[zesty]

…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]

Still do plenty of traditional work as well as WFP just another part of the job for us.

[P @ F]

Another job for me , could not go back to trad now , not even if my round was only bungalows

[High-Tower]

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]

Go full time with my international man of mystery job.

[zesty]

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 

[KS Cleaning]

I would keep my bungalows and sell the rest.

[Bungle]

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 👍

[Stoots]

Do something else, i would have never got into window cleaning if i had to use ladders.

[deeege]

Did my first 2 years window cleaning trad. Would never go back, no chance although i do some ground floor commercial trad these days.

[zesty]

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 

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

[Stoots]

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 

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]

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 

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 

[dazmond]

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!😃

[robbo333]

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!

[james peters]

There would be an exodus of window cleaners 
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]

There would be an exodus of window cleaners 
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]

There would be an exodus of window cleaners 
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]

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!

[the king]

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  to be fair it did work 😬

[Johnny B]

I am still trad. Next week I will have been in the game 25 years!

John

[dazmond]

I am still trad. Next week I will have been in the game 25 years!

John

I treated myself to a diesel hot water system for my 25th anniversary!

Heres to another 25 years mate!👍

[High-Tower]

I am still trad. Next week I will have been in the game 25 years!

John

What’s kept you trad all those years?

[swanson]

I wouldn’t want to be either that’s why I’ve given up

[MrChurchMouse]

I do quite a bit of traditional work still so it wouldn't bother me too much if I had to use that method full time.   I would have to drop a few perhaps who would be too difficult/dangerous/time consuming to do with the ladder but I'd still keep the round mostly intact. 

There would be one or two benefits in that I wouldn't have the hassle of purifying water anymore and lower costs related to buying the sometimes pricey WFP equipment.   

That said there would also be some drawbacks of course in that very windy weather would become a problem and work would be done slower.  The frustrations of doing trad work like problematic detail work, leads in the rain, squeegee lines etc would also be intensified.   

I do find though that customers of a certain age (as in the more elderly ones) seem to prefer the traditional method so maybe it would be easier to pick up new work if fully trad should more customers ever be needed.   

[Skinner]

15 years trad and 15 years WTP, 
If I had to go back to ladders... I would because I've never had another trade or skill behind me.
As for employing staff trad you'd struggle to make a sensible profit.

[NWH]

If you went back to ladders it would feel and be like a totally different job,once you’ve taken 15-20 minutes to clean the side of a house when it used to take you 5-6 minutes you would have had enough. I regularly clean jobs that used to take 1.5-2 hours with the pole it’s more like 30-40 minutes.
You can be as quick as you like on a ladder once you’ve been over to the dark side it would all seem  like a chore.