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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Bungle on February 17, 2026, 04:31:54 pm

Title: Where Does The Time Go?
Post by: Bungle on February 17, 2026, 04:31:54 pm
I'm sat here inputting the work I've done today. On the screen it tells me when I first started cleaning the windows at each job. I've been gobsmacked by the amount of years I've been cleaning some of them. I genuinely thought I'd been cleaning some of them for 5 years or so, but they're like 10 years plus.

It's scary. Where has the time gone?
Title: Re: Where Does The Time Go?
Post by: AuRavelling79 on February 17, 2026, 05:39:28 pm
The customer I have cleaned for the longest time is a commercial one.

I've cleaned it monthly since 1999.
Title: Re: Where Does The Time Go?
Post by: The Jester of Wibbly on February 17, 2026, 05:52:20 pm
It's even stranger when you suddenly realise those customers who had babies when you started cleaning are now adults.
Title: Re: Where Does The Time Go?
Post by: Splash and dash on February 17, 2026, 06:32:39 pm
It's even stranger when you suddenly realise those customers who had babies when you started cleaning are now adults.


I have customers that when I started doing there windows didn’t have kids ,  now  they have grown up kids that have left home and we do there Windows as well 😂 makes you feel old
Title: Re: Where Does The Time Go?
Post by: dd on February 17, 2026, 06:36:00 pm
I started in 1988, I still have a few original customers (from the first year or so of trading), although I still clean quite a few of the original houses, just for new people.

When I started aged 23, all my customers were older than me. Now at 61, I am older than a lot of my customers.
Title: Re: Where Does The Time Go?
Post by: Simon Trapani on February 17, 2026, 07:43:24 pm
I’ve still got some of my original customers. 34 years this year!
Title: Re: Where Does The Time Go?
Post by: Slacky on February 17, 2026, 09:46:35 pm
The longest I’ve been cleaning one of my customers is a year  ;D  ;D  ;D