Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Ian_Giles on March 19, 2005, 02:56:52 pm
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Coming home from work I was in a queue of trafic and glanced to one side and couldn't believe what I saw :o
This berk was 3/4 of the way up a double extension ladder using a pressure washer.
He was balancing on 2 rungs, no hands, was operating the lance sideways on, to clean off a tiled roof.
I presume he must have been the householder, no sane proffesional would work in that way........would they?
Ian
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In a word......YES
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Sad innit :-\
Small wonder that Health and safety regs are being tightened :'(
Mind you, some of the risks I have taken in the past make me wince with embarrassment when I recall them :-[
Ian
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Ian,
Did you give any thought to your own safety before getting stuck into that glass of lager ;)
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Jon,
By the time I had got halfway through it I didn't care ;D ::) ;D
Ian
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Today on the way home I saw something I could not believe.
About 20 yards from a very busy junction right next to a bus stop was someone up a ladder painting a canopy front which is over a small parade of shops.
The bottom of the ladder was actually in the road about a foot out from the kerb with him about 15' up painting away. His idea of 'safety' was 2 small cones either side of the feet.
My mate phoned 999 but they'd already had about half a dozen calls about it.
That bloke must be so thick and stupid that it defies description.
And Ian, I hope that mug is not a pint glass. ;D
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Did you give any thought to your own safety before getting stuck into that glass of lager ;)
Fermented alcoholic products have been with us for around 12,000 years. So they can't be that bad for you! See here:
http://www.fosters.com.au/beer/history/
And Ian, I hope that mug is not a pint glass. ;D
That mug looks very familiar. I think it's a German Stein and holds nearly four pints of pills (the German equivallent to lager).
I've drunk a few in Gemany (lived there for several years on and off) and ended up with a bigger right bicep than my left. The only problem with them was, you didn't want to put it down to go to the toilet because they're not cheap, and some other drunken squaddie would nick it when you're not looking!
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In a "not window cleaning" bit of muppetry last summer I was using a petrol mower which you could only switch off by pulling off the sparking plug lead. (Ouch!) So to avoid this unpleasant sensation I had a bit of bamboo with which I would deftly flick off the lead when emptying the grassbox.
Anyway, yours truly loses stick and empties grassbox with motor running and no probs all afternoon until tube where grass fires out is blocked.
Idiot me proceeds to put hand up tube and lose nail and very tip of middle finger in a mind-numbing slice/thwack of mower blade.
Missus G cossets me like a baby when I nearly faint and get rushed off to NHS direct where a nurse gives me a dressing, a finger bandage and instructions not to do "such a numpty thing again!" ::)
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My muppet story happened about two years ago.
A guy was cleaning the windows on a block of flats on the Kenton road near Harrow. And it was raining
The flats were ground floor, first floor, second floor and the third floor were attic flats with little dormer window set half way up in the roof.
With a very long and unsecured aluminium ladder he was climbing up to roof level and then walking up the wet roof tiles to clean the attic windows. When finished he was walking down backwards trying to hook the ladder with his foot.
I am not exagerating when I say it made me feel ill just watching him.
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I posted above about some idiot with his ladder in the gutter whillst painting.
Last Friday, I had a phone call from the local Police asking me questions about what time, where was the ladder exactly, etc and yesterday, (Tuesday) a copper came round and took a statement from me.
It seems they are intending to 'do him' over it. The officer who took my statement did not want to tell me any details other than the idiot will be charged and would I be prepared to be a witness and when am I going on holiday?
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'scuse me for asking Ross, but how do you think the Police knew 1) about it and 2) that you saw it? ???
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Sorry Ross! I mixed up what you said with what Ian wrote. I must learn to read before replying! Thanks Graham!
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More non w/c muppetry from yours truly.
We had an irritating interlocking kitchen floor tile that kept working loose so yesterday after trying several methods I whacked superglue around the edges.
Only wearing socks and unbeknown to me I'd superglued my sock to my big toe! Went to bed and realised that sock was stuck to my foot!
This morning I cut off sock and bathed said area in Acetone (Nail polish remover). Ow!
No sympathy from Mrs G. this time (see lawnmower muppetry in earlier post) who is still laughing!
Muppetry at it's finest.
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Cor Malc
DIY and almost starkers apart from a pair socks.
