I was just thinking no one had the decency to ask how my first day with a helper went.Quite well i think.
To start with he'd already done about five months trad some years ago, which i didn't know about, so this was a bonus.Later in the day when i mentioned that some window cleaners were lazy and liked to finish early he said that from an 8oclock start 2 was the latest but often it was a 12 finish.
I showed him how to pole and he picked it up fast.All i do is scrub down from the the top, then draw the brush down and move on.
He had the idea after about twenty mins so i went home to gear up for two poles.
I have never done this before so now i was learning. I put the second reel behind the first both exiting from the side door drivers side with the hose coming out under the first reel. I wish i could claim to have invented this but it just sort of designed itself and did a better job than anything i've seen before.
All three makita batteries were spent on the rewinds and i had to recharge one.I went to screwfix to buy a 18vdrill because i now need six batteries but they were out of stock.
I did backs he did fronts. Often i had a conservatory too.
It's been a long time since i've used cold ( i let him have the hot as with the high flow it is idiot proof), and with a low flow i found it harder work and slow going.
We did about the same monetary value as i normaly do, but a lot of low priced jobs were on today, and a lot of time was spent on techincal issues as well as working with one pole only for much of the morning.
I remember when i first came on this forum and my eyes came out like stalks when people mentioned £200. Can you remember that thread, my first £200 day, that got about 2000 views? It lead to a few rows, well, i can see why many now see a bench mark much higher than that.
In summary he said that he loved it and i couldn't fault him.
