Does anyone still have an old fashioned window cleaner?

I live in a bungalow . My window cleaner comes once a month has his ladder ,soapy wiper and dries the windows with a cloth and wipes down the white PVC and my from and back doors.

Jamie

I have an 'old fashioned' window cleaner who comes every other week. He's only young,friendly and does a good job.

Crikey, mine only comes every 8 weeks but the window seals are all blown and they’re so opaque I can never see a difference anyway. He does use rags as well as the pole and brush. It’s £20 to do all around a large 2 storey semi. I only started having him because my neighbour booked it.

Yes we have an old fashioned window cleaner with ladder and chammy! He charges £12.50 for about 30 windows. He is a gem!

We have a traditional window cleaner comes every four to five weeks and charges £20.

We have a traditional window cleaner, 4 bedrooom house £20 but doesn't do conservatory.
He also at extra cost prunes the climbing roses and clears gutters for me.

JPB123

I have a traditional window cleaner,does a great job,once a month £8 and a make him a quick cup of coffee .

I also always make our window cleaners (there are 3 of them) a cup of tea or a cold drink, and I appreciate the fuss they make of our dog, who always initially barks at them, but then goes all soft and silly when they stroke her 🙂

agree mine is the same quick wash long pole. if they see you watching they do a little wipe on downstairs window sill.i always check after they never evan go all the way along the full window sill.mine is brother of my best friend from school so feel im stuck with him,

I have a traditional window cleaner,does a great job,once a month £8 and a make him a quick cup of coffee .

It’s so cheap ! I’m very envious, my window cleaner with his pole charges £28 every 6 weeks. He does a good job but it doesn’t take him very long. That’s Sussex prices.

Our window cleaners are lovely- they clean 11 windows and 4 doors for £7.00! They clean with a ladder and one of those things that look like a car windscreen wiper. Whereas my son's window cleaner uses a brush and long pole (the result not half as good as ours) and cleans 6 windows and 1 door for £10.00, which is far more expensive than ours and we both live within 1 mile of each other!

I do, but only because OH was a window cleaner - he used to go to a wee shop in the city centre to buy the rubbers for the squeegee and the fluffy (doofer)

Cills not fills.

I am happy with the hose and brush. It can get to awkward places like the side of the house above the car port. If I am in bed when he comes or getting dressed no one is looking through the windows. Costs £20 every 6 weeks. It cleans window fills as well..

I have an old fashioned window cleaner with a ladder. He washes and dries windows with cloths which he then hangs out on his van to dry in the sun!

Many neighbours seem to have ones without ladders, instead they have long poles which splash water everywhere. I think I prefer old fashioned.

Mine is the kind with his own van with water on board. He has a team working for him, services 3 counties & we pay by bank transfer. A far cry from a bike, bucket 10 bob & chamois leather i remember from my child hood.! The windows are left wet which seems to work OK. We've only had a window cleaner for the past 2 years since we had a garden room built with full length windows & bifold doors - we managed on our own for 40 years!

I have one in a van with a hose. The water he uses is termed "smart water" as it contains something that really cleans the glass, frames and sills. Leaves a lovely clean finish, no spots.

My widow cleaner uses the new method and the widows dry sparkling. He also does the frames and back door.
When I first married we lived in the top floor flat in a Victorian house . I used to sit on the outside sill to clean the windows.

Yes …my window cleaner had a bucket of hot duds ….climbs the ladder and actually washes and squeegees and dries off….3 bed house with garage £14.

My window cleaner uses a squeegee blade to finish the windows and they look just as good if not better than the one that used to polish with a cloth. He also wipes the window and door sills down too. For a small extra fee he will clear the gutters every Autumn too.

We do, he’s been coming for years. V nice chap with ladder and bucket. I won’t say he does them perfectly, but it’s better than we’d do them, i.e. probably not at all on the outside.
He will also clean out our gutters in the autumn/winter. He comes about every 5 weeks.

There's not been a window cleaner around here for years.
My windows are tilt an turn so I do them myself

Ours works like yours, but no water spots, they are pristine. My Mum used to have a 'proper' window cleaner with buckets and ladders, £20 only 4 years ago...

It's another brush on a pole job here, uses water from his own tank and look clean afterwards. Previous chap from same company used to be more careful and always brushed over sills and frames but not the one that comes now. So long as I don't have to struggle to do them it's OK by me.

Has he never heard of a squeegee? He needs to buy one and use it and a ladder too for 2nd floor windows.

A GOOD window cleaner would never leave water spots. Get rid of him.
USA Gundy

Yes its called me I’ve got a window vax so can still do myself