[WGB]

Just bought a round of a local windy which is about half trad other half wfp. I don't mean tops wfp bottoms trad, he would trad all bungalows, estate work and oddly wfp conservatories on some houses and trad the rest. Can see his point on estates and terrace houses were hose would be getting caught everywhere. Just wondering does anyone else work this way and what ur take is on it as I will be changing nearly all to wfp?

Wayne

[SB Cleaning]

Just bought a round of a local windy which is about half trad other half wfp. I don't mean tops wfp bottoms trad, he would trad all bungalows, estate work and oddly wfp conservatories on some houses and trad the rest. Can see his point on estates and terrace houses were hose would be getting caught everywhere. Just wondering does anyone else work this way and what ur take is on it as I will be changing nearly all to wfp?

Wayne

I bought around 80 houses off a tradder a couple of years ago and poled the lot I lost about 4 of them...rest were happy

[WGB]

Was thinking blade would be quicker on parts of his round rather than dragging hose through gardens with loads of ornaments and hard access areas. Starting his round for second cycle on Monday week and will be polling most of his work. Looking forward to it!

[Rayleigh Window Cleaning Services]

Hi Wayne, I also took on a window cleaners round who was semi retiring. He was all traditional and had been doing most of them before I even started

in this game which was 30+ years ago.

What I did was go round with him to all his customers, and there was a lot, and introduced myself and my guys to them which was a good ice breaker.

At the same time I explained the wfp method we were going to use quite briefly and took it from there.

Now on 3rd clean and not a single customer has bailed out, which is great and saves all that negative thoughts about worrying if you change over what

they will think or do.

If you want it all wfp just go for it, I know we all get the odd window / house that don't agree with pure but on the whole if your up front and true then

jobs a gooden.

Steve

[SeanK]

The thing is he isn't a traditional cleaner he had the means to wfp all his round.
I would be wondering as well why he wasn't cleaning the full round using wfp methods.
Get the feeling that you should have asked him this before buying the round.
There are a few no go areas when it comes to wfp near to me, I'm not talking a few windows here and
there, I'm talking a whole development of about 300 properties.
The frames are low profile and don't have any drain holes so the rubber draught seal along the bottom of the opener
has a small gap as a draining point. One in each opener.
Unfortunately they drain onto the glass below leaving two large dirty streaks on the glass.
I used to clean about 30 of these properties and the only way was to go back and polish off the streaks with a Vikan
Easyshine once they had dried, or trad them which I didn't want to do.
Eventually I stopped cleaning them as it was too time consuming.
Just hope this isn't the case with the round you have just bought.

[Jon_Phelps]

Hi Wayne,

I work in this way on portions of my round.  I pole all of some houses and trad all of some others and also a mixture of both on other houses.  It makes not odds to me how I clean someone’s windows as long as I hit my money earned target each day. 

If your preference is to pole your work then I’d recommend try moving your purchased work on to it too. Should anyone complain and want you to revert back to how the previous guy cleaned them, then I would, at least until you have recouped what you paid for the work.  Then make you decision to continue or dump as you wouldn’t be losing out as such.

Hope this helps

Jon

[WGB]

Thanks for replys lad. I started out wfp when i started a couple of years ago just done everything pole since then except old wooden frame windows, but thinking about it trad might be a bit quicker on parts of my round and the round i bought where there is plenty of snags for hose to get caught on.

Many Thanks Wayne