[Davew]

I lose more time re-coiling my pole hose back up and hanging it back in the van than anything else. I also lose some time by using modular poles (bending down to pick up sections then restacking them for transport) where do you all lose the most time?

[Dean Aspects]

Customers being talkative why can't they just pay me and close the door   

Dean

[Ian Lancaster]

Reading threads like this on the forums

[AuRavelling79]

I lose more time re-coiling my pole hose back up and hanging it back in the van than anything else. I also loose some time by using modular poles (bending down to pick up sections then restacking them for transport) where do you all lose the most time?

Use a golfbag for the modular sections - that's what I do.

I lose time getting tangled in my hose, round plantpots, under tyres etc etc!

[macmac]

I lose more time re-coiling my pole hose back up and hanging it back in the van than anything else. I also loose some time by using modular poles (bending down to pick up sections then restacking them for transport) where do you all lose the most time?

Just one more reason to go carbon telescopic dave
Please dont get onto me, i'm only trying to help

tony

[Davew]

Oh no Tony your still about!  :

[macmac]

Oh no Tony your still about!  :

We should have tea & biscuits some time dave, think it'd be real fun

tony

[Davew]

  I would if you wern't so far away. As time goes by i quite enjoy your posts.

[Tim Rose]

I lose time by taking LSD.

[L.J.Thorpe]

talking to customers talking to other wcs and finding somewhere to go for a p*ss

[L.J.Thorpe]

by the way the wcs was an abbreviation of window cleaners just thought it looked a bit odd when i read it back

[gary999]

getting stuck in traffic trying to get to customer, only to get there to
find they are not in as promised and there is no access to the back

[pingu]

Being so anal about doing a good job that sometimes I clean a window 3 times or more...

Dave.

[Davew]

  been there especially on first cleans.

[xxmattyxx]

Being so anal about doing a good job that sometimes I clean a window 3 times or more...

Dave.

I took 3/4 of an hour over ONE window this wek. It just never seemed to come up right. Always seemed to leave a 'ghosting'. Changed the rubber0, turned the rubber round, used my other blade, turned that one round. Changed the water, added more GG4..........................

Put it down to tree sap in the end, its on a house located next to a small pine wood. Either that or localised humidity (is that possible?) as the day was damp and particularly under those trees.

Matt

[Ian W]

I was doing that this week too. Kept getting streaks on windows where it is easier to do straight pulls. Changed the channel, the rubber, technique and nothing fixed it. Was getting fed up so buffed them up with a microfibre after they dried. Took me ages. :

[Sir Squeaky]

Customers being talkative why can't they just pay me and close the door   

Dean

You miserable sod.

No tips for you grumpyguts.

[Sir Squeaky]

Oh yeah, my time loser...crap squeegee rubbers.

[Ian W]

I also have a couple of houses where there are bushes in front of some windows. Can't get a ladder to the windows, so I do them with a short pole. s l o w...

[xxmattyxx]

With reference to this post

I was doing that this week too. Kept getting streaks on windows where it is easier to do straight pulls. Changed the channel, the rubber, technique and nothing fixed it. Was getting fed up so buffed them up with a microfibre after they dried. Took me ages. :

Ian do you think your problem might have been caused by what Squeaks has posted below

Oh yeah, my time loser...crap squeegee rubbers.

I use Ettore rubbers, so theyre soft, I gotta say I have had this problem occuring far too often recently, its almost like one side of the rubber is fine then the other side when its turned over is crud.

I get my Ettores from windowcleaningwarehouse.

What say you ?


Matt