Only wearing socks and unbeknown to me I'd superglued my sock to my big toe!
Good job you weren't sitting on the floor. ;D
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LOL Ross - That was only wearing socks as in not wearing shoes! You will all be pleased to know that yours truly was wearing light indoor clothing!
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wow..I hope there's pictures.....
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You want a picture of my big toe, Duke? ???
That's just weird!
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oh. you know me , anything for a laugh....
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I stop to talk to a window cleaner Ive spoke to before,getting out of my van ,him not seing me,him on double extenders some twenty feet up a wooden ladder I TOOK A PHOTO OF HIM JUST TURNING AROUND TO ANSWER HIS MOBILE PHONE,WHILST STILL CLEANING WINDOWS WITH HIS RIGHT HAND,he thought I was h/s officer,till he reconized me.I ask him what he was going to do tommorrow when the new laws come in force,to which he replied what new laws is that then?To which I replied it will not affect you anyway cus youll be dead before you finish the building ,best thing is hes been a window cleaner for 23 yrs Ithought maybe 23mins a window cleaner
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Oh :o what new laws come into force tomorrow then?
The banning of mobile phones I hope.
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Mobile phones....they'll be the death of us yet, though this will usually only occur if you send the seedy, sordid and obscene text you have just tapped out with shaking fingers to your wife....instead of your lover :o
I hate the misconceptions that can surround our trusty mobiles, trying using yours while filling up at the petrol station, the assistants have an absolute fit! They are bawling down the tannoy that the driver must stop using his phone before he kills us all by turning the station into a huge fireball :o :o
It's complete garbage of course, after getting caught using my moblie (wasn't on purpose, it rang, I answered :-\) and being ticked of loudly by some snot nosed teller I did some research.
The reason (and the only reason there has ever been) is that in the days when mobiles were just starting, one of the makes, I think it was Vodafone, had their phones operating on the same frequency as the pumps, using them around the petrol pumps could interfere with the signal to the tills (not necessarily in your favour either!).
None of the phones do so anymore, and it is an utter fallacy that a mobile can cause an explosion or ignite petrol fumes, the emitted microwaves would need to heat the air to the ignition point of the petrol, an absolute physical impossibility, you don't believe me, put a saucer of petrol in your microwave oven, turn it on to full power for 30 seconds, nothing will happen..............but make sure it is an old microwave oven, not the new one your wife picked up from Comet the week before, trust me, this is not a good idea :-\
The stink of petrol fumes takes ages to get rid of :-[
There is far greater risk of an explosion from the exhaust manifold, or a static spark from your clothing.
I have arguments with those behind the tills, not because I have used my phone, I just like to ask them if they know why you are not allowed to use a mobile phone. Invariably they all say it is because of the risk of explosion.
I will ask them if they ever use their mobile while sitting in the back of their friends car? They do know they are sat within a couple of feet of a massive bomb?
Most petrol tanks are of a composite makeup now, the microwaves will go straight through them :o :o
I just wish they would tell you it was simply company policy (which is fair enough I think) other than some stupid fairy tale.
I've known about this for a few years, but did anyone see the program on the telly where they surrounded some open petrol containers with a dozen or more mobile phones? And then rang them all at once? Nothing happened of course, then they made some clothes give off some static electricity and BOOM!!!
I missed the program myself, but a couple of mates told me about it ;D
Have a nice day now ;)
Ian
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Hi Ian
You've just solved something that really puzzled me at the time.
A while back whilst getting petrol my mobile rang so I answered it. While filling up this bloke walks past me while going back to his car and tells me the cashier is going nuts at me which made absolutely no sense at all.
When I went to pay the er 'foreign gentleman cashier' kept saying to me over and over again that 'you cannot be doing that'. I said it's quite easy. Petrol pump in one hand, mobile in the other. Simple.
Then he went on about something about not making phone calls so I told him that is what a mobile phone is for.
Then he started shouting about blowing things up and I thought he was in some way refering to the Madrid train bombings which hadn't long before happened.
Now I understand.
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Using mobiles at gas stations is prohibited in Spain, due to the prooven evidence of ignition in close proximity of petrol. So if you're on your hands-free driving past your nearest gas station, you can watch the firework display in your rear mirror. ;D
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lol...