| Date | Mon, 5 Dec 2005 11:25:05 -0500 |
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I think Garys whole point here is that
there needs to be greater effort in educating people about the problem rather
than to simply find quick and easy outs for our own situations on a piece meal
basis. If I were to thoroughly educate my
customer (A-Z Construction Co.) about the problem of Fabricating Debris on
certain glass … and that customer is a responsible contractor that wants
to produce the best possible end product for their customer then perhaps they
will start being more particular about the glass that window company A is
selling them or start buying better quality glass from somewhere else. If every window cleaner on this group did
that on their next few CCUs and half of those customers understood and believed
them and half of those heeded what they’d been told and started checking
the windows delivered to their job site just think of the financial
ramifications to the glass manufacturers as windows are being rejected by the
builders. Eventually, the glass manufacturers will have to start producing
better quality glass or they’re going to lose an awful lot of business to
those competitors who do. By educating our customers we could accomplish
more than just protecting ourselves on one single job. That customer is now informed
and will already be aware of the problem next time. Word will eventually spread
(contractor to contractor … contractor associations etc…) enough
that Fab Debris will be a more well known problem which would, in turn, help to
force the glass manufacturers to turn out better quality product. In the end …
perhaps it could even become something we don’t encounter very often. I know that makes it all seem quick and
easy and I also know that it wouldn’t happen that quickly … but it
can happen … if the ball gets started and is kept rolling. Michael D. Brinegar President Pride Master, Inc. www.pridemaster.com -----Original Message----- >>>..some tempered glass
has POOR surface quality & possibly it scratches easier due to the fact it
was on the roller side. -- Craig Aldrich<< Craig, The roller side is where you
find excessive amounts of fabricating debris that cause scratching
on what you call poor quality tempered glass. There's only one surface quality
problem affecting us, not two. >>>For the record.. i
wasn't poking fun,its the dollar figure you used 25 Grand is alot of scratched
glass im sure most would realize long before they hit that "DAMAGE
FIGURE" something was wrong! <<< Easy for you to say, but it happens
every week somewhere to someone who's been cleaning windows for years. I made the comment at the Picnic
last year that I think we are our own worst enemies on the fabricating debris
issue, because sometimes we are so willing to tear each other down that we
actually end up agreeing with the glass people who blame window cleaners
for the problem. Just think how long it has taken for
you to understand that fabricating debris is the only thing that is
causing scratches on tempered glass when proper methods are used. Now picture a window cleaning crew
trying to figure it out for themselves in less than a day. No hands on fabricating debris
seminars, no one sending them hundreds of emails trying to hammer this message
home. These conscientious window
cleaners never imagine that a temperer might leave a bunch of
invisible abrasive debris baked into one side of the tempered glass. They
try changing blades, they try scraping harder, they try scraping lightly, they
try changing blades again. And without realizing it, they move on to annealed
glass for a while - or they move on to glass that was tempered by a different
fabricator - and they start thinking the problem went away. And when the
scratch problem seems to start again, they don't realize it's because they
are cleaning the same crappy brand of tempered glass again. So
they go through the whole routine again. The builder doesn't know what's
going on, the boss doesn't know what's going on - so what are the window
cleaners going to do - walk off the job? Thanks, |