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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: erithwc on November 28, 2010, 07:29:52 pm

Title: how close to home do you work
Post by: erithwc on November 28, 2010, 07:29:52 pm: how close to home do you work would you canvass work a few streets away from you home and would you canvass for work off parents that go to your kids school or can it be a diffcult situation if they don't pay ontime ???
Title: Re: how close to home do you work
Post by: darren clarke on November 28, 2010, 07:33:32 pm: i do work in my street and also for mum at the school where my kids go, i dont really like it as 1 is a bad payer and feels funny when she cant pay me
Title: Re: how close to home do you work
Post by: Jackal on November 28, 2010, 07:44:48 pm: i work in a few miles from my house furthest house is proberly 3 miles so im quite lucky,i would hate to work far away just for the collecting side of it really,dont like cleaning windows for people i no cuz asking for the money seems harder even tho i still do it,my wifes old work mate owes me for 3 cleans now be 4 in 2 weeks she doing my head in but hard to dump someone you no
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Post by: gr cleaning solutions on November 28, 2010, 07:51:57 pm: all my work is no more than five miles from my house and also clean windows off parents for my kids school if there not in they always pay at the school the next day
Title: Re: how close to home do you work
Post by: CLEANCARE WC on November 28, 2010, 08:03:21 pm: about 40% of my round is 29 miles away! I bought it off a mate moving to New Zealand. It makes me do things properly you cant be messing about when you do a 58 mile round trip!
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Post by: glen parva on November 28, 2010, 08:11:02 pm: we go anywhere for the right money
we have regular work up to 50 miles away
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Post by: CLEANCARE WC on November 28, 2010, 08:15:09 pm: thats true ::) i would travel further if the price is right
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Post by: mikecam on November 28, 2010, 10:19:04 pm: Quote from: Erith Window Cleaning on November 28, 2010, 07:29:52 pm
how close to home do you work would you canvass work a few streets away from you home and would you canvass for work off parents that go to your kids school or can it be a diffcult situation if they don't pay ontime ???
Yeah it can be a difficult situation mate. It can lead to playground fights. If kicking someones shins is no probem to you then i'd go for it. Tough choices eh? Nothings easy.
Title: Re: how close to home do you work
Post by: George P on November 28, 2010, 10:28:51 pm: nearly next door, always pay in good time,
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Post by: Dave Anderson on November 29, 2010, 07:38:12 am: Nearest work is 4km's away and most is 12 -25km's away...I do not want work where I live...I like to go to work and then come home from work if you get my jist.
Title: Re: how close to home do you work
Post by: gr cleaning solutions on November 29, 2010, 08:04:50 am: in this weather upstairs and down in my own house ;D
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Post by: stevieA on November 29, 2010, 11:58:32 am: the entire of my round is within a mile radius of my mums house. great for transport costs.
Title: Re: how close to home do you work
Post by: dai on November 29, 2010, 01:02:18 pm: I have a couple of days work in my village, by far the worst payers on the round. I now wish I had never taken them on.
The bad payers.

1] are suddenly struck blind when they pass you in the street, either that or I become invisible.

2] avoid you like the plague if you go into the local for a pint.

3] Have very short memories, it usually takes about two years for them to entirely forget they owe you.

4 Question your parentage to others if you ask them to settle their debt.

5] are the most resentful when they begin to understand your hourly wage.

I would never do it again, never ever take on neighbours.