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Title: Equipent left a customers
Post by: The Carpet Cleaning Pro on November 11, 2011, 09:30:19 pm
Dropped a right clanger yesterday. Got home and went to do my usual... clean van and equipment and get ready for next day when i noticed my sebo missing. Oh no...where had it gone. Surly it had not been nicked when i went for a pi**. No... I though can,t have van was locked. Then it hit me... I had left it at the last customers house. Had go back to collect it today. Customers husband answered the door and told me he though wife had been on a spending spree... new hoover and new living room carpet. Any one else left things a customers houses?
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: cannon on November 11, 2011, 09:34:12 pm
Left my coat a couple of times, i now hang it on the inside of the front door.
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: Carpet Dawg on November 11, 2011, 09:39:49 pm
I left half a tub of Enzall at a customers house about two months ago. Went back for it like, thats £12 worth of product!!!  :)

A friend of mine that is a joiner left an expensive drill at a customers house once. He went back the next day to pick it up and the customer denied it was there  >:(

Left a few towels at customers houses over the years too.
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: Paul Moss on November 11, 2011, 09:42:41 pm
Years ago when i used to prevac I left my sebo behind loads of times. These days its usually a spotter bottle of some description, but mainly SLIDERS. Bloody things this year i must have lost/left about 20 of the damn things  >:(
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: M.Acorn on November 11, 2011, 09:44:36 pm
My wand,left at a job about 20 miles from home,half tub of powerburst at garage I clean 6 weekly,had to get another tub,picking it up in a few weeks time,coat,just the usual really.
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: M.Acorn on November 11, 2011, 09:45:25 pm
Yeahj,and various bottles of spotter
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: Carpet2Clean on November 11, 2011, 10:06:31 pm
The wife ;D ;D ;D only joking..Door wedges & jumper.
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: derek west on November 11, 2011, 10:13:30 pm
all of the above and probably all of whats to follow ;D
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: Doctor Carpet (Ret'd) on November 11, 2011, 10:23:42 pm
Funny I had just been thinking about starting this very same thread myself after my latest debacle.

Mostly it's been spotter bottles and the like and in many cases the client has been kind enough to ring and let me know. A few times it's been a coat because it's cold when you arrive and you are boiling when you leave and don't think about your coat.

Funny isn't it that the further away from home you are the more likely you are to leave something.

I do remember a helper once saying as he slammed the door to a rental property, inhabited by students, "you have got the property keys, haven't you?" I must confess he did make an excellent housebreaker getting back in through the bathroom window!!

Often you find if clients try and help you get equipment out of the house is the time you tend to lose control of where you are upto in packing up.

As long as I have my diary, phone and ambulance keys then I can at least cope with any other forgetful disaster.

Rog
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: Jim_77 on November 11, 2011, 10:27:40 pm
Tony carpet dawg left his trousers at one a few weeks ago, keeps going back to "find" them :D :D :D
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: Dennis on November 11, 2011, 10:31:15 pm
Left a few things over the years, the funniest was a horsehair brush a Jack Russell nicked and hid in his bed. The customer found it the next day, I hadn't even missed it.  ;D
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: Jim_77 on November 11, 2011, 10:34:38 pm
I bet the bloody horse did!!!
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: Dennis on November 11, 2011, 10:46:28 pm
He did, he rang up to complain, so I said "Why the long face".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_PZPpWTRTU
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on November 11, 2011, 10:50:59 pm
Wait until Tony finds out he left his wallet at his new birdes house or at least he'll think he has because he'll be skint soon.

Shaun
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: robert meldrum on November 12, 2011, 12:00:00 am
J K has an excellent answer to that ...........
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: Carpet Dawg on November 12, 2011, 12:01:49 am
Shaun + Jim  ;D  ;D

And believe it or not I did leave my jeans there last weekend!  :P
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: Tony Gill Carpet Smart on November 12, 2011, 08:39:11 am
Mobile phone & Croc's loads of times  :D

Tony
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: Linds Russell on November 12, 2011, 09:50:01 am
I left a sprayer at a customer's house once. She gave me it back 8 months later when I did more work for her.

She had told me she had been using it to spray the nice smell into rooms as she liked it so much - it was Chemspec Heavy Duty Soil Lifter!  :o
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: jasonl on November 12, 2011, 10:32:28 am
I have taken several cats from houses , something in Chem dry chemicals attracts cats , they were always sneaking into the van and hiding , it has not happened since I stopped with Chem dry.
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: Jim_77 on November 14, 2011, 02:01:21 am
Hahaha I kidnapped a dog once, was in the back of the van where it had taken my lunch to eat it!!!

It was at a job over 20 miles from home, luckily I noticed only a few minutes down the road!!
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: Chris Hawkes on November 14, 2011, 07:37:49 am
Mostly leave the small things behind - bottles of spotter, sliders, etc..  Just stuff that gets scattered around during the course of a job.  Did leave a nice jumper behind in my last job of the week last week though.  Customer kindly dropped it off at my house an hour later.

I will always have a final look round to see if I've left anything.  Still leave the odd bit behind though.

Chris
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: Adam P on November 14, 2011, 10:39:27 am
condom wrapper :D
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: chrisjohn on November 14, 2011, 11:54:45 am
Left my wand in a Blind mans bath.After I left he filled the bath.Ten minutes later he climbed in the bath.He rang me up, and said that the hose end nearly went up his arse.Luckily no damage done to his bum and my kit.Put phone down and nearly collapsed with laughter.

Chris
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: AshWhite on November 14, 2011, 12:02:03 pm
Hope you Clensan'd it?
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: Chris Hawkes on November 14, 2011, 02:56:55 pm
Left my wand in a Blind mans bath.After I left he filled the bath.Ten minutes later he climbed in the bath.He rang me up, and said that the hose end nearly went up his arse.Luckily no damage done to his bum and my kit.Put phone down and nearly collapsed with laughter.

Chris

Classic
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: clinton on November 14, 2011, 03:17:51 pm
Thats a good one  ;D
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: chrisjohn on November 14, 2011, 06:39:52 pm
Clinton/Chris

I know is sounds like a joke,but it really did happen.So funny though!

Chris

Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: Jim_77 on November 14, 2011, 08:22:16 pm
hahaa that's a cracker Chris :)
Title: Re: Equipent left a customers
Post by: Tony Gill Carpet Smart on November 14, 2011, 10:40:36 pm
Brilliant lol

Tony