WFP with tap water

[Pit Creature]

Was watching a window cleaner clean my office windows today. He was obviously well established and had a boom lift to get him up to the height of the window. Seem to be doing a thorough job with each window but they dried after a few minutes covered in white drip marks. They looked better before he came!

Surely he wouldn’t just be using tap water?

Hard to imagine him keeping much work if he left them like that every time.

 

[spruce]

There was a window cleaning company from your 'neck of the woods' @Pit Creature that did many council jobs on Teesside. They were pumping tap water that they obtained from taps on route through a large di vessel that's resin inside was long since spent and hence ineffective.

The spots left behind where indicative of ordinary tap water being used. I pointed the problem out to the operator and he couldn't have cared one single bit. I went into the library building they were cleaning and asked if they were going to complain about the quality of the workmanship. After all, we pay our rates and taxes and some of that was paying for the windows to be cleaned. The lady in charged wasn't concerned either. It wasn't mine or her business I was told.

The same thing happened to our now long since gone local branch of Natwest. I asked the branch manager if he was happy with all the streaks and spots left behind by the cleaners who weren't cleaning with pure water. He said "nothing. That was the least of his worries."

So while no one complains and accepts the quality of the service, they will continue to provide that service level.

 

[Skxawng]

On commercial jobs they seem to get away with it. I did a one off day for a friends business working with one of his workers on Coventry city hospital. I was helping him clean the glass roof but was doing too thorough a job so he asked me to go into an interior courtyard and do the windows in there. He had the backpack on the roof and there was no way to get the hose from the van to it so he told me just to plug in to the tap on the wall. I objected but he said that's how they do it... Anyway spent an hour in there and got out before it dried! Turns out they were having an awards ceremony in there in a few days... ?

on the way out looked at the roof above reception and it was terrible! (The bit I did looked good ? )

You'd never get away with that on domestic.

 

[windowsurfer]

000 all the way, if theres a problem, i know its not the water,but me or just the window or weather.  I dont get complaints,but i dont ask customers either if everything is ok, i would be surprised if what i do is perfect even though i do try, as i personally think wfp is not a perfect system, but better than climbing up ladders all day for cleaning a window.  

 

[scottish cleaning service]

Folk in the public sector are not really interested. The moment you make a stand you are put down as a trouble maker. Its called Neoliberalism and begun in the 80s. Due to mission creep it now effects everything and everyone. The first sign that the pendulum is now swinging the other way was what I witnessed yesterday. The UK Gov has now Endorsed the police to take a zero tolerance on moped thieves by ramming them. The EU would have condemned this action and threatened us with action through Brussels. Now the EU knows they can go to hell and we will be standing up for the victims rather than helping the perpetrators. The UK will slowly return to normality even up here no matter who is in power.

 

[spruce]

Folk in the public sector are not really interested. The moment you make a stand you are put down as a trouble maker. Its called Neoliberalism and begun in the 80s. Due to mission creep it now effects everything and everyone. The first sign that the pendulum is now swinging the other way was what I witnessed yesterday. The UK Gov has now Endorsed the police to take a zero tolerance on moped thieves by ramming them. The EU would have condemned this action and threatened us with action through Brussels. Now the EU knows they can go to hell and we will be standing up for the victims rather than helping the perpetrators. The UK will slowly return to normality even up here no matter who is in power.

I saw that. Interestingly, one of the scooter riders thought that if he took off his helmet the police would stop chasing him. ?

Bring back corporal punishment and give them a good flogging. That will impress upon them that the punishment for criminal acts really hurts, it has real consequences.

 

[ks789]

They deserve to be rammed for mugging people, a lot of people are scared to go out of there houses in a lot of areas. I was no angel but to mug someone you deserve the full force of karma. 

 

[scottish cleaning service]

I saw that. Interestingly, one of the scooter riders thought that if he took off his helmet the police would stop chasing him. ?

Bring back corporal punishment and give them a good flogging. That will impress upon them that the punishment for criminal acts really hurts, it has real consequences.

Just watched an old Minder episode where Arthur decides to stand as a Independent councilor. Says he will bring back the birch and hanging so everybody votes for him. Only to lose in the end by being disqualified for over spending on his political campaign. :1f602:  

 

[spruce]

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[scottish cleaning service]

The reason they try anything rather than send criminals to jail comes down to money. When I was a prison officer in the early 90s they said it costs £500 a week to keep someone locked up. Heaven knows what it cost now? Probably a grand or more because of all the rights they have. EU is great for 4 types of occupations. Lawyers. Accountants, Economists and Crooks because they all need each other and prefer to operate where soft justice is. I can never understand why no one seems to notice this strange fact.