Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: formb on April 15, 2013, 12:16:19 pm
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Just got a cracker, sent in with payment:
This house has now been knocked down, it will be rebuilt but will take around a year.
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I'd say its likely to be true, they'd look silly if you turn up there next month :)
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That's the worst excuse I've ever heard!
The best one I've had is "your water is soaking into our brickwork and might damage it"
Good job it never rains in England !!!
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At a posh country place near me:
' We're having all the windows replaced with handmade double glazed wooden units. We'll give you a call in about a year '
A year later.... phone call;
' Hello. Can you clean the windows on Tuesday ? '
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Here's one of mine:
"We're moving to Canada, sorry we have to cancel"
then FIVE YEARS later
"We didn't like Canada, we're back in the same house, can you start again"
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"My dog gets to upset, could we leave it this time."
I could not believe it so never went back.
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The plumber is here.
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Just got a cracker, sent in with payment:
This house has now been knocked down, it will be rebuilt but will take around a year.
It does happen
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One of my customers last week:
Our roof is leaking, can you leave it this month ???
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I have icicles on the windows cills please leave it this month. Jog on fella
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i had one say, it's forcast rain at the end of the week
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Just got a cracker, sent in with payment:
This house has now been knocked down, it will be rebuilt but will take around a year.
No joke, I've had two of them!
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ime to tired to have the windows cleaned ::)roll really
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the one that really annoys me is the come to the door and say they dont feel well? and can you leave it.......of course i can.............permanently
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Just got a cracker, sent in with payment:
This house has now been knocked down, it will be rebuilt but will take around a year.
Did you use a Brodex pole to clean it?
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I turned up on the Docks to clean a set of portakabin/offices for a shipping company to find them gone. I phoned the manager and he laughed and told me to take the next left and drive two hundred metres and I'd find them there behind one of the storage silos where they had been relocated nearer the wharfs!
Still clean them today.
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Just got a cracker, sent in with payment:
This house has now been knocked down, it will be rebuilt but will take around a year.
Did you use a Brodex pole to clean it?
;D ;D
When are you gonna audition for Britains Got Talent
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Had one about 4 years ago, 'Oh God, you always come when the dog groomer is here'
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Leave it today I haven't got time ???
Not today I'm decorating inside.
Lave them I've got flu.
Not today we've just come back from Italy ???
Not today - the owners have moved to America. (they owed me for three cleans too) >:(
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I had a guy ask me not to clean one specific window.
He came out of the house all serious said 'I need to show you something' I thought oh dear here we go.
Round the back of the house he points out one particular window pane it has a spiders web which has spent the morning watching the spider build.
He had been on the 'aromatic' cigarettes again. He lives in a large well looked after house, but everything he owns smells of weed. Last month he paid me and the next day when I did my banking I could still tell which note was his by the smell
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I had one about this time last year. It was a lovely, very warm day and it was one of those customers you have to check if they are in {retired, but in and out with serious security}. "Oh can we leave it today, it's such a lovely day" ? Never went back.
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gonna cut the grass today so think we will give it a miss
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'Can you leave them, my neighbour did them the other day' (Front porch was minging!)
Same customer (after a rainy spell) 'Can you leave them today,it's too dry!'
Same (now ex) customer - 'Can you leave them today, I'm having my gutters washed and he will clean the windows at the same time.'
'Can you leave them and come back in a few weeks when the weather improves?'
'Can you leave them if I am not in? My dog gets upset if I am not here'.
'Can you leave them because they are not dirty enough?'
John
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My Parrott goes mental.
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It always annoy s me when the older ones think that you only cleaned the windows the week before and even though you show them proof in your book they always say your not due ???
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The stupidest reason I've had for cancellation - 'My mother reckons that the more you clean windows, the quicker they get dirty'.
I am never ever rude to people normally and will smile and walk away and forget the whole thing but when that well bred lady said that to me last year I did actually call her a 'f*cking idiot' with a capital 'F'.
(sorry for swearing)
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we left the windows wet.
we'd been cleaning there for 2 years, always WFP ???
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Customer from another culture..............It's not that I don't trust you or anything but can you only do ours when someone is in?
Translated into English..............We don't believe you will do the job properly unless we are here to watch you or time you. Told them what I thought and walked off ....ards :-X
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I had one .
Leave it today we're shooting a porn video .
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Hope they didnt ask you to do the insides afterwards.
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"No point cleaning the windows because they just get dirty again."
