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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: zesty on July 21, 2023, 07:06:53 am
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‘Essex is the driest county in England. Some areas are so dry that they are officially classed as being semi-arid, which is the climate classification given to an area that received less that 50 cm of rain a year.’
Quote from Essex weather.
St Osyth 20 mins away is the driest part of the uk.
I can count on one hand how many days a year it rains all day.
How do you lot in wales or the north west cope with this job?
My dad moved to Herefordshire many years ago, although beautiful, he and his wife could not believe how much and how often it rained.
Some of you are nut jobs being window cleaners in the west 😁
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‘Essex is the driest county in England. Some areas are so dry that they are officially classed as being semi-arid, which is the climate classification given to an area that received less that 50 cm of rain a year.’
Quote from Essex weather.
St Osyth 20 mins away is the driest part of the uk.
I can count on one hand how many days a year it rains all day.
How do you lot in wales or the north west cope with this job?
My dad moved to Herefordshire many years ago, although beautiful, he and his wife could not believe how much and how often it rained.
Some of you are nut jobs being window cleaners in the west 😁
I live and work in the northwest. I can also count on one hand how often it rains here all day. It just very rarely happens.
I probably lose 2-3 days per year due to the weather and I don’t work in really heavy rain.
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Must be ok in Manc land then,
We don’t really get many showers here, all in all it’s mostly just dry day by day. Great for window cleaning.
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I live in the north west and it rains a lot! Maybe not all day but i can’t count on one hand how many days it’s rained in the last month
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yep , south wales here.... lush green grass and mountains....
and lots and lots of rain.
my parents moved here in 1968 from essex, and they couldnt believe it ::)roll
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It’s raining here as we speak ! 🌧️
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Bristol here. Not as bad as Wales but I also think that we get rain specially for us funnelling up the Bristol Channel!
The good thing is customers understand that it's gonna rain here and are easily trained in letting me clean between showers and in drizzle.
Never get hosepipe bans here either.
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3 hours working in constant rain this week.thats it apart from the odd 5 min shower too.
All work completed in 4 days mon-thurs.
3 days off now.
Have a good weekend chaps 🙂
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According to google it rains 162 days a year here.
You just have to get wet, i like working in rain id take that over 25 degree heat.....not sure how many customers agree
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we don't get much rain here in Southampton
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Just checked weather for tomorrow. It's persisting down here all day tomorrow and not a drop in Essex. Ver ver strange weather we get.
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B.C. Canada here.
Not raining either ;D
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Is that the area you’re emigrating to slacky?
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Yea. That pic is taken off the deck from the house we bought two days ago.
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Looks absolutely fantastic ;D
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Yea. That pic is taken off the deck from the house we bought two days ago.
Looks beautiful
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Thanks. You’re right, it is.
I’m very lucky! Very very lucky.
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Thanks. You’re right, it is.
I’m very lucky! Very very lucky.
What hobbies will you be taking up in Canada Slacky?
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Well I’ve always done DIY on places I’ve lived. This new place will need lots of time dedicated to that. Inside and outside. The garden is serviceable but needs lots of love and attention.
I already do as much astrophotography as I can, this new place has a huge sky, we’re pretty high up here so no trees in the way. Less light pollution will also help. An hours drive from here there is almost perfect skies for night time viewing.
Probably take up some water sports, swimming no doubt. Wildlife photography maybe, saw a group of three otters the other nights and there was a fawn and her young one in the front garden last night, so looking forward to that. All the wildlife.
Deck meditation sounds like something I could start 😀 So far 21:00 at night is the best time of day. I’m going to set up a camera where I take the exact same shot at the same time of day and over the period of a year compile them in to a video, to see the changing weather, seasons and activity.
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What are you doing work wise?
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Thats doesnt look a cheap place to buy a home, i need to clean more windows ;D
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What are you doing work wise?
Pressure washing will be the main-stay of my work I hope. I’ll probably do a few bits and pieces of just about anything, I’m good when it comes to manual work and DIY work.
I plan to buy an open bed truck, probably a decent second hand one, spend maybe 15K on it. There gazillions of them around, no need to pass your driving test over here, they accept UK licenses on a reciprocal agreement basis. Driving on the right is ‘interesting’, they are much more geared over here to giving pedestrians the right of way. Some very strange rules of the road, like at a junction with a red light you can still proceed if you want to turn right, no need to respect the red light. Very confusing.
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Thats doesnt look a cheap place to buy a home, i need to clean more windows ;D
We paid C$1.1M for that place. We’re about a 40 minute ferry ride from Vancouver. If the same property were bought in Vancouver it would be closer to C$3M. ‘Cheap’ by comparison - but Vancouver is off the scale when it comes to house prices.
