[AuRavelling79]

What sunglasses do you experienced WFP folk use?
Cheap and cheerful throw-aways?
Expensive quality ones?
A balance between the two?
I need to get some, I think. What do you recommend?

[matt]

funny i was going to post this tonight

I dont fancy my 170 quid pair of oakley's getting dropped while climbing over a gate lol

[karlosdaze]

I always carry around 5 pairs. They always get scratched, so I go through a few pair a year. Cheap ones with the UV mark are the best, I pick them up for about 3 quid each.

[keefuss69]

i wear glasses, and last summer was a nightmare for sun glare for me.
so i decided to buy some self tinting ones that go really black when the sun and uv rays are at their strongest.
i will buy them for the rest of my life i guess, because they are awsome, absouloute genius.

sun goes in, glasses go clear. Sun comes out, pure black shades.
 wahoooo.

if you wear glasses, try them out, they are a must!!

[windolene]

Hi Keefuss69,

Just said to my msses that I must get a pair of self tinting, she said their about £400. ?

Kevin.

P.s  you look to young to have 5 kids.

[thewindowcleaner1]

Try Screwfix about a tenner, rubbery and also double as safety glasses.

[sham33]

I wear Raybans in the summer, all that looking upwards, only get 1 set of eyes.

[karlosdaze]

The Raybans I used to wear had a lower protection factor than the cheapys I buy

[petetaylor56]

 :)when i had been window cleaning for about a year or so i went to have my eyes tested she asked me what i did for aliving i said window cleaner she replied you havnt been doing that long i said how do you know that she said you eyes are still quite white as with window cleaners who have been doing it for a few years go yellow she advised me to wear sunglasses or plain glass specs to protect my eyes well thats my story abit long would you wear your glasses for trad window cleaning to

[thewindowcleaner1]

When I first started window cleaning (the trad method) never gave it a second thought about wearing glasses but after a couple of years My eyes used to really hurt on bright days and on top of that the missus would accuse me of lunch time drinking my eyes were that blood shot.

[s.hughes]

What about the sun tan??? Wearing sunglasses would surely give you white rimes by the end of the week and its the tan that everyone envies us for.

[karlosdaze]

Thats me, old panda eyes

[karlosdaze]

Nevr thought of that, I was thinking on the lines of an old sack, but it gets a bit hot.

[rosskesava]

Hi sham33

Raybans are the best.

I worked on the railways and raybans were standard issue for train drivers. The only reason they are so expensive is that they do not change how any colour looks.

Red is still exactly the same red as if you were not wearing them. They were meant for USAF pilots originally but others, like BR, issued them because they do not change how a colour is seen. If you think in terms of possible train crashes etc etc and all the ramifications etc etc.

After privatisation they didn't worry. Drive a train into blinding sunlight low in the sky and if you go through a red light, then it's your fault. Sod who gets killed, it's who gets blamed that matters.

For window cleaning, I use a cheapy pairs of UV jobs now and they seem fine.

Having said that, the raybans I had were nice and cool to the eyes in bright sunlight. Very relaxing. Even looking at the sun was bearable.

[Jeff Brimble]

Sun will burm spots into your cornea as in USA. I use cheap plastic shades that are graduated darker at the top £4, they push fir onto the top of my head when parked. You can only use them when wfp - dont really work fopr trad methods.

[dai]

I have polarized prescription lenses, great for driving, can't work in them though. Well I could but if I leave a mark on the glass I cant see it the same.
Can you get clear lenses that filter out the glare?

[gaza]

try BID UP SKY TV TV got some wicked colours of benneton sun glassess for 13 squid. Iknow theres been some bad write ups about Bid Up and their like but they are really wicked . Nver had to wear sun glassess before or sun tan lotion got greesy skin,always get asked have you been away even in march,didnt realise we have had any sun yet. I use tee shirts in summer and end up with arms like a chinese dung mixer[beat the mods to it]

[Jeff Brimble]

If its really strong try a donald duck hat with a shade or if your into Wimbledom tennis shades or golf shades as well.
Even thouight of lancelot armour with pin holes in