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Title: Do you show off
Post by: cat9921 on August 31, 2008, 03:56:20 pm
Now nobody likes a show off, but if you're cleaning some domestic windows and there is another trade window cleaner who is watchin' you clean  ;D  ... Do you diliberately go as fast as you can to show how quick you can clean windows with WFP    ;D

This happened to me some time back, There was 4 trad window cleaners all working doing a good job, And when I saw them I delibrately went faster then I normally do, Just to show them I could beat them   ;D

I did 4 houses to there 1 pub. - There was me and my works partner to there 4.
Sad I know, but be honest do you get a buzz knowing that the trad cleaner sees how fast you can be  :D

Adders rinse and clean
Title: Re: Do you show off
Post by: LWC on August 31, 2008, 03:58:25 pm
gotta show off!
Title: Re: Do you show off
Post by: Paul Coleman on August 31, 2008, 04:02:19 pm
Now nobody likes a show off, but if you're cleaning some domestic windows and there is another trade window cleaner who is watchin' you clean  ;D  ... Do you diliberately go as fast as you can to show how quick you can clean windows with WFP    ;D

This happened to me some time back, There was 4 trad window cleaners all working doing a good job, And when I saw them I delibrately went faster then I normally do, Just to show them I could beat them   ;D

I did 4 houses to there 1 pub. - There was me and my works partner to there 4.
Sad I know, but be honest do you get a buzz knowing that the trad cleaner sees how fast you can be  :D

Adders rinse and clean

I have done it - but not recently  :)
Title: Re: Do you show off
Post by: Bobs Window Cleaning on August 31, 2008, 04:05:43 pm
To be honest. I dont find WFP that much faster on an average house :-X
 
Some windows which have the crap glass (u know which ones) seem to take forever to rinse, where as trad I was alot faster on these type of glass.

Bob
Title: Re: Do you show off
Post by: SherwoodCleaningSe on August 31, 2008, 04:28:07 pm
yep must say I do but when I was 100% trad I'd go faster if I saw another wc. Me and my missus normally race each other though, it makes the day go faster.

Simon.
Title: Re: Do you show off
Post by: windowwashers on August 31, 2008, 04:47:54 pm
I tend to go slower  ;D
Title: Re: Do you show off
Post by: cat9921 on August 31, 2008, 05:07:10 pm
I tend to go slower  ;D

Why  ::)

Is it because the last thing you want is to get into a race with trad cleaners as they will likely try to beat you and injure themselves  ;D

Title: Re: Do you show off
Post by: windowwashers on August 31, 2008, 05:23:57 pm
I tend to go slower  ;D

Why  ::)

Is it because the last thing you want is to get into a race with trad cleaners as they will likely try to beat you and injure themselves  ;D


Not at all, I really do not care what they do to be honest, there choice if they like the risk, I did it for to many years now prefer feet on floor  ;D
Title: Re: Do you show off
Post by: Sir Squeaky on August 31, 2008, 05:35:07 pm
Squeegeeing fast looks way better anyway.
Especially two handed with a few twists. ;D
Title: Re: Do you show off
Post by: Steve CM on August 31, 2008, 05:36:32 pm
I tend to go slower  ;D

great minds think a like ;)
Title: Re: Do you show off
Post by: windowwashers on August 31, 2008, 06:33:07 pm

 now prefer feet on floor  ;D
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so why are you replacing gutters
good question, it pays a lot more than window cleaning, and the jobs are few and far between is my answer, but this service is stopping also. Gutter clearing will done with a vac.

I do not like ladder work anymore and have good reason, I am not knocking trad cleaners as I did this myself for quite a few years, but the tools are there now so I do not have to do this day in day out.

Ian
Title: Re: Do you show off
Post by: Londoner on September 01, 2008, 06:52:17 am
Years ago I worked at Kodak in Harrow in a building with wide window sills. Boy you should have seen the window cleaners showing off to the girls in the offices. They used to walk round the building from sill to sill on the second floor.
Title: Re: Do you show off
Post by: karygate on September 01, 2008, 08:45:25 am
no i am safe in my own self confidence

but if you wanted to rush why don,t you get both of you to work ;D