[Pole2pole]

just wait til H&E ban the wfp and tell us we can't clean windows no more unless we have hoseless poles and instead of backpacks, we'll have to use jetpacks. Give it 15-20 years and there's bound to be one or two near fatal accidents cos of the damned hose. The end of the WFP is nigh...........

[dai]

I made a complete pratt of myself yesterday.
I had to use a ladder to get onto a balcony. Up the ladder over the balcony, no problem.
When I came to getting off I was boalxxed. I had left the ladder sticking out a foot over the rail. When it came to getting my leg over to get back off, I couldn't. The rail was all wet and slippy and the ladder kept on sliding away from me. I tried to drop it a rung from above, this didn't work either.
The lady next door came to my rescue. She came up the ladder with a plastic patio chair and passed it to me. I could then stand on the chair to get my leg over the rail and I got down safely.
I t didn't help when she suggested I may be getting too old to get my leg over.
Next time I'll take my trusty milk crate with me. Dai

[EasyClean]

One time when up on a flat roof 4storeys high cleaning windows WFP, working my way along the windows from right to left when I ran out of flat roof and one extra step to the left was nearly my last as I forgot I was on a flat roof !!!

[Paul Coleman]

OMG.    And people want to ban ladders !! 

Look at a couple of posts up/down were ever they are stepping into buckets when coming down ladders. 

Yeah, I 've stepped into my bucket at the bottom of the ladder too  .  Never walked into a pond though.  The best one I saw was when I worked in the printing trade.  An apprentice was coming down the ladder from one of those big web presses and stepped into a tub of ink   

I have walked into garden ornaments etc at times lately.
I find that I have caused more damage in peoples gardens since going WFO.  I have broken several flower pots and garden tubs, mullered a few ornaments and, at one place, I broke their garden table (moving it to make room for a ladder ironically as WFP wasn't practical on their back windows).  That garden table set me back £200.

Has anyone else found that damages have cost them more since starting WFP?  Usually it is the hose catching things but sometimes it's me walking into them.

[trevor perry]

a window i pushed shut with the pole knocked a vase of the window sill smashing it , the lady said it was old and very valuable when i asked for the broken pieces because the insurance company would probably need them to make a valuation she said oh it doesnt matter i didnt like it anyway just give me £10 and we will callit straight, i paid the £10 but still think i was conned.

[Pole2pole]

I once smashed a vase in someones garden, pre wfp days. The guy,when i told him looked all distraught and said it contained his fathers ashes and that it wasn't a vase, it was an urn. How bad did i feel.....................
It wasn't until the following month,the wife told me he was winding me up. Christ, i thought my sense of humour was dry. I wind the bugger up now at EVERY given opportunity. Git 

[jeff1]

I once smashed a vase in someones garden, pre wfp days. The guy,when i told him looked all distraught and said it contained his fathers ashes and that it wasn't a vase, it was an urn. How bad did i feel.....................
It wasn't until the following month,the wife told me he was winding me up. Christ, i thought my sense of humour was dry. I wind the bugger up now at EVERY given opportunity. Git 

Dino  Plonker of the month award goes to you

[chrismroberts]

I once smashed a vase in someones garden, pre wfp days. The guy,when i told him looked all distraught and said it contained his fathers ashes and that it wasn't a vase, it was an urn. How bad did i feel.....................
It wasn't until the following month,the wife told me he was winding me up. Christ, i thought my sense of humour was dry. I wind the bugger up now at EVERY given opportunity. Git 

LOL! If that was me.... I'd have never gone back!  :

Was working on the front of a house the other day, had done upstairs and was doing the downstairs window underneath my ladders. I finished, turned around and whacked my head!!  That'll teach me to walk under ladders! 

[Tosh]

About two weeks ago I was just about finishing for the day when a lady asked me to start cleaning her windows.

I used the WFP on all her first floor windows, except for the one above a long sloping roof.  To do this one, I would've had to get another section of my Unger pole, or I could just use a ladder I had from doing some windows over her neighbors flat roof.

Being lazy, I opted for the ladder option; it was quicker than walking back to the car to get a longer pole; and I 'Spider manned' up the pitched roof.  I held onto the sill and cleaned the window and then tried to get back down...

It was one of those gravelly tiled pitched roofs.  I got half-way down, felt like I was gonna slip, so scaled back up to the sill and held on.

Time passed.

I thought about phoning the missis and getting her round to foot the ladder and I also considered shouting to some workmen that were grafting round the corner for me.  I thought if I slipped and there was some weight on the ladder, it might stop me from falling.

In the end, I just thought sod it; I'd prefer a broken leg to embarrassing myself and went for it.

Luckily enough, I was okay, but the next day in the street behind, one of my customers asked me, 'Was that you on that roof over there yesturday'.

I felt a proper prat!

