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Smudger

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Crazy Architect window design.....
« on: July 15, 2021, 02:18:06 pm »
So, got a call from a regular school we do today - can you clean the windows during the summer ready for September and please price up our new building....


Right oh!






How the hell do they expect these to stay clean, never mind be cleaned  ::)roll

Darran
Never argue with an idiot, they will only bring you down to their level, and beat you with experience

NWH

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Re: Crazy Architect window design.....
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2021, 02:22:27 pm »
Yeah window blinds who’s that overweight bloke in that window squinting back at you 🤣🤣🤣🤣😘

Ascjim

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Re: Crazy Architect window design.....
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2021, 02:23:10 pm »
From the inside, or am I missing something?

Smudger

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Re: Crazy Architect window design.....
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2021, 02:47:10 pm »
Funnily enough its another Nigel - the caretaker  8)

Jim- interesting - one side opens a max of 3 inches (another safety feature) - the other doesn't open - so not sure how I get to half of it?

Darran

Never argue with an idiot, they will only bring you down to their level, and beat you with experience

zesty

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Re: Crazy Architect window design.....
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2021, 02:49:16 pm »
I had the same problem with an massive estate agents head office, huge building and one side had these giant sun shades.

I said they can’t be done  ;D


deeege

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Re: Crazy Architect window design.....
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2021, 02:55:08 pm »
I clean a college every year that has these on one of the buildings, not much you can do, just skip the glass that’s inaccessible.
"....and it's lend me ten pounds, I'll buy you a drink, and mother wake me early in the morning."

Smudger

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Re: Crazy Architect window design.....
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2021, 03:15:15 pm »
I said we will wash the louvers but cant say how clean the glass will be - just seems a strange set up having glass window then covering it over like that

Darran
Never argue with an idiot, they will only bring you down to their level, and beat you with experience

NWH

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Re: Crazy Architect window design.....
« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2021, 03:59:05 pm »
Is that fixed that side can’t it be cleaned from inside.

Smudger

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Re: Crazy Architect window design.....
« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2021, 04:42:25 pm »
You have the large pane uncovered and fixed then the Lou Reed side one half opens the other fixed - no one knows if this was the original intension  - apparently they are there to stop children falling out the open window which is restricted to 3” opening anyway

Worse is right above these are “condensation holes” which currently dribble out loads of limescale

Darran
Never argue with an idiot, they will only bring you down to their level, and beat you with experience

Splash & dash

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Re: Crazy Architect window design.....
« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2021, 05:46:30 pm »
We have started getting a few buildings like this down our way ,one is a vw show room and you cannot get the the glass but when inside the building the outside looks terrible, I turned the job down just not worth the hassle,in the end the garage hired a scaffold tower and got one of there car cleaners to pressure wash through the slats it now looks evan worse 😂😂😂😂😂   

Ralphie

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Re: Crazy Architect window design.....
« Reply #10 on: July 16, 2021, 07:58:22 pm »
Funnily enough its another Nigel - the caretaker  8)

Jim- interesting - one side opens a max of 3 inches (another safety feature) - the other doesn't open - so not sure how I get to half of it?

Darran

I thought that legally they have to have a release to open fully?

Smudger

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Re: Crazy Architect window design.....
« Reply #11 on: July 16, 2021, 09:11:59 pm »
I don't know - we have another school with 70's metal frames and the openers are siliconed and screwed shut  :-X

Darran
Never argue with an idiot, they will only bring you down to their level, and beat you with experience

Bungle

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Re: Crazy Architect window design.....
« Reply #12 on: July 16, 2021, 09:14:18 pm »
We have started getting a few buildings like this down our way ,one is a vw show room and you cannot get the the glass but when inside the building the outside looks terrible, I turned the job down just not worth the hassle,in the end the garage hired a scaffold tower and got one of there car cleaners to pressure wash through the slats it now looks evan worse 😂😂😂😂😂

Did you go back and check then?
We look at them, they look through them.

Splash & dash

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Re: Crazy Architect window design.....
« Reply #13 on: July 16, 2021, 10:07:31 pm »
We have started getting a few buildings like this down our way ,one is a vw show room and you cannot get the the glass but when inside the building the outside looks terrible, I turned the job down just not worth the hassle,in the end the garage hired a scaffold tower and got one of there car cleaners to pressure wash through the slats it now looks evan worse 😂😂😂😂😂



Did you go back and check then?



I go in there regularly as I do the owners houses and hotel

Bungle

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Re: Crazy Architect window design.....
« Reply #14 on: July 16, 2021, 10:30:12 pm »
We have started getting a few buildings like this down our way ,one is a vw show room and you cannot get the the glass but when inside the building the outside looks terrible, I turned the job down just not worth the hassle,in the end the garage hired a scaffold tower and got one of there car cleaners to pressure wash through the slats it now looks evan worse 😂😂😂😂😂



Did you go back and check then?



I go in there regularly as I do the owners houses and hotel

You might lose them to the car cleaner.
We look at them, they look through them.

Splash & dash

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Re: Crazy Architect window design.....
« Reply #15 on: July 16, 2021, 10:48:58 pm »
We have started getting a few buildings like this down our way ,one is a vw show room and you cannot get the the glass but when inside the building the outside looks terrible, I turned the job down just not worth the hassle,in the end the garage hired a scaffold tower and got one of there car cleaners to pressure wash through the slats it now looks evan worse 😂😂😂😂😂



Did you go back and check then?



I go in there regularly as I do the owners houses and hotel

You might lose them to the car cleaner.




Hears hoping I could do with less work 😂😂😂😂

Blue Frog Systems

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Re: Crazy Architect window design.....
« Reply #16 on: July 17, 2021, 02:44:32 pm »
Ask for the architects details and ask them how to clean them.

Short story.... 7 years ago i went out for drinks with my the gf, her friend from work and her fella. When it came round to what i did he jumped for joy. He marched us all back to his house and told me he had a problem.

The problem was he lived 4 ft away from a river with a public footpath that ran between his house and the river. His window cleaner wouldnt clean his balcony windows that were set 8ft into the house creating a patio area. He wanted me to tell him how they could be cleaned.

I told him to go see the idiot who designed the house as they were clearly incompetent when considering general maintenance access on the property and he should sue them.

Didnt go down well... he was the head architect of the estate and it was his baby... never saw them again
Only those who risk going too far will truly know how far they can actually go

robert mitchell

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Re: Crazy Architect window design.....
« Reply #17 on: July 17, 2021, 02:53:42 pm »
Funnily enough its another Nigel - the caretaker  8)

Jim- interesting - one side opens a max of 3 inches (another safety feature) - the other doesn't open - so not sure how I get to half of it?

Darran

I thought that legally they have to have a release to open fully?

Only if it’s considered a fire exit .
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