Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: AuRavelling79 on July 27, 2010, 10:39:28 pm
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So I did number 9 instead of the right one! Woman phoned up and said I never booked you.
Well I was well down a pint of scrumpy and scoffing my tea watching Judge Judy on ITV2 and so I said "Don't worry love! Have it on me!"
Trouble is I can't remember which one I'm supposed to have done. They all look the same to me on that estate.
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i have done the back of houses by mistake, it annoys me when they dont have numbers on the back
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do it all the time ;D once done a flat for three months and got paid until the guy paying complained and when he showed me the windows it turned out I was doing the wrong flat ::) so I had to do his for free for three months
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cowboys! trad cleaners wouldnt coXk up like that ;)
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I was trad at the time :-*
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That was for gold ;)
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I did a job ( quoted for a first clean windows and front and back gutter clean over the phone )
Windows were a nightmare and got stung from wasps nest in gutters ! left envelope for payment only to be rung up and thanked for all the work I had done the wrong house !
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I once accidentally canvassed one of my own customers. :P
Worst thing about it was that I almost got the job!! ;D
One evening I was canvassing all the ones I don't do in the street and must have got distracted, jotting down stuff in my notebook as I walked up the drive of this house.
Lady answers the door (never recognised her because I she was never in when I cleaned them and always sent a cheque) and I gave her the usual canvassing speel, when she replies, "well I do have a window cleaner but he's too expensive," ;D
"£12 he charged me just for the fronts!"
"Oooh that does sound a bit steep" I said stepping back to take a look at the fronts......"ah, oh....er hang on a minute"
(To be fair, I charged £6 for the fonts actually and had put a bill through for £12 because they had had work done and the windows were covered in cement, every one needing to be scraped. Since they were never in I just did the work and thought they would have understood why the price was higher that time).
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;D how did you get round that one mark did you say no I only would take 7 quid
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I stood there fidgeting for a bit double checking it was the right house and then admitted that I was in fact in her window cleaner.. :-[
The look on her face after she'd been slating me, I don't know who was more embarrased!
Looking back I should have just slided away and told her what a fine job he does of them though. ;D
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I stood there fidgeting for a bit double checking it was the right house and then admitted that I was in fact in her window cleaner.. :-[
The look on her face after she'd been slating me, I don't know who was more embarrased!
Looking back I should have just slided away and told her what a fine job he does of them though. ;D
Funny ;D ;D :D ;D
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I remember being weeks behind on my work and I was plodding through the back load when being approached by a customer and getting asked for a quote as the last w/c had not been round for ages ;D I stood back looked at the house and said £8 the price was £7 and he said thats fine as long as you come regular, I still do that job and on time every time ::)
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I stood there fidgeting for a bit double checking it was the right house and then admitted that I was in fact in her window cleaner.. :-[
The look on her face after she'd been slating me, I don't know who was more embarrased!
Looking back I should have just slided away and told her what a fine job he does of them though. ;D
Yes, very funny.
A couple of months ago I canvassed a street where I knew a window cleaner had retired from and one of the houses I knocked at, I recognised the lady. When I first started window cleaning she and the house were a customer of mine, but I'd badly underpriced the house and later 'dropped' the account without saying anything.
When I realised, I explained why I stopped coming and apologised for just 'dropping her'.
She took great pleasure in telling me she just wanted a 'reliable window cleaner' and then closed the door on me! :-[
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Well I was well down a pint of scrumpy and scoffing my tea watching Judge Judy on ITV2
i read on the net that JUDGE JUDY is not a real court ,nobody pays a cent in their judgements. NONTHELESS i drive my family mad watching it
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never cleaned the wrong house but back in the early 80s we went on the wrong house to do a strip and retile had most of the slate off before we found out that we should have been next door .
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cowboys! trad cleaners wouldnt coXk up like that ;)
HOW DARE YOU CALL YOUR SUPERIORS COWBOYS ;D thats blasphemy
You did sell all your wfp gear and the shock of it has scrambled up your mind, But because you are a nice guy birdmiller we forgive you
Adders ;D
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Last Friday I saw a window cleaner from Hereford I know, on this back road right out in the sticks. He flagged me down and the first words he said was I have just spent 1 hour doing a leaded house and I was on the last wind a man sticks his head out and says what you doing.
Apparently he priced a house some where out there a few months back and cant remember were.
Roy
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Think we have all done the wrong house at some point. I have a couple of times.
For those who haven't... Your turn will come ;D
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iv done it twice but not really my fault, as when i took over my round i cleaned two houses that were on the books but had cancelled a couple of months before, the bloke told me but i was to busy trying remember the round that i forgot so dont think i qualify as being a muppet, yet anyway :P
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So I did number 9 instead of the right one! Woman phoned up and said I never booked you.
Well I was well down a pint of scrumpy and scoffing my tea watching Judge Judy on ITV2 and so I said "Don't worry love! Have it on me!"
Trouble is I can't remember which one I'm supposed to have done. They all look the same to me on that estate.
PMSL Peter Perfect makes a mistake ;D ;D
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I did a wrong house in my trad. days, climbed over the back gate only to be confronted by the "naturist" owner standing there in a panama hat and "tackle out"! ;D
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I did a wrong house in my trad. days, climbed over the back gate only to be confronted by the "naturist" owner standing there in a panama hat and "tackle out"! ;D
did you feel a prick ;)