Dave Willis

Light rain today!
« on: March 02, 2016, 10:11:55 am »
Mega hailstone storms all morning so far. Son has crashed his car on the ice. Wheely bin just blown down the road, thunder and lightning now  ;D

BBC weather app is useless  ;D

Marc Stock

Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2016, 10:14:08 am »
Its flippin terrible this weather. Right from November to March so far rain storms and hail. Its a flipping nightmare

Ste b

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Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2016, 10:21:13 am »
It was fine here this morning, halfway through first job the heavens opened. Safe to say im back home with a cuppa.
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Smurf

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Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2016, 10:22:19 am »
lightweights get out there says me sat indoors ;D

robbo333

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Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2016, 10:40:14 am »
It's as black as Newgate's knocker where I am. Just srarted thunder and lightening too. Another cuppa for me. ;-)
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Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2016, 10:48:08 am »
Am out but no enjoying it much, rains just gone off but the winds r up, had a bit of snowing in the city centre earlier but definitely working conditions. Just on me last morning job before I go do a job for the afternoon that's mostly indoors or sheltered areas

lee_dewing

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Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2016, 10:57:21 am »
Sitting in van only done a couple on off rain but gutsy gales.  ::)roll
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Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2016, 11:02:32 am »
Mega hailstone storms all morning so far. Son has crashed his car on the ice. Wheely bin just blown down the road, thunder and lightning now  ;D

BBC weather app is useless  ;D

All weather apps are data from computer generated modelling. That's why they change the forecast so frequently as they do several model runs a day covering about 10 days ahead. It's better to listen to proper weather forecasters who interpret all the data available.
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Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2016, 11:02:41 am »
I'm not at work today but my employee is...He phoned me earlier saying it was lashing down with rain and the trees were bending over...My words were crack on  ;D

supernova77

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Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2016, 11:03:53 am »
It was blue sky with a bit of sun for me from 8:30 - 10:30.  Now I'm sitting in the van on a customers drive waiting for the hail to stop :(

Stoots

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Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2016, 11:16:54 am »
Managed half an hour. Then all he'll broke loose. Rain then heavy snow and winds. Now it's light rain and slushy.  AccuWeather this morn said rain first thing then stop but now it's changed its tune and says rain all day. Another day off then ffs this is getting ridiculous

Smurf

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Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #11 on: March 02, 2016, 11:48:21 am »
I don't mind rainy days as that is when calls increase from people with overflowing blocked gutters that want them sorting out ASAP. After saying that it's a matter of screwing your loaf as I will work in the rain but draw the line in strong winds, thunder & lightning etc for obvious H&S issues.

Klean07

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Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2016, 11:52:32 am »
I had a good month in February so having a day off at the start of this month is lovely!
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Smurf

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Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2016, 12:06:38 pm »
Just count yourself lucky you are not an employee as you would not have that option and be working outside in all weathers if you wanted to get paid.

dazmond

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Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #14 on: March 02, 2016, 12:29:09 pm »
ive earned the paltry sum of £45-50 today.i worked 9am-10am(it was dry and sunny!) then sat in the van for an hour cos it was windy,sleet,snow and rain.im now home and dry and rescheduled my work for the rest of the week.i could of gone and done a conny roof job thats booked in for tomorrow but i couldnt be bothered TBH! ;D

i cant remember the last time i had to come home this early due to bad weather.it must be a few years ago now.looks like ill be working saturday as vans booked in for MOT monday morning.

oh well itll soon be spring lads! :)
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Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #15 on: March 02, 2016, 01:45:09 pm »
Full morning done , yeah it hailstoned loads .... On my face. Not on the windows.

SeanK

Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #16 on: March 02, 2016, 01:46:57 pm »
I have been employed by the Mrs to decorate the hall, stairs, landing and bedroom and there's nothing like it to make you fall in love with window cleaning again. :'(
3 inches of snow first thing and now its bucketing down along with strong winds.

Smurf

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Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #17 on: March 02, 2016, 01:52:47 pm »
Full morning done , yeah it hailstoned loads .... On my face. Not on the windows.

Good man  ;)

Smurf

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Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #18 on: March 02, 2016, 01:54:03 pm »
I have been employed by the Mrs to decorate the hall, stairs, landing and bedroom and there's nothing like it to make you fall in love with window cleaning again. :'(
3 inches of snow first thing and now its bucketing down along with strong winds.

They don't miss a trick do they...Bless em  ;D

Og

Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #19 on: March 02, 2016, 01:57:51 pm »
Snow at about 250m. Spent the day putting data into aworka.

