Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: aquakadabra on February 16, 2018, 06:57:57 pm
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picked up a new customer this week and while I was cleaning house she asked if I would pick dog muck up if she gave me £10 I said I would then she asked could I do it every month for £10 I said I will so long as the gardens not full of it. What would you do
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is this a wind up ;D
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not a wind up mate honest just wanted other peoples thoughts, if you ask me its easy money only takes a few minutes
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Haha.
You should add it to your list of add ons :D
Personally I wouldn't take it on as too busy with windows but could be a nice little sideline.
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not a wind up mate honest just wanted other peoples thoughts, if you ask me its easy money only takes a few minutes
What a months worth of dog muck?
Each to their own i suppose personally i wouldn't do it (wouldn't have even gone in the garden to clean the windows if it was all laying about). What's that saying "where there's muck there's brass" definitely the case here ;D
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You must be desperate to pick up a load of poop every month for a tenner
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How much is the job? (Excluding the dog crap money)
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£100.
If you agree to this she won't clean up any, you'll have a full month's worth. That's about 30 per dog.
£100 at least.
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Just don't pick it up with your teeth!
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£100.
If you agree to this she won't clean up any, you'll have a full month's worth. That's about 30 per dog.
£100 at least.
Labradors that would be 60 per dog. bloody poop machines :)
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Mate, what are you thinking!
So, not only do some people think very little of our job but now they've reduced you to picking up dog poo as well.
This is a very sad day
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I personally would be offended if a customer asked me to do that. >:(
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So the garden is being used as a dog bog, then good old window cleaner picks up a month's worth of doggy doo for a tenner.!
Does the customer think so little of you that she is wanting you to do that because she can't or won't?
If I were you I would seriously think about dumping!
John
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I think this is awesome, £120 a year (£130 if 4weekly!!) for picking up dog crap. I just hope she doesn’t start saying ‘not today’ as then it’s 2 months worth for a tenner and could take a while
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Just a thought; if she decided to go 8 weekly would she still want to pay the monthly fee or would you add say 25% making it £12.50?
Side note; who picks up your puke after you've cleared the dog plop?
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A tenner per turd. And your on a winner.
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Perhaps ask Gardeners if they'll design a telescopic poopa scoopa save having to bend down, a carbon fibre one. Or ask if she has a someone who cuts the grass and sub the job out to him ;).
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Dog crap, the window cleaners bane. Is it just me or is it especially bad this year as the colder winter has left people not as keen to go out and lift the stuff? I'm cracking up this year with it, had to drop a very well paid job last month (or should I say they dropped me for asking them to clear it up) after unknowingly trailing a hose through it and it rubbing on BOTH legs of my trousers with one leg smearing the vans steering wheel as I jumped in. First I knew of it was the stench and then it dawned on me what had happened. To add insult to injury I called to the offending house to try and work things out amicably explaining what had happened and had got the words 'I can't continue to clean your windows until you...' and was abruptly told to not come back again and had the door slammed in my face.
It's seems telling some people to clear up after their mutt is deeply offending.
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When snow melts it turn into dog crap ;D
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DUMP - Literally
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picked up a new customer this week and while I was cleaning house she asked if I would pick dog muck up if she gave me £10 I said I would then she asked could I do it every month for £10 I said I will so long as the gardens not full of it. What would you do
I'd tell her to F*** Off! and that I was never going back out of principle.
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Next they'll be asking you to clear up dog sick. Then you'll be doing the backs AND the fronts.
Let's hope they don't ask you to do the insides! ;D
Seriously though...NO!
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I wonder if there are any companies that offer a dog poo collecting service?
Could be a nice little start-up business.
Definitely a niche market.
10 quid a week, posh houses, disposal and sanitising. You could build up a nice little round. I reckon you could do 5 or 6 custies an hour, nice and compact (the round that is!).
And you could work on very rainy days; might be a more slippery job though!
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You’ll be babysitting and doing her ironing next.
(This has got to be a wind up!)
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I wonder if there are any companies that offer a dog poo collecting service?
Could be a nice little start-up business.
Definitely a niche market.
10 quid a week, posh houses, disposal and sanitising. You could build up a nice little round. I reckon you could do 5 or 6 custies an hour, nice and compact (the round that is!).
And you could work on very rainy days; might be a more slippery job though!
You could then sell it to window cleaners who have had customers rip them off win win ;D
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This thread genuinely made me laugh out loud. That takes alot on a friday night when im knackered from working all week
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absolutely bonkers post!
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I wonder if there are any companies that offer a dog poo collecting service?
Could be a nice little start-up business.
Definitely a niche market.
10 quid a week, posh houses, disposal and sanitising. You could build up a nice little round. I reckon you could do 5 or 6 custies an hour, nice and compact (the round that is!).
