[lee_dewing]

Go cardless is the answer, which I’m now setting up.

But got asked to clean a neighbours windows
I did, 1st clean in June. In and paid.

This clean July / out.

Bill put through door, as customer out.

Wrote on bill

could you please post payment
Through my door or email/text me
You can have my bank details for online payment if easier

Coming up two weeks now £7.50
Realise pitiful amount

What would you do, knock for payment ?
Then tell them politely go cardless?

Miss them out until paid

Must add I live back to back house and share a wall with them
Their front door is around the corner
I use to clean their windows 9 yrs ago and sacked them off as got bad with paying

They’re busy bodies and always moaning or complaining about somebody
I’ve politely pointed out their faults when they’ve had a moan 😁

Funny we say hello but really don’t like each other

I know I’m a mug 🤦‍♂️

What would you do
Thanks
Mr muggy muggings

[Richard iSparkle]

get everyone to pay by DD

then this never happens again. ever...

[lal]

  They became bad payers 9 years ago,  you don't really like them, but decided to give them another chance, Fair dues,
  but it looks like History is repeating itself,   i would just write the measly £7.50 Off they are messing you about for,
  its not worth your time to be worrying about selfish neighbours like these for £7.50,  just sack them off, never ever
  clean for them again.

[alank]

I used to do about 30 properties in the village where i live it used to take longer to clean them and longer to get paid off some of them than any other off my work. So i sold the lot onto another window cleaner that I've know for years best thing i did.

[Tom-01]

Nope I don't clean for neighbours.

There's a guy who does most in my road, I make him a coffee when he's here. I might get him to do my windows as they are a PITA now we've had an extension - I wouldn't take my house on! 

[NWH]

  They became bad payers 9 years ago,  you don't really like them, but decided to give them another chance, Fair dues,
  but it looks like History is repeating itself,   i would just write the measly £7.50 Off they are messing you about for,
  its not worth your time to be worrying about selfish neighbours like these for £7.50,  just sack them off, never ever
  clean for them again.

Complete rubbish Larry you don’t half try and lead us on we know you don’t clean anything for under 300 notes 🤣🤣🤣🤣💪.

[Shrek]

Is it a full house you clean for £7.50?

[M & C Window Cleaning]

I must be fortunate. I clean most of my immediate neighbours and have done for years and had very few problems.

[dazmond]

Go cardless is the answer, which I’m now setting up.

But got asked to clean a neighbours windows
I did, 1st clean in June. In and paid.

This clean July / out.

Bill put through door, as customer out.

Wrote on bill

could you please post payment
Through my door or email/text me
You can have my bank details for online payment if easier

Coming up two weeks now £7.50
Realise pitiful amount

What would you do, knock for payment ?
Then tell them politely go cardless?

Miss them out until paid

Must add I live back to back house and share a wall with them
Their front door is around the corner
I use to clean their windows 9 yrs ago and sacked them off as got bad with paying

They’re busy bodies and always moaning or complaining about somebody
I’ve politely pointed out their faults when they’ve had a moan 😁

Funny we say hello but really don’t like each other

I know I’m a mug 🤦‍♂️

What would you do
Thanks
Mr muggy muggings

do you really need the £7-50 now?id roll it over until the next clean on a 4 weekly if that was me......

[Ascjim]

Just don't do it again ya c

[windowswashed]

Never clean neighbours, friends or relatives

[deeege]

If you don’t like him then don’t ever ask him for the money.

£7.50 is a great price to not have to speak to a nobhead neighbour again.

[Gringo]

  great answer Deege my thoughts exactly I'd go upto £100 not to ever have to speak to one of mine

[dazmond]

Never clean neighbours, friends or relatives

unless its for free.......ive cleaned mine and my girlfriends neighbours windows for free many times.....and of course my parents house....

[NWH]

I’ve never had a problem with jobs close to home if I take any on I just look at it as bonus money on the way home if for any reason you stop doing them he ho it’s not your “proper” work anyway.

[lee_dewing]

Is it a full house you clean for £7.50?

Front (small) 2x 2 pane windows
1x 3 pane and 1x 3 pane bay

Easy peasy (if you get paid)

[lee_dewing]

[£7.50 is a great price to not have to speak to a nobhead neighbour again./quote]

👍

[lee_dewing]

[/do you really need the £7-50 now?id roll it over until the next clean on a 4 weekly if that was me...... quote]

Yeh usually Daz

Did write on envelope, can you post through my door or pay online

Say I go next time and they have no money 🤔

Awkward 😁

9 yrs ago she’d bump into me and set reminders on her phone that she must pay me

Fool me once shame on you 😁😁

[dazmond]

[/do you really need the £7-50 now?id roll it over until the next clean on a 4 weekly if that was me...... quote]

Yeh usually Daz

Did write on envelope, can you post through my door or pay online

Say I go next time and they have no money 🤔

Awkward 😁

9 yrs ago she’d bump into me and set reminders on her phone that she must pay me

Fool me once shame on you 😁😁

My rolling debt list can be anything between £500-£1500.....I see it as money in the bank.....it all comes in eventually....

The trick is to get in front with your bills and always have 4k or 5k in your current account at anyone time......

[lee_dewing]

My rolling debt list can be anything between £500-£1500.....I see it as money in the bank.....it all comes in eventually....

The trick is to get in front with your bills and always have 4k or 5k in your current account at anyone time.....

