Do you levitate to the upstairs ones?
Almost, I'm very quick at trad, learnt the trade that way and after years of trad, you get very quick, I tend to be half wfp and half trad. The problem with wfp for me is rinsing, it's very time consuming on hydrophobic glass, seems to take forever for the bits of dirt to fall down. Whereas trad, the squeegee just owns the window in seconds!
increase your flow rate. Rinsing takes me about 4 seconds. NOT LONG
I rinse on about 45 From shurflo...
I rinse on about 98 from shurflo....with fan jets
This bloke knows what he's talking about.
If you can't rinse fast you've still something to learn. It's quite simple but you've not learnt it all yet if you think rinsing on a half setting is going to earn you decent money.
You can rinse like mad but some windows just takes forever compared to trad.
I know this first hand. Wfp is great, trad is just better for some houses, there are times when dragging the hose around and through garages etc is defiantly slower than tradding. It's just a matter of fact. Trad can be faster than wfp on some houses. That's what I said in the original post.
Other benfits with trad are:
Can do Insides
Can hop over gates and fences easily
Can go over garage roofs
Can charge more if other window cleaners won't use trad
Can do first Cleans in half the time of wfp
Can get stains off in seconds on upstairs windows.
Next to zero outlay
Next to zero tool maintenance
Next to zero space in van taken up
No leaks
No freezing
No money to be spent on batteries pumps poles bla bla bla.
The list is endless, there are many many perks to trad.
There are also many perks to wfp, hence why I use it! / Just not for every house. Simple.