[Timmy Boy]

Hi all

We have been asked to clean some gas that hasn't been cleaned since it was installed 6 months ago. The louvres move but you just can't get the angles to clean it properly. We suggested getting a scissor in but the client said that she will get another company to quote as one of their other sites has them and they are cleaned using a pole and said that 'we are out of our depth'! We googled the building and louvres on the other site are a quarter of the size. Any ideas would be really helpful!
Many thanks

[the king]

Can a extreme brush on a carbon goose neck get through? Gaps look fairly big !

[cgh window cleaning]

They do look fairly wide.
An Extreme brush and carbon neck should do them.

It does look a pain in $£$^ mind and probably would come out better with a picker.

Their comment comes across unprofessional and says to me they want it done cheap.

[Stoots]

Why cant you do it with a long gooseneck ?

that said id pass on that i think

[windowswashed]

It is so awkward cleaning glass with a 2-4ft long gooseneck even with  a lightweight brush with or without a swivel fitted. PITA so quote a lot more than normal for the difficult access.

[alank]

As soon as she said they would get another company to quote and suggested that we were out of our depth I would have walked away.
Two reasons firstly it's a total ball ache of a job and thay don't want to stretch to a cherry picker.
Secondly if they don't think your capable of doing the job instead of trying to prove them wrong or impress them just I would just move onto the next one 

[Timmy Boy]

The lower ones we can do no problem, the ones higher the angles become really awkward and as the glass is absolutely disgusting you can get enough pressure as the bend then touches the louvres if that makes sense. She also doesn’t know if there is a fall arrest on the roof of the entrance and from her previous response I would think that she would expect someone to get up there with or without a harness.

[Jamie Thomas]

Any streaks or little bits you cant quite get to is going to be a excuse for them to knock you on payment day.  That's just so obvious

[james peters]

Any streaks or little bits you cant quite get to is going to be a excuse for them to knock you on payment day.  That's just so obvious

I agree.    her attitude is bad from the get go.  a complete ball ache and waste  of time ..   

[Smudger]

Who’s the cleaning company here?
You should quote the best way to do with the best results being achieved

Not what some office wallah thinks

Darran

[Spruce]

Hi all

We have been asked to clean some gas that hasn't been cleaned since it was installed 6 months ago. The louvres move but you just can't get the angles to clean it properly. We suggested getting a scissor in but the client said that she will get another company to quote as one of their other sites has them and they are cleaned using a pole and said that 'we are out of our depth'! We googled the building and louvres on the other site are a quarter of the size. Any ideas would be really helpful!
Many thanks

Not a job I would even consider.

I would be worried about causing damage to those louvres, especially toward the top. I would quote with a cherry picker, but would also have to include putting a risk assessment together to be approved by all parties, which could include the council. A safe working area would need to be cordoned off and 'policed' by an appointed banksman.

Certainly wouldn't be a job for a single operator.

[AuRavelling79]

The lower ones we can do no problem, the ones higher the angles become really awkward and as the glass is absolutely disgusting you can get enough pressure as the bend then touches the louvres if that makes sense. She also doesn’t know if there is a fall arrest on the roof of the entrance and from her previous response I would think that she would expect someone to get up there with or without a harness.

Having decided I don't want to do it I would send an email to her containing the paragraph...

The only way to do this job properly and safely is a mobile platform. Anyone believing otherwise must be out of their depth.

[Stoots]

Any job that seems a bit of a ballache these days i just avoid. What's the point in struggling when theres another easy job round the corner.

We are drawn towards these big jobs because it strokes the ego to say ooh look at me hitting the big time cleaning this big commercial job. When in reality you could have earned more with a lot less hassle knocking out a few 3 bed semis instead and been paid a lot quicker to boot.

[robbo333]

What idiot fitted louvres on the outside; unless it's an MOD building or secure data storage area.
I wouldn't even bother with the job, the louvres will be filthy (I know you're only cleaning the glass).
The next time it rains heavily, it will bounce all the dirt off the louvres straight onto the glass and you're back to 'square one'.

[lal]

    As soon as that ignorant (No nothing person) had uttered that sentence to me 'we are out of our depth'!    i wouldn't even
   waste my time replying to her, i would just turn around and walk away.
   You would have to be desperate to take on a PITA job like that, knowing in the back of your mind, this a job i know I'm
  going to regret even thinking about taking on. 

[the king]

Was very rude and i would also tell her to pxxxxiss off  no need for that attitude

[Splash & dash]

I wouldn’t Evan bother quoting the job right pita also you will damage your pole by it hitting the metal panels , been there done that !!!! Learnt a valuable lesson don’t do it again 😂😂😂😂

[KS Cleaning]

Run Forrest run!

[tlwcs]

Was very rude and i would also tell her to pxxxxiss off  no need for that attitude

She may have run out of patches, opps 😁

[zesty]

Not gonna be easy to clean between the louvres from the ground, I’d pie it off. Seems a waste of time…