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Scott92

Window cleaning the worlds tallest building
« on: January 10, 2014, 06:27:54 pm »
This is insane. It takes 3 months to clean then once complete it's back to square one.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0115wg9

Anyone wanna give up there round for this??

 :o

MATT BATEMAN (OWC)

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Re: Window cleaning the worlds tallest building
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2014, 06:59:45 pm »
Wouldn't mind a month out there giving it a go. Anymore than that and I'd be wanting to get back to normality methinks.

bobplum

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Re: Window cleaning the worlds tallest building
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2014, 07:30:19 pm »
IF ITS NOT 4 WEEKLY .....I AM NOT INTERESTED.............OH AND 1 CLEAN...1 PAYMENT ;D

gary999

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Re: Window cleaning the worlds tallest building
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2014, 07:35:31 pm »
 i would have to wear bicycle clips to stop all the poop falling out
and splatting the windows below me ;D

Smudger

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Re: Window cleaning the worlds tallest building
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2014, 07:38:49 pm »
3 months pah!

Get ol' turbo terry on the case,  3 weeks tops for him, so a nice 9 week break before re starting....

Darran
Never argue with an idiot, they will only bring you down to their level, and beat you with experience

hasti

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Re: Window cleaning the worlds tallest building
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2014, 07:50:40 pm »
It Amazes’ me as to how the modern architects think theses days, they have spend millions to build this building and never thought of a equipment to automatically wash these windows. 
Instead they send these poor staff with probably very minimum wage to do all that dangerous job.  :-\

Scott92

Re: Window cleaning the worlds tallest building
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2014, 07:54:52 pm »
Hasti ~ exactly what I thought!

I think this would be too much for terry burrows.. Speed and height is a dangerous combo  ;)

PoleKing

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Re: Window cleaning the worlds tallest building
« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2014, 08:04:09 pm »
It Amazes’ me as to how the modern architects think theses days, they have spend millions to build this building and never thought of a equipment to automatically wash these windows. 
Instead they send these poor staff with probably very minimum wage to do all that dangerous job.  :-\


They aint exactly short of labour out there.
It's probably cheaper to pay these guys that design an automated system
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hasti

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Re: Window cleaning the worlds tallest building
« Reply #8 on: January 10, 2014, 08:12:15 pm »
Short of labour is not the point, and in U.S.A. there are already window cleaning equipment has been designed for sky scrapers. 
The point is  that a lot of modern Architects are non thinkers, and you can see example of it in any large City in U.K. that you cant clean some windows because of difficult access.   

PoleKing

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Re: Window cleaning the worlds tallest building
« Reply #9 on: January 10, 2014, 09:32:18 pm »
Short of labour is not the point, and in U.S.A. there are already window cleaning equipment has been designed for sky scrapers. 
The point is  that a lot of modern Architects are non thinkers, and you can see example of it in any large City in U.K. that you cant clean some windows because of difficult access.   


I'll rephrase.
Its cheaper for these lads to do it that buy the automated system.
labour out there is cheap.
A few deaths won't bother the big boys.
Though I doubt anyone has died doing it. the Mail would've reported it.
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