I wasn't going to get involved with it, but here goes anyway.
Simon, with all due respect, if you haven't mastered wfp, don't knock it. Problems arise because people don't have a clue what they are doing.
However when I clean a window I know 100% that when I walk away I'm leaving behind a perfectly clean window. Complaints?
Never get complaints, and when I walk away from the windows I know 100% it's coming up well. Experience and Skill.
I don't have complaints that I'm buggering-up the double glazing
My customers are bright enough to realise their windows are past the guaranteed lifetime, and even know why they turn misty. If they don't, it's a simple chat about why and how they mist up.
I don't have complaints that my trailing hose has knocked over and smashed the garden gnome
Self explanatory, need to look out where you are going, and I'm actually out looking for garden gnomes and knocking them over, horrible things! (just kidding)
Nobody complains in winter that the water I've left around the house has turned into sheet ice and aunt Ada slipped and broke her hip on it
Common sense and a pinch of salt works well. Usually I find that it doesn't get cold enough in the south for it to freeze up. Immediately round the house it's warmer anyway. If I park my van up right against the house, the windscreen doesn't freeze, due to the radiant heat of the house.
I don't worry about tds, or resin, or brushes, or rectus type 019, or pumps, or backpacks, or how long my pole is
I don't worry about that either. Get it done right the first time. Buy cheap buy twice. Ignorance is bliss, etc etc etc.
Wfp works in theory AND practice. But only on one condition, that is if the operator knows what he is doing.
@ ftp, matt and the others.
Did another test today, like I have been doing ever since I've been wfp.
Did a house inside and out, very badly beading windows. Did my usual technique.
Went inside, and low and behold, not a SINGLE spot on the window, I actually caught myself saying out loud how impressed I still am after seeing the results of a perfect wfp job. And that was with an absolute magnifiying glass, from every angle. Not a spot, I'm serious.
If you can't get windows up well, there is something wrong, with either the window frame, your tools, or method.
WFP does get windows up to a perfect finish, you just need to know what you are doing. I've seen this time and time again since I've started wfp. The only problems I now and then have is when I'm being a sleepyhead, and not paying attention to what I'm doing, and even then, it's very hard to get wfp wrong.