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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: steve jamieson on January 22, 2009, 04:44:23 pm

Title: window cleaner on stilts
Post by: steve jamieson on January 22, 2009, 04:44:23 pm

I was out today doing some canvassing ,when i get talking to
 a lady who says here window cleaner does the top windows on a pair of stilts . I have to admit ive never heard that one before
shes proberbly mistaken but it did make laugh a bit .

Title: Re: window cleaner on stilts
Post by: chrisyg on January 22, 2009, 04:49:09 pm

what a clown...

seriously, must have come from the circus.. id rather use a ladder anyday.

Good marketing tool thou, dont think you'll get much commercial that way..

Title: Re: window cleaner on stilts
Post by: SherwoodCleaningSe on January 22, 2009, 05:06:42 pm

Be a bit of a pain getting to the downstairs windows.

Title: Re: window cleaner on stilts
Post by: trevor povey on January 22, 2009, 05:18:56 pm

a customer of mine who was a shopfitter in the 70,s says he came across a gang of plasterers from Holland who used stilits,he said it was a real eye opener and saved a fortune on time associated with scaffold cost when plastering  ceilings ;)

Title: Re: window cleaner on stilts
Post by: Alex Gardiner on January 22, 2009, 05:31:19 pm

Suspended ceiling fitters still use twin-leg sprung aluminium stilts.

Title: Re: window cleaner on stilts
Post by: Bonzer on January 22, 2009, 05:54:05 pm

I know a window cleaner who does the higher shop fronts with stilts.

Title: Re: window cleaner on stilts
Post by: Dean Taberner on January 22, 2009, 05:59:28 pm

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEWmUaXAJ9E

Title: Re: window cleaner on stilts
Post by: RO-Sheen on January 22, 2009, 09:26:12 pm

I go to a wholesalers and they sell 'plasterers stilts'. Picture of a guy artexing the ceiling on the box!

Title: Re: window cleaner on stilts
Post by: mistersqueegee on January 23, 2009, 04:33:18 am

I used to do plastering and drywall and once you get used to them the stilts are very comfortable to wear and easy to get on and off.

Title: Re: window cleaner on stilts
Post by: windowwashers on January 23, 2009, 10:44:27 am

Quote from: mistersqueegee on January 23, 2009, 04:33:18 am

I used to do plastering and drywall and once you get used to them the stilts are very comfortable to wear and easy to get on and off.

I have tried using stilts to do plastering, looked more like rustic artexing by the time I had finished.