[AuRavelling79]

What a bunch of girls!.

If someone comes in my house and they said that I would say no problem mate you had better fk off then. 

Like I said: "Selfish and disrespectful."

[Carpet Dawg]

I suspect Carpetdawg smokes- otherwise he would know how much it stinks.

nope I dont smoke and never have.

[wynne jones]

What a bunch of girls!.

If someone comes in my house and they said that I would say no problem mate you had better fk off then. 

Like I said: "Selfish and disrespectful."

And if you had that attitude, I'd throw you out. Cheeky beggar.

 

[Kinver_Clean]

Sorry to malign you  Carpetdawg- My wife never smoked and was a lot more tolerant than me.
It is not the threat of the smoke that gets me - just the smell turns me up big time.
I am afraid I am with Derek on this one.
At £6 a packet you may as well be sitting there burning fivers. And I packed up when they were five bob for 20!!

[AuRavelling79]

What a bunch of girls!.

If someone comes in my house and they said that I would say no problem mate you had better fk off then. 

Like I said: "Selfish and disrespectful."

And if you had that attitude, I'd throw you out. Cheeky beggar.

 

Blood pressure on the rise? 

[Ian Gourlay]

I have never smoked and find passive smoke difficult

When I lived in Newcastle they wanted us to ditch Cars and go by Public Transport. I used to ride the bus and when I got to shop felt ill for first 15 minutes.

Since I have been doing Carpet Cleaning I think I have been to two house where stale smoke or customer smoking causes a problem, I think they were both where there had been a tragedy . I simply say I need all windows and doors open

[wynne jones]

What a bunch of girls!.

If someone comes in my house and they said that I would say no problem mate you had better fk off then. 

Like I said: "Selfish and disrespectful."

And if you had that attitude, I'd throw you out. Cheeky beggar.

 

Blood pressure on the rise? 

Naah I've just been chasing the dragon so BP is fine. 

[Jim_77]

I think it's all down to market positioning.  In well over 10 years I can count on the fingers of one hand the times I've found myself in the same room as a customer smoking, and those are the very rare times I've found myself working down the lower end of the market.

Aim posh, the air is clearer

[creighton foyle]

i have had a customers ask me if the smoke bothered me and when i have politely said i would rather not be in the same room as them whilst they smoke it has not been a problem. I think most decent people realise it is not the done thing these days with just a few selfish or ignorant people being the exeption.

On the very few occasions when people have smoked in the same room i have just said  "do you mind if i open your window as the smoke is getting into my chest they usually take the hint.

No i would not ask someone outright not to smoke in their own house.

By the way Derek well done mate keep it up

[andrew stone]

Last year i turned up to clean a three piece suite.
They were a very nice couple but both heavy smokers it turned out.
As i started work they both pulled up a dining chair and sat watching me work for the entire three and a half hours!
Both smoked one fAg after the other.
I had the windows wide open but i was still coughing away.
When i arrived they offered me a ciggy but i said i didnt smoke.
Thought they would have got the message!
when i emptied the machine the colour of the water was unbelievable!

andrew

[Jim_77]

Unbelievable isn't it, the way smoke/nicotine covers things.  I once set about cleaning a brown/beige draylon sofa.... that turned out to be green!  Sure I took a photo but can't find it unfortunately

[Neil Williams]

Unbelievable isn't it, the way smoke/nicotine covers things.  I once set about cleaning a brown/beige draylon sofa.... that turned out to be green!  Sure I took a photo but can't find it unfortunately

I had one years ago much the same. Was I surprised when with the first pass a four inch blue patch appeared

[Kinver_Clean]

As part of my retirement fund I own a one bed flat.
When I first bought it I redecorated it by stripping it back to the plaster as it was rather stinky from smoke- everything was brown.
When I stripped the paper off the walls there was a brown stripe about an inch wide where the stain had soaked in where the paper join was. I scrubbed the ceiling with a floor brush. Even the plug sockets were brown.
When I got home and had a shower I still stank.

[John Kelly]

I once cleaned a lovely brown dralon suite this young lass had just bought second hand for her new flat.

Problem was PINK didn't go with her new decor.

[jasonl]

Smokers are the ones who ask if our chems are harmful to their  health , always makes me laugh.