[Cookie]

I've been going about 18 months now but still want to speed up further on maintenance cleans. Moving from a PF trolley to a van mount has made a massive difference, allowing me to clean approx 2 additional houses per day.

Just wondered what techniques or tools you use to help you get around more quickly and knock-off earlier...

[Smurf]

Best not ask me as I'm the slowest window cleaner in the world as me karcher keep going flat 
Maybe I should buy two 

[nathankaye]

Ive been wf for just over a yr now and ive shed loads of time, dispite picking new work up as well.
My work is four weekly, on trad it used to be pretty full each wk, but now i have one full week of work. My other three rounds im getting finished by end of wed. Do most wks getting 2 days off (filling with pressure washing now or render cleans)

For me, its a good carbon pole. 4 jets on a brush with a tap valve at end of pole hose. I have a 500 litre tank in van and pure freedom controller for pump n battery reading. I have my pump on 40 and on maintenance cleans which my work is, it takes no time at all. Basically cleaning clean windows

[sunshine windows]

Where's that old poster bumper? He'd tell you to skip 50% of alternate windows each month or just miss the bathrooms altogether 😂

[JandS]

Miss the bathrooms......never...lol

[Smurf]

In 18 months you should have figured out by now what works best for you surely?
I could make a list but to be honest I just can't be arsed as I'm sure someone else will be along in a mo to help.

What I will say though is most lack confidence in their wfp technique so will spend far too long on each window.
You crack that then you will be half way there bud. 

[Spruce]

I've been going about 18 months now but still want to speed up further on maintenance cleans. Moving from a PF trolley to a van mount has made a massive difference, allowing me to clean approx 2 additional houses per day.

Just wondered what techniques or tools you use to help you get around more quickly and knock-off earlier...

Working smarter can save you time. Evaluate where best to park your van to reach as may houses as you can without packing away and moving. If you are doing 2 houses together, can you put your hose over the fence and do the second house that way.

Can you couple up your hose reel and pull the hose out, plug in your pole and start working. Walking backwards and forwards to the van takes time.

Keeping customer's happy is very important to your business growth. If you start taking short-cuts then your standards will drop and your customers will desert you.

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[KS Cleaning]

I ring the doorbell for the money before I start downstairs windows at the front, gives the customer time to get the pennies for you, so less time spent hanging about waiting for payment. I'm sure we all have those customers that watch you cleaning the windows then when you ring the doorbell they come to the door empty handed, then go searching for their purse and after they have searched every room  in the house they finally emerge with the money about 5 minutes later

[Shrek]

Like Nathan , I also work with flow on 40 , I started on 12!! What flow do you work with at the minute?

[robbo333]

Don't eat a 'Big Mac', large fries and apple pie for lunch, they really slow you down.

[dazmond]

high flow,very light poles,being organised(chits/invoices ready etc).

work steady and briskly but not rushing around like a headless chicken.

price well and work hard 6 or 7 hours per day then go home.

[Tosh]

Top whack on the pump, an 18" brush, SLX pole, good quality hose-reel, price well so you enjoy the thought of work.

[Nick Day]

Same as above, good carbon pole, high flow and plan you route and parking places. It's amazing how much time can be lost getting parked.

[SeanK]

As Smurf said confidence will determine how fast you clean, brushes,flow,chemicals,hot and all the other
nonsense you hear on here are nothing more than personal confidence builders that will effect everybody different.
To be honest if your an OCD type then your always going to be slower than others as its in your nature and as long as your
happy with your days earning who cares.

[Dave Willis]

high flow,very light poles,being organised(chits/invoices ready etc).

work steady and briskly but not rushing around like a headless chicken.

price well and work hard 6 or 7 hours per day then go home.

.                                                                         Always have a good chit before you leave home.

[Smurf]

high flow,very light poles,being organised(chits/invoices ready etc).

work steady and briskly but not rushing around like a headless chicken.

price well and work hard 6 or 7 hours per day then go home.

.                                                                         Always have a good chit before you leave home.

And best take the day off if you have the runs. If not one wet fart & follow through and that's game over...Oops! 

[Ian101]

basically wack flow up to about 60 ish on a 100 digital readout or about 2 litres a min and clean faster and 1 pass and move on have faith in the system

[Perfect Windows]

Do an experiment.  Wash your windows then wait exactly as long as your usual cleaning interval.

Set the flow to about 2.5 litres a minutes.  That's 60 on our controller but you really do need to measure it.

Then do your windows as fast as you can.  Focus on nothing but doing them fully yet as quickly as possible.

Wait for them to dry and inspect them.  They'll be fine.  You now have trust in just how quickly you can do customers' windows.

I once posted a video on here of me doing mine like that and was slated for "showing off" and told I couldn't be doing a proper job.  They dried perfectly.  Unless you test on your own windows, you'll never know.

Vin

[Ian101]

there was a video on youtube of a lad with a backpack working fast and no rinseing - cant find it buy maybe others can ... like vin says as well

[Nick Day]

I've found that as well!! Sometimes (not always) the faster you do them the better they are!!