooner than later. I hope when he does fall its only himself he hurts & not land on someone.
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No part of the frame is touched by his ladders - because the ladder is only balanced against the guttering.
Sorry, but driving past real slow I can assure you that one side of the ladder was resting on the pvc frame.
He's not even a clever numpty then - cos if he'd centre'd the ladder, while bracing against the gutter, he would have got it in one. But maybe he thought THAT was dangerous ;D
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Now I got a question, how can you safely do the window above the porch traditionally? Pole is a no go because of the angle, can't reach it properly. Stepping on the porch would be considered unsafe. So how?
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You could do it in two moves if you put your ladder to the weather board, but you'd need long arms. Plus someone footing.
As the weather board sticks out quite a bit, you MIGHT get away with using a stand-off to the remaining bricks just above the top of the frame. But probably two moves again. Plus someone footing.
You can use a 0o squeegee on a long pole - but you'd need to be good.
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Now I got a question, how can you safely do the window above the porch traditionally? Pole is a no go because of the angle, can't reach it properly. Stepping on the porch would be considered unsafe. So how?
A pole would work OK. You could do one pane either side of the ridge. Even if the angle is a bit too tight for it, a pole with swivloc applicator and swivloc squeege or even a a wagtail would do it.
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the window above the porch is SIMPLE to reach with a pole... ;)
stand either side and done in 1 minute tops.
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Doing it traditionally I would have used my traditional window cleaning pointer ladders, put the point on the frame and done it in 2 ladder stands. The one above the door I would have put the point at the apex of the porch. A lot slower than wfp though, and still a small chance of falling.
Simon
Numpty now there's a Terry Wogan insult.
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crackers ::)