My business is about 50/50 pressure washing to window cleaning. I do interior windows and I am first and foremost a window cleaner. I cannot deny that it’s in my blood. I often worry about ruining things with my pressure washer but last week one of my employees tried to move a brass bed to clean a window and he broke the bed frame Broke a weld on a 100 + year old brass bed. We had to stop work, completely take the bed apart, I went to my shop and welded the frame rail back together and, put the whole thing back together, including re-making the bed, lol. And you think you have worries?
I learned a valuable lesson today about window cleaning. Take your wedding ring off. I scratched a window with mine pretty bad. Customer was ok with it but I’m still having a window guy go out tomorrow morning to replace it. Lesson learned!
I quit wearing one at work years ago but never scratched a window with one. I was always afraid of losing my finger if it caught on something. I have scratched some glass other ways though! It sucks, no doubt.
I watched a guy try to swing down a ladder well by grabbing the rim above it when I was in the Navy. Watched as blood “fell” out of the finger left behind. Looked like a little gross rocket. The corpsman called it “degloving” a finger. Literally just bone left. Absolutely one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen. All thanks to a wedding ring.
been on a rescue call for a finger degloving! Its a real thing! Also had a lady get her hand too close to the PTO on a tractor and glove her whole hand. From wrist to about half down the fingers. That was a nasty one lol
Broke a weld on a 100 + year old brass bed. We had to stop work, completely take the bed apart, I went to my shop and welded the frame rail back together and, put the whole thing back together, including re-making the bed, lol. And you think you have worries?
