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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: LSB on May 24, 2008, 02:56:48 pm

Title: i have just seen ....
Post by: LSB on May 24, 2008, 02:56:48 pm
i have just seen ....

a new window cleaner in my road ,
with wrong ladders and no a frame  , did have b on a belt , etc

i watched him very unconvincingly climb the ladder , he eventually stopped 2 or 3 rungs short of reaching the fanlights , i then see that he 's holding and proceeds to use a ' vileda ' type of mop to reach up and clean the fanlights and top of the windows !

i have never seen anything like this before !
he was there for a while , and somehow he appears to have done a reasonable job , inc frames
i am trad so no wfp vs trad ! 
Title: Re: i have just seen ....
Post by: Captain Scarlet on May 24, 2008, 03:00:02 pm
There are lots of different ways to clean a window, a person in my area uses a rag on a stick, the results are always quite good though, because they spend quite alot of time doing it, Luke
Title: Re: i have just seen ....
Post by: Tosh on May 24, 2008, 06:22:49 pm
I've seen a window cleaner wash, squeegy; then scrim the whole window (it was a large shop window).  I was chatting with him while he did it. 

I really had to hold back from saying, 'You don't want to do it like that...", but this guy has been cleaning windows since before I was born, so I bit my lip.

Title: Re: i have just seen ....
Post by: elite mike on May 24, 2008, 06:29:27 pm
think i would have bit my lip as well tosh   :D  :D

was it j h   by the way ?
Title: Re: i have just seen ....
Post by: NWH on May 24, 2008, 06:36:54 pm
You see some WC`s working and can see they have no idea,just because they`ve been doing it for years does not mean there doing it the quickest and correct way.Some have worked on there own for years and know no different.
Title: Re: i have just seen ....
Post by: steve.ternent on May 24, 2008, 08:52:20 pm
 ;) We have some lads come round here (he has a large round) been doing it for years

but he uses JUST SCRIMS to this day i cant understand it...  :o  :o :o

I have never seen any water...HONEST!!!
I could be wrong but I don't think so!!!  :o