[dave f]

any moons a go when I was trad  .in winter time when it was freeeeezing  and your water froze on the glass mmmm I started  to use screen wash and a splash of antifreeze no more ice on windows but put a cloth on sill to soak up the blue from the screen wash any one else tried this.

[Smudger]

 I used to fill a 25 ltr barrel with hot water and a good splosh of meths and wrap it in a blanket, worked pretty in the cold.

Darran

[dazmond]

any moons a go when I was trad  .in winter time when it was freeeeezing  and your water froze on the glass mmmm I started  to use screen wash and a splash of antifreeze no more ice on windows but put a cloth on sill to soak up the blue from the screen wash any one else tried this.

yep ive done the same.although screenwash is horrible stuff.i even remember using a trad pole for upper windows when it was -5 and icy!

the temperatures gonna be up in double figures by monday next week so no freezing worries.

[paulben]

Don't use warm water freezes quicker don't ask me why . Avoid unheated conservatory's like the plaque prob put a splash of screen wash in bucket this morning had ice forming in bucket Tuesday morning would have been ok if I had some G & T

[paulben]

Get an outside thermometer then after sunrise ( temp will often drop at sunrise ) wait till it starts to rise, when it hits -2 should be ok

[Walter Mitty]

Yes, I used screenwash in the bucket a number of times when trad.  Works just fine, as you would expect.

[ChumBucket]

My advice is to be more sensible with your money, plan better and then when your water would be freezing  on the glass you can stay at home like you should have always been doing!!

[dave f]

always keep ahead of the competition  why stay at home when you can get out .if no one had any ideas we would still be wet and dry scrim  I'm always on the look out for new ideas

[M & C Window Cleaning]

I'd forgotten how cold my hands used to get working trad till today. One of my custies has a rather large extension  that I have to climb on and do trad as it is very awkward to do with WFP. My hands were warm as toast till I did that house. I was only up there two or three minutes and my hands were freezing. Was glad to get back to poling.

[ashbash]

They were freezing up for me yesterday am. A bit of anti freeze and I was away. Even the cons were OK to clean

[slap bash]

IPA or Iso is the part of antifreeze that stops water freezing and no  blue which is added to stop people drinking it as its rubbing alcohol and it`s not nasty stuff as some uninformed chap has said on here.

[tonycarr]

worse for me was carrying aluminium ladders, hands used to stick to them first thing in morning. never been able to wear gloves as i found it hard to detail and liked to know how dry my scrim was.

even with WFP i cant get on with gloves as i find i have to grip really hard to stop the pole from slipping round in my hands, makes me hands ache

tony

[NWH]

Sealskinz the ones with the sticky bobbles on are the best for poling when they've got used to your hands you hardly know you've got them on.

[Dave Willis]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene_glycol_poisoning

I think screenwash is ethanol?

[dazmond]

IPA or Iso is the part of antifreeze that stops water freezing and no  blue which is added to stop people drinking it as its rubbing alcohol and it`s not nasty stuff as some uninformed chap has said on here.

the so called uninformed chap was me by the way!YES IT IS NASTY STUFF!

i remember a true story a few years back  of a woman killing her husband with anti freeze.i think she put it on his dinner!

[stan stansfield]

worse for me was carrying aluminium ladders, hands used to stick to them first thing in morning. never been able to wear gloves as i found it hard to detail and liked to know how dry my scrim was.

even with WFP i cant get on with gloves as i find i have to grip really hard to stop the pole from slipping round in my hands, makes me hands ache

dont use gloves when carry the ladder use the sill cloth