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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: STEVE-UK on October 29, 2008, 09:36:23 pm

Title: how do these guys get round health and safety?
Post by: STEVE-UK on October 29, 2008, 09:36:23 pm: have a look at these guys website there advertising 4 th story ladder work

www.get-gutted.co.uk/jobs.php
Title: Re: how do these guys get round health and safety?
Post by: Captain Scarlet on October 29, 2008, 09:38:37 pm: thers nothing wrong with ladder work to an infinite height, my insurance covers me wfp, ladders and cherry pickers to an infinite height!! even to the moon!
Title: Re: how do these guys get round health and safety?
Post by: Chris Galloway on October 29, 2008, 10:05:41 pm: well, mostly its private residential, so basically they dont.

In the eyes of the WAHR - should be done via hydraulic access or scaffold towers.

I cant see how their employment insurance would cover this type of method..
Title: Re: how do these guys get round health and safety?
Post by: russ_clark on October 29, 2008, 10:10:25 pm: These guys are on my doorstep :o :o :o
Thought they were a pro set up
obviously not by the looks of those pics.
Would not dream of putting some of those pics on my website
Russ
Title: Re: how do these guys get round health and safety?
Post by: dave0123 on October 29, 2008, 10:14:28 pm: state of the ladder angles under awkward jobs! we have all done dangrous stuff but nothing like that neally flat right over conservastory
Title: Re: how do these guys get round health and safety?
Post by: seandyer2003 on October 29, 2008, 10:14:56 pm: some of them pics are shocking, one is a aframe on a roof, the ladders over conservatory what an angle!! and the one where 5 ladders are all in a row, i bet they step accross, shocking, this is where ladders got a bad name!!
Title: Re: how do these guys get round health and safety?
Post by: Chris Galloway on October 29, 2008, 10:15:57 pm: Quote from: russ_clark on October 29, 2008, 10:10:25 pm
These guys are on my doorstep :o :o :o
Thought they were a pro set up
obviously not by the looks of those pics.
Would not dream of putting some of those pics on my website
Russ

I've look at those pics in more detail and im shocked at the sheer lack of H&S. :o

Should be reported to the HSE imo.

However from the look of them, you wouldn;t want to mess wif em ;D
Title: Re: how do these guys get round health and safety?
Post by: NWH on October 29, 2008, 10:32:14 pm: That bloke looks like the 1 from that film the hills have eyes,by the looks of it he`s as stupid.
Title: Re: how do these guys get round health and safety?
Post by: richywilts on October 29, 2008, 10:41:15 pm: THIS IS WHY I QUIT FITTIN FACSIA AND SOFFITS NO GOOD AT TOP OF GABLE RIPPIN OUT OLD WOOD MANY A TIME I NEARLY FELL BACK OFF LADDER JUST TO GET JOB DONE!!!
Title: Re: how do these guys get round health and safety?
Post by: mark dew on October 30, 2008, 12:44:47 am: Quote from: russ_clark on October 29, 2008, 10:10:25 pm
These guys are on my doorstep :o :o :o
Thought they were a pro set up
obviously not by the looks of those pics.
Would not dream of putting some of those pics on my website
Russ

Quick, get a gutter vac. ;D
Title: Re: how do these guys get round health and safety?
Post by: TVCS on October 30, 2008, 10:35:32 am: If they flogged the 37 ladders they have, they could get a gutter vac and a decent pole system. Or maybe retire. ;D
Title: Re: how do these guys get round health and safety?
Post by: Helen on October 30, 2008, 02:17:25 pm: Picture 8 in the Aukward Jobs section :o
What in the name of all things ladders is going on there???
There seems to be 5 ladders all tied together in some magical spider web formation.
Title: Re: how do these guys get round health and safety?
Post by: Central Window Cleaners on October 30, 2008, 04:54:52 pm: What about the two ladders over the conservatory in a aframe using a couple of screw drivers through the rungs.

Why do firms like this never get caught?
Title: Re: how do these guys get round health and safety?
Post by: tomy jackson on October 30, 2008, 05:06:45 pm: looks like thay may be gipsys ???????????????
Title: Re: how do these guys get round health and safety?
Post by: Paul Coleman on October 30, 2008, 05:11:42 pm: I think they're having a laugh and put the website up as a prank. A bit like that picture with the water tank on the car roof :)
Title: Re: how do these guys get round health and safety?
Post by: Xline Systems on October 30, 2008, 05:15:28 pm: have you seen the pic that says multi ladder set up for easy access. i bet they step off one ladder to the other crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: how do these guys get round health and safety?
Post by: russ_clark on October 30, 2008, 05:19:42 pm: These guys really do exist and operate.
They are pretty local to me and I have seen a signwritten van around.
They obviously get the work -but god knows how.
Working like some of their pics I am surprised someone has not been killed >:( >:(