[Ian101]

Possibly  a "piece of string" type question but assuming work is within a small radius with a little bit of driving in between jobs but no 1st cleans if 1 man can do 18 houses in a day what would you expect a 2 man set up to do ?

Logically it would be 36 but im sure in reality it dont work out like that.

[Pope vader]

25 - 30  if you was lucky,  i find i get the same done on my own that i did with 2 men,  just work about 1 hour more

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

ian easy m8
since iv put second pump
on we are flying 

[Rayleigh Window Cleaning Services]

Depends on who that 2nd man is.
Is it someone who has the same goals as you or just wants to get by.

It's all down to peoples expectations and outgoings.

[Tom White]

I work with Wor Lass, and it takes little planning and practise to work efficiently. 

For example, we pull up at a job, I unload the hose reels, she takes her pole, grabs her hose and off she trundles to the place where she's going to work, I then grab my pole and hose and go to where I'm going to work.

Ideally, I finish five minutes before her, pack up my hose and pole, go and collect, and when I've finished that she's finished, and reeled in her hose.

But in practise, what often happens is that I collect and she's still working.  There isn't enough work left to warrant me pulling my hose and pole to what's left, so I'll either take over and finish for her, or I'll have a coffee and hide around the back of the van while she's finishing off.  So one of us will be hanging around at times.

I think for two people to do the double amount of work as one, it takes a bit of teamwork and practise, and it is possible, but more than likely no, it'll be less than double.

[Helen]

I work with Wor Lass, and it takes little planning and practise to work efficiently.  

For example, we pull up at a job, I unload the hose reels, she takes her pole, grabs her hose and off she trundles to the place where she's going to work, I then grab my pole and hose and go to where I'm going to work.

Ideally, I finish five minutes before her, pack up my hose and pole, go and collect, and when I've finished that she's finished, and reeled in her hose.

But in practise, what often happens is that I collect and she's still working.  There isn't enough work left to warrant me pulling my hose and pole to what's left, so I'll either take over and finish for her, or I'll have a coffee and hide around the back of the van while she's finishing off.  So one of us will be hanging around at times.

I think for two people to do the double amount of work as one, it takes a bit of teamwork and practise, and it is possible, but more than likely no, it'll be less than double.

Spot on Tosh,
Me and hubbie can do double the amount hubbie can do on his own, but only because we are organised, trust what the other is doing and both have the same outlook.
When we employed we used to bank on about 1.75 by 2 staffies of what hubs can do his own and sometimes that didn't happen.

[mci services]

when I did employ the only time we did double was on large contract jobs, where the van stopped and we both worked all day, on domestic compact it was almost double but everytime you are in the van there is two men not working for say 10 minutes so that is 20 minutes lost and it adds up through the day, on the other hand if you had large compact work with 2 days here and there it could work better just wasn't for me

[bobplum]

imo all it does is relive the boredom and the aches and pains,you wont double the output
i think you may be better going to a 5 week cycle or 6 and save on wages and hassle,but then what do i know

[Crystal-clear]

i guess 1 man per van works best but then u have the nightmare of your new staff messing your round up. also expensis will be more , for someone starting out employing maybe go for 2 in van i think 50% extra minimum would be good

[Crystal-clear]

do 2 men work ok on say bay fronts? what happens if your round is mainly fronts.or a mixture

[alanwilson]

we find if its large jobs - say 1 man hr or more we do twice the work, for smaller stuff about 1.75 times.

you really need to be using 1 pump per operator and obviously you need a large enough tank to handle it (min 650ltr)