And you could work on very rainy days; might be a more slippery job though!
Google it, I think you will be very surprised at the results. Some guy makes £56,000 a year doing it
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😂😂😂 I still can’t make out if this is serious
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https://www.poop-patrol.com/pricing.html
These guys are making a mint !
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im thinking of charging 50p per piece for small dogs and £1 per piece for large dogs. If I get enough work I might be selling my window round
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No way would we do that I wouldn’t take on a customer with that kind of attitude I expect to be able to work in a reasonably clean and safe environment , instantly dumped
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you know the old saying where there,s dog muck there,s brass
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Tell her she could save money as you'll shoot the dog for a score.
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im thinking of charging 50p per piece for small dogs and £1 per piece for large dogs. If I get enough work I might be selling my window round
Go for it!
I think you'll Winalot of customers at those prices per piece.
Don't forget to make them aware of your turds and conditions.
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I wonder if there are any companies that offer a dog poo collecting service?
Could be a nice little start-up business.
Definitely a niche market.
10 quid a week, posh houses, disposal and sanitising. You could build up a nice little round. I reckon you could do 5 or 6 custies an hour, nice and compact (the round that is!).
And you could work on very rainy days; might be a more slippery job though!
Google it, I think you will be very surprised at the results. Some guy makes £56,000 a year doing it
Good on him. I'd like to shake his hand.
But on second thoughts........
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Had someone tell me they could never keep a window cleaner and asked if I would clean them. Let them know the night before that I would be around the following day, turned up and the garden was riddled in dog poop the size of tennis balls, you couldn't move more then four inches without hitting dog poop. Left her a note to say I wasn't going to try working around the dog poop and to find some other mug to clean it. Some people are having a laugh. I have a dog myself and I wouldn't expect anyone to have to work around dog poop. The odd occasional one missed you can understand but not a weeks worth, that just laziness and unhygenic, disgusting.
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If it was a child living amongst there own sh!t they would be reported to child services....
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I think it's disgusting, people shouldn't have dogs if they can't look after them properly,I'd be highly offended and tell them exactly where to go,that's scraping the barrell .
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It would depend on the circumstances, there are some elderly people who love and need their dogs but really aren't fit enough to look after them properly, if it helped them keep their dog and the dog was ok I would consider it.
If its just a lazy sod who shouldnt have a dog then I would tell them to get lost.
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You do realise the calibre of person who would even ask this of you is at some point going to sneak 1 of there own turds in there on you for a giggle dont you? ;D
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I had one customer who asked me not to stop coming as I told her I was not continuing as the dog mess was getting worse. So we agreed I would text her a couple of days before coming and if the poop had not been picked up I wouldn't clean the windows. I'm not talking about the odd pile here and there but rather having to stand on tippy toes so as not to stand in any.
Needless to say I have long stopped going to this customer. I understand people can be busy, me n my family are and we have a dog. But I pick it up in a morning and late evening when I'm doing the van. There's no real excuse to have moldy poop etc still left in the garden other than laziness.
If my customer asked me to pick it up for a tenner I would have been very straight with them, especially if they had kids as well.
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Dog crap, the window cleaners bane. Is it just me or is it especially bad this year as the colder winter has left people not as keen to go out and lift the stuff? I'm cracking up this year with it, had to drop a very well paid job last month (or should I say they dropped me for asking them to clear it up) after unknowingly trailing a hose through it and it rubbing on BOTH legs of my trousers with one leg smearing the vans steering wheel as I jumped in. First I knew of it was the stench and then it dawned on me what had happened. To add insult to injury I called to the offending house to try and work things out amicably explaining what had happened and had got the words 'I can't continue to clean your windows until you...' and was abruptly told to not come back again and had the door slammed in my face.
It's seems telling some people to clear up after their mutt is deeply offending.
if a customer has a dog you just gotta just keep your eyes wide open when your cleaning their property to prevent this from happening...
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lots of my customers have dogs.if i binned them for having the odd dog poo in their gardens id hardly have any work.....
i cant remember the last time i dragged my hose through dog poo....cat poo is worse as they tend to crap in soil near bushes and its easy to drag you hose unsuspectingly through some..
i always keep my eyes open for crap on the ground whether they have a dog/cat or not....i have some wet wipes in the van for the odd time i do drag my hose through it..
..as for picking it up for customers..i wouldnt but if you feel comfortable doing it and need the money why not?
we have a dog too and picking her crap up is enough for me.. ;D
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I carry a bottle of bleach for this. Im like an eagle and rarely get caught out. Chris, who works with me, is yet to learn ;)
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Lazy sods, when I poo in a customers back garden I certainly don't expect it to be still there in a months time.
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im seriously think of offering this as a service think a lot of people would pay to have there dog muck cleaned up
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im seriously think of offering this as a service think a lot of people would pay to have there dog muck cleaned up
Where would you dispose of the waste?
