£720 lighter ;)

Mr Joshua said:
I'm interested in how you go about producing the pure water, sounds fascinating and quite a decent job if I'm honest!
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Well I am doing about 10 videos for a WFP forum I belong too

1 complete house cleaned start to finish
2 How water is made
3 New poles compared to slx and clx gardiner poles
4 Ideas I have made for my van
5 Cleaning to poker face song (long story)
6 Spotting and how to prevent it
7 Fan jets and pencil jets
8 crash tested tanks
9 My home made trolley. RRP is about £700 I made mine for sub £200
10 clever tools I have made/changed

So i will update the thread. With a link

It is so much fun. And the water fights are Fun too

Also I will probably buy one of those key ring camcorder things lol
 
It's here :D

Absolutely awesome :D

i will be doing some video's for a WFP forum, so if anyone wants to see me or my pole ;) Let me know. If enough interest is shown, i will sort out videos for here :D
 
Our window cleaner uses ladders while not securing them or having anyone footing it, so here's a question if he falls and injures himself who would take the blame? Is it his fault for not following Health and Safety or are we the ones at fault because it happened while he was on our property?

The common sense answer would be his fault, but with the law I don't have a clue. I mean you see stories like someone breaking into a house and they injure themselves in the process and he ends up suing the owner for damages, I was just wondering if this was the case here aswell?

I ask because our window cleaner comes across as a bit of a ****
 
If you live in a normal size house. Double sections ladders are fine. They banned the 3 sections ladders for use on town houses.

When it comes to who is at fault. You are inviting him on to your property. If you hurt him you can be held liable. For example.

One of my customers had visits from kids in his garden at night time. Just trying to steal stuff for money. He got sued as a kid jumped over a fence onto a wooden board full of nails. I knew where they were at. But the kid didn't.

So if be falls off, it's not your fault. If you leave a wire out and trips over it. You could be sued.
 
I like the look of your pole, but was very very confused. Watched the video and was wondering when the lighter part was coming on. To be honest, I was expecting a 100 odd foot lighter to appear!

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And before anyone ask's YES i have seen men fapping :( and couples having sex.

They are some of the things i wont be missing!
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I got busted having sex by the window cleaner once, I laughed, he laughed, the girl screamed... Kinda happens a lot when I have sex...
 
BringTheRain said:
So if be falls off, it's not your fault. If you leave a wire out and trips over it. You could be sued.
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Thanks, it just got me thinking after you said it was H&S requirements that he has to have the ladder secured in some way, which he never does and he strikes me as the sort who would try to get as much as possible even if the injury was his fault.

Like recently when he came to do the windows, the only person in was me and I was fast asleep. So he does the front windows and when it comes to cleaning the back he has to knock on the front door so we can either let him through the house or open the side gate to get into the back yard. Well I'm woken up to someone banging on the back door and it was the window cleaner, he'd only jumped over the side gate (which is 8ft high) and broke the bloody thing so now it doesn't open properly :rolleyes: He's then expecting me to pay him and let him through the house and he's totally confused as to why I'm fuming and refusing to pay him :o

Usually if nobody was home he would just do the front of the house and charge us half for doing half the job, but now we get those cards through the door asking for the full amount saying he's done all the windows when nobody was home, which is bull**** because he can't get into the back yard without someone opening the gate, but I guess I now know how he gets around the back...

I've told my mum to tell him where to go, but she hates confrontation and won't do it using the excuse that nobody else cleans windows around here :rolleyes:
 
There are a lot of cowboy window cleaners out on the world.

Me and my dad are not! Been working at this business for over 10 years.

I might have made a mistake in the wording.

If a window cleaner wants to use 3 sections ladders they have to be fixed in some way. You can use 2 sections ladders normally. But they will be banning these next. Or so it seems.
 
Le_Petit_Lapin said:
I was beginning to think it was some sort of trick photography about 1/2 way through. :o

Much geat a fair bit heavier when the tubes are filled with water.
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Missed this. A micro bore hose runs up the pole loose. It's on 6mm or 8mm bore. So no real weight really.

