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Title: NY window cleaning - times article
Post by: Reflective Property Services on May 20, 2005, 12:14:23 pm
Spotted this article, makes for interesting, if slightly scary reading.  :o Wonder if they have something similar to WAHD  ;D


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,18391-1594815,00.html
Title: Re: NY window cleaning - times article
Post by: s.hughes on May 20, 2005, 01:21:12 pm
Its good stuff, but I aint got the guts for it.

Steveyboy
Title: Re: NY window cleaning - times article
Post by: Marc's on the Glass, LLC on May 20, 2005, 09:18:29 pm
That's my goal for 2007.  There is only one company doing it here.  I wouldn't be afraid of equipment failure...just someone evil who gets to the top and lets you go.  Wonder if those guys hire well paid guardians???
Title: Re: NY window cleaning - times article
Post by: rosskesava on May 20, 2005, 10:19:32 pm
Hi Clear View

That's my goal to.  ;D  What a great way to clean windows.

By the end of this year I want to have all the IRATA  (industrial roped access trade association) qualifications to do roped access anywhere even on my own.

I can't wait.

I already have all the gear because rock climbing is a hobby of mine.

Cheers
Title: Re: NY window cleaning - times article
Post by: Marc's on the Glass, LLC on May 20, 2005, 10:52:25 pm
Hey Ross... That is awesome.  The IWCA has conventions here in the states.  They train you in all the safety and equipment use.  I hope to go to one by this fall.  I hope the best for you.  Let us know when you start!
Title: Re: NY window cleaning - times article
Post by: rosskesava on May 20, 2005, 11:01:21 pm
Quote from: Clear View on May 20, 2005, 10:52:25 pm
Hey Ross... That is awesome. The IWCA has conventions here in the states. They train you in all the safety and equipment use. I hope to go to one by this fall. I hope the best for you. Let us know when you start!

Hi again Clear View

Will do and it is awesome (awesome???) and ditto - good luck.

PM me when you get the certificates.

Ross
Title: Re: NY window cleaning - times article
Post by: dennis buller on May 21, 2005, 11:18:05 am
i would probobly have more fun than cleaning windows. the paperwork to manage the equipment would be horendous.... dennis
Title: Re: NY window cleaning - times article
Post by: Jonathan Adams on May 21, 2005, 11:31:54 am
Hi

Great article, i helped some rope access guys out in Birmingham a couple of years ago and they told me this story. They were cleaning a block of council flats using rope access somewhere (can't remember where they said) when a guy came to one of the windows they where cleaning opened it and produced a knife saying he was going to cut the rope as he thought they were coppers, needless to say the window cleaner said #### this and abseiled to the bottom. Obviously all the guy's where pulled off the building and never went back. Now that is scary.

Jonathan