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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Scottish Cleaning Service on March 28, 2025, 01:46:21 pm

Title: Stubborn Payers
Post by: Scottish Cleaning Service on March 28, 2025, 01:46:21 pm
This is an interesting story regarding one of my rich customer's. Each month I did the windows and got a constant, not you again I have just paid you. I knew them well and didn't want to drop them as I cleaned most of the street and it was only £8 a month. In the end they dropped me and the grass cutter guy which I was glad about, because I knew something was not right.

In the end they had to sell their home and move in with one's elderly parents. Later on I found out the lady had a habit of buying stuff and they had to sell the home to pay off here debt. Young girl has the house now and I'm back cleaning the windows.

What I'm getting at, customers believe we need their custom, they don't realise we have many customers but tend to hold on to them if we clean the whole street.
Title: Re: Stubborn Payers
Post by: CleanClear on March 28, 2025, 02:09:45 pm
Michael , do you smoke weed at all ?
Title: Re: Stubborn Payers
Post by: Simon Trapani on March 28, 2025, 04:23:23 pm
8 quid?😳
Title: Re: Stubborn Payers
Post by: SB Cleaning on March 28, 2025, 05:30:57 pm
8 quid?😳
Rich customer in a 8 quidder  ;D
Title: Re: Stubborn Payers
Post by: Bungle on March 28, 2025, 09:38:56 pm
01:46PM and Michael is sat in his van having  a sarnie thinking of what he can wind the forum up with, he comes up with a rich customer who he charges £8 😂

Before anyone reports me AGAIN, this bloke brings it upon himself!
Title: Re: Stubborn Payers
Post by: KS Cleaning on March 28, 2025, 11:22:45 pm
This is an interesting story regarding one of my rich customer's. Each month I did the windows and got a constant, not you again I have just paid you. I knew them well and didn't want to drop them as I cleaned most of the street and it was only £8 a month. In the end they dropped me and the grass cutter guy which I was glad about, because I knew something was not right.

In the end they had to sell their home and move in with one's elderly parents. Later on I found out the lady had a habit of buying stuff and they had to sell the home to pay off here debt. Young girl has the house now and I'm back cleaning the windows.

What I'm getting at, customers believe we need their custom, they don't realise we have many customers but tend to hold on to them if we clean the whole street.
Enthralling!
Title: Re: Stubborn Payers
Post by: Don Kee on March 29, 2025, 06:18:11 am

In the end they had to sell their home and move in with one's elderly parents.


They moved in with your parents? You’re a good guy!
Title: Re: Stubborn Payers
Post by: Jay Le Huray on March 29, 2025, 07:28:19 am
you must be doing well if you are only charging £8 for a house that belongs to a rich customer
Title: Re: Stubborn Payers
Post by: NBwcs on March 29, 2025, 08:45:50 am
8 quid?😳

That explains why he  loves doing odd jobs.
Title: Re: Stubborn Payers
Post by: Scottish Cleaning Service on March 29, 2025, 08:52:19 am
you must be doing well if you are only charging £8 for a house that belongs to a rich customer

Ex council homes and I'm up to £9 now. Takes me around an hour but I know all my customers so I have a chat with each of them so in less than 2 hours I trouser over a ton. We have plenty of these type of cleans up here, where folk bought and sold their council house. The lesson I have learned is we all can afford a tenner a month easily but the ones that can't usually have a habit like smoking or something else. Once they begin to moan then its better to tell them to find someone else, took me years to come to this conclusion. This is mainly for Newbies who start out and take anyone on to build a business.
Title: Re: Stubborn Payers
Post by: NBwcs on March 29, 2025, 09:27:18 am
you must be doing well if you are only charging £8 for a house that belongs to a rich customer

Ex council homes and I'm up to £9 now. Takes me around an hour but I know all my customers so I have a chat with each of them so in less than 2 hours I trouser over a ton. We have plenty of these type of cleans up here, where folk bought and sold their council house. The lesson I have learned is we all can afford a tenner a month easily but the ones that can't usually have a habit like smoking or something else. Once they begin to moan then its better to tell them to find someone else, took me years to come to this conclusion. This is mainly for Newbies who start out and take anyone on to build a business.

Can't be much of a chat... £50 an hour at £9 =just over 10 mins per house..
Title: Re: Stubborn Payers
Post by: Jay Le Huray on March 29, 2025, 01:48:54 pm
you must be doing well if you are only charging £8 for a house that belongs to a rich customer

Ex council homes and I'm up to £9 now. Takes me around an hour but I know all my customers so I have a chat with each of them so in less than 2 hours I trouser over a ton. We have plenty of these type of cleans up here, where folk bought and sold their council house. The lesson I have learned is we all can afford a tenner a month easily but the ones that can't usually have a habit like smoking or something else. Once they begin to moan then its better to tell them to find someone else, took me years to come to this conclusion. This is mainly for Newbies who start out and take anyone on to build a business.