If you’re looking for a career over here Real Estate is a good payer. The girl who sold Laura’s house got C€20K for the one sale. 5 of them a year and you’d be earning two and a half time what Dazmond earns and you’d have your own pool with baked beans for breakfast, dinner and tea…
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Most window cleaners aren’t able to afford to buy a million $ house in Canada ;D
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Thats doesnt look a cheap place to buy a home, i need to clean more windows ;D
We paid C$1.1M for that place. We’re about a 40 minute ferry ride from Vancouver. If the same property were bought in Vancouver it would be closer to C$3M. ‘Cheap’ by comparison - but Vancouver is off the scale when it comes to house prices.
If you’re looking for a career over here Real Estate is a good payer. The girl who sold Laura’s house got C€20K for the one sale. 5 of them a year and you’d be earning two and a half time what Dazmond earns and you’d have your own pool with baked beans for breakfast, dinner and tea…
That looks awesome!
Some friends of mine moved to Terrace, BC - about 15 hours North of Vancouver. Loved it and they now split their time between BC & France, The husband works for Disney.
Beautiful place - Enjoy!
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Slacky- How about clearing snow for the local council during the winter, private work removing snow from roofs and paths for safety reasons where the weight could cause collapse, gutter debris removal after the Fall? pool tennis court cleaning in the spring? render cleaning & windies during the summer? could use your Britishness as a marketing tool and have a great big union jack on your web site , maybe you could be an agent for Gardiner Pole Systems and earn commission on sales :) definitely give your portfolio & business card to that estate agent, she could keep you flat out cleaning top end properties to enhance sales all year round.
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A fawn is a young deer, isn't it? ???
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A fawn is a young deer, isn't it? ???
Doe a deer, a female deer??????
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It’s a long long way to go.
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A fawn is a young deer, isn't it? ???
Doe a deer, a female deer??????
And I thought sow was a female pig, not a needle pulling thread ???.
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Most window cleaners aren’t able to afford to buy a million $ house in Canada ;D
I know. I’ve been very lucky.
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It would be a great adventure building a business abroad., id love that challenge.
Your doing something that 99% of people who dream about it will never achieve.
Very well done looks amazing.
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It would be a great adventure building a business abroad., id love that challenge.
Your doing something that 99% of people who dream about it will never achieve.
Very well done looks amazing.
Back to the UK Tuesday, need to work there still. My immigration application is a slow and laborious process. Once that’s completed I’ll be selling all I have and ploughing my share in to the house in BC and something new to call work.
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It's our 5 year plan to join our lad in James Bay on the Island. You can't beat BC for beauty and opportunity (and eye-watering property prices).
I'm interested to see how you get on in your new ventures, especially the emigration side, given that by 2028 I'll hopefully over there too.
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It's our 5 year plan to join our lad in James Bay on the Island. You can't beat BC for beauty and opportunity (and eye-watering property prices).
I'm interested to see how you get on in your new ventures, especially the emigration side, given that by 2028 I'll hopefully over there too.
I’ll update as things progress. There probably won’t be much to report in a work sense for close to a year, but the immigration will proceed faster than that hopefully.
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It's our 5 year plan to join our lad in James Bay on the Island. You can't beat BC for beauty and opportunity (and eye-watering property prices).
I'm interested to see how you get on in your new ventures, especially the emigration side, given that by 2028 I'll hopefully over there too.
Regards the immigration process. For me it’s been about making my application down the ‘spousal sponsorship’ route. I don’t know what your situation is nor what route you’d take to apply for immigration, but for me it has been a simple but protracted process of proving various things.
Primarily the Canadian immigration authorities need to know my marriage to my wife is a legitimate, loving marriage and not one of convenience or for financial reasons. They want to know about our wedding, who attended, how long we’ve known each other, proof of the longevity and legitimacy of our marriage (letters from friends and family) attesting to this, photos to prove this, communication between the two of us, as well as proof of shared living and travel expenses, joint bank and utilities accounts.
They want police criminal record checks for myself from all the countries I’ve lived in for more than 6 months since the age of 18, including the UK. There’s a fairly detailed questionnaire to fill in regards myself, my professional life and all sorts of private info, including ‘have you ever been the member of a terrorist organisation’.
I’m expected to disclose all details of all marriages/civil partnerships I’ve been in, why they ended, what happened to the ex partner, where they live, their contact details and if dead what happened to them.
They want to know my family background and contact details for all living blood relatives, what they do work wise, their family situation, and equally intrusive questions for all of them as for myself.
It’s a laborious and protracted process.
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I’m sure you’ll get there.
What a stunning, amazing country, except of course the terrible lefty Justin Trudeau.
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All them questions
Whilst over here they just come in a container ship and get given a home and benefits.....
To be fair actually my girlfriends family are foreign and none of them managed to get a visa to visit us here. Loads of questions and hoops to jump through just as described above.
But like anything if you do things by the book you are penalised.