[marc al]

  A couple of days ago I was cleaning around the back of a house which I thought no one was home, I had my headphones on with the radio on, now I am not going to admit to liking Status Quo, but I got into it and was playing my pole as a guitar and strutting my stuff, when I noticed the Man and Woman of the house stood in the window wetting themselves with laughter.

   Think I would rather have stepped into the pond.

  Marc

[jeff1]

About two weeks ago I was just about finishing for the day when a lady asked me to start cleaning her windows.

I used the WFP on all her first floor windows, except for the one above a long sloping roof.  To do this one, I would've had to get another section of my Unger pole, or I could just use a ladder I had from doing some windows over her neighbors flat roof.

Being lazy, I opted for the ladder option; it was quicker than walking back to the car to get a longer pole; and I 'Spider manned' up the pitched roof.  I held onto the sill and cleaned the window and then tried to get back down...

It was one of those gravelly tiled pitched roofs.  I got half-way down, felt like I was gonna slip, so scaled back up to the sill and held on.

Time passed.

I thought about phoning the missis and getting her round to foot the ladder and I also considered shouting to some workmen that were grafting round the corner for me.  I thought if I slipped and there was some weight on the ladder, it might stop me from falling.

In the end, I just thought sod it; I'd prefer a broken leg to embarrassing myself and went for it.

Luckily enough, I was okay, but the next day in the street behind, one of my customers asked me, 'Was that you on that roof over there yesturday'.

I felt a proper prat!

And there was me Tosh  thinking you were one of our H&S concious members, but I'm happy to say on this occasion been there done that, But not anymore, I hate ladders so much now and I'm getting so lazy, that I have even taken to cleaning bungalows with wfp, must admit, I do step back into the odd pond as I did on this occasion. :

A couple of days ago I was cleaning around the back of a house which I thought no one was home, I had my headphones on with the radio on, now I am not going to admit to liking Status Quo, but I got into it and was playing my pole as a guitar and strutting my stuff, when I noticed the Man and Woman of the house stood in the window wetting themselves with laughter.

 Think I would rather have stepped into the pond.

 Marc

Whatever next Jimmy Hendrix :
  I'm glad I did step in the pond now;D welcome to the wonderfull world of plonkers

LOL! If that was me.... I'd have never gone back! :

Was working on the front of a house the other day, had done upstairs and was doing the downstairs window underneath my ladders. I finished, turned around and whacked my head!! That'll teach me to walk under ladders!

sheepmeister Didn't you ever learn to never walk/work under ladders  plonker membership granted with full honors

[Pole2pole]

Just seen that Jeff....and there's me trying to make ya feel better about the issues that you have regarding your inabilty to stand on ya feet properly and ya call me numpty of the month. Hell, my 18 month old nephew can stand up without goin arse over t*t 

[Tosh]

And there was me Tosh  thinking you were one of our H&S concious members, but I'm happy to say on this occasion been there done that,

You know what it's like when you're tired; especially towards the end of the day; and any short cut seems worth the risk.

There was a saying in the army pertaining to Northern Ireland where you might prefer to take the easy route through a farmers field, but that was probably where a bomb was.  So the difficult route was the correct route to take; even if you did have to fight through hedges and stuff.

'Sweat saves lives'!

[Pole2pole]

During the war.........................

[Tosh]

During the war.........................

Sorry; I've just put my sandbag away and stopped the lantern from swinging.

But the point is, it's easy to make mistakes when you're tired.

[jeff1]

Just seen that Jeff....and there's me trying to make ya feel better about the issues that you have regarding your inabilty to stand on ya feet properly and ya call me numpty of the month. Hell, my 18 month old nephew can stand up without goin arse over t*t 

I usually have a good excuse for going ar*e over t*t, mainly on a saturday night.

And there was me Tosh  thinking you were one of our H&S concious members, but I'm happy to say on this occasion been there done that,

You know what it's like when you're tired; especially towards the end of the day; and any short cut seems worth the risk.

There was a saying in the army pertaining to Northern Ireland where you might prefer to take the easy route through a farmers field, but that was probably where a bomb was.  So the difficult route was the correct route to take; even if you did have to fight through hedges and stuff.

'Sweat saves lives'!

C'mon Tosh give me something I can award you the plonker badge for all the army stuff, been there done that (and more) good job you didn't fall asleep on duty Tosh

[Pole2pole]

Don't be sorry Tosh mate. It's just that as i was reading your post Uncle Albert just popped into my head lol. He fell down the pub cellar once didn't he? Didn't he make a few bob at it by scamming insurance companies? Am i giving you ideas Jeff??? You'd make a fortune 

[jeff1]

Don't be sorry Tosh mate. It's just that as i was reading your post Uncle Albert just popped into my head lol. He fell down the pub cellar once didn't he? Didn't he make a few bob at it by scamming insurance companies? Am i giving you ideas Jeff??? You'd make a fortune 

I have already massed my fortune I invested wisely many years ago