[windowwashers]

Sometimes the cold can be refreshing.

Its that cold easterly that probably gets to most people, it does me, WIND CHILL is the killer. But having said that, if my hands get cold and wet, particularly when using the ladder, theres nothing to beat warming them up than getting on with the job. You have to go through that burning of the hands stage, I call it the burn, feels like someones hitting you with a hammer; but cold ladder after...............no worries, the circulation sorts it all.



Matt

agree with the burn go past that stage till your hands feel twice the size, then nothing hurts even when you catch your finger on a nail sticking out of a window pane

the only time it then hurts is when your hands start to warm up

[The Seven Bays Window Cleaning Company]

I agree.. once I have had the hotaches - then my hands are toasty for the rest of the day

[drew86]

Good tip I got from an old fisherman is to dunk your hands in cold water befoere you start, this seems to acclimatize your hands. always works for me.
Drew.

[Ian Lancaster]

A few years ago I had a couple of blokes working for me.  One freezing day I went looking for them and found them sitting in the van at 11.30am!!

They hadn't done a stroke because "we're too cold to work".

I took a ladder off their van and one of their scrims, then I ragged the first house on their list - I cleaned every window up to spotless standard just by scrubbing them with a slightly damp scrim.  When I'd finished I shook them both by the hand - they couldn't believe how warm my hands were.  Then I told them to get on with it - or else.

I never ask anyone to do anything I'm not prepared to do myself.

Mind you - I've had a few employees refer to me as "that mad b****r"