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zesty

  • Posts: 2310
Would you rather…
« on: January 17, 2022, 07:35:33 am »
…be a traditional window cleaner, (let’s say the WEF, EU, Boris and all the other ‘leaders’ banned WFP in the name of climate change or some other nonsense)

Or,

Look for another job?


simon w

  • Posts: 1563
Re: Would you rather…
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2022, 08:27:20 am »
Still do plenty of traditional work as well as WFP just another part of the job for us.

P @ F

  • Posts: 6312
Re: Would you rather…
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2022, 08:57:04 am »
Another job for me , could not go back to trad now , not even if my round was only bungalows
I'm so lazy I'm getting tired of it !

High-Tower

  • Posts: 247
Re: Would you rather…
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2022, 09:46:36 am »
Happily be traditional again, especially if everyone else gave up! Easy pickings get a nice round all on foot from my doorstep, customers would understand that I can’t do veluxes or over extensions any more, get what they’re given!

Soupy

  • Posts: 19326
Re: Would you rather…
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2022, 09:54:44 am »
Go full time with my international man of mystery job.
Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it - George Orwell

zesty

  • Posts: 2310
Re: Would you rather…
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2022, 12:49:37 pm »
Another job for me , could not go back to trad now , not even if my round was only bungalows

Think I’d be same, i hate getting the ladders off the van these days, everything about trad annoys me these days .

I do still do Inside work trad, I just wouldn’t have the patience to work full time trad.

Having said all that, if it meant window cleaners were like gold dust again (before wfp) then I might change my mind. £500 a day  ;D

KS Cleaning

  • Posts: 3886
Re: Would you rather…
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2022, 04:47:32 pm »
I would keep my bungalows and sell the rest.

Bungle

  • Posts: 2208
Re: Would you rather…
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2022, 06:21:45 pm »
Good question. I often think if I had to be trad I'd pack it up. But today I did a bit of trad and really enjoyed it. The windows came up cleaner than WFP too 👍
We look at them, they look through them.

Stoots

  • Posts: 5986
Re: Would you rather…
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2022, 06:25:20 pm »
Do something else, i would have never got into window cleaning if i had to use ladders.


deeege

  • Posts: 4947
Re: Would you rather…
« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2022, 07:51:51 pm »
Did my first 2 years window cleaning trad. Would never go back, no chance although i do some ground floor commercial trad these days.
"....and it's lend me ten pounds, I'll buy you a drink, and mother wake me early in the morning."

zesty

  • Posts: 2310
Re: Would you rather…
« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2022, 09:17:35 pm »
Do something else, i would have never got into window cleaning if i had to use ladders.

Ah you’re one of them Adam, a cheat window cleaner  ;D

You can’t be a real window cleaner if you didn’t spend some years trad    ;)

Stoots

  • Posts: 5986
Re: Would you rather…
« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2022, 10:27:19 pm »
Do something else, i would have never got into window cleaning if i had to use ladders.

Ah you’re one of them Adam, a cheat window cleaner  ;D

You can’t be a real window cleaner if you didn’t spend some years trad    ;)

So they say

Although I can't say that "being a real window cleaner " is something I have ever aspired to be. I do it for money not pride.

zesty

  • Posts: 2310
Re: Would you rather…
« Reply #12 on: January 18, 2022, 08:18:13 am »
Do something else, i would have never got into window cleaning if i had to use ladders.

Ah you’re one of them Adam, a cheat window cleaner  ;D

You can’t be a real window cleaner if you didn’t spend some years trad    ;)

So they say

Although I can't say that "being a real window cleaner " is something I have ever aspired to be. I do it for money not pride.

It’s a badge of honour, to be a lonely window cleaner up a ladder in the freezing cold for a tenner  :D

dazmond

  • Posts: 23504
Re: Would you rather…
« Reply #13 on: January 18, 2022, 09:14:15 am »
I spent 17 years on ladders.....I can't imagine going back to them full time.....

Especially on a day like today(hard frost here this morning)..no thanks!😃
price higher/work harder!

robbo333

  • Posts: 2399
Re: Would you rather…
« Reply #14 on: January 18, 2022, 05:31:08 pm »
I'd do trad, but it would have to be bungalows only.

Nowadays, any more than 3 steps up a ladder...I get a nose bleed!
"Thank you for calling: if you have a 1st floor flat, mid terraced house, lots of dogs, no parking, no side access, or no sense of humour, please press hold!
For all other enquiries, please press1"

james peters

  • Posts: 931
Re: Would you rather…
« Reply #15 on: January 19, 2022, 07:54:29 am »
There would be an exodus of window cleaners  ;D ;D ;D
so I would do a number of things .

1  start to rainwater harvest on my house , kids houses .

2  wfp tops  only   trad the rest

3  buy all the bungalows from the exodus of window cleaners.   do them trad

4   put all my prices up by at least 30%




 

Slacky

  • Posts: 7552
Re: Would you rather…
« Reply #16 on: January 19, 2022, 10:11:17 am »
There would be an exodus of window cleaners  ;D ;D ;D
so I would do a number of things .

1  start to rainwater harvest on my house , kids houses .

2  wfp tops  only   trad the rest

3  buy all the bungalows from the exodus of window cleaners.   do them trad

4   put all my prices up by at least 30%

You haven't read the opening post have you.

james peters

  • Posts: 931
Re: Would you rather…
« Reply #17 on: January 19, 2022, 03:20:26 pm »
There would be an exodus of window cleaners  ;D ;D ;D
so I would do a number of things .

1  start to rainwater harvest on my house , kids houses .

2  wfp tops  only   trad the rest

3  buy all the bungalows from the exodus of window cleaners.   do them trad

4   put all my prices up by at least 30%

You haven't read the opening post have you.

I did , but I just assumed the ban would be linked to the use of water froom the tap.

AuRavelling79

  • Posts: 23264
Re: Would you rather…
« Reply #18 on: January 19, 2022, 04:40:30 pm »
I spent 17 years on ladders.....I can't imagine going back to them full time.....

Especially on a day like today(hard frost here this morning)..no thanks!😃

Just as I was stopping trad in 2005 and 2006 timber decking was all the rage.

Some of them are now slimy, rotten and slippery. The thought of putting a ladder on them makes me blanch.

No thanks!
It's a game of three halves!

the king

  • Posts: 1380
Re: Would you rather…
« Reply #19 on: January 19, 2022, 05:55:00 pm »
I spent 17 years on ladders.....I can't imagine going back to them full time.....

Especially on a day like today(hard frost here this morning)..no thanks!😃

Just as I was stopping trad in 2005 and 2006 timber decking was all the rage.

Some of them are now slimy, rotten and slippery. The thought of putting a ladder on them makes me blanch.

No thanks!
   i remember buying that ladder safty thing called foot the ladder lee from the window Cleaning magazine done a vid on it ladder on wheel's  ;D ;D to be fair it did work 😬