"Not today please, my little boy has the flu bug."
"We won't be needing you now as my niece is going to clean them during the school holidays for some extra cash."
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I had one .
Leave it today we're shooting a porn video .
Surely the window cleaner arriving with his massive extend-able pole is a plus for any porn film.
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Search for the chav van lol he lives at the back of me .
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I work for a company and my boss won't cancel anyone no matter how bad they mess me around. I have quite a few customers that won't have them done if it's even forecast rain never mind actually raining, and a few who only want them done if someone is in. I often get accussed of coming back early too. I've had to refuse to go to 2 houses as one kept sending the wrong amount due on purpose and my boss would just mark it down as our mistake, and the other one had dogs that they let sh*t were I had to walk and never cleaned it up. If it was my company I'd of got rid of at least 10 of the customers by now.
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Turned up to do a house and the kids were playing outside on their bikes - went round the back first and when I came back round the front the kids had gone - knocked on the door for payment and the wife opened the window and shouted in a croaky voice 'we are all in bed with the flu can we pay next time' ???
'Don't do mine today as I've got the gate locked to keep the cat in' - when we did next doors her cat is sat on the wall ???
We have a rule of 3 refusals and we don't go back (unless it's an awkward customer then it's less)
Had one who complained about the wfp leaving marks so could we do by hand which we did - there were no pole marks - she had me step into kitchen while she wrote a cheque as she did so she glanced up and said 'ooo that's much better' - I had to really bite my lip - you could not see out of the window for the dirt inside - we never went back
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hahaha reading through all of these has made my day!!!!
my best one so far was probley '' can we cancel please we have had new double glazing fitted and no longer need a window cleaner''
what so your windows can rot again for 5 year and will need replacing again.....
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hahaha reading through all of these has made my day!!!!
my best one so far was probley '' can we cancel please we have had new double glazing fitted and no longer need a window cleaner''
what so your windows can rot again for 5 year and will need replacing again.....
That excuse does make sense though. Manufactures of double glazing know it's more likely to sell if glass open's inward to allow access for cleaning. My next door neighbor had them fitted, partly for that reason. I end up doing them though, he did lay all my monoblock for nowt.
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I had one today. "I'm dying. I've got lung cancer". No idea if she has r not, but I said ok and legged it.
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so funny lol my one was about a month ago and she said ooo sorry my son is not here today wtf im not here to spk to your son im here to clean windows but what ped me off is i started cleaning and finished the front of the house and the she came out and said this i didn't go back there again.
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Could you leave the windows today as the birds have been eating the silicone from around the window frames and someone is coming out to renew the silicone ??? ??? ??? ??? . Mike
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Could you leave the windows today as the birds have been eating the silicone from around the window frames and someone is coming out to renew the silicone ??? ??? ??? ??? . Mike
Damn ive had this exact same excuse myself !!!
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Could you leave the windows today as the birds have been eating the silicone from around the window frames and someone is coming out to renew the silicone ??? ??? ??? ??? . Mike
She meant putty
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No i do know the difference defo no putty in white plastic double glazed windows . Mike
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Had one yesterday afternoon that didn't cancel but who insisted I'd only been three weeks since the last clean. She was in the garden when she said this.
"No," I said "it's four weeks to the day - I was here on March 19th ..."
"Oh, well I'll go and get my cheque book."
She comes back out and says "here you are, but it is only three weeks ..." and she's written April 9th on the cheque!
A bit exasperated I said "look Mrs _________ it's the 16th today not the 9th!"
::)roll
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Had some bloke get uppity with me this morning and told me not today .. summit about a funeral ? said thats strange cant see a hearse anywhere ?
Last time I do the local conservative club !!
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'You have just woken me up so can you leave them today?'
'I fell down and broke my shoulder last week so can you leave them until next month'
'It's going to rain tomorrow, so it ain't worth it'
'It's too cloudy'
'It's too sunny'
'I'm not feeling well, the doctor has changed my medication so can we leave it today'
'My son needs to unbolt the gate and he's not back until later ... but i can reach over and unlatch it ... but what about closing it? ... i can reach over and close it too ... can we leave it today, my son needs to unbolt the gate'
'My wife's not well'
'Can we leave it, I've just sat down for the afternoon'
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Had one in the post yesterday, thanking me for an excellent service over the last few years, but he's going to cancel because his neighbour is going to clean them for him, in exchange for a round of golf.
This job is only £18 every 2 months. He must get free or very highly discounted rounds of golf.