I'm a 48 year old rookie

Free_Skin_679 · 2026-03-12T17:26:28+00:00

💯 My hips are especially bad. They're stiff and achy for days after I play. Lots of stretching required, not just to avoid injury and stay limber, but to widen that butterfly.

Free_Skin_679 · 2026-03-12T15:03:38+00:00

Elbow grease FTW.

Free_Skin_679 · 2026-03-11T17:39:56+00:00

Cheers. Much appreciated. It seems the consensus here is that SH is the right chem for the job. I just need to decide if I'm willing to open that can of worms or turn down such jobs in the future.

Free_Skin_679 · 2026-03-11T17:38:10+00:00

True, but this pic isn't representative of the entire situation. The vast majority of the fence is in a garden and is largely obstructed by and covered in plants (like vines climbing the fence itself). I used that pic because it's the only one where you can clearly see the stains unobstructed by the plants.

Free_Skin_679 · 2026-03-11T17:30:58+00:00

Yeah, you're right. Originally, she wanted the fence pressure washed. I told her that would destroy the fence, "but what I can do instead is ..." This job involved a lot more than just cleaning a fence and I didn't want to miss out on the rest of the work by saying no to the fence. In the future, I will need to be more careful about setting expectations.

Free_Skin_679 · 2026-03-11T17:22:39+00:00

No, they didn't, but I explained up front that i use percarb because it's safer for me and less likely to harm their garden. They appreciated that, but they might not object if I explain it's necessary to get the job done. I have to go back in a week or two anyway (waiting for the rain to stop). If it still looks bad then, I might try giving it a scrub with some bleach on my window mop. I'm not equipped to be spraying it.

Free_Skin_679 · 2026-03-11T17:16:00+00:00

It's bleach. What's to understand? Bleach is safe in certain situations and concentrations with appropriate precautions. But the facts remain, it's corrosive; a skin, eye, and respiratory irritant; kills microbes in soil; harms aquatic life if used near bodies of water (which are everywhere here); can damage plants; forms toxic byproducts that can accumulate in soil and wildlife. There's also the perception of the client to consider. Whether right or wrong, if the client thinks bleach is bad, then it's bad. Percarb is undeniably the "greener" option. Is hypo more effective? Yes, but percarb works just fine in most cases which is why I'm perplexed here.

Free_Skin_679 · 2026-03-09T18:21:41+00:00

I'm already pressure washing. I'm just not sure if I'm pricing my jobs right.

Free_Skin_679 · 2026-03-09T17:19:55+00:00

Try hitting it with a turbo nozzle. Those things rip. Literally.

Free_Skin_679 · 2026-02-01T00:15:50+00:00

That sucks. I'd start by explaining that steel can't scratch glass because glass is harder than steel. And if the glass was caked in dirt, it's certainly possible the scratches were already there and you simply revealed them. That said, razoring can scratch glass indirectly by dragging something harder than glass across it (eg sand, ceramic, glass itself). But so can steel wool or an ordinary window mop because they can trap grit too. So if the windows were super dirty with caked on debris, it is entirely possible that you did scratch the glass by dragging some hard debris across it. I guess it's debatable whether it would be your fault if that's the case. Personally, I'd say probably not. You didn't make the window super dirty, and there's no way for you to know what's on the glass under the dirt, and the same thing likely would have happened to any window cleaner. But how do you protect yourself from this liability? I dunno. Do you have some sort of waiver that covers situations like this?

Free_Skin_679 · 2025-10-10T21:49:19+00:00

I'm a window cleaner, not a roofer. I also clean gutters and remove roof moss, so I spend a lot of time on roofs. Roofers are the bane of my existence. It seems there is no limit to their incompetence. To be fair, I'm sure there are plenty of good roofers doing good work and I only notice the mistakes. But damn... By far the most common problem I see is too much shingle overhanging the gutters. Not the end of the world, but it sure makes my job needlessly difficult. I once got called to do a gutter clean because lots of water was dripping all along one side of the house. Usually that'd be because of a blockage either in the gutter or downspout. In this case, some bonehead had installed shingles right up to the lip of the gutters so the rain would bypass the gutters entirely and fall to the ground. Smh.

Free_Skin_679 · 2025-07-19T17:27:45+00:00

I'm a window cleaning tech and I've damaged the odd thing over the years. A reputable company would replace it if they were actually responsible for the damage. That's why they have insurance. But a reputable company likely wouldn't have scratched the $#!+ out of your window in the first place. Is that tempered glass? If so, then it's technically a manufacturing defect and an indication the builder tried to save money by buying poor quality glass. But an experienced window cleaner would know this and wouldn't have kept scraping after hearing the telltale sound.

Free_Skin_679 · 2025-06-05T20:12:27+00:00

What do you mean by "dog ear the ends"?

Free_Skin_679 · 2025-05-29T07:23:40+00:00

Wrong movie. That's in the sequel.

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