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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: david@zap-clean on December 03, 2013, 04:28:46 pm

Title: Sign of a quality job - watch and weep
Post by: david@zap-clean on December 03, 2013, 04:28:46 pm
Well, I must be doing something right to get offered this, and a small tip:

(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1386088092_IMG-20131203-00241mini.jpg)

...Sorry, I'd already started on the choccy biccy   ;D
Title: Re: Sign of a quality job - watch and weep
Post by: Radek Jablonski on December 03, 2013, 04:41:22 pm
David, i am having coffee offered everyday and usually with biscuits. Nothin unusual just as tips to.
irish people are very friendly for real.
Title: Re: Sign of a quality job - watch and weep
Post by: david@zap-clean on December 03, 2013, 04:47:18 pm
David, i am having coffee offered everyday and usually with biscuits. Nothin unusual just as tips to.
irish people are very friendly for real.

Tea/coffee everyday, yes - but not cake and biscuits :-)
It was a bit of a 'life-saver' really, as yet again I worked straight through a 6 hr job...
Title: Re: Sign of a quality job - watch and weep
Post by: Radek Jablonski on December 03, 2013, 04:55:45 pm
No that nice cake actually no. But buscuits are normal with coffee.
Thats the job for older person i presume.
Title: Re: Sign of a quality job - watch and weep
Post by: CleanerCarpets on December 03, 2013, 07:15:37 pm
Dave - did you get that machine upstairs past a stair lift? Couldn't you just double hose to it?
Title: Re: Sign of a quality job - watch and weep
Post by: jim mca on December 03, 2013, 07:25:36 pm
Quality - drop sheet   :(
coiled cable dangerous  :(

Sorry 

Title: Re: Sign of a quality job - watch and weep
Post by: CleanerCarpets on December 03, 2013, 07:30:11 pm
Gotta say I was thinking the same..... I wouldn't have an extractor in the house if I could help it and definitely not without a drip mat or upstairs
Title: Re: Sign of a quality job - watch and weep
Post by: david@zap-clean on December 03, 2013, 07:37:55 pm
Dave - did you get that machine upstairs past a stair lift? Couldn't you just double hose to it?

Good observation... Which gives me the opportunity to sing the merits of the smaller professional HWE machines:

Yes, it easily goes up stairs, even with the stair-lift obstacle.  This was a 3 storey town house, so I sited the HWE machine in the optimum location.  I only needed the double hose (50ft, max length for this machine) for one of the rooms in this 6 rooms, 3 bathrooms, two staircase and 3 landings job.

I will be getting a bigger HWE machine soon, but I'll never give up this great little Airflex... 
Title: Re: Sign of a quality job - watch and weep
Post by: Mike Halliday on December 03, 2013, 07:40:08 pm
Forget complaining about the machine going in the house,  that's a shop bought  bake well tart ::)roll ::)roll

I had a homemade Mille feuille with Chantilly cream and a dark chocolate tweel today. ;)

Title: Re: Sign of a quality job - watch and weep
Post by: david@zap-clean on December 03, 2013, 07:48:50 pm
Forget complaining about the machine going in the house,  that's a shop bought  bake well tart ::)roll ::)roll

I had a homemade Mille feuille with Chantilly cream and a dark chocolate tweel today. ;)

One day, when I grow up, I'll be as good as Mike  ;D
Title: Re: Sign of a quality job - watch and weep
Post by: david@zap-clean on December 03, 2013, 07:58:07 pm
Quality - drop sheet   :(
coiled cable dangerous  :(
Come on guys, don't be picky:
Sometimes a drop sheet isn't appropriate (as in this case).
The cable is not coiled, it's just tucked up behind the machine neatly.
Title: Re: Sign of a quality job - watch and weep
Post by: Andrew Briscoe on December 03, 2013, 08:03:47 pm
I always get fed n watered, I was doing a job once for a farmers wife (3pc)
at 12 she shouted my dinner was ready, a bit bemused, however it smelled lush, lamb hot pot, massive plate full, then when I finished she insisted i had apple crumble n custard !!!!   could hardly bend over to finish the suite.
Title: Re: Sign of a quality job - watch and weep
Post by: jim mca on December 03, 2013, 08:45:31 pm
David

Cakes are second rate slice sausage on a crispy roll with HP sauce is quality

No problem with you taking the machine indoors as I almost always take my mini in but pop in to poundland and get there little tarpaulins not worth the risk

 ;D
Title: Re: Sign of a quality job - watch and weep
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on December 03, 2013, 09:37:25 pm
I get a tip from an old gent every year of a bottle of whisky it's wasted on me ( pun not intended) I give it away as an Xmas present.

I did get a snickers bar today though.

Shaun
Title: Re: Sign of a quality job - watch and weep
Post by: Doug Holloway on December 04, 2013, 08:09:16 am
Hi Guys

My best one this year was at a Sikh family who offered me some lunch which smelled so good I couldn't refuse a plate of very nice vegetable curry.

Cheers

Doug
Title: Re: Sign of a quality job - watch and weep
Post by: M.Acorn on December 04, 2013, 03:41:15 pm
Best tip for me this year, Framed ltd edition print of the isle of Skye, by Gillian McDonald, very random.
And £60 from my accountant, after I cleaned his mums bungalow, must be paying him too much,lol
Title: Re: Sign of a quality job - watch and weep
Post by: John Kelly on December 04, 2013, 04:43:09 pm
Customer told me a while ago, can't remember who it was but he and his mate were working on a full day job when the old couple offered them lunch. Week later he got an invoice in the post for £17.50 for the food. He has it framed on his wall. :)
Title: Re: Sign of a quality job - watch and weep
Post by: Simon Gerrard on December 04, 2013, 05:15:55 pm
Love it ;D :D