[pingu]

Now beofre I start...this is not a which is best...thread....

Now I have been wfp for just under 2 years...I do a little trad work...but here is my question...yesterday I was doing 5 houses each one take me about an hour to do...

I have another 5 to do up the street on monday and it occurred to me that some of the windows may be easier to do trad whilst some are easier wfp....do you find that you mix and match?

Dave.

[AuRavelling79]

Very little - but, I've an estate of 70's small houses and bungalows linked in terraces of four or six with walkways between the roads and sometimes if the bungalows are more easier to walk to and access trad. than pull out the hose I'll do that.

[Feen]

Yeah, I mix and match lots for various reasons. One estate I wfp up and trad down because I often have help and he's trad only. Some big houses that are twice a year only clean better trad, although I still wfp up for safety reasons. As I've said before on here, I clean windows. I use which method suits the windows best.

[Rob.Hall]

I do all ups wfp and most bottoms as well.

There are times when trad does come into its own.

Some people request trad only.

Whichever, makes no odds to me.

[alan andrewswestsi]

totally wfp

[paulscotney]

Did 9 or 10 yrs trad. I am not trying to start an argument either but I just feel that overall incl the frames wfp does a more satisfying and better  job. Thats what all my customers tell me as well. At the end of the day we are all here to make a living and wfp is the way for me. I only trad inside. I do get a feeling of pride that I can use a squegee but after the second window it gets boring. If trad was easier outside I would use it but it isn't.

[AJ]

Mix it up.
Sometime its just easier to run along the bottoms blading them, especially if you got a long run.
Rank rotten wooden sashes are sometimes worth doing from inside.
I quite enjoy a days trad (not ladders though. urgh!)

[chrismroberts]

I mix and match.... sometimes there are windows that just dont like WFP, so I'll pole the rest of the house and trad the one window. As long as its downstairs, of course  I do a few little houses by hand, just to keep some variety... get bored of WFP after a while, but then I realise how fast it is compared so can't wait to get back to it! Keeps me appreciating it, really 

[cat9921]

Now beofre I start...this is not a which is best...thread....

Now I have been wfp for just under 2 years...I do a little trad work...but here is my question...yesterday I was doing 5 houses each one take me about an hour to do...

I have another 5 to do up the street on monday and it occurred to me that some of the windows may be easier to do trad whilst some are easier wfp....do you find that you mix and match?

Dave.

Yes I do mix and match....

But what I find to be a right pain is if you have a row of houses and the one in the middle needs trad, it takes me longer to get the ladders and do that one than if it was all WFP

[macmac]

Trad & wfp for me.

Some accounts are a wfp no go & some are quicker trad.

A modern estate i do is 80% bungalows, all with big single pane windows, It's quicker & easier to walk round them with the pointer & trad them than it is to have to move the van every 5 minutes, reel in/out etc.

Another large house & good paying job has one big window above a flat roof. it's the master bedroom window & if i couldn't clean it i wouldn't have got the job (which was made clear). so the ladder comes off for that window, i'm not gonna lose good work to ladder-phobia!

Tony

[paulscotney]

why use a pointer whats wrong with a 6ft pole or in winter a broomstick with the gear on or am I missing something, that's how most people do large plate glass shop windows

[paulscotney]

actually about a 4ft unger pole

[macmac]

that's how most people do large plate glass shop windows   

Who said anything about those?

Tony

[Londoner]

I just do it as I feel on the day. We have had the builders in for the past 6 weeks and there has been a skip on the drive so I have had to park the van across the road.

Also, I have had to carry the water through the house a lot of the time so I have been trying to limit my water consumption. Result is I have been doing a lot more stuff trad.

It definitly is slower, there's no doubt about it, but it does seem easier which is a strange contradiction.

Its quite nice to pull up in your van, grab your bucket and a scrim and wander round a bungalow without all those hoses.

On the subject of bungalows, I have avoided bungalows in the past because they pay less than a house. Now I am going the other way, going to start canvassing only bungalows in a couple of weeks when the building work is finished. Must be getting old.