whole house wfp or part trad

« **on:** January 07, 2015, 06:14:00 pm »

I use wfp for the upper house and trad the bottoms, was wondering what everyone else does.

« **Reply #1 on:** January 07, 2015, 06:20:46 pm »

same here still get ladder out for some houses but changing most of those to wfp throughout year

« **Reply #2 on:** January 07, 2015, 07:02:06 pm »

pole the whole house.
tradding bottoms only saves water but costs time (for me it would anyway)
get a bigger tank if it doesn't last you the day currently

« **Reply #3 on:** January 07, 2015, 07:14:03 pm »

i pole the lot un less its quicker to trad not often tho usly wfp faster

« **Reply #4 on:** January 07, 2015, 07:16:07 pm »

come on!

« **Reply #5 on:** January 07, 2015, 07:18:55 pm »

Quote from: PoleKing on January 07, 2015, 07:02:06 pm

pole the whole house.
tradding bottoms only saves water but costs time (for me it would anyway)
get a bigger tank if it doesn't last you the day currently

Ditto

« **Reply #6 on:** January 07, 2015, 09:22:50 pm »

We wfp everything, even shop fronts. Trad gear is only used for inside work.
Spoke to a guy the other day said he blades the bottoms because if not it's too quick. How bonkers is that? I don't see why anyone should apologise for being able to do a job fast, as long as the standard of work is high we should feel free to be as quick as we like.

« **Reply #7 on:** January 07, 2015, 09:40:46 pm »

Don't see the point in mixing both. Trad a bungalow maybe, but trad downstairs and wfp upstairs...WHAT

Just WFP or TRAD ..you pick and stick to it.

On the note of doing it too quick. Did a custy other day. My 2nd clean with him. Hes a bit of a dick. Fussy as hell. He said his last windy did him and next door trade in 5 mins. He said longer than I did his by pole lmao. He wanted his moneys worth for his £10. Only took me 10 mins. When custy isn't in I feel I can rush, but when they are watching, I scrub away lol

« **Reply #8 on:** January 07, 2015, 09:40:53 pm »

Shops by hand and front doors that are not PVC,I cannot see the point in tops only it's just a case of no confidence in the system. When I first went waterfed I was paranoid they were not clean enough but years on I now have the ability to know if there done right. You will only ever see the true speed of the pole when you do the whole job with it unless your doing awkward small jobs no offence intended there either if Chumbuckets watching lol

« **Reply #9 on:** January 07, 2015, 09:49:16 pm »

Lol yeah I have some used to take hour and a half by hand now get done in half an hour poled and I find that a very accurate comparison. You should be doing most jobs 2 thirds quicker with the pole over trad,I know a WC has someone he pays to trad downstairs and wipe the sills lol,now if that ain't a waste of money I don't know,I first started with the pole I poled upstairs and my employee did bottoms trad I did all tops and 2 sides on the bottoms before he did his 2 sides downstairs.

« **Reply #10 on:** January 07, 2015, 09:52:03 pm »

I like wiping the sills downstairs with a cloth saves water

« **Reply #11 on:** January 07, 2015, 09:56:06 pm »

If anyone seriously wanted to save water they wouldn't be waterfed lol,I take it you mean you can't carry enough.its worth trying to get a vehicle so you can you will soon be earning more money. I find doing anything by hand makes me feel like I'm being held up

« **Reply #12 on:** January 07, 2015, 10:34:46 pm »

No got a vw T5 highline uprated to 3200 payload

« **Reply #13 on:** January 07, 2015, 11:24:05 pm »

Quote from: Tony dunmall on January 07, 2015, 10:34:46 pm

No got a vw T5 highline uprated to 3200 payload

3200 payload?

Must be difficult to reverse your HGV in the culdesacs.

« **Reply #14 on:** January 08, 2015, 07:12:16 am »

Not a case of confidence just not got van at moment . Was of long term sick that took up most of savings when came back to work some hit and run idiot wrote van off so brought car to pull caravan and another van out of insurance money van turned out to be death trap so scapped it maybe another van later in year

« **Reply #15 on:** January 08, 2015, 07:15:34 am »

not much point in having a wfp set up then using trad

« **Reply #16 on:** January 08, 2015, 08:10:42 am »

Where is the third option: "I've spend lots of money on a WFP system but screw it I'm only going to use it on 50% of my work because of the results of a poll on CIU"

« **Reply #17 on:** January 08, 2015, 09:22:18 am »

Obviously if you ve got enough water wfp the lot.if you've been trad for a long time though (17yrs in my case).I tradded a lot of ground floors when i first started using wfp.still do some in tight spaces but not much now.
I've got a few commercial jobs this morning that I priced up at £30 an hour (£60 each job) and they used to take me 4 hours trad.now these 2 jobs take me less than 2 hrs wfp

4hrs £120 trad

2hrs £120 wfp

So I doubled my hourly rate on these 2 jobs.

« **Reply #18 on:** January 08, 2015, 04:47:52 pm »

Sorry it was late dazmond,

gross weight 3200 so I guess payload is around 1500 way more than I ever need

But the parking sensors make the HGV easier to reverse 😊

« **Reply #19 on:** January 08, 2015, 04:48:26 pm »

ive found when rinsing ledges on bottom with pole brush, you can easilly get lots of gritty dust and muck left in your brush, im going to start to wipe ledges now with a scrim

Poll

Do you clean the whole house with pure water