Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Davew on November 23, 2007, 04:29:17 pm
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I lose more time re-coiling my pole hose back up and hanging it back in the van than anything else. I also lose some time by using modular poles (bending down to pick up sections then restacking them for transport) where do you all lose the most time?
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Customers being talkative why can't they just pay me and close the door >:(
Dean
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Reading threads like this on the forums ;D
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I lose more time re-coiling my pole hose back up and hanging it back in the van than anything else. I also loose some time by using modular poles (bending down to pick up sections then restacking them for transport) where do you all lose the most time?
Use a golfbag for the modular sections - that's what I do.
I lose time getting tangled in my hose, round plantpots, under tyres etc etc!
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I lose more time re-coiling my pole hose back up and hanging it back in the van than anything else. I also loose some time by using modular poles (bending down to pick up sections then restacking them for transport) where do you all lose the most time?
Just one more reason to go carbon telescopic dave ;)
Please dont get onto me, i'm only trying to help :'(
tony
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Oh no Tony your still about! ::)
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Oh no Tony your still about! ::)
We should have tea & biscuits some time dave, think it'd be real fun :-*
tony
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;D I would if you wern't so far away. As time goes by i quite enjoy your posts. ;)
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I lose time by taking LSD.
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talking to customers talking to other wcs and finding somewhere to go for a p*ss
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by the way the wcs was an abbreviation of window cleaners just thought it looked a bit odd when i read it back :)
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getting stuck in traffic trying to get to customer, only to get there to
find they are not in as promised and there is no access to the back >:(
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Being so anal about doing a good job that sometimes I clean a window 3 times or more...
Dave.
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;D been there especially on first cleans.
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Being so anal about doing a good job that sometimes I clean a window 3 times or more...
Dave.
I took 3/4 of an hour over ONE window this wek. It just never seemed to come up right. Always seemed to leave a 'ghosting'. Changed the rubber0, turned the rubber round, used my other blade, turned that one round. Changed the water, added more GG4..........................
Put it down to tree sap in the end, its on a house located next to a small pine wood. Either that or localised humidity (is that possible?) as the day was damp and particularly under those trees.
Matt
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I was doing that this week too. Kept getting streaks on windows where it is easier to do straight pulls. Changed the channel, the rubber, technique and nothing fixed it. Was getting fed up so buffed them up with a microfibre after they dried. Took me ages. ::)
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Customers being talkative why can't they just pay me and close the door >:(
Dean
You miserable sod. ;D
No tips for you grumpyguts.
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Oh yeah, my time loser...crap squeegee rubbers. >:(
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I also have a couple of houses where there are bushes in front of some windows. Can't get a ladder to the windows, so I do them with a short pole. s l o w...
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With reference to this post
I was doing that this week too. Kept getting streaks on windows where it is easier to do straight pulls. Changed the channel, the rubber, technique and nothing fixed it. Was getting fed up so buffed them up with a microfibre after they dried. Took me ages. ::)
Ian do you think your problem might have been caused by what Squeaks has posted below
Oh yeah, my time loser...crap squeegee rubbers. >:(
I use Ettore rubbers, so theyre soft, I gotta say I have had this problem occuring far too often recently, its almost like one side of the rubber is fine then the other side when its turned over is crud.
I get my Ettores from windowcleaningwarehouse.
What say you ?
Matt
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With reference to this post
I was doing that this week too. Kept getting streaks on windows where it is easier to do straight pulls. Changed the channel, the rubber, technique and nothing fixed it. Was getting fed up so buffed them up with a microfibre after they dried. Took me ages. ::)
Ian do you think your problem might have been caused by what Squeaks has posted below
Oh yeah, my time loser...crap squeegee rubbers. >:(
I use Ettore rubbers, so theyre soft, I gotta say I have had this problem occuring far too often recently, its almost like one side of the rubber is fine then the other side when its turned over is crud.
I get my Ettores from windowcleaningwarehouse.
What say you ?
Matt
I use pulex hard rubber, tried a few and always went back
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Customers being talkative why can't they just pay me and close the door >:(
Dean
You miserable sod. ;D
No tips for you grumpyguts.
If i waste time speaking to customers how am i going to reach my daily target of £550?
;)
Dean
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I tried Pulex soft, and thought that was what the problem was. I went back to Ettore hard, then tried Unger hard and SYR hard - same problem.
It only happens right by the edge of the window too. I tried applicating right up to the edge, leaving a small gap, detailing before squeegeeing, not detailing, and nothing seemed to make a difference.
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I wasnt sure if maybe it is localised weather conditions, micro-climate stuff. Like I said at the time for me the house was situated beneath pine trees, maybe it was the combination of cold weather and higher than normal humidity. Or maybe excess sap on the glass. Went to the next house and it was fine. Though the blade had been changed and had settled itself in by then.
Also I was considering is it the tension on the rubber. Too taut, too lose....?
Nothing seemed to sort it........... >:( >:( >:(
Matt
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I'm gonna get me a new squeegee and give it a go again next week. Thinking of the Unger Ergotech at the moment. Any other recommendations? (I know I will probably get about 20 different answers! ;D )
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I'm gonna get me a new squeegee and give it a go again next week. Thinking of the Unger Ergotech at the moment. Any other recommendations? (I know I will probably get about 20 different answers! ;D )
I got me one of them ;D
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Ergotech 1, other squeegees 0 ;D
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Ergotech 1, other squeegees 0 ;D
Ettore's miles better quality than that plastic rubbish. :o
Anything not made by Unger 1,
Anything made by Unger -100,
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Ergotech 1, Ettore 1 ;D
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Ettore's miles better quality than that plastic rubbish. :o
What about Ettore's plastic rubbish, is that any good.???
btw, ergotec handle and T-bar for me. ;)
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Ettore for me :)
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i have two friends who do trad and dont post on here but both moaning about similar probs in last month also i did two internals this month and both seemed "ghosty" needed lot of scrim work thought it was just me ???
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Being so anal about doing a good job that sometimes I clean a window 3 times or more...
Dave.
I took 3/4 of an hour over ONE window this wek. It just never seemed to come up right. Always seemed to leave a 'ghosting'. Changed the rubber0, turned the rubber round, used my other blade, turned that one round. Changed the water, added more GG4..........................
Put it down to tree sap in the end, its on a house located next to a small pine wood. Either that or localised humidity (is that possible?) as the day was damp and particularly under those trees.
Matt
Was it self cleaning glass, as I have found this when trying to do them in the sun
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It seems like a lot of people are having similar problems then. I wonder why?