Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: bobplum on December 20, 2012, 06:44:58 pm
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while cleaning.
as my other post says i have broken part of a chandelier.
a stone otter
various plant pots
scratch a porsche
................think i need a new career ;D
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pot ornament from russia. a good few free cleans that cost me. right behind me when cleaning the french doors. ::)
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Ladies hearts! ;D
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Ladies hearts! ;D
;D ;D ;D
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My arm
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My arm
how the hell........
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A promise :-\
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I often broke wind
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a renualt trafic van
still gives me nightmares ;)
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Broke my leg once, a bit like these girls:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=aQEB-yhv5qQ&feature=fvwp (http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=aQEB-yhv5qQ&feature=fvwp)
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Broke my hand {slipped and hand cracked against corner of a wall}. Very next clean of the same house got stung by a horse fly on the same arm. Ouch.
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Garage door window with the end of pole.
Glass ashtray swiped off garden table with trailing hose.
Garden ornaments.
Plant pots.
Each time I've owned up and the customer has said not to worry, thanks for your honesty. ;D
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I put my foot through a pub roof as a teenager. Didn't own up to it. :-[
They did a full referb a couple of years later.
Broke a 'one off' ceramic hare glad I was insured as it was £100's to remake. I still clean and sweat every time I lay eyes on it.
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I once rested my ladder against the corner of a custies house while i went round to do rear lower windows , heard a huge bang , cringed and went to see what the carnage was , i found my ladder laying on the bonnet of the custies new beemer 325 :o
Rich
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was cleaning a museum floor and tripped, to break my fall. i put my hands down but ended up launching myself into a full flip.
the problem was that i was near one of the paintings and my sock brace caught the glass front to picture i was near, which shattered the glass front to picture and some how tore the painting.
on the positive side it then looked like the portrait of the person was then more jolly by smiling more. (mona lisa)
thankfully id increased my insurance earlier that year and it covered the claim as it wasnt an original that was hung.
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was cleaning a museum floor and tripped, to break my fall. i put my hands down but ended up launching myself into a full flip.
the problem was that i was near one of the paintings and my sock brace caught the glass front to picture i was near, which shattered the glass front to picture and some how tore the painting.
on the positive side it then looked like the portrait of the person was then more jolly by smiling more. (mona lisa)
thankfully id increased my insurance earlier that year and it covered the claim as it wasnt an original that was hung.
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I often broke wind
+1
but I try not to do this as the front door opens and the customer gestures payment for wc services :D
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Window cleaning a garage roof , ended up inside on the floor
Apart from that my arm several places in a centre lathe
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broke on of these http://www.diy.com/nav/garden/outdoor-living/outdoor-lighting/post___wall_lights/-specificproducttype-post_lights/Black-3-Lamp-Post-Light-11597612 caught ladder on one of the lights and kept walking snapped it at the base replaced it & had to get a mate to wire up the new one. :'( expensive mistake. thats the worst one.
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my pole bust a few wks ago wwas a bit upset about that but you have to move on
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My will to live ;D
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;D
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hahaha this post has made me laugh.
I've broken a few windows and pulled my hose all over the bonnet of a Audi.....
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Working for a firm about 10 years ago, we had the Oxford University contracts and WF Poles weren't the same as they are today (thanks Gardiners) :) Anyway I was cleaning one of many Georgian town houses that they own in the City centre, part of the Sciences Dept, I was using one of the very old Tucker poles, brushes were great but the pole a 40 footer had jubilee clips for clamps ::) You had to keep a screw driver in your pocket for tightening pole sections each time you opened or closed a section ;D anyway a section twisted and the aluminium stock smashed a pane of glass and the brush was inside the window shooting water at all the lab technicians :D The flow on WFP back then was incredibly high (pre flow controllers) the tail end which in those days was connected to 100 metres of half inch hose pipe was some way from where I was working so by the time I'd made it over to the hosepipe to disconnect I'd given all the lab technicians a good soaking ;D
Good job the Department Bursar was very laid back He just said don't worry about it we'll get it fixed :D
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good topic lets all put how much it cost us or cleans too
im always very very carefull carefull but i think i got 4 insidents to share apart from the obvious small tiny pots that have been sitting for decades that no one notices
even those i may have broke 3-4 in my life time ;D
2008: slightly reversed into a customers right front car wing £120 payment in money <that was a stinger first month with van too>
2010: a dragon fly garden thing <customer had a go at me but didnt want money for it>
2011: a large pot filled up with a plant <amazingly customer didnt want to charge me in anyway>
2011 a Tile cornered to a velux window £60 3x cleans customer was given credit <no more walking on tiled roofs>
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Curtain ornament was fixed with just an eye bolt on a hook, I pulled up the blind, darn thing came crashing down, obliterating the antique below it. My jaw was on the floor. At that time best customer, so said I would pay for it all, no fuss. Even though it was hardly my fault, accident waiting to happen.
Customer said antique had just sentimental value, but curtain ornament was £225.
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Curtain ornament was fixed with just an eye bolt on a hook, I pulled up the blind, darn thing came crashing down, obliterating the antique below it. My jaw was on the floor. At that time best customer, so said I would pay for it all, no fuss. Even though it was hardly my fault, accident waiting to happen.
Customer said antique had just sentimental value, but curtain ornament was £225.
Sorry thought we were talking external window cleaning :P silly me. Now internal window cleaning disasters where do we start :o
I've had a few but I don't want to bore you guy's :)
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head off a garden knome, ho and seized my ts1