[s.hughes]

When you have a job thats inside and outside which do you clean 1st? I always do the outside, that way when I do the inside I can see where I have left blade marks etc. Its not that this happens a lot but it does happen to all of us.
Most w/c I know start on the inside. Is this how you do it and is so for what reason?

Cheers
Steve

[[GQC] Tim]

I do the outside first aswell, it's way easier then to spot the fly poo etc on the inside, and you can spot marks on the outside very well aswell!

You can't really if you do it the other way around, it's easier to do the outside again then popping in again.....

[macc]

I do the outside first aswell, it's way easier then to spot the fly poo etc on the inside, and you can spot marks on the outside very well aswell!

You can't really if you do it the other way around, it's easier to do the outside again then popping in again.....

Me to, same reasons. 

[Pj]

Same.

Plus, this time of year it's better to head inside in the warm after I've done outside.

Always done it that way round.

[[GQC] Tim]

Same.

Plus, this time of year it's better to head inside in the warm after I've done outside.

Always done it that way round.

Yep, beats warming up in the car! 

btw. I Detest Kitchen windows, there is so much fly poo on the windows.....ugh.

[julianbiggs]

always outside first then inside.

[KJG]

Insides first so I can see what I can get away with on the outs

[windows_chepstow]

I do a large job, inside and out, with WFP that has leaky - real old-leaded - windows.

I've got to do the outsides first so I can mop up the drips left on the insides.

[P®oPole™]

I do a large job, inside and out, with WFP that has leaky - real old-leaded - windows.

I've got to do the outsides first so I can mop up the drips left on the insides.

Hi Tosh,

How many cleans did the old lead take to come up 100%?

ProPole

[EasyClean]

This time of year it would make more sense to do outsides first. Then if it rains you can go inside to finish off. That to me is just commonsense.

[windows_chepstow]

I do a large job, inside and out, with WFP that has leaky - real old-leaded - windows.

I've got to do the outsides first so I can mop up the drips left on the insides.

Hi Tosh,

How many cleans did the old lead take to come up 100%?

ProPole

Some of these windows are so old, there's no way they're going to look like new.  I reckon these are at least 200 years old; there's some graffiti on the 'new' section - scratched into a window - and that's dated 1874 and as I say, that's the 'new' section.

Doing them trad was a problem also, since you had to be extremely gentle; I've popped two of the panes of glass out before.  I'm not held responsible for any damage; since the windows are so old.

But I reckon it took two or three cleans to get them looking good, but as I say, it's more of a best effort that we do.

[Roy Harding]

 scratched into a window - and that's dated 1874 and as I say, that's the 'new' section.

Thats when I started doing them Tosh 


Roy

[S_RICHARDSON]

It's common sense to do the outsides and then do the insides!

[simon knight]

I reckon about half my customers are both sides and I automatically do the out and then the in...but I now wonder whether this is really the sensible order because:

1) The number of times I've struggled to get at a window from the out and then  find that when doing the inside I could have simply opened the window and done it from there.

2) From the customers perspective: You're doing the outside...they know you're eventually coming in....and they may fancy making a private phone-call to their lover...watching their favourite soap....a nice smelly poo to jettison last nights chicken vindaloo ...etc etc....
But they can't really cos I'm gonna be in any minute.  If you do the inside first you're out of their life and you can piddle around with the outside to your hearts content!

3) And the most important....as KJG so rightly says

Insides first so I can see what I can get away with on the outs

I've talked myself into this....gonna give it a try!

[P @ F]

DONT DO A GREAT DEAL OF INSIDES BUT , i like to do the outs first so i can go in later just to reassure myself that wfp works !

 Rich P @ F 

[simon knight]

...Ahhhh to be in a position to be WFP....really want it but on my patch parking spaces are rarer than rocking-horse poo poos.

[abacus]

Hi
insides first if they are box sash or box sash syle so if the water leaks out and goes down the bottom payne you dont have to redo it

regards grant

[macmac]

agree with abacus
if they are sash windows inside first is a MUST!

[supernova77]

I always do the insides first - Just to get it over with!

Andy