I agree with most of the scenarios Ross stated, I do lots of shops and pubs, greasy marks are a right pain, and no, WFP does not like them
Spend time scrubbing it off with WFP and you risk contaminating the bristles and then re-contaminating the glass of other windows for a while.
I have my applicator ready and will give greasy marks a quick scrub first.
Smooth floors?
couldn't agree more.
flaky windows?
Oxidized frames (aluminium or painted)
Totally agree, WFP will struggle on them, though you can often do them to a good standard once you master the right tecnique.
Powdery frames can be a pain trad too, as can those windows where the black rubber seal around the glass has oxidized, done trad those are a real nightmare.
I only have a few accounts (domestic) that I would consider high risk for WFP, almost all of them work very well indeed.
On the commercial front I have quite a few I do trad rather than WFP.
For me, WFP doesn't replace trad, it merely replaces the ladder.
I'll agree to a point about prices too, but only to a point, I think WFP will drag prices down on georgian and so on, the time difference is vast, and it can only affect prices in the long term.
On your average domestic account (a 3 bed semi) the time difference just isn't great enough to affect prices.
Those that think that just because they are quicker means they can charge less money will lose out in the end, they spend a great deal of money on WFP, their overheads will increase and then they drop their prices??
so they end out earning less or more than they were earning before (once longer term costings are taken into consideration)....they won't last.
short term prices may well be affected, but you will end with newbies thinking they can turn around and clean every window as fast as Peter does those two in the video's, they will get dumped, will probably give WFP a bad name in the process too unfortunately!
But once they happen on someone who does the work to the right standard (for the sake of argument another WFP user) Their confidence will be restored and they will be happy to pay a higher price.
6.30am....gotta get to work!
Ian