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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Davew on August 03, 2007, 07:17:59 pm

Title: Misleading Statement
Post by: Davew on August 03, 2007, 07:17:59 pm
Surely this statement is not true and will wind up any traditional cleaners for sure.

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Title: Re: Misleading Statement
Post by: simon knight on August 03, 2007, 07:32:43 pm

Not misleading...totally untrue!

Yet another example of a wfp company trying scare tactics to sell it's products!
Title: Re: Misleading Statement
Post by: NWH on August 03, 2007, 07:47:55 pm
On the commercial side of WC that could be a true statement on the working at height side of things,i do think though that new people coming into the job will all look to go WFP in the main.Theres a lot of WC at the moment in there 50`s and 60`s that will never make the change having done the job trad way for so long,but when all those lads and lassies pack up it`ll all be WFP.To be honest if you were thinking of doing the job which would you prefer,up and down ladders all day?no thanks been there done that.
Title: Re: Misleading Statement
Post by: simon knight on August 03, 2007, 07:57:59 pm

If i could go wfp I would...tomorrow!

But where I live and work wfp is just not an option.

On Putney High Street we have 3rd floor offices (above shops) and guess what?...they don't get cleaned...ever!

Why? Because you can't park on Putney High Street day or night.

Likewise residential houses in the area....zero parking.

I'd love some of the suburbian w/cers to visit where I work and then tell me wfp is the way forward....

....you have to see it to believe it!
Title: Re: Misleading Statement
Post by: mark dew on August 03, 2007, 08:00:19 pm
Couldn't they be done with a trolley or backpack?
Title: Re: Misleading Statement
Post by: simon knight on August 03, 2007, 08:10:06 pm

Sure but you need to park up somewhere to refill your backpack and as I say there is no parking to be had.

Trust me there's loads of w/cers in around where i work and in 20 years I've never seen wfp...not once...not ever!

It's ladders only here.
Title: Re: Misleading Statement
Post by: matt on August 03, 2007, 08:28:57 pm
simon

get yourself a garden truck something like this

http://www.easybarrow.co.uk/hand%20trucks/big_page_4whlt.html

you will get a 200 L tank on that, fit a battery and pump and away you go

drive past a house that you do, unload the truck with empty tank, fil with 25 L drums ( if you have to padlock it to something around the rear of a house then so be it )

park car / van where you do, walk and start your work, 200 L will last all day doing upstairs

ive helped a local guy to be do it, he is banned from driving, gets his wife to drop him off and pull the cart around all day

job done
Title: Re: Misleading Statement
Post by: simon knight on August 03, 2007, 08:33:02 pm

I'll have a look...cheers Matt.
Title: Re: Misleading Statement
Post by: NWH on August 03, 2007, 09:02:46 pm
What do you do walk to work with your ladders then?
Title: Re: Misleading Statement
Post by: supernova77 on August 04, 2007, 12:12:06 am
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On Putney High Street we have 3rd floor offices (above shops) and guess what?...they don't get cleaned...ever!

Why? Because you can't park on Putney High Street day or night.

I reckon as a "tradesman" you could park up on the road with hazards on and clean the 3rd story windows with WFP?

Andy