that don't make sense, takes 1 hour to do a £9 house but you make £100 per hour???
 my maths says that's £9 per hour
Title: Re: Stubborn Payers
Post by: Scottish Cleaning Service on March 29, 2025, 02:20:35 pm
you must be doing well if you are only charging £8 for a house that belongs to a rich customer

Ex council homes and I'm up to £9 now. Takes me around an hour but I know all my customers so I have a chat with each of them so in less than 2 hours I trouser over a ton. We have plenty of these type of cleans up here, where folk bought and sold their council house. The lesson I have learned is we all can afford a tenner a month easily but the ones that can't usually have a habit like smoking or something else. Once they begin to moan then its better to tell them to find someone else, took me years to come to this conclusion. This is mainly for Newbies who start out and take anyone on to build a business.

that don't make sense, takes 1 hour to do a £9 house but you make £100 per hour???
 my maths says that's £9 per hour

Should have clarified the term house. I call them houses but they are 4 flats in one building so I make £36 if I clean the whole building. They are built next to each other so you can clean 8 flats going up one path. Don't need to move the van and you can clean them fast if you don't talk to the customers. I'm going to a tenner minimum per clean in the future so it's nice and simple and don't need to hand out any change bar notes.

Only reason I can clean them fast is because I have the van system which is the best thing I have ever invested in.
Title: Re: Stubborn Payers
Post by: AuRavelling79 on March 29, 2025, 03:31:32 pm
Educate me Michael.

I don't understand how a rich customer who lives in an ex-council flat can't afford £8 a clean and then has to move in with elderly parents.
Title: Re: Stubborn Payers
Post by: deeege on March 29, 2025, 03:43:35 pm
‘Rich’ and ‘ex council’ don’t belong in the same sentence.
Title: Re: Stubborn Payers
Post by: Don Kee on March 29, 2025, 06:17:55 pm
Educate me Michael.

I don't understand how a rich customer who lives in an ex-council flat can't afford £8 a clean and then has to move in with elderly parents.


Why…?

Why have you engaged….? ;D
Title: Re: Stubborn Payers
Post by: KS Cleaning on March 29, 2025, 06:22:42 pm
You’re tying yourself in more knots than Houdini Michael!
Title: Re: Stubborn Payers
Post by: bravo20 on March 29, 2025, 07:34:30 pm
‘Rich’ and ‘ex council’ don’t belong in the same sentence.
Think he's cleaning Dazmond's windows 😁
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Post by: dazmond on March 29, 2025, 08:47:01 pm
‘Rich’ and ‘ex council’ don’t belong in the same sentence.
Think he's cleaning Dazmond's windows 😁

I live in a large 4 bed house in Cheshire now mate!🙂👍
Title: Re: Stubborn Payers
Post by: Bungle on March 29, 2025, 09:23:41 pm
‘Rich’ and ‘ex council’ don’t belong in the same sentence.
Think he's cleaning Dazmond's windows 😁

I'm lodging in a large 4 bed house in Cheshire now mate!🙂👍

Fixed 😜
Title: Re: Stubborn Payers
Post by: deeege on March 29, 2025, 11:20:09 pm
‘Rich’ and ‘ex council’ don’t belong in the same sentence.
Think he's cleaning Dazmond's windows 😁

I live in ‘my girlfriends’ large 4 bed house in Cheshire now mate!🙂👍
Title: Re: Stubborn Payers
Post by: Slacky on March 30, 2025, 07:19:44 am
‘Rich’ and ‘ex council’ don’t belong in the same sentence.
Think he's cleaning Dazmond's windows 😁

I live in a large 4 bed house in Cheshire now mate!🙂👍

What’s the size of it got to do with anything?
Title: Re: Stubborn Payers
Post by: dazmond on March 30, 2025, 09:39:35 am
‘Rich’ and ‘ex council’ don’t belong in the same sentence.
Think he's cleaning Dazmond's windows 😁

I'm lodging in a large 4 bed house in Cheshire now mate!🙂👍

Fixed 😜

We're getting married soon so the house will be mine too...I'm also paying half the mortgage until it's paid off(only 3 years to go)🙂👍
Title: Re: Stubborn Payers
Post by: dazmond on March 30, 2025, 09:57:10 am
‘Rich’ and ‘ex council’ don’t belong in the same sentence.
Think he's cleaning Dazmond's windows 😁

I live in a large 4 bed house in Cheshire now mate!🙂👍

What’s the size of it got to do with anything?

Because it's fantastic to have all this space! A dedicated drum studio room,utility room with dryer(never used a dryer before),large bedroom with office desk,downstairs toilet,driveway with outside tap and shed. I'm living the dream!😂👍

It's a new phase of life for the both of us....its also nice to have a large kitchen to cook in(I do ALL the cooking!love it!)😛😘
Title: Re: Stubborn Payers
Post by: Slacky on April 01, 2025, 05:55:46 pm
Make sure you don’t drip on the bathroom floor.
Title: Re: Stubborn Payers
Post by: The Jester of Wibbly on April 05, 2025, 11:05:33 am
Just throw bird seed at the property that hasn't paid. 

😂😂😂