Doing it wrong….

[Yogi1872]

I don't care what you have to say on this matter mate...its clearly BS...I've been window cleaning for 31 years(17 on ladders).

The only way a window cleaner could clean 86 houses in a day would be if they worked 10 hours that day and just posted a slip through half of them without touching the windows!

It's 100% the truth, if it takes you 2 and a half minutes to squeegee the window then maybe your just slow at window cleaning

 

[Yogi1872]

If any of you 2 want to put your money where your mouth is on this il happily take both bets.

 

[Yogi1872]

It may be doable but doing bare minimum glass only and missing frosted windows is not window cleaning whatever anyone days
Plus accident waiting to happen running up and down ladders at that speed
Obviously no hse being used and probably using cheap diy ladders and not inspecting them before use or doing regular full checks
When someone does get properly injured due to negligence and not even working on the books legally then that’s game over

Anyway I am stopping being a mod so I can say what I think and not have to be diplomatic anymore
Too many idiots with and sometimes even dangerous advice on here now and I can’t say what I think
Plus no appreciation for what we do

I’m still being offered in private to go meet someone for a row

The company has been going 45 years and he's managed fine, they do use decent ladders tbf, hse isn't up to much either. I've seen there workers still doing 3 storeys with a double section 21 rung ladder fully extended with no one at the bottom footing it.

He must be pulling in around 9k a week profit though. It's absolutely silly money.

 

[Dave B]

It's 100% the truth, if it takes you 2 and a half minutes to squeegee the window then maybe your just slow at window cleaning

But they are still doing glass only
Try cleaning windows PROPERLY at that speed
Do they wear their spurs on their boots at work?

 

[Yogi1872]

But they are still doing glass only
Try cleaning windows PROPERLY at that speed
Do they wear their spurs on their boots at work?

Yip they are only doing the glass. I've never tried to claim they were doing anything other than just the glass though. If it included wiping the frames and wiping all the soap away then that obviously couldn't be done. Glass only, like all I've ever claimed. Definitely can though if your at a part of the run where houses are like that.

He has so much it's like do 5 I'm a row, miss 1 or 2 then it's 8 in a row etc etc. Everything is very very compact. They have that much of a hold on alot of streets that if say 1 or 2 cancel and get a new window cleaner. The new window cleaner stops going asnits not worth his while going in for so little. So they end up back with the original people again.

Although there's not another company who has even 10% of his work that I can think of near me, there will be more than you'd think I bet who's a similar size who still all operate of the ladder accross the country who we just don't know about.