Just had a quick go on my house with the new pole. Awesome. Really is awesome.

I can see the lack of weight really making me quicker and earning more

Good times!!!
 
Yeah it's just a 2 section for a normal sized house I was hoping I could use it as an excuse to convince my mother to get rid of him (I guess I still could and bend the truth ;))

We've had worse though, when we lived elsewhere we had someone else doing the windows and one day she couldn't go and answer the door because she was on the phone (no cordless phone for us in those days :p) so instead of coming back later or being paid next time, he decided to let himself in the house and demanded payment. She hates confrontation, but she went ape**** at him :D She kicked him out, told him to **** off and not come back, being 8 at the time it was rather amusing :p

I'm not saying all window cleaners are cowboys, but we just don't seem to have that much luck around here.
 
Alrik, where do you live as a matter of interest.

If you want to get rid of a window cleaner, just say can we stop for the moment. And when winter comes around we may re start. Nicest way of doing it ;)
 
Sheffield.

The guy lives in our area and does just about everyones around here. Last year it looked like he was going to have some competition because some young guys in their mid to late 20's had started their own window cleaning business and were going around asking people if they were interested. Well they just happened to show up as he was doing our neighbours house and he started having a go at them with the usual "Who do you think you are?", "This is my area!" etc

I don't think many people took them up on their offer because of the current guy being local to them, which I don't understand because it's not like he does a good job. If it was me I would just tell him to get lost and not have anyone do the windows, but it's not my house so not much I can do and convincing my mother is like banging your head against a wall, it won't do any good.
 
LOL - I got/get competition all the time. Beer money for the summer usually.

But one lad stuck it out and made it and hats off to the guy!

TBH not dissing up norf. But window cleaning is so different from north to south.

I am 45 miles north of London, bedfordshire. And i would not do a house for less than £10 really.

My friend cleans in chesterfield, which is close to you??? And he has 4 bed detatched houses for £5!

But he doesnt wipe sills, misses windows, doesn't do doors, doesnt edge etc. He can do 4 an hour which is £20 ish an hour. For me same method as him (traditional) I would struggle todo 2 but i would charge £15 each.

Window cleaning is very weird, seems to be the higher you go up the uk the cheaper it is BUT the quality drops off as well!!!!
 
I think ours is £3.50 for the front and £3.50 for the back, it used to be £5 for both, but he put his prices up, which is fair enough he has to do it at some point.

As you said the quality isn't there and sometimes it's quite hard to tell whether he's done it or not.
 
Alrik said:
I think ours is £3.50 for the front and £3.50 for the back, it used to be £5 for both, but he put his prices up, which is fair enough he has to do it at some point.

As you said the quality isn't there and sometimes it's quite hard to tell whether he's done it or not.
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I couldn't work like that. If the customer cancels. They can bad mouth your business. If you cannot tell that is bad :(
 
Thats a lot of money for a stick with a mop on the end.

But this world is amazing now. Seriously, we have someone telling window cleaners how to work, what a joke, window cleaners have been around decades and I am sure most of them have done the job safe. H & S is getting silly now.


Also I got rid of my window cleaner as he went to this new fangled pole etc system. What I have experianced is that it is rubbish, leaves streaks on the windows and doesnt dry as well as the old fashion way, granted he may have been doing it wrong or with the wrong equipment (tank in van and long hose on pole system) plus he didnt do sills, edges etc. Sorry but if you want to clean my windows, you clean all of the window. These days a lot of them are 'Glass wetters/wipers'

no offence to OP. Just the ones I have come across
 
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Magic, can you remember how many times he did your house with the pole?

No offence taken, some people don't like the system. Other customers love it and would never go back to traditional. When my dad converted to pole system he got about 6 complaints out of 400+ customers. But it wasn't the system at fault.

Badly fitted seals, missing seals, alu frames, badly kept wooden framed windows etc etc was the problem.
 
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