Window Cleaning for work

yakface77

d900 wrote: »

i have owned a house for a 3 years and so have only had to wash windows for 3 years having tried everything i am yet to find anything better than some washing up liquid in some water giving the windows a good scrub and then drying them with the local free news paper.

The op is talking about window cleaning as a business, washing up liquid and news paper is a very slow and inefficient way to clean windows. Not my opinion, fact.

The property of pure water is astonishing once filtered using reverse osmosis or RO , the water is left with a TDS or total disolved solids level of 0-3 parts per million, tap water TDS ranges from 42-124 throtughout the uk, and will therfore leave streaks when dried without drying thoroughly or squeegeeing.

Imagine washing windows without having to squeegee or wip excess off, as the drops dry, because there is not disolved solids the effects are spotless.

My customers are amazed, every month i go to clean windows that look perfect and flawless, by applying more ro water, the windows are reprotected and repolished.

This process to scrub and rinse takes approx 5-7 seconds per average house window. How long would it take with your newspaper method ? :eek:

shadowdragon

If you have a Reverse Osmosis filtration system, I would price up the cost of purchasing said RO water from the tropical fish centre and put an advert in the free ads cheaper than them and include home delivery, there will be a few quid to be made from fish keepers.

yakface77

Thats a great idea, shadowdragon.
Im going to start advertising that, why diddnt i ever think of that:T

shadej

Im guessing your doing this as a one off. In which case insurgence would be a waste of time. If its you and a friend then your not an employer just partners on a days work.
Call a local window cleaning company and get a quote over the phone, take 20% of and there you go. As you work there anyway their insurance will cover you as your an employee.

Quentin

Insurance won't be a waste of time if one of them falls off the ladder (why would they be covered by the client's insurance?)

And you need public liability insurance - what if a member of the public is injured/property damaged etc?

shadej

Quentin wrote: »

(why would they be covered by the client's insurance?)

Because if he is already an employee of this company it will already cover all their staff.
This is his work place, he is just doing extra work by doing the windows for extra pay. He is not a contractor.

Quentin

No.

They don't employ window cleaners. They get them done by contractors. He is not doing "overtime" for his employer, but considering tendering for the job as a self employed contractor.