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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: www.mrgutters.co.uk on October 30, 2006, 09:48:31 pm

Title: right place right time
Post by: www.mrgutters.co.uk on October 30, 2006, 09:48:31 pm
hi all

had the best thing happen to me today was out doing a price for a job when te old boy comes waling down the path saying are you the window cleaner ...

me : yeah

him : i do all these blocks of flts all twelve of them .. and have been doing some of them for 40 yrs

me: ok (me thinking wheres this going he doesnt own them ..getting ammo together )

he says i retired on friday do you want all these blocks cleaned every 4 weeks ....


WWWWWOOOOWWWWW!!!!!!

so now i am in the process oof getting them off him i offered him money he wants none of it he said we all start somewhere and this is my chance ...


yippppeeee

shawn ;D ;D

Title: Re: right place right time
Post by: s.hughes on October 30, 2006, 09:58:40 pm
Are his prices 40 years old?
Title: Re: right place right time
Post by: www.mrgutters.co.uk on October 30, 2006, 10:11:34 pm
some are lower than i would charge but i have put them up and have gotten two of them this evening for definate waiting back from 10 but only rang tonight with prices he took.

one is 360.00
6 are 135.00
4 are 80.00
one is 152.00

all in all they took him with ladders one week i have had a look and they will take me 2 1/2 days for all
thats ok money wise for me

shawn
Title: Re: right place right time
Post by: AuRavelling79 on October 31, 2006, 05:42:08 pm
Not bad eh? Go on buy him a decent bottle, you know you want to! (And he might put other stuff your way too!)
Title: Re: right place right time
Post by: windows_chepstow on October 31, 2006, 05:46:31 pm
I'd clean this retiring window cleaners house for free, quarterly, for ever; he sounds like a decent chap.

Oh, as long as he doesn't live in a mansion.
Title: Re: right place right time
Post by: www.mrgutters.co.uk on October 31, 2006, 05:53:09 pm
hi all

bought him £100 m&s vouchers today going to take them to him weekend

plus picked up a nice £85 house today every 5 weeks

shawn