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All them questions
Whilst over here they just come in a container ship and get given a home and benefits.....
To be fair actually my girlfriends family are foreign and none of them managed to get a visa to visit us here. Loads of questions and hoops to jump thought just as described above.
But like anything if you do things by the book you are penalised.
Hotel 15 mins from me, full of young men, it’s like a sea of 20-30 year men. Not good.
This country is broken beyond repair.
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Well done Slacky!
Good on you.
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All them questions
Whilst over here they just come in a container ship and get given a home and benefits.....
To be fair actually my girlfriends family are foreign and none of them managed to get a visa to visit us here. Loads of questions and hoops to jump thought just as described above.
But like anything if you do things by the book you are penalised.
Hotel 15 mins from me, full of young men, it’s like a sea of 20-30 year men. Not good.
This country is broken beyond repair.
I was surprised by the intensity of the questioning and have reflected on the level of scrutiny immigrants are subjected to on arrival in the UK. My conclusion is the UK is a welcoming country contrary to what many people try to imply. Canada has always been thought of as an open, welcoming and liberal society but they have far stricter entry requirements than does the UK. We should learn from them and learn to stand up for ourselves when defending our right to restrict who comes and goes in the UK. There’s nothing wrong in that.
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Well done Slacky!
Good on you.
Cheers mucka!
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All them questions
Whilst over here they just come in a container ship and get given a home and benefits.....
To be fair actually my girlfriends family are foreign and none of them managed to get a visa to visit us here. Loads of questions and hoops to jump thought just as described above.
But like anything if you do things by the book you are penalised.
Hotel 15 mins from me, full of young men, it’s like a sea of 20-30 year men. Not good.
This country is broken beyond repair.
I was surprised by the intensity of the questioning and have reflected on the level of scrutiny immigrants are subjected to on arrival in the UK. My conclusion is the UK is a welcoming country contrary to what many people try to imply. Canada has always been thought of as an open, welcoming and liberal society but they have far stricter entry requirements than does the UK. We should learn from them and learn to stand up for ourselves when defending our right to restrict who comes and goes in the UK. There’s nothing wrong in that.
It's too late for the UK.we are absolutely overrun with immigrants.no wonder there's a massive housing shortage
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This is the thing. It’s not too late and also you make out by saying it in this manner that the UK is the only country dealing with unwelcome immigrants and other countries don’t have this problem . We’re not the only ones and it’s not too late. But we have to not be afraid to stand up for ourselves and tighten our entry rules.
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This is the thing. It’s not too late and also you make out by saying it in this manner that the UK is the only country dealing with unwelcome immigrants and other countries don’t have this problem . We’re not the only ones and it’s not too late. But we have to not be afraid to stand up for ourselves and tighten our entry rules.
Just in my little town alone there's thousands of new immigrants living here in just the last year or so.nearly all my neighbours are foreigners now,some can't even speak any English yet.theyve built a mosque on the corner of my road too now.
When I was a kid there was only one black african guy living in the whole town.fantastic fellow and always very smartly dressed.now it's full of Asians,chinese,Africans,polish,kurdish,Portuguese,iraqis,Turkish,etc.im not racist one bit but its the sheer numbers of them that I'm concerned about.its the same where my girlfriend lives 7 miles away too. ::)roll
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There’s always been foreigners in every country of the world, look back in history to how multi cultural London was 500 years ago, it was more so then than it is nowadays.
Trading ships, obscure languages being spoken on every corner, strange weird and wonderful people from all corners of the globe. Perhaps the foreigners you refer to come here for the baked beans and swimming pools. ‘Luxurious’ hotels ‘an all….
The irony is the British nation has moved in to many countries and taken their natural resources and people in pursuit of lining our own pockets with the worlds wealth. Odd (some would say hypocritical) innit.
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This is the thing. It’s not too late and also you make out by saying it in this manner that the UK is the only country dealing with unwelcome immigrants and other countries don’t have this problem . We’re not the only ones and it’s not too late. But we have to not be afraid to stand up for ourselves and tighten our entry rules.
Just in my little town alone there's thousands of new immigrants living here in just the last year or so.nearly all my neighbours are foreigners now,some can't even speak any English yet.theyve built a mosque on the corner of my road too now.
When I was a kid there was only one black african guy living in the whole town.fantastic fellow and always very smartly dressed.now it's full of Asians,chinese,Africans,polish,kurdish,Portuguese,iraqis,Turkish,etc.im not racist one bit but its the sheer numbers of them that I'm concerned about.its the same where my girlfriend lives 7 miles away too. ::)roll
And we've still got a national labour shortage
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Lots of poles on here.
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Back on topic.i love days like today when I miss the rain.just packed up after my last job at around 3pm and the heavens opened and its still raining hard here 3 and a half hours later!😄
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Since 21st July it’s actually rained here in the northwest 12 days out of the last 13