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[GQC] Tim

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Re: A year to get up to speed with wfp? Not with me?!
« Reply #40 on: July 31, 2008, 12:20:53 am »
Right, haven't been one there for the day, but there is a lot of explaining I need to do. I'll reply to everything.

Tim, those triggers you mentioned, do they need to be held in position all the time to maintain the flow of water ??

Yes you do, but it's like second nature now, and I haven't had a cramp or similar over the last 2,5months of wfp. It only takes a finger to depress it, very easy, you won't even now you're using it after a day or two.

I would say also that if your as quick as you say you are in such a short time there`s no way your doing a top job,for 1 you don`t know what to look for from the ground to know there clean in such a short time doing it.I`m not knocking you i`m just saying at the start i was the same,i thought that was easy and on inspection some of the work was sub standard and if it was me i wouldn`t have paid for it.Keep keen though in about 6 months WC will seem like a hobby ;D ;D ;D ;D lol.

While I very much appreciate your comments like always, the first time I went round my work I checked all my windows before I left, and I have left them in good condition, very very satisfied with the work, and I'm very hard to please. I know exactly what to look for from the ground, please don't tarnish me with the same brush. But please do tell me, because I can still very much learn a lot, I'm certain of that. :)

2 weeks and your a lot faster is telling me you are setting yourself up for a fall.

but if you are faster now wait for a few more months down the line experience gains time knowing where to stand ect with the pole, where to put hose, where to start etc etc etc etc in 2 weeks you cant gain this knowledge unless you clean every customers windows daily then I guess it can be done.

Good that you are excited though  ;)

Thanks Ian, but before I started wfp, I kept my eyes open were I would lay the hose and everything, and how I would tackle a particular property with wfp, when I started using it, it just went all very natural, knew exactly where to lay the hose etc, yes I did get in a tangle with the hose now and then, but that was to be expected. I'm sure I will get even faster, I just noticed that on the vast majority of my work, I am literally twice as fast.

Now here is where I need to clarify how I worked traditionally. I always used a ladderm8rix, and that took a couple of extra minutes per job, and I always walked atleast twice to my van for that, now it's once for my wfp, and hose. I reckon that will save a lot of time, because I always put my ladder up the safest way, get ladder first, then walk back to previous window, get ladderm8rix, put it under ladder at the next window. So I'm sure that's where I gained lots of time too.

It's not just georgian, I actually find that with normal panes, I'm really quick now too, I'm on my second go through the work, and I'm absolutely flying, I so enjoy it. :)


I put a lot of that time saving to excellent tools like the SL-X, but still wfp has been an absolute dream for me, it's so easy, I earn atleast a good 100-150 more a day now. With perfect results


I'm sure there is a perfectly reasonable explanation , but you have failed to tell how you can increase your earnings by £100 - £150 a day more :o
You are twice as fast now, so where is all the extra £25,000+ of work coming from ?


Haha, yea that can look very strange, I didn't just get 25000+, I was behind quite a lot with work, so I've had to work like a madman, hence I earned that much more, not because I picked up that much more work everyday. Maybe a 150 was a bit on the positive side, but definitely over a 100 more a day. :)

Sorry for the confusion. :)

Paul Coleman

Re: A year to get up to speed with wfp? Not with me?!
« Reply #41 on: July 31, 2008, 06:00:33 am »
My first time around my round with WFP was actually slower than with trad because I decided to treat them like first cleans.  I had prepared some windows for WFP but there's only so much you can do.  The second time was about on par.  In fact, because it took me so much longer, I didn't convert them all over at once.  It was from about the fourth time around that I really noticed some benefit.  The work that was a 6 week plod with trad became a 3 and a half week plod with WFP.  So there were plenty of gaps to fill.