Good advice Daz 👍
My average is around £400 outstanding

But you know a p1ss taker pretty quick 😁

I’ve squirreled 🐿 up some money and reinvesting into my equipment

I’m going Spinaclean 14th to look at there add ons

I’m gonna get a gutter vac
And be doing that too

Obviously we can do f/s/g and Connie cleans too

Don’t know what the economy will be like soon so I’m adding another string to my bow

I think as window cleaners will be pretty safe
But there might be even more start ups soon 🤔

[G Griffin]

Drop the price-without their agreement- to a fiver, so if they don't pay you, you're not as much out of pocket.

Down there for dancing ⬇️.

[dazmond]

My rolling debt list can be anything between £500-£1500.....I see it as money in the bank.....it all comes in eventually....

The trick is to get in front with your bills and always have 4k or 5k in your current account at anyone time.....

Good advice Daz 👍
My average is around £400 outstanding

But you know a p1ss taker pretty quick 😁

I’ve squirreled 🐿 up some money and reinvesting into my equipment

I’m going Spinaclean 14th to look at there add ons

I’m gonna get a gutter vac
And be doing that too

Obviously we can do f/s/g and Connie cleans too

Don’t know what the economy will be like soon so I’m adding another string to my bow

I think as window cleaners will be pretty safe
But there might be even more start ups soon 🤔

95% of my work is regular maintenance window cleaning Lee with the odd add on job that i can clean with the pole.....i really couldnt be bothered with gutter vacs,pressure washers,etc.....i can comfortably earn enough with the equipment ive got without the hassle of buying and faffing about with more equipment.....

[RPCCS]

No way I would do my neighbours, the local lad does all round here for £5 a house, next door has a porch with 3 windows and a door glass, plus a conservatory, he does the lot for£6 I would want £7 for the basic house without any extensions. We live in an old pit village where everyone still lives in1972 payments wise. I would want £15 for next door and about 12f for my own house, no porch but  a conservatory .  He does my front and side windows with a trad  pole and doesn’t even charge me, I always try to pay him but he won’t have it. He always gets a goof Xmas box though.

[Stoots]

I live on a council estate thats full of tradius ratius so no.

[james peters]

My rolling debt list can be anything between £500-£1500.....I see it as money in the bank.....it all comes in eventually....

The trick is to get in front with your bills and always have 4k or 5k in your current account at anyone time.....

Good advice Daz 👍
My average is around £400 outstanding

But you know a p1ss taker pretty quick 😁

I’ve squirreled 🐿 up some money and reinvesting into my equipment

I’m going Spinaclean 14th to look at there add ons

I’m gonna get a gutter vac
And be doing that too

Obviously we can do f/s/g and Connie cleans too

Don’t know what the economy will be like soon so I’m adding another string to my bow

I think as window cleaners will be pretty safe
But there might be even more start ups soon 🤔

95% of my work is regular maintenance window cleaning Lee with the odd add on job that i can clean with the pole.....i really couldnt be bothered with gutter vacs,pressure washers,etc.....i can comfortably earn enough with the equipment ive got without the hassle of buying and faffing about with more equipment.....

I agree daz.
however , my daughters have started helping me which means I need more work .
so while I am growing to cover their pay, I have bought a gutter sucker junior which I carry in the van . if I get asked to empty gutters I do it straight away .
gutters can be really quick most of the time and money for old rope . sometimes but not often can be a pain .

[james peters]

I have a neighbour that hasn't paid. I am soo glad . she is an arrogant stuck up cow , and now I dont have to clean her windows again .

[wayne 77]

Dont clean neighbours always want a chat etc
Have a rule 200 mt from my home
Makes life easy 

[Slash]

Never clean neighbours, friends or relatives

Exactly.

[dazmond]

ill be cleaning mine and a few neighbours windows tomorrow before i head off to work...all for free of course....an ex neighbour has moved back in next door to me(he was a window cleaner but jacked it in)so i said id clean his when i clean mine.....

[robbo333]

I never clean neighbours, friends or relatives, unless I offer to do it for free (or tea and biscuits).
You should never mix business with pleasure, it will come back to bite you in the bottom.

As for adding other services, go ahead and add them. You have to try these things to see if they are 'for you' or not.

[MrChurchMouse]

To those that have a rule for not cleaning for neighbours how do you respond to anyone fitting the neighbour description who may ask you to do theirs?  Might seem a bit weird or rude to them if you just say you don't clean for neighbours? 

[dazmond]

To those that have a rule for not cleaning for neighbours how do you respond to anyone fitting the neighbour description who may ask you to do theirs?  Might seem a bit weird or rude to them if you just say you don't clean for neighbours?

just say your not taking anymore work on at the moment...they wont ask you again....

[Dave Willis]

I just clean them really badly, same with decorating. They get a professional in then.

[vistech]

Done 5 of my neighbour's  for years all either  in or post cash through letterbox nice little hour get a brew all without even moving car

[CLEANCARE WC]

I hate cleaning for neighbors it can get awkward so I just let them tell me when they want them cleaned.

[Simon Trapani]

To those that have a rule for not cleaning for neighbours how do you respond to anyone fitting the neighbour description who may ask you to do theirs?  Might seem a bit weird or rude to them if you just say you don't clean for neighbours?

This is the thing with getting older I find...I care less & less what other people think. Just tell it as it is. You don't wanna do it.

[G Griffin]

I have no problems doing a cul de sac full of family members.
So, it's all relative?

[EandM]

Had a great deal with a friend of mine a few years back:
He cleaned my windows and I cleaned his.
Sadly he moved and now lives next door.