Will slx-25 reach?

[KPFM]

Someone wants me to clean a second floor flat (as in ground floor plus two storeys), will my SLX-25 reach that or is it going to be a struggle?

 

[Tuffers]

Got a pic? It probably would if it's not set back. My 22' will reach some 3 storey work at a push.

 

[KPFM]

Nope no pic as it was just from a Facebook enquiry, the block its in doesn't have set back windows though. They want insides doing too so I guess if I can't WFP the outsides I can get them from inside. I'll go for it, I know the woman who wants it doing anyway so if I can't do the outside for any reason its not the end of the world, she won't go round badmouthing me or anything.. I might feel a bit silly though.

 

[spruce]

My son can just reach one window on a Victorian house. He is 6' tall. He can't reach the other window which is a single window but behind a 1st floor bay. I have to stand back off the pavement and I need 35' with my slx40.

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[Tuffers]

Have you thought about drips onto windows below that you won't be cleaning? ie another persons flat. That's if it's not a 3 storey flat of course.

 

[KPFM]

I was wondering how people dealt with that for a while last week but then came to the conclusion that the windows below get wet when it rains anyway so pure can't be that much worse. Plus it might make them look out, see me cleaning and ask me to do theirs too.

 

[spruce]

Have you thought about drips onto windows below that you won't be cleaning? ie another persons flat. That's if it's not a 3 storey flat of course.

All one house.

 

[spruce]

I was wondering how people dealt with that for a while last week but then came to the conclusion that the windows below get wet when it rains anyway so pure can't be that much worse. Plus it might make them look out, see me cleaning and ask me to do theirs too.

We have several flats where we do the tops and a trad cleaner does the bottoms.

If the windows are clean and I get them wet due to wind direction etc, then I will do a quick glass clean, nothing more and only on the ones that have got wet. If the windows are dirty then I won't bother.

For me its trying to ensure that I don't create any friction between neighbours. I usually price these flats slightly higher so I'm not totally working for free.

On a couple of occasions we have got the business for the downstairs flat, on others that haven't got a cleaner (owner cleaned) they hope a stare through the windows will get them a free clean if they are in.

 

[Duncs]

I was wondering how people dealt with that for a while last week but then came to the conclusion that the windows below get wet when it rains anyway so pure can't be that much worse. Plus it might make them look out, see me cleaning and ask me to do theirs too.

cutomers wont accept that, they have just had there windows cleaned, then we come a long and have water poring over there windows. Had hell on with this issue, keep them sweet cleaned all bottoms for nowt, or trad up stairs flat

 

[Duncs]

yeh spruce bang on

 

[Duncs]

do you clean all that block spruce

 

[spruce]

do you clean all that block spruce

Hi Duncs.

We just got the corner house. It was the job of a trad cleaner who didn't do the 2 very top windows. He gave it to us to do and we inherited it when the trad cleaner gave up. He didn't like to wait for his money as the owner was 2 weeks on 2 weeks off. Its owned by a single guy who worked on the rigs. He has now gone to work in a shipyard in the Middle East as he is supervising the building of an oil tanker for BP if I remember correctly.

He now rents the house, fully furnished to a family who are friends of his who have come back from living in Spain.

He owned a new Aston Martin but he sold it before he went abroad. I once had the pleasure of cleaning that single third story (or 2nd story) window above the front door with his Aston parked on the street next to his front door. I stood in the road with the pole extended over its roof.

I regularly have to clean the window around the side above the bay with a car parked underneath it in the street. I have to stand about half way in the road to clean it. I just make sure I'm extra vigilant, don't trip up or have a heart attack whilst doing it./emoticons/biggrin.png

H&S would 'throw the book' at me for that one./emoticons/wink.png

 

[Duncs]

thats a massive street there spruce what a winner if you have lots off work there

 

[spruce]

thats a massive street there spruce what a winner if you have lots off work there

Its the only one we do. We never canvassed for work there.

We do a few flats in the 'Saltburn Streets' just off the Marine Parade but its a moving population (DSS tenants) and we have had a few who have left without letting us know. We have a few flats that we have done for years but I tend to stay away from them now.

I also dislike working from the pavement as there is always a pedestrian presence around when you start to clean.

Another cleaner, who has also just joined this site does a lot of work with flats. The going rate is about £5 a single window and a bay in our area. He does fronts only. He has one street with about 40 flats which he cleans in about 3 hours.

 

[Duncs]

flats can be real pain, its the only time we get hassle, but loads off work keeps coming in which canny be bad

 

[heyoh]

I regularly have to clean the window around the side above the bay with a car parked underneath it in the street.

Oh how I hate that, and it's normally a bmw, merc, or astin martin that they parked right underneath their windows as well.

 

[spruce]

Oh how I hate that, and it's normally a bmw, merc, or astin martin that they parked right underneath their windows as well.

If I have to work over a car I take extra time and mentally focus my attention on the work at hand.

If there were a couple of expensive cars together, ie Aston, Porsche, Rolls etc then I would come back another time when they were gone. My customer's don't own cars that posh so if I saw something like that then something is telling me something I can't ignore. /emoticons/smile.png

 

[Neil]

Sometimes I wish I was 10ft tall then I wouldn't have to buy more extensions for my slx lol

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