Smurf

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Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #20 on: March 02, 2016, 01:58:44 pm »
ive earned the paltry sum of £45-50 today.i worked 9am-10am(it was dry and sunny!) then sat in the van for an hour cos it was windy,sleet,snow and rain.im now home and dry and rescheduled my work for the rest of the week.i could of gone and done a conny roof job thats booked in for tomorrow but i couldnt be bothered TBH! ;D

i cant remember the last time i had to come home this early due to bad weather.it must be a few years ago now.looks like ill be working saturday as vans booked in for MOT monday morning.

oh well itll soon be spring lads! :)

For some the rest of the week forcast don't seem that good either.

Smurf

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Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #21 on: March 02, 2016, 02:01:18 pm »
Snow at about 250m. Spent the day putting data into aworka.

My missus loves snow for some strange reason that I have never figured out why.

Marc Stock

Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #22 on: March 02, 2016, 03:28:26 pm »
Forecast jobs today 13,  £340. Actual jobs done so far 2, £65. Im going to give up in a min. Blue sky and sun, then in a blink of an eye freezing cold gales & hail. What i complete waste of time today.

deeege

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Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #23 on: March 02, 2016, 03:55:31 pm »
Full day done, mainly on internal commercial :)
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Tom-01

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Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #24 on: March 02, 2016, 04:22:12 pm »
One guy we did the outsides and also had the inside of the conservatory to do but he didn't want us to because it was raining, but fine to do the outsides..??

12 jobs booked in at £727 including two gutter cleans, all completed and home by 15:30. Did get a bit wet though. Very strange here though as we had a lot of bright sunshine, even driving with my sunglasses on at times.

Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #25 on: March 02, 2016, 04:48:57 pm »
Woah some big earners on here , I did 8- 4 , 20 jobs in total , took home £100

SeanK

Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #26 on: March 02, 2016, 05:08:42 pm »
Woah some big earners on here , I did 8- 4 , 20 jobs in total , took home £100

Yep some have more wind than the storms. ;D

Tom-01

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Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #27 on: March 02, 2016, 05:10:47 pm »
Woah some big earners on here , I did 8- 4 , 20 jobs in total , took home £100

Yep some have more wind than the storms. ;D

I just follow Dazmonds advice : "Price higher, work harder!"

Clever Forum Name

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Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #28 on: March 02, 2016, 05:25:15 pm »
Had to sack it off for four hours but then went back out. Finished at 4.30pm and got it all done. Went like mad in the morning and smashed it out.

Viva la DAZ  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #29 on: March 02, 2016, 05:27:36 pm »
Woah some big earners on here , I did 8- 4 , 20 jobs in total , took home £100

Yep some have more wind than the storms. ;D

I just follow Dazmonds advice : "Price higher, work harder!"

.....£60 a job ? ....

Tom-01

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Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #30 on: March 02, 2016, 07:37:58 pm »
Woah some big earners on here , I did 8- 4 , 20 jobs in total , took home £100

Yep some have more wind than the storms. ;D

I just follow Dazmonds advice : "Price higher, work harder!"

.....£60 a job ? ....

That was today's average yes.

Dave Willis

Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #31 on: March 02, 2016, 07:49:07 pm »
Record day for me.

Bungle

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Re: Light rain today!
« Reply #32 on: March 02, 2016, 09:55:45 pm »
One guy we did the outsides and also had the inside of the conservatory to do but he didn't want us to because it was raining, but fine to do the outsides..??

12 jobs booked in at £727 including two gutter cleans, all completed and home by 15:30. Did get a bit wet though. Very strange here though as we had a lot of bright sunshine, even driving with my sunglasses on at times.

How much do you pay your worker? Are you VAT registered?  Does your company turn over  £174,480 on an average 48 week year? Do you BS?
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Tom-01

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Re: Light rain today! New
« Reply #33 on: March 02, 2016, 10:24:23 pm »
One guy we did the outsides and also had the inside of the conservatory to do but he didn't want us to because it was raining, but fine to do the outsides..??

12 jobs booked in at £727 including two gutter cleans, all completed and home by 15:30. Did get a bit wet though. Very strange here though as we had a lot of bright sunshine, even driving with my sunglasses on at times.

How much do you pay your worker? Thats between me and him. Are you VAT registered? No  Does your company turn over  £174,480 on an average 48 week year? Not yet.  Do you BS? No, why would I? I'm just going off of what my planner says what we did today as some else did. I just happened to be home by 15:30 too. Just thought it was quite a good day considering the weather.