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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Slacky on January 07, 2020, 05:24:06 pm

Title: Had one today.
Post by: Slacky on January 07, 2020, 05:24:06 pm

So, I got a telephone enquiry yesterday about a gutter clean.

I went along today to have a look. An old biddy, living in a bungalow that you wouldn't know was there it was so well hidden behind overgrown trees and between two big detached 4 bedders.

Anyway, initially, she wanted a quote for the gutters to be cleaned out and then she mentioned in passing that one of the joints was leaking and could I possibly have a look at it if I was going to go ahead with the work. So, I glanced once more at the guttering and suggested I could look at it, but bearing in mind the age of the gutters there wouldn't be any guarantee about how effective any repair would be but I could look at it all the same.

She looked at me and said 'Well, the gutters aren't THAT old'.

So, I asked her if she knew when they'd been put up.

Her reply was 'My husband and I put them up in 1963.......'

Title: Re: Had one today.
Post by: alank on January 07, 2020, 07:09:31 pm

And when you give her the price she will say it cost less than that to buy the guttering way back in 1963. You gotta love em  ;D

Title: Re: Had one today.
Post by: Michael Peterson on January 08, 2020, 06:26:05 pm

you gotta fix that join man ,  be kind :-)

Title: Re: Had one today.
Post by: Ooooooog on January 08, 2020, 10:54:23 pm

Cast iron then? Was plastic even conceived back then?