Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Neil_A on November 24, 2007, 11:48:29 am
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Was going to go to work this morning but it was freeeeezin outside.. :-\
This is my first winter of window cleaning... Not nice atall
Am i a baby or what?
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I was out at 6.30 this morning :o yes it was very cold,just get your self wrapped up and you`ll be ok,hat,gloves and a decent coat ;)
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my first winter too, but the car was frozen up and i had to do my driving test at 10 am so by the time i got to my round to do the last 8 or so due, it would be getting dark at 4 so not today thankyou- nice to choose when to work though!
im sure theres worse weather to come for next time - mid december next due. Oh well
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Was going to go to work this morning but it was freeeeezin outside.. :-\
This is my first winter of window cleaning... Not nice atall
Am i a baby or what?
No, you're just a bit strange. ;D
It's saturday.
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Was going to go to work this morning but it was freeeeezin outside.. :-\
This is my first winter of window cleaning... Not nice atall
Am i a baby or what?
Yep your a baby welcome to our world :P
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Are you trad or WFP?
If your trad, wait for an easterly wind in January, with wet hands and metallic ladder :o :o :o
I look forward to those days allllll summer long ;)
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roll on springtime
nice cooked breakfast ,put my glaciar gloves on ,grit my teeth ,see u at 5 .love
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Had to start with a little trad work yesterday and I left my gloves behind so my hands went numb within minutes of starting. Usually this only lasts for about half hour though, then my circulation kicks in and I'm warm as toast for the rest of the day unless it's extremely windy then the wind chill can be hard to beat.
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I reckon the same as M & C, the coldness or numbness normally only lasts half an hour tops and then you are ok. I always say work harder and faster if you feel cold and you'll soon be ok. The only exception to that is when you have a -something ridicules wind chill to contend with. Get those long jons on.
Simon.
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Think i need to stock up on some good gloves and some long jons!
:)
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Was going to go to work this morning but it was freeeeezin outside.. :-\
This is my first winter of window cleaning... Not nice atall
Am i a baby or what?
Yes :)
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Think i need to stock up on some good gloves and some long jons!
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Get some shorts on and be a real window cleaner :P
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Think i need to stock up on some good gloves and some long jons!
:)
Get some shorts on and be a real window cleaner :P
Shorts! In this weather! Jesus Ian you are hardcore!
And it is 16:16 and im looking out the window at darkness! What is going on?? lol
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Think i need to stock up on some good gloves and some long jons!
:)
Get some shorts on and be a real window cleaner :P
Shorts! In this weather! Jesus Ian you are hardcore!
And it is 16:16 and im looking out the window at darkness! What is going on?? lol
I was out in shorts and my Teva sandles this morning, scaping my truck. ;D
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Think i need to stock up on some good gloves and some long jons!
:)
Get some shorts on and be a real window cleaner :P
Shorts! In this weather! Jesus Ian you are hardcore!
And it is 16:16 and im looking out the window at darkness! What is going on?? lol
if you want to be hardcore get some shorts and some night vison goggles. ;)
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Think i need to stock up on some good gloves and some long jons!
:)
Get some shorts on and be a real window cleaner :P
Shorts! In this weather! Jesus Ian you are hardcore!
And it is 16:16 and im looking out the window at darkness! What is going on?? lol
I was out in shorts and my Teva sandles this morning, scaping my truck. ;D
Do you live in spain? ;D
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Think i need to stock up on some good gloves and some long jons!
:)
Get some shorts on and be a real window cleaner :P
Shorts! In this weather! Jesus Ian you are hardcore!
And it is 16:16 and im looking out the window at darkness! What is going on?? lol
if you want to be hardcore get some shorts and some night vison goggles. ;)
MATE I will get arrested for being a pervert haha
Now we know what you getup2 on a Saturday night ;)
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if this is your fisrt winter it wont get any better after 16 of them. The older i get the colder it gets, welcome to the winter. :)
Good Luck!
Brett
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Think i need to stock up on some good gloves and some long jons!
:)
Get some shorts on and be a real window cleaner :P
Shorts! In this weather! Jesus Ian you are hardcore!
And it is 16:16 and im looking out the window at darkness! What is going on?? lol
I was out in shorts and my Teva sandles this morning, scaping my truck. ;D
Do you live in spain? ;D
Wish I did.... nah, just never really felt the cold - kinda like it really :-\
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Sometimes the cold can be refreshing.
Its that cold easterly that probably gets to most people, it does me, WIND CHILL is the killer. But having said that, if my hands get cold and wet, particularly when using the ladder, theres nothing to beat warming them up than getting on with the job. You have to go through that burning of the hands stage, I call it the burn, feels like someones hitting you with a hammer; but cold ladder after...............no worries, the circulation sorts it all.
Matt
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Sometimes the cold can be refreshing.
Its that cold easterly that probably gets to most people, it does me, WIND CHILL is the killer. But having said that, if my hands get cold and wet, particularly when using the ladder, theres nothing to beat warming them up than getting on with the job. You have to go through that burning of the hands stage, I call it the burn, feels like someones hitting you with a hammer; but cold ladder after...............no worries, the circulation sorts it all.
Matt
agree with the burn go past that stage till your hands feel twice the size, then nothing hurts even when you catch your finger on a nail sticking out of a window pane :-X
the only time it then hurts is when your hands start to warm up
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I agree.. once I have had the hotaches - then my hands are toasty for the rest of the day ;D
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Good tip I got from an old fisherman is to dunk your hands in cold water befoere you start, this seems to acclimatize your hands. always works for me.
Drew.
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A few years ago I had a couple of blokes working for me. One freezing day I went looking for them and found them sitting in the van at 11.30am!!
They hadn't done a stroke because "we're too cold to work".
I took a ladder off their van and one of their scrims, then I ragged the first house on their list - I cleaned every window up to spotless standard just by scrubbing them with a slightly damp scrim. When I'd finished I shook them both by the hand - they couldn't believe how warm my hands were. Then I told them to get on with it - or else.
I never ask anyone to do anything I'm not prepared to do myself.
Mind you - I've had a few employees refer to me as "that mad b****r" ;D