[trimanyellow]

Hi
Ive just picked up a few conservatoey cleans next week including the roofs.

Can anyone give me any advice as to what the best method or way is to do these cleans?
do you use detergents? power washers or just wfp them.

Many thanks for your comments and advice

[LWC]

apparantly they all say get traffic film remover, spray it over the roof, leave it to dry a little, then wfp off

oh yeh, i think they are a complete pain in the ass by the way 

others differ obviously

[russ_clark]

Get yourself a cheap pump up sprayer (£20 tops)
buy some non-caustic TFR (Traffic Film Remover)
dilute 20:1
Spray all of the roof
Leave for 5-10 mins depending on how dirty it is.
Rinse it off with customers hosepipe (normal water)
The pole it (wfp)
Bobs your Uncle

[Jeff Brimble]

Charge at least £100- they are hard work.

[East coast window cleaning Services]

Get yourself a cheap pump up sprayer (£20 tops)
buy some non-caustic TFR (Traffic Film Remover)
dilute 20:1
Spray all of the roof
Leave for 5-10 mins depending on how dirty it is.
Rinse it off with customers hosepipe (normal water)
The pole it (wfp)
Bobs your Uncle

Thats how i do it

[Jonathan Spencer]

Charge at least £100- they are hard work.

You should have seen the one I have just done.  It was a right royal pain.  I do not have wfp so if using TFR do I just hose off.  And £100 seems steep.

[Steve_Richardson]

Must be some kind of tough dirt round your ways! I just plug into the customers water to clean off the roof with my pole/brush and then q quick rinse with pure water. I haven't found a conservatory roof I couldn't get clean yet inc algae/moss etc.

[Jonathan Spencer]

Steve, The estate is by a few chemical works and a distillery.  All the plastic is caked in it and I am searching for the best method to get this off the roof and the UPVC.  Need a good stiff brush on a pole to be done from a ladder.  Any ideas?

[007 or what]

I've been cleaning con's now for 3 years always done with pole even b4 i went wfp, however this week i had a small con to do but could not get to 2 side's of it due to a wall and sloping roof and it was GREEN with old slime so i borrowed a con roof ladder £32 for 24hrs could not of done the job without it, now that i've used it i will def be using it again.

You can get right up to the fineall (pointy bit) and if need be scrub by hand.

[mick hay]

Do loads of these, in fact just come in from doing one.

I hook a pole up to customers tap and scrub away, got 25 ltrs of tfr in garage, never used it!

Then for pvcu, use a gd cream cleaner.......as good as new!!

I always charge over £100, todays one £125 plus a tenner tip!!   

[Dale Smith]

Mick how long do they take you?
I am not sure about charging as much as that, but I want to be charging the same as you  .
When we do them they don't take long so I charge almost by time & how dirty they are.
Lowest being £20 (small & not very dirty)
Higher being £50.

[mick hay]

Usually max 2hrs, the thing is to set ur price and stay with it.

Sometimes, if in a not so affluent area i will go down to £95, but just be confident when quoting, or "include the guttering" in the price for free, i did with todays one, took me bout 40 mins extra.

I dont meam emptying the tho, just cleaning the undersides.

[poleman]

Charge at least £100- they are hard work.

You should have seen the one I have just done.  It was a right royal pain.  I do not have wfp so if using TFR do I just hose off.  And £100 seems steep.

Company local to me has just gone national, and they charge three to four hundred pounds  so I would say hundred pounds is cheap

Here is the company...  http://www.fargil.co.uk/welcome.html

Andy

[mick hay]

Ive seen these before when looking into the cons cleaning.....are they a franchised operation?

[jampot]

Company local to me has just gone national, and they charge three to four hundred pounds  so I would say hundred pounds is cheap

Here is the company...  http://www.fargil.co.uk/welcome.html

Andy

 
unbeliverble how do they get away  with it 

[mick hay]

Its a numbers game.......all you need is 4 or 5 ppl per week say yes and ur on a winner!!...im sure with loads of marketing, its possible to get enough leads to achieve that!!

[poleman]

Ive seen these before when looking into the cons cleaning.....are they a franchised operation?

Hi Mick, so I have been told they have or just about to sell franchises

jampot

They are very professional at what they do, as you can see from there web site, they know what they can get or they would cost them selfs out of the market

Andy

[007 or what]

They priced 4 con roof's near me the other day pretty much all the same,
cheapest one was £1050 the top one was £1400 
Thankfully one off them phoned me for a second opinion i picked all for of them up for £1000
This is not the 1st time this has happened thankfully

[[GQC] Tim]

wow, that's just ridiculous. Unbelievable.

£100 yes, but an extra zero? 

[G O A]

i take it people do these without wfp then? i did one a while ago with just a pole on a hose pipe didnt look as good as i had hoped when it was dry though take it the tfr is the answer.what sort of sprayer would u use just like a pump garden sprayer?