Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: julianbiggs on March 28, 2007, 06:58:26 pm
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Walking to shops yesterday spotted this mad man!
I walked past then had to take a second look, on a glass roof and stretching, what was he thinking, obviously not death!
(http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a164/adaily/DSC00074.jpg)
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The guys looking for trouble
never a heath and saftey officer a round when you want one
do a job with no risk and you still have to comply to all the regs
one of the 10 killed ever year :D
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He's missed the window.
Seems to be buffing the bricks.
If it was me I'd be stomping around on that roof doing a lovely job.
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Theres more of them out there.......check out this nutter i spotted the other day....wot was he thinking off.....obviously not a lot! Lucky guy........
(http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u78/markybop/Picture009.jpg)
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Done that plenty of times, but not at that height.
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Yep complete idots :o :o
See you got the hang of the photo upload then mark ;)
Stuart
SAJ Window Cleaners Ltd
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Aye stuart, got it sorted......great thing photobucket!
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It keeps telling me the upload folder is full. >:(
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http://photobucket.com/ 8)
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Julian, Mark, The 2 pictures you have put on are shocking, i just cant beleive people are out there risking there lives for a couple of quid, absolute TW#TS and they only deserve the accident that is coming to them :-\
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http://photobucket.com/ 8)
Why bother with all that BotoPhucket lark?
Why can't someone just empty the site's folder a bit?
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Yes Rog,
Use photobucket, then all you do is copy & paste the link...or is that what you are doing anyway?
The photo uploader on the forum isn't a lot of cop
Ian
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:o O MY GOD! :o
What the f@#k,idiots that do things like that deserve to end up either dead or seriously injured,sorry to put it like that but thats how it makes me feel,
they should be named and shamed and never be able to do this kind of work again,
Gaz
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Yes Rog,
Use photobucket, then all you do is copy & paste the link...or is that what you are doing anyway?
The photo uploader on the forum isn't a lot of cop
Ian
It's always worked fine for me.
Gaz, calm down. He's not hurting you. ::)
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Deserve to end up dead :o.
That`s a bit strong.
Gerry.
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second one must be spiderman surely!
anymore o that and no jerez
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And to think they have licensing in Scotland.....for what exactly?
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This does'nt just go for this pic btw but there seems to have been a trend here of late taking pics then slagging the so called 'cowboy' off.
Atleast squeaks and a few others on here are honest enough to say they've taken risks like that in the past
any trad cleaners on here will know the temptation to stretch that little bit more than move the ladder and do another climb, and many I'm sure have learnt the lesson the hard way.
how did the majority of windows get cleaned 20 years ago and even further back? risk taking
Times have changed, H&S , ladders at hight regs , wfp etc.
Is it only members of forums like this that deserve some friendly advice?
Hey the guys in the pics may just tell you to sod off and mind your own business, then again they may be new to it and appreciate concern and advice or a website to look at.
I'm just a bit fed up with the constant bashing.
No one wants to read of another fatal accident or loss of earnings due to a severe fall.
Simon
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Exactly cybersye..........
"Times have changed, H&S , ladders at hight regs , wfp etc."
So why do folk take risks anymore????????????????????
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I seen a guy that used to clean the big victorian houses around our town. I seen him one day climbing off the top of the ladder on the second floor into the recessed window ledge. So I went over and had a chat with him and he was a friendly guy. I found out he hadn't been doing it long and his friend had give him a few days training and then rented him the round. So I recommended him not to leave the top of a ladder at that height unless it was safe to do so. Anyway I was visiting my Nan in hospital a few months later and who should I see but the same guy in a wheel chair leg in bits. I felt really sorry for him.
Wish he had listened to my pounds worth of free advice.
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I seen a guy that used to clean the big victorian houses around our town. I seen him one day climbing off the top of the ladder on the second floor into the recessed window ledge. So I went over and had a chat with him and he was a friendly guy. I found out he hadn't been doing it long and his friend had give him a few days training and then rented him the round. So I recommended him not to leave the top of a ladder at that height unless it was safe to do so. Anyway I was visiting my Nan in hospital a few months later and who should I see but the same guy in a wheel chair leg in bits. I felt really sorry for him.
Wish he had listened to my pounds worth of free advice.
thats just the point I was trying to make, you can but try eh?
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what some people wii do for a few quid
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or 4 or 5....
still not worth it though!
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how did the majority of windows get cleaned 20 years ago and even further back? risk taking
Times have changed, H&S , ladders at hight regs , wfp etc.
I'm just a bit fed up with the constant bashing.
No one wants to read of another fatal accident or loss of earnings due to a severe fall.
Simon
Hi Simon,
The remarks regarding this type of incident i am sure is not directed at you personnally, but you have to agree, what they are doing is stupid to be fair??
These are exactly the reasons why we are getting all this WAH directives being thrust at us, nothing to do with water shortages but SAFETY!
I have used ladders for many many years before WFP, however, I never stood on a conservatory roof like that, nor did I balance like the other window cleaner? yes, I have fallen off a ladder before, but am glad to say that was due to overstretching and also putting my ladder on a pvc sill? lesson leart quickly!
Take both photos and lets be honest, either of them fell and they would be both in deep S**T!! No one, myself included, want to see anyone getting hurt. Its just frustrating when you see images like this that really are going to hit the papers as they will be serious accidents and again this will give the government jobbies more reason to hit us harder still!!
Trev
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I've personally never done number 1 as that is just plain stupid, but I must admit I've been caught out on a number 2 a few times (picture 2).
I don't encourage it but I think if you do something silly like this then you are more alert and therefore less likely to fall. Best way of avoiding the accident is not to do it in the first place. I've fallen twice from a ladder and both times it wasn't over reaching, just slippery ground.
Maybe best way of avoiding the accident, don't climb a ladder. :oDid I say that.
Simon
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standing on glass is just an accident waiting to happen
have to admit in my ladder days have done the standing on ledges sills etc always thought i was safe but when you see a picture like that makes my heart miss a couple of beats
we all learn eventually or maybe he /they are like i used to be just need to be told or shown what they are doing wrong
a near miss or a fall soon makes you think again
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I've personally never done number 1 as that is just plain stupid, but I must admit I've been caught out on a number 2 a few times (picture 2).
you should go see a doctor
geting caught out doing a number 2 can be embarassing ;)
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Both guys are thick as two-short-planks. Okay, I've done some daft stuff; had one fall; but I've not done as anything as stupid as the pictures shown on this post.
I honestly feel sorry for these guys; they've got to be desperate to earn a few pounds to do stuff like this.
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You'd think the guy in the 1st picture would at least have the common sense to stand on 2 panes and spread the weight a bit. I wonder if he walked on the glass all the way up or did he do a balancing act on the beams. Either way he's got more balls than me.
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What is wrong with people is their life only worth a few quid working like that.No wonder we have WAHR with these type of idiots about.
al
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Unbelievable, No wonder AXA insurance pulled the plug on personal accident insurance for window cleaners. I can't understand the property owners allowing anyone to walk on their glass roof. Let alone understand the idiot that's doing it. dai