WFP yes. As for traditional poling rarely at least for residential. Don’t get me wrong there’s the occasional PITA window that makes regular poling golden but…it’s rare! We do some commercial pole work i love the Mr.Longarm pro-curve.
Can you fan with that pole Craig?
Yeah…not as well as i do with a Wagtail though. I primarily love it because i can do larger plates in one fail swoop with a sweet a-- closeout!
Polled a large foyer window yesterday. Not cause I wanted to but cause I had to. No one to hold a ladder and the roof under it would not allow for a safe ladder placement even if I had my guy with me. Well lol he is not my guy anymore. He quit on Monday. Not offically, just stopped answering my phone calls and never showed up to work. Oh well, no money for him. I have a sweet gig on friday in which I would have handed him $400. Oh well his loss. But anyway if I have the chance I will always nose to glass, even if I can WFP the job. Why? Simple it does a better job. I think the paragraph is just poorly written and agree with the poster. The guy makes it out as though a window cleaner would not do the job correctly with a pole. So now what happens if a cleaner shows up to a house where polling is the only safe way of getting to the window? If he runs into a customer who now thinks ladders are the only way to complete the job then he is screwed. Also, lets keep in mind he only mentions POLES. Does a WFP count in his eyes? How would we WFP guys feel if a customer told us we could not have the gig cause we are carring a pole? I would be ****ed as it only shows the customer has been misinformed.
A bad squeegee day for me is when I put on a fresh rubber or turn one over and it streakes all over the place or lets a lot of water through 2 to 4 inches from the ends. I dont recall reading much about this so I cant help to think Im doing something wrong. I recently bought a backflip (with the ledger squeegee) and used the ledger almost exlusively because it performer better than my other squeegees… untill I turned over the rubber. It streaked tiny hairline streaks from about 1.5 to 4 inched in from the side.
Lots of water could mean a bent channel, too much solution, pulling/fanning too fast, lifting the squeegee off the glass, etc. Also, not all glass is perfectly flat, especially large plates. Longer channels may heighten the issue, due there inability to conform to the glass.
Tiny lines could be a damaged/nicked rubber or debris caught on the rubber when pulling/fanning.
I’ve had a few rubbers perform poorly right out of the box. Just ask my wife and our 12 children.
J/K 
