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Window Cleaning Forum / Gooseneck valve
« Last post by andyralph on Today at 05:15:35 pm »Hi all anybody use a gooseneck valve and do they only work on gardiner poles ant thoughts thanks andy
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: what hours do you allow for cleaning/admin/end of day jobs,etc every week?
« Last post by Simon Trapani on Today at 03:10:49 pm »F.ck a schedule . Get there when we get there.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: what hours do you allow for cleaning/admin/end of day jobs,etc every week?
« Last post by dazmond on Today at 02:02:36 pm »I'm a 4 day week man now.....5 or 6 hours a day...that's plenty of time to earn a good wedge...Surely you no longer need to work in the rain?
why?
of course i do or else ill get behind schedule or have to work a day i want off.........for instance i never work weekends anymore and im having thursday off next week to concentrate on drumming(we have an early rehearsal on thursday evening).....we also have a gig on saturday night so i dont want to have any of my scheduled 4 days off(mon/tues/wed/fri)and be forced to work a sat to keep to schedule.....
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Selling work
« Last post by dazmond on Today at 01:32:46 pm »I thought you were refining Daz that ain’t refining I reckon you’re parking up in Cul -de-sacs or a close most days.
yep still cleaning my estate work....i have 4 days work on one estate and 3 and a half on another across the road,most other work is larger houses,a few offices,childrens care homes/nurseries,etc....
i have no problem cleaning 18- 25 houses a day some days...i dont see why you have a problem with that?
yesterday i actually cleaned 17 jobs in 4 hours(1 customers has moved).......
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: On the Tools
« Last post by dazmond on Today at 01:21:03 pm »I hate that term. You can hardly call a carbon fibre pole a tool can you. We're not a proper trade.
i like it......."on the tools" and im part of the "window cleaning trade" sounds good to me......
i love the simplicity of cleaning....when i look at builders,plasters,joiners,etc it makes me feel so lucky that i dont have to faff about like they have to do to get a job completed....
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Contract Cleaning Forum / Re: How to get started with contract cleaning
« Last post by Splash & dash on Today at 11:09:47 am »Lol all theses so called cleaning firms that cannot even sort out a form absolutely laughable , can you do rams ?. And site specific quotes ?? I doubt it , if you cannot sort out a simple form how on earth do you think you are going to get a contract with a decent size firm .
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Black marks
« Last post by Dry Clean on Today at 07:14:31 am »Removing the ingrained marks on the sills will be more trouble than its worth but the windows themselves aren't that hard to clean, you just need to make sure that any water above the seal has stopped dripping before cleaning the glass below it, the same as you would with a problem vent, there are a number of ways to achieve this.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Black marks
« Last post by Bungle on Yesterday at 11:22:05 pm »These windows are easily cured - spray with TFR and scrub - you will get masses of black running out of the seals for around 3 or 4 minutes after that the water runs clear and from then on you don't get any black bleeding in future cleans
Darran
This is interesting I have tried everything and once the seals are degraded by UV I have never been able to stop the black coming off the seals I just tell customers that the seals are knackered and there is nothing I can do to stop it. I have done a restoration on one window as an experiment the frame was restored to almost like new but within a few months the black staining was back again , so now don’t bother .
Agree. Once they bleed they don't stop bleeding.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Black marks
« Last post by Splash & dash on Yesterday at 10:28:07 pm »These windows are easily cured - spray with TFR and scrub - you will get masses of black running out of the seals for around 3 or 4 minutes after that the water runs clear and from then on you don't get any black bleeding in future cleans
Darran
This is interesting I have tried everything and once the seals are degraded by UV I have never been able to stop the black coming off the seals I just tell customers that the seals are knackered and there is nothing I can do to stop it. I have done a restoration on one window as an experiment the frame was restored to almost like new but within a few months the black staining was back again , so now don’t bother .
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Black marks
« Last post by Smudger on Yesterday at 09:34:27 pm »These windows are easily cured - spray with TFR and scrub - you will get masses of black running out of the seals for around 3 or 4 minutes after that the water runs clear and from then on you don't get any black bleeding in future cleans
Darran
Darran