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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Steven Biggs on April 01, 2020, 04:01:04 pm

Title: Competition
Post by: Steven Biggs on April 01, 2020, 04:01:04 pm
Out working today . 2 guys out door knocking . They saw me working . Came up to me to have a word . Self employed plasterers . They have been knocking on a morning and cleaning em that afternoon. They did 15 last week and 13 so far this week . They were dressed decent enough and a nice van . Doing em trad .
Title: Re: Competition
Post by: harleyman on April 01, 2020, 04:04:43 pm
Soon get fed up☺
Title: Re: Competition
Post by: G Griffin on April 01, 2020, 04:06:26 pm
Out working today . 2 guys out door knocking . They saw me working . Came up to me to have a word . Self employed plasterers . They have been knocking on a morning and cleaning em that afternoon. They did 15 last week and 13 so far this week . They were dressed decent enough and a nice van . Doing em trad .
Three's a social gathering (http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1585753557_grin[1].gif).
Title: Re: Competition
Post by: NWH on April 01, 2020, 04:25:33 pm
Out working today . 2 guys out door knocking . They saw me working . Came up to me to have a word . Self employed plasterers . They have been knocking on a morning and cleaning em that afternoon. They did 15 last week and 13 so far this week . They were dressed decent enough and a nice van . Doing em trad .
It’ll happen
Title: Re: Competition
Post by: swanson on April 01, 2020, 04:34:05 pm
They won’t last long.
As soon as there work start picking up you won’t see them.
Title: Re: Competition
Post by: NWH on April 01, 2020, 04:47:42 pm
Yeah but by then people will be seriously stressed out they’ve lost over half there work.
Title: Re: Competition
Post by: PHILIP HARDY on April 01, 2020, 06:27:14 pm
Yeah but by then people will be seriously stressed out they’ve lost over half there work.
It sounds like some are seriously stressed out already !!
Title: Re: Competition
Post by: Bungle on April 01, 2020, 06:29:51 pm
Out working today . 2 guys out door knocking . They saw me working . Came up to me to have a word . Self employed plasterers . They have been knocking on a morning and cleaning em that afternoon. They did 15 last week and 13 so far this week . They were dressed decent enough and a nice van . Doing em trad .

Sounds like a sweet spot of an area. OP has missed an opportunity there.
Title: Re: Competition
Post by: The Jester of Wibbly on April 01, 2020, 06:30:14 pm
I spotted this post and though....... 'great, what am I going to win?'.  ;D
Title: Re: Competition
Post by: Slacky on April 01, 2020, 06:46:51 pm
I spotted this post and though....... 'great, what am I going to win?'.  ;D

Half an SLX.
Title: Re: Competition
Post by: The Jester of Wibbly on April 01, 2020, 07:00:18 pm
I spotted this post and though....... 'great, what am I going to win?'.  ;D

Half an SLX.

 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Competition
Post by: Steven Biggs on April 01, 2020, 08:09:26 pm
Out working today . 2 guys out door knocking . They saw me working . Came up to me to have a word . Self employed plasterers . They have been knocking on a morning and cleaning em that afternoon. They did 15 last week and 13 so far this week . They were dressed decent enough and a nice van . Doing em trad .

Sounds like a sweet spot of an area. OP has missed an opportunity there.
wrong . Unlike most on here , I am not constantly advertising, door knocking , or leafleting . I have more than enough customers . Always had . I lose very little . Just last year I gave 200 houses to my son . Gratis , but if you want I can give you the area and you can knock the doors as well . It is swarmed with cleaners . But I never lose any of mine . 👍
Title: Re: Competition
Post by: Shrek on April 01, 2020, 08:17:58 pm
Competition..... 2 plasterers out of work 😂

Bring it on 😆, they’ll certainly sack it all off as soon as they can start plastering again that’s for sure!
Title: Re: Competition
Post by: deeege on April 01, 2020, 08:22:47 pm
Why would they sack it off? Window cleaning is a hell of a lot easier than plastering. I don’t know a single plasterer get to 40 that’s body isn’t completely knackered.
Title: Re: Competition
Post by: Shrek on April 01, 2020, 08:32:37 pm
Swapping plastering for trad window cleaning  ;D     Ok ::)roll
Title: Re: Competition
Post by: CleanClear on April 01, 2020, 08:37:35 pm
Competition..... 2 plasterers out of work 😂



 ;D ;D
Title: Re: Competition
Post by: deeege on April 01, 2020, 08:47:00 pm
Swapping plastering for trad window cleaning  ;D     Ok ::)roll

I missed the trad part tbh, but I stand by what I said, wfp and trad is still a lot less physical work than plastering.
Title: Re: Competition
Post by: Stoots on April 01, 2020, 09:23:52 pm
Fair play. It's a great time to knock with everyone being in.

And if you've got the balls to knock doors in the middle of a global pandemic you deserve the success.
Title: Re: Competition
Post by: H2GoKent on April 01, 2020, 09:28:13 pm
Out working today . 2 guys out door knocking . They saw me working . Came up to me to have a word . Self employed plasterers . They have been knocking on a morning and cleaning em that afternoon. They did 15 last week and 13 so far this week . They were dressed decent enough and a nice van . Doing em trad .
.
You only have their word for it that have done that many, and if they are winning a lot fo very quickly that might mean they are too cheap, so they'll soon get fed up
Sometimes people will fib about their success to try worry you
Title: Re: Competition
Post by: Steven Biggs on April 01, 2020, 10:13:06 pm
Yes . They could have been lying about how many they had picked up . But I certainly wasnt worried . They even knocked a couple I had just done . I laughed . But they did seem decent lads ,not chavy. Agree with deegee . Any form of window cleaning is easier than plastering . I think that is just about the hardest of the trades . Like Gomo said , got some balls knocking at the moment .
Title: Re: Competition
Post by: CleanClear on April 01, 2020, 10:18:49 pm
Fair play. It's a great time to knock with everyone being in.

And if you've got the balls to knock doors in the middle of a global pandemic you deserve the success.

If you're knocking doors touting for work (at this time) you deserve locking up. And in clear breach of the "allowed to go to work" request, touting isn't working.
Title: Re: Competition
Post by: P @ F on April 02, 2020, 01:13:44 pm
It also goes to show that plasterers don’t all have rainy day money