Serious question for dog owners on here- how do you dispose of yours?
I know when you're out walking your dog, you'll either drop the bag in someone else's wheely bin that's been left out on the pavement or hang it on a tree branch but what do you do with the pieces dropped in your garden?
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Pop it in thier bin
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Chuck it in the recycling, it’s getting shipped abroad anyway so who cares..?
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Freeze em .
Ever seen those websites where you can get turds posted?
Create a website offering poo In the post to other window cleaners for their non payers.
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So the garden is being used as a dog bog, then good old window cleaner picks up a month's worth of doggy doo for a tenner.!
Does the customer think so little of you that she is wanting you to do that because she can't or won't?
If I were you I would seriously think about dumping!
John
;D ;D ;D ;D
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If someone knocked on my door to offer this service I would seriously be thinking your talking cra?
Love to see what flyers you would come up with
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I rang the local council once to ask advice because one of my ex custards was bagging the dog poo up and then making a mountain with it in her bag garden because she didn’t know what to do with it (it stunk) . They told me to tell her to just put it in her general rubbish wheely bin
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Flog it to Nathan. They burn dog-crap in some countries for heating. Nathan could put it in his chimera to boil his water.
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Flog it to Nathan. They burn dog-crap in some countries for heating. Nathan could put it in his chimera to boil his water.
I can't take this cra@ anymore. ;D ;D
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Pop it in thier bin
Nice.
Leave it in their back garden then? ;D I can spot a serious flaw in this business model, so for that reason I'm oot.
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Chuck it in the recycling, it’s getting shipped abroad anyway so who cares..?
;D
Good answer but ultimately we'd all have to move house. Well, move planet.
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Load them all up on a spade then chuck them over her next door neighbours fence trying to avoid the patio table and chairs ;)
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I was talking to a bloke yesterday who charges for this service.
He said things were a little slow at first but now business is picking up.
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"The Turd Emergency Service"
We won't take the pee! (http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1519225246_grin.gif)
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If the owner gives you a tenner the dog will give you peanuts.
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Roll up Roll up
Tennner a turd! Tenner a turd!
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I wouldn't bother.
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picked up a few more customers today think im going to make a mint out of this might even have to employ someone else. just not sure how to advertise job, any ideas.
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If the owner gives you a tenner the dog will give you peanuts.
nice one funny
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picked up a few more customers today think im going to make a mint out of this might even have to employ someone else. just not sure how to advertise job, any ideas.
Are you after a few leads?
The bloke I was talking to had employed a lad but he had to let him go. I asked did he not have the stomach for it but he said "no, quite the opposite. He refused to wear gloves and he chewed his nails".
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im willing to provide gloves masks etc if anyone knows any good poop pickers please let me know
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Just use a gutter vac.
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ive got one of them his names josh
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picked up a few more customers today think im going to make a mint out of this might even have to employ someone else. just not sure how to advertise job, any ideas.
Are you tired of your crap office job?
Are you used to dealing with 5hit from your boss. If yes, then you're almost fully qualified for this new and challenging role.
If you're looking for a sideways move, good cause that will come in handy.
We are looking for a special person for this customer 'rear facing' role.
As a 'Technical Waste And Treatment operative, you should be able to 'tread carefully', and be polite when talking to customers; making sure you don't put your foot in it!
You’ll be working on some ‘big jobs’ and may encounter slippery situations, but never take the p155 as we don’t get paid for that.
Our customers should provide a constant stream of openings to keep your hands full and ensure you don't get the arse end of the stick.
This is a great opportunity to work in the fresh air and we hope you'll impress us so much, you'll come up smelling of roses.
Should you wish to climb the career ladder then we have gutter jobs that need doing as well.
You'd have to be barking mad to pass up on this once in a lifetime offer.
Send your CV to:
C/O Wallys mobile caravan park.
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How about.
Poop picker needed.
Sloppy poop, spongy poop, baked hard in the sun poop. It all needs clearing.
Uni grads welcome.
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Tired from a hard days work, taking #rap from everybody?
Then going home to tidy up the #rap from the dog!
Well not any longer, let my team of 5hit shovellers remove it for you!
Call the pooper squad today!
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picked up a few more customers today think im going to make a mint out of this might even have to employ someone else. just not sure how to advertise job, any ideas.
Hows this happening ? I've never in my life been asked to do that, you think maybe you look like the man for the job ? If so employing someone else to do it might take the edge off. How to advertise it ? Easy.. just continue with the s*i* cleaning service offered...................... ;D
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(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1519419898_poop.jpg)
Maybe he's onto something.
(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1519419941_poop 2.jpg)
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thanks for the replys guys had me laughing some of those. Gonna get some flyers printed next week ill let you know if business picks up