[Terry_Burrows]

  well done gezz you have to be in it to win it! u did er wheres my drop

[Moderator David@stives]

Foxman

I was gutted as well, I was well looking forward to meeting up with you lot.

Windex Couldnt have come at a worse time. Had to quote about 40 jobs and had to attend a meeting on the Thursday.

[hants_rob]

Went to at least look at some ladder safety devices and a pointer

Ladders are obviously a dirty word in the window cleaning world.

perhaps everyone is using wfp to earn 200k a year?? ........................


or should that say every wfp salesman is earning 200k a year?

for me the show was a dissapointment travelled up from portsmouth and spent about 2.5 hours there on friday.

oh well you live and learn

You're probably right Rob.

You learned that you could have looked on the internet instead of driving 100+ miles each way.

You read my mind on this one.

I did look on the internet  and thank you both for for your sarcasm it was really appreciated!

 As the major suppliers were there and there was some imformative talks from the Hse, etc I felt that this was worth the trip alone
Watching Terry doing his thing was very impressive.

I just get the feeling that as an exhibition that is for "window cleaners" then surely it should en'compass all aspects of window cleaning not just the area that seems to be the in thing at this time

There will always be a need for Ladders and trad so why does it seem as if the trade has turned it's back to this side of the market?

As it was I went there with an open mind and was very impressed by some of the shiney gear and the sales pitches form the exhibitor's (brodex,ionics)
Equally some of the stands looked like jim bob had put it all together using cable ties and sticky back plastic in the garden shed!

 I still stand by my original comment, that I felt as if the show was geared towards wfp and Ladders are indeed a thing of the past if the exhibitors are anything to go by.

[windowwashers]

Went to at least look at some ladder safety devices and a pointer

Ladders are obviously a dirty word in the window cleaning world.

perhaps everyone is using wfp to earn 200k a year?? ........................


or should that say every wfp salesman is earning 200k a year?

for me the show was a dissapointment travelled up from portsmouth and spent about 2.5 hours there on friday.

oh well you live and learn

You're probably right Rob.

You learned that you could have looked on the internet instead of driving 100+ miles each way.

You read my mind on this one.

I did look on the internet  and thank you both for for your sarcasm it was really appreciated!

 As the major suppliers were there and there was some imformative talks from the Hse, etc I felt that this was worth the trip alone
Watching Terry doing his thing was very impressive.

I just get the feeling that as an exhibition that is for "window cleaners" then surely it should en'compass all aspects of window cleaning not just the area that seems to be the in thing at this time

There will always be a need for Ladders and trad so why does it seem as if the trade has turned it's back to this side of the market?

As it was I went there with an open mind and was very impressed by some of the shiney gear and the sales pitches form the exhibitor's (brodex,ionics)
Equally some of the stands looked like jim bob had put it all together using cable ties and sticky back plastic in the garden shed!

 I still stand by my original comment, that I felt as if the show was geared towards wfp and Ladders are indeed a thing of the past if the exhibitors are anything to go by.

I have to agree  with you there it was geared towards wfp I dont think I saw a ladder anywhere Unger and window cleaning warehouse both had loads of trad stuff, maybe next time they may get a ladder company and other bits there, if not thats aa niche that needs looking at, even though I am mostly wfp I do still use ladders and that side still interests me, and every trad guy.

[Paul Coleman]

Well I've only just made it back myself.  No!  The traffic wasn't THAT bad.  I dropped in for a couple of hours or so while on my way to the northeast.  I had a little nose around.  Stopped off at the Omnipole stand to give my regards.  Was impressed with their new "trolley-on-a-backpack" thingy.  It's even got a charge indicator which seems to be a useful feature IMO.  Strolled over to the Ionics stand where they were demoing their system that sucks the water off the glass.  I've seen it before and it looks like it would be a very useful tool with enough of the right sort of work.  Wemnt to the Window Cleaning Warehouse bit as well and bought some warning signs that won't blow away (thanks for the good deal guys).  Also met up with Ian (aka Windowwashers).  I can assure everyone that the rumours aren't true.  He doesn't look a day over 31    .  Bumped into Brett and Gazza who used to post here too.  Oh yes.  Met Mr Slip n' Slide again as in Andy of WCS.  I did actually buy a pack of three off him (the slip and slide thingies     )  .  The jury's out on this product as far as I'm concerned as I haven't yet had the chance to use them.  I will be giving them a good road test in the next few weeks.  Worth £15 just to give them a whirl I think.  Will make a change to practice safe shining.

[Terry_Burrows]

  The Nec has to be the tops for me,the Buzz is great I wish it was on all the time.mind u I am knackerd after each show so demarnding and in phisical
form non stop talk action

[Jeff Brimble]

Its far out pricing itself for the small traders so they are sadly missing- pass it on.

[chuggers]

think i must've been at a different gig to some of u guys-i thought the show was awesome! loads of freebies, sound advice and some neat products i aint seen before!! thought it was the nuts...

[windowwashers]

think i must've been at a different gig to some of u guys-i thought the show was awesome! loads of freebies, sound advice and some neat products i aint seen before!! thought it was the nuts...

Good on you 

I myself had a great time there and was there both days

[Andrea Bygrave]

I went on Friday for the talk by Ian Lancaster on franchising. Very interesting and informative. It's given me something to work on. Worth the trip down from Lincolnshire, and it was raining anyway!

[windowwashers]

I went on Friday for the talk by Ian Lancaster on franchising. Very interesting and informative. It's given me something to work on. Worth the trip down from Lincolnshire, and it was raining anyway!

same as 

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Any piccies?

[Terry_Burrows]

  if we can all take something from the show. then its worth going
we are all as one..just trying to move forward

[Paul Coleman]

I went on Friday for the talk by Ian Lancaster on franchising. Very interesting and informative. It's given me something to work on. Worth the trip down from Lincolnshire, and it was raining anyway!

 wanted to hear that too.  Unfortunately I got there too late as both of the northbound motorways were having problems (and I left later than intended).  Bumped into Ian later on though and we had a chat.

[rillen]

You guys missed some gud stuff, these shows are put on for us to keep us up to date with whats hot and whats NOT.
I can back with bags full of goodies but more imporatanly i came back haveing learnt stuff i am now going to change 2 of my suppliers for better deals and learnt a few good things as well..your never to old...
Ionics gave a disasterous demo of there gutter hoover..every thing that cud go wrong went wrong its not for me...,  there was a compant with a great looking ro machine claiming how fast it purified but when i looked at the literature i discovered it works off MAIN woe mains and water dont mix plus you have to get you mains and water supply from thew customer not very practical most of the time.
I cam back with lots of money off vouchers and saw the infamous brodex prolong pole what a bute..smooth as silk and rigid needed convincing on the clamps but got my self a couple the long gaurantee swung it for me.
any way to cut a long story short we should support these show otherwise we will fall behind and not know whats going on appart from this and tea with our buddies in the morning... have a nice day