How do you wash your hands?

I have to admit @JfromtheD. This one gave me my good laugh for the day. Don’t know why. These guys are crackin me up!

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On the same note… For you storefront guys do you get home and your knees are just grody? Seems like everyday kneeling down for lowers gets my knees terrible. If I don’t catch it, it runs down my shin. Gross.

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I got into the habit of tossing a dirty towel down to kneel on.

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I do this to or I use a zero degree on a pole for lowers, it takes a little more time but it saved a whole bunch of up and down and that great kneeling down on to a sharp piece of gravel.

I spend about 50% using both ways, unless it’s winter then it’s zero degree on a pole all the time.

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I crouch like a frog for lower panes during route work. My knees are too beat up from setting tile to be squashing them while I clean windows as well.

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…And it doesn’t get any easier.

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I use dawn and ammonia mix, so my hands get it bad. I just put up with it though, sometimes they’re bad sometimes they’re not. whatever. thats how I usually identify other window cleaners is by looking at their hands.

@BostonMike how do we solve this issue… :wink:

So every time you come to a tinted window you use a another bucket with fresh tools?

I don’t run across alot of tinted windows, but when I do yeah, that’s what I got to do. Any advice Steve076?

remove the ammonia, problem solved with both hands and tint.

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Here is what happened from kneeling

It was a bursitis, that had been untreated for 3+ weeks until, when I say untreated I went to the doctors about 7 or 8 times and the dumb bitch had no idea what is was she tried telling me I had gout, kept sending me for xrays , ultrasounds and was booked in for an MRI when a few days before I awoke to a wet feeling it had ruptured and was dark blood all over my sheets and I was feeling like flu like symptoms so I went to the hospital where they identified it immediately and asked me whey I didn’t seek treatment earlier to me saying I have been to the doctors 3 times this week, later that day had surgery and the orthopedic surgeon told me it is generally caused by kneeling, as soon as I told him my profession he was like ah of course very common so he says for window cleaners to get it.
Extremely painful, debilitating pain, I cut the top of my thumb off when I was 17( it was reattached)
but that hurt less

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Oh. My. God. :grimacing:

Wow! That’s very interesting to find out. I’m going to research this some more. Thanks for the post. Hope all is better now. :man_shrugging:t2:

as long as she likes it “rough” you should be ok.

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Hardworking women don’t mind hardworking man hands.

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Hey @Rockward try these gloves out if your hand are cracking from cold weather or hot weather

https://windowcleaner.com/extras/apparel/gloves

I also don’t use ammonia to much risk with tinted glass, decals on glass etc…

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Practice poling those lowers. I pretty much pole every lower window that requires a "knee’. For small windows cut a squeegee to fit. For large windows, just use your 18. I had one of my competition watching me and he actually walked over to see what I was doing. We were in the same plaza, but I did twice as many windows as he did in the same amount of time.

The only time I’d get down on glass was for the special “Oh, crap the billionaire owner is coming to inspect his restaurants” clean.

You should talk to Madge if you’re worried about it.

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That’s why I stopped using ammonia years ago.

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Black nitrile gloves every day all day. :sunglasses:
Glad to see WCR carries them.