[David Healey]

Hi,

I'm just looking for some feedback on members' opinions/experience about the use of ladders -vs- a telescopic pole/water fed system to clean domestic properties when it comes to:

1. Employee safety
2. The Work at Height Regulations and "reasonable practicability"
3. Alternatives to using ladders

All comments greatly received...

Thanks

David

[Nathanael Jones]

There's no reason to use ladders for domestic work anymore - WFP is much safer, quicker, more profitable.

[AuRavelling79]

> David Healey

Try the bumped "Why do they continue trad?" thread ... 

[dazmond]

wfp for most domestic work for me.the only acception is sometimes i have to go over a flat roof to access the backs with a ladder but they are very few and far between.i also use mop and squeegee on some ground floor windows if access is awkward or the windows are in poor condition(dodgy rubber seals or old wooden windows with flakey paint).

WFP is the safest method for upper windows and you can clean 99.9% of the awkward windows as well with a pole system.

regards



dazmond

[SunShineCleaning]

What is your reason for asking?

[H20cleaning]

i can feel the tension already... who will be the first to spark an argument 

[robertphil]

david Healey , you know in your heart that Trad is best AS LONG AS YOU ARE FIT AS A FIDDLE
  thats the riser,  it all hinges on "fit for purpose" , nobody unfit  or big should entertain cleaning windows by the ladder  method

wfp is absolutely suited to folk with worn bodies and/or  excess weight issues /vertigo and i heartily say WFP is the very best in that scenario

why you are posting your question leads me to think you are wanting to stir things on the forum

[H20cleaning]

david Healey , you know in your heart that Trad is best AS LONG AS YOU ARE FIT AS A FIDDLE
  thats the riser,  it all hinges on "fit for purpose" , nobody unfit  or big should entertain cleaning windows by the ladder  method

wfp is absolutely suited to folk with worn bodies and/or  excess weight issues /vertigo and i heartily say WFP is the very best in that scenario

why you are posting your question leads me to think you are wanting to stir things on the forum

he might be looking to set up a business in the window cleaning industry im guessing?

[landy2]

they will always be a place for ladder work  example  flat roofs , were wfp does not work well leaks inside window , customer does not like it , to much hard work to drag pipe for one house , proberly more .

[barry mallett]

Anyway David who are you playing for these days . You were crap when you were at Leeds .

[[GQC] Tim]

All you need to know :

http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=170006.0

And a few hundred other examples, dead, disabled, quadriplegics etc etc. No brainer really.

[PurefectWindowCleaning]

All you need to know :

http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=170006.0

Thanks Tim, I was just about to do this 

[SunShineCleaning]

http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=161732.0