[AuRavelling79]

So yesterday I was out cutting the scrubland that passes for a lawn in my garden when I hear the clatter of a ladder and looking over my hedge I see an old estate draw up and the stiles of a ladder with gaffered-on laddermitts go up to a house diagonally opposite.

Ooooh ... a windy! Let's time him I think as I push the mower. So I look at my mobile and it says 12.45 exactly.

Whirrr clunk grind cut tear empty grass box, nose over hedge, wasseee doin?

He is using a car sponge to soap the window and a squeegee to take it off. He seems pitifully slow climbing the ladder and cleaning. He doesn't look that old - his hair is dark, may be 50? But his black and orange trainers seem new and incongruous.

On his belt there is a spray bottle and a ragholder.

On this 1920's house there are three windows at the front, a door and a high window at the side, then a locked gate. So he appears to do just the fronts and maybe the top side - definitely not the backs - then the ladder is back on the car (J reg Volvo estate) and he drives off.

What time do you think he finished that (half) house?

[Positivity]

10 minutes

[st teath windows]

1 hour

[CLEANCARE WC]

16 MINUTES

[wfp master]

Half an hour.

[elite mike]

25 mins

[♠Winp®oClean♠]

12.56

[home6442]

Who cares,
As long as the windows are clean he will do o.k. plenty of time to get faster
and improve his skills.
People need to get of their high horses on this forum.

[EandM]

So yesterday I was out cutting the scrubland that passes for a lawn in my garden when I hear the clatter of a ladder and looking over my hedge I see an old estate draw up and the stiles of a ladder with gaffered-on laddermitts go up to a house diagonally opposite.

Ooooh ... a windy! Let's time him I think as I push the mower. So I look at my mobile and it says 12.45 exactly.

Whirrr clunk grind cut tear empty grass box, nose over hedge, wasseee doin?

He is using a car sponge to soap the window and a squeegee to take it off. He seems pitifully slow climbing the ladder and cleaning. He doesn't look that old - his hair is dark, may be 50? But his black and orange trainers seem new and incongruous.

On his belt there is a spray bottle and a ragholder.

On this 1920's house there are three windows at the front, a door and a high window at the side, then a locked gate. So he appears to do just the fronts and maybe the top side - definitely not the backs - then the ladder is back on the car (J reg Volvo estate) and he drives off.

What time do you think he finished that (half) house?



No idea on the time - just enjoyed the writing style !

[Ste b]

Who cares,
As long as the windows are clean he will do o.k. plenty of time to get faster
and improve his skills.
People need to get of their high horses on this forum.

Was it you ? 

[home6442]

Who cares,
As long as the windows are clean he will do o.k. plenty of time to get faster
and improve his skills.
People need to get of their high horses on this forum.

Was it you ? 

Not me I would have taken twice as long then fallen of the ladder and put the ladder through
the window as I was leaving.

[DaveG]

Tosh on your patch now Goldy? 

[*Hector*]

Twice as long as what???

there has not been a time said yet.....  

any figures at the moment are pure speculation....  

 

[MATT BATEMAN (OWC)]

13.22.

[MATT BATEMAN (OWC)]

People need to get of their high horses on this forum.

But if you think Gold is guilty of getting on his high horse aren't you doing the same by critiscising him? That makes you guilty of critiscism and of being a hypocrite.

[ben M]

13.31

[daniel worgan]

So yesterday I was out cutting the scrubland that passes for a lawn in my garden when I hear the clatter of a ladder and looking over my hedge I see an old estate draw up and the stiles of a ladder with gaffered-on laddermitts go up to a house diagonally opposite.

Ooooh ... a windy! Let's time him I think as I push the mower. So I look at my mobile and it says 12.45 exactly.

Whirrr clunk grind cut tear empty grass box, nose over hedge, wasseee doin?

He is using a car sponge to soap the window and a squeegee to take it off. He seems pitifully slow climbing the ladder and cleaning. He doesn't look that old - his hair is dark, may be 50? But his black and orange trainers seem new and incongruous.

On his belt there is a spray bottle and a ragholder.

On this 1920's house there are three windows at the front, a door and a high window at the side, then a locked gate. So he appears to do just the fronts and maybe the top side - definitely not the backs - then the ladder is back on the car (J reg Volvo estate) and he drives off.

What time do you think he finished that (half) house?

Does it really matter how long he took?
I say good luck to the bloke for getting out there and doing it in the first place.You don't know his circumstances as to why he cleans in the manner he does or indeed drives an older vehicle than you probably use.So before you judge the fella,which is quite obviously what you are doing from the tone of your post,you may like to find out more about him first.
At the end of the day he cleans 5hite off the windows the same as you do.

[supernova77]

We all had to start somewhere!

[C o z y]

So yesterday I was out cutting the scrubland that passes for a lawn in my garden when I hear the clatter of a ladder and looking over my hedge I see an old estate draw up and the stiles of a ladder with gaffered-on laddermitts go up to a house diagonally opposite.

Ooooh ... a windy! Let's time him I think as I push the mower. So I look at my mobile and it says 12.45 exactly.

Whirrr clunk grind cut tear empty grass box, nose over hedge, wasseee doin?

He is using a car sponge to soap the window and a squeegee to take it off. He seems pitifully slow climbing the ladder and cleaning. He doesn't look that old - his hair is dark, may be 50? But his black and orange trainers seem new and incongruous.

On his belt there is a spray bottle and a ragholder.

On this 1920's house there are three windows at the front, a door and a high window at the side, then a locked gate. So he appears to do just the fronts and maybe the top side - definitely not the backs - then the ladder is back on the car (J reg Volvo estate) and he drives off.

What time do you think he finished that (half) house?

Does it really matter how long he took?
I say good luck to the bloke for getting out there and doing it in the first place.You don't know his circumstances as to why he cleans in the manner he does or indeed drives an older vehicle than you probably use.So before you judge the fella,which is quite obviously what you are doing from the tone of your post,you may like to find out more about him first.
At the end of the day he cleans 5hite off the windows the same as you do.

+1

[Tomboler]

17.56 - then he rushed home to catch the weather on the bbc news channel, plan his next day and have a satisfying bag of chips with his missus