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Title: My Mum doesn't like the hose thingy
Post by: Taylor & Taylor WC Services on April 07, 2011, 10:51:15 pm: After 3 years of cleaning one house I set up and a woman came out telling me my Mum doesn't like the 'hose pipe thingy'.

Incredible that she hadn't told me in 3 yrs and sometimes stopped me in the street to ask when I'm next visiting?

Some people really are mad as a box of frogs!
Title: Re: My Mum doesn't like the hose thingy
Post by: mci services on April 07, 2011, 11:00:07 pm: had it a few times, normally during school holidays when grand parents are babysitting
Title: Re: My Mum doesn't like the hose thingy
Post by: GoodFella2006 on April 08, 2011, 12:04:21 am: Just use a backpack or trolley for that job mate ;D
Title: Re: My Mum doesn't like the hose thingy
Post by: GB Window Cleaning on April 08, 2011, 06:10:15 am: dump! and canvass a better job, there doing you a favour, visiting the same property month after month is boring anyway!
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Post by: bobby p on April 08, 2011, 06:58:38 am: its suprising the hostility i hear to the pole method . especially on the council estates where the language turns blue EASILY , where nobody gets a 2nd chance to correct a mistake

i love the quick fire cutting banter on the estates , the lad who helps me paused for a minute after cleaning a really grubby door and just because he paused a while ,the customer said to him "got a bad back have you? " .
Title: Re: My Mum doesn't like the hose thingy
Post by: H S and Son on April 08, 2011, 07:29:16 am: Quote from: GB Window cleaning on April 08, 2011, 06:10:15 am
the same property month after month is boring anyway!

Thats a good enough reason :)
Title: Re: My Mum doesn't like the hose thingy
Post by: GB Window Cleaning on April 08, 2011, 08:02:11 am: Quote from: bobby p on April 08, 2011, 06:58:38 am
its suprising the hostility i hear to the pole method . especially on the council estates where the language turns blue EASILY , where nobody gets a 2nd chance to correct a mistake

i love the quick fire cutting banter on the estates , the lad who helps me paused for a minute after cleaning a really grubby door and just because he paused a while ,the customer said to him "got a bad back have you? " .

let it go in one hear and out the other. i just laugh at silly comments and pretend im above it and dont care even if secretly it gets to me! never show weakness!!!
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Post by: Jakey boy on April 08, 2011, 01:08:58 pm: Lads I gotta tell you, trad rules... Poles are for woman to dance around... Simple! ;D
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Post by: mlscontractcleaner on April 08, 2011, 02:35:44 pm: And for those who like to actually have money in their banks accounts ;)
Title: Re: My Mum doesn't like the hose thingy
Post by: Steve Sed on April 08, 2011, 02:48:36 pm: I cleaned a house on an upmarket lane in Newbury two months ago. I texted to say I'd be back a few days ago and got an almost immediate reply of "fantastic job last time".

My dad was a window cleaner for years, with chamois & scrim & later squeegee, yet my mum thinks WFP does abetter job on her windows and stays cleaner for longer.

I cleaned an old lady's house a couple of weeks ago. On the phone she said she wouldn't pay more than a tenner and didn't want a pole like her neighbour has. I persuaded her to pay £15 ever 8 weeks and after the first clean with a pole she recommended me to her neighbour.

Maybe I am just brilliant? But regardless, WFP does an absolutely beautiful job on pretty much all windows. Anyone that says different is either ignorant or has a bad operator.
Title: Re: My Mum doesn't like the hose thingy
Post by: Darranvps on April 08, 2011, 05:24:20 pm: Well Said Steve

There are lot's of guy's who need to know "how" to clean a window properly with waterfed poles.