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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: MNWC on February 15, 2008, 06:10:57 pm

Title: Back to ladders for me !
Post by: MNWC on February 15, 2008, 06:10:57 pm

Got a new job today.

It hadnt been cleaned at all they where a right state !

As it was a first clean i got my ladders off the roof.

You should have seen me, I was like a man of 80 going up that ladder craping myself incase i slipped or fell !

When i was trad i used to zip up the ladders, whats happened!!!!

WFP the best invention of the modern age.

Marcus...

Title: Re: Back to ladders for me !
Post by: *john garnett on February 15, 2008, 06:12:55 pm

I'm in the market for cheap hand me downs if your selling old kit in good nick.

Title: Re: Back to ladders for me !
Post by: Dean Aspects on February 15, 2008, 06:13:45 pm

 ;D  I did the same last week i was positive the ladders would slip and kept looking down thinking i wish i had taken more time placing the ladders what a wimp!! ;D


Dean

Title: Re: Back to ladders for me !
Post by: BVC on February 15, 2008, 07:09:03 pm

Me too!
Its really weird coz I used ladders for 10 years, used to bump them across to reach other windows, jump accross onto porches and slide down the ladder for my dismount, now if I go up I brick myself.

Title: Re: Back to ladders for me !
Post by: L.J.Thorpe on February 15, 2008, 07:56:33 pm

 told ya  ;) thats why i dropped all the buildcleans,to much like hard work and scared me witless.got some fascia next week ,i remember when i used to look forward to them...now i try to find someone else to do em :-[ pathetic really but it dont take long to lose your confidence on em

Title: Re: Back to ladders for me !
Post by: Wayne Thomas on February 15, 2008, 08:00:57 pm

I still go up a very long ladder twice a month for access, just to keep familiar with it, lol

Title: Re: Back to ladders for me !
Post by: Londoner on February 16, 2008, 07:29:28 am

I know exactly what you mean. You get ladder shy.

Title: Re: Back to ladders for me !
Post by: bernlyn on February 16, 2008, 07:47:18 am

i know what you guys are saying but i will live by this  if i get to scared to go up a ladder i will not force myself. as it is time to look for alternative method or change jobs simple because fear can get you hurt and i have seen guys bricking themselves whilst going up the ladder only to injure themselves

Title: Re: Back to ladders for me !
Post by: pjulk on February 16, 2008, 10:38:51 am

For me i don't mind going up ladders one floor but anything higher i crap my load.

I don't know if its because im getting older and have more sense or what.
But a few years ago i would not think anything of going up 2 floors like on blocks of flats walking along ledges.
Actually some of the things i used to do thinking back on it now makes me cringe.

But when i first started window cleaning all the window cleaner were doing the things i used to.


Paul