[gordons]

Just wondering when you do traditional window cleaning do you carry your own water in your van or do you ask your customers to give you water and do you fweel that the water should always be hot?

[Clear Vision]

Carry all my water with me.

I use wfp for most of my work and do some traditional.

For the traditional I use purified water in my bucket along with gg3.

How many other window cleaners would go to that expense??

YOU SHOULD NEVER ASK A CUSTOMER FOR WATER!!!!

Bad practice and looks very un-professional.


Cold water all the time. If you use hot water it's cold anyway by the time you get the squeegee out

[jeff1]

I'm Traditional and always carry my own hot water,

by the end of the day if there is any left it will still be warm, so I often wash my car with it.

[Clear Vision]

I'm Traditional and always carry my own hot water,

by the end of the day if there is any left it will still be warm, so I often wash my car with it.

Do you travell around in a greenhouse??

I tried hot water when I first set out. Got cold within an hour.

I must have been driving around in a fridge!

[windows_chepstow]

Cold water is fine to use, but two of us used to work from a large Unger bucket and we could make it last all day.

We did this by dipping our applicators into it and then running our hands down the sleeve, so the excess water ran back into the bucket.

Then, on returning to the bucket, any water left in our buckets-on-a-belt was emptied into the said recepticle also.

Okay, there may have been occassions when we needed a top-up, but not many.

Then when we finished; we just emptied the sludge out of the bucket in a handy drain.

[jeff1]

I'm Traditional and always carry my own hot water,

by the end of the day if there is any left it will still be warm, so I often wash my car with it.

Do you travell around in a greenhouse??

I tried hot water when I first set out. Got cold within an hour.

I must have been driving around in a fridge!

Hi Clear
Old habbits die hard, I carry 25ltrs of red hot water in single 5ltr containers, there all packed into one container, so this helps keep the heat in, like I said by the end of the day its only luke warm.
I only started to carry hot water when it was my first winter as a wc, I was scapeing ice of windows, I had no gloves, so the hot water was a welcome addition to my round, and old habbits die hard.
There is nothing wrong with taking cold water, but if I was going to carry cold water then I wouldn't bother, I would Just fill up from a customers outside taps.

Did have one OAP moan at me once for not asking, she moaned that she was on a water meter, she had her costs down to the last cup full I think, so to stop her moaning I just knocked 50p of her bill. but not the next four or five times when she wasn't home.

[Clear Vision]

 "but not the next four or five times when she wasn't home"

Nice one jeff

Wait untill you know she is away for the whole day! Turn the tap on in the morning and come back late afternoon and switch off!

See if she will work that one out to a cup

[jeff1]

"but not the next four or five times when she wasn't home"

Nice one jeff

Wait untill you know she is away for the whole day! Turn the tap on in the morning and come back late afternoon and switch off!

See if she will work that one out to a cup

Sorry clear if I want to see her again I will have to take a shovel
she died three years ago, and her family moaned about having to pay me for the last clean, and for the cost of the old dears funeral, so the whole family were moaners, but I did fill my buckets up for the last time, they didn't know she was on a water meter.