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Poll

How long have you been wfp?

still trad & won't change
still trad but just about to
0-12 months
1-2 years
2-4 years
4 years & over
was but have gone back to trad

drakestar!

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How long have you been wfp?
« on: December 09, 2007, 11:49:15 am »
this forum seems to be mostly wfp, so i would love to know where you are in your window cleaning. i was trad for 10 years & only wfp for the last year & wish id done it sooner!

thanks

Dean Aspects

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Re: How long have you been wfp?
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2007, 11:54:28 am »
I have been window cleaning for about twelve years and went wfp nov 05 so just starting my 3rd year
I originally only did tops then about a year ago got a larger van and tank so was able to do everything wfp and have never looked back since had many teething troubles but once i started on this forum they were soon ironed out
Onwards and upwards

Dean

Re: How long have you been wfp?
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2007, 11:55:09 am »
I am waiting for someone to post that went wfp then went back, as I would love to hear there reasons why.

Ian

Alex Gardiner

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Re: How long have you been wfp?
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2007, 11:55:58 am »
Been window cleaning for nearly 23 years - last 7 years WFP.

Old_Master

Re: How long have you been wfp?
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2007, 12:07:14 pm »
10 years wfp in October just gone - longest in UK with exception of OTT who started a few months before us.
30 years window cleaning

Small but perfectley formed

  • Posts: 1744
Re: How long have you been wfp?
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2007, 12:41:11 pm »
WC 19 yrs used ionics thermopure since jan 2003,still do a lot trad as we do lots of build cleans
Spit and polish

Pj

Re: How long have you been wfp?
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2007, 03:25:33 pm »
Into 21st year now.

Changed to wfp Sept 2005

Jeff Brimble

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Re: How long have you been wfp?
« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2007, 03:51:14 pm »
10 years and still diy wfp

Mo

  • Posts: 207
Re: How long have you been wfp?
« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2007, 05:02:19 pm »
I was trad for 3 years & only wfp for the last 9 month & wish id done it sooner!

Mo

martindrz400

  • Posts: 343
Re: How long have you been wfp?
« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2007, 08:59:42 pm »
 been window cleaning since 1984  and the last 4 years ive been using wfp but still use the ladder sometimes  24yrs and still going strog

cat9921

  • Posts: 669
Re: How long have you been wfp?
« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2007, 09:09:59 pm »
It will be my first year in Jan  ;)

As for what is best  ::)

I love my WFP but think that you need both as a compliment ;D

M & C Window Cleaning

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Re: How long have you been wfp?
« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2007, 09:52:40 pm »
I've been a tradman from 1976 till Oct 1st 2007. WFP since. Love it.

Currently just poling the tops as I'm using a 25ltr trolley. I still enjoy tradding the downs but occasionally use WFP on some of them too, as in some cases its easier to reach certain windows with the pole. It beats standing in a wet shrub in winter.

poleman

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Re: How long have you been wfp?
« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2007, 10:28:20 pm »
20 years a WC and 5 years WFP

I would have given up WC but WFP change everything and given me a good living

Andy

NWH

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Re: How long have you been wfp?
« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2007, 10:31:25 pm »
Poleman i know exactly what you mean,going WFP changed my outlook and attitude towards work.

Dean Aspects

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Re: How long have you been wfp?
« Reply #14 on: December 09, 2007, 10:35:09 pm »
My sentiments aswell a combination of foot/ankle injuries and the boredom of the job if wfp hadn't come along i would have quit and be in a low paid mundane job by now much happier with the business now and improving all the time

Dean

poleman

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Re: How long have you been wfp?
« Reply #15 on: December 09, 2007, 10:41:28 pm »
Poleman i know exactly what you mean,going WFP changed my outlook and attitude towards work.

Its funny why dont trad WC see the same, like you said its total change every about the job, its great  :)

Andy


NWH

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Re: How long have you been wfp?
« Reply #16 on: December 09, 2007, 10:54:38 pm »
It`s just that somedays now are so much easier,i don`t dread hardly any jobs and so much more work keeps coming in and your able to keep taking it on,i would be really interested in how much quicker most people get round there work now truthfully.i am easily able to do what 2 people would do trad nowdays what about you others.

sair

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Re: How long have you been wfp?
« Reply #17 on: December 10, 2007, 09:08:46 pm »
about 8.5 years wfp  now wish i d started earlier about 22 years trad ,

i have a guy on our list customers  who bought poles and di vessel from the states about 15 years ago use to buy resin direct for chemical companies, he has never gone van mount, resin only straight from tap uses 4 sacks a month, he wont change! i would say his the oldest wfp, er in uk.
i brushed shoulders seeing him a few years  after i started cleaning windows using the kit thought he was completely off his trolley. how wrong i was!
Essentially Pure Ltd

brett walker

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Re: How long have you been wfp?
« Reply #18 on: December 10, 2007, 10:33:37 pm »
Ive been window cleaning nearly 17yrs, 2 yrs of that have been wfp 8)

Brett

cat9921

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Re: How long have you been wfp?
« Reply #19 on: December 11, 2007, 04:33:54 pm »
I notice that Some one has put in the vote
That they were Wfp but gone back. It would be nice to say why. But if there is no reply. Then I take it as he or she does not want to hear about all us going at them about how great WFP is...... Which is a shame I apreciate that WFP will not suit all