[sham33]

I was tempted to photoshop a trampoline into the picture 


Window Cleaner by Bumblekite, on Flickr

[PurefectWindowCleaning]

Thing is, this looks dodgy, but ive done it a million and one times. Walked along a a flat roof or something similar then stood on the ledge if needed to.

Wouldnt do it now mind due to WFP, but wouldnt say this photo is that bad or wrong to be honest.

[Nick_Thompson]

Yep, it's when he hauls that ladder up and sticks it in the  flat roof's gutter so he can reach the next floor that you got to start worrying

[Richard Shepherd]

Seen the sign to his left "Abbey Ruins"  this windie when he falls on his arse.

[TomCrowther]

James, I take it you are joking when you say you don't think it's bad/wrong? You don't get much worse unless it involves a ladder, on a van roof under a live wire over a railway line. Ok, bit of fun but he is risking his an others well being. He can make the choice, the poor old bird he lands on will be quite surprised to me squashed by a fifteen stone wc.

[PurefectWindowCleaning]

James, I take it you are joking when you say you don't think it's bad/wrong? You don't get much worse unless it involves a ladder, on a van roof under a live wire over a railway line. Ok, bit of fun but he is risking his an others well being. He can make the choice, the poor old bird he lands on will be quite surprised to me squashed by a fifteen stone wc.

Not joking at all my friend.

Yes, its not ideal, but like I said, there have been loads of ocassions when I have done 'something similar' to what this bloke is doing.

[landy2]

i agree done things like this myself in the past ,  but got wfp so would not think of it now but also as you get older i think your nerve goes a lot , years ago my brother used to clean top bays in one movement by walking on the stone sills but he wont do it now 

[Ronnie Bryce]

Arkwright always get's Granville t clean windas like that.

[Ian101]

James, I take it you are joking when you say you don't think it's bad/wrong? You don't get much worse unless it involves a ladder, on a van roof under a live wire over a railway line. Ok, bit of fun but he is risking his an others well being. He can make the choice, the poor old bird he lands on will be quite surprised to me squashed by a fifteen stone wc.

ladder on van roof ok if roofrack used to stop it slipping  

yes im kidding but I do know 1 on here that does it  

[George P]

anyone whose cleaned before the pole was out has probably done something like this in the past, me included,

[PurefectWindowCleaning]

anyone whose cleaned before the pole was out has probably done something like this in the past, me included,

I was doing this as little as 1 year ago... before I turned WFP.

[Nick_Thompson]

I want to confess my sins!

Thirty odd years ago,  I would stand on the top run of a thirty foot ladder, pressed hard up against the glass with nothing but friction as a friend, to clean windows.

Sends a shudder down my spine thinking about it.

I suppose I'm lucky to still have a spine to send a shudder down.

[sean mcc]

Why would you want to do it like that ,the money must be good.

[Griffus]

I saw a guy the other day with one foot on a 8' high wall and the other pressed up the side of a tractor unit brushing away at the unit he was leaning against.

In a word: PRECARIOUS