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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Colin_Glenn on April 16, 2007, 05:19:41 pm

Title: Arrrrrrgggghhh!!! number 2
Post by: Colin_Glenn on April 16, 2007, 05:19:41 pm
Today I was cleaning windows with my trusty WFP, but she wasn't so trusty! A customer started chatting to me so I unplugged the brush thinking the varistream would turn off the water for me. This it did, but the hose popped off the reel which was outside the back gate so I didn't notice.

The old dear kept me chatting for half an hour as I had a drink then when I got back to the van I noticed that half of my water had gone down the drain. So I ended up finishing at 4pm when the water comletely ran out.

MUITO frustrante!!!

Colin
Title: Re: Arrrrrrgggghhh!!! number 2
Post by: NWH on April 16, 2007, 05:20:56 pm
Buy 100mtrs of microbore.
Title: Re: Arrrrrrgggghhh!!! number 2
Post by: Colin_Glenn on April 16, 2007, 05:28:07 pm
I have microbore, 100 meters, the problem is that the hose connecting the pump to the microbore reel popped off the reel.  :(
Title: Re: Arrrrrrgggghhh!!! number 2
Post by: SherwoodCleaningSe on April 16, 2007, 05:47:04 pm
4pm isn't that a bad time, I try not to work beyond 3pm myself.  Those old dears can be dangerous though can't they, a cup of tea, a half hour chat and before you know it they've suck your brains out.

Know how it feels though to have wasted water on the drain, very frustrating.
Title: Re: Arrrrrrgggghhh!!! number 2
Post by: AuRavelling79 on April 16, 2007, 06:01:11 pm
4pm isn't that a bad time, I try not to work beyond 3pm myself.  Those old dears can be dangerous though can't they, a cup of tea, a half hour chat and before you know it they've suck your brains out.

Know how it feels though to have wasted water on the drain, very frustrating.

Not many Uncle! - Yak, Yak Yak!

Today I was thinking do another house before I go home when custy says "Cuppa?" - Nice thinks me - a bit of sugar rush to keep me going another half hour or so.

Ten mins later "Come and sit in the conservatory, I've laid on some biccies for you."

Aaaaagh! I can't appear ungrateful and so pay for this kindness by not doing that last house!

What a grumpy old git I am! ;D
Title: Re: Arrrrrrgggghhh!!! number 2
Post by: Pureandclean on April 16, 2007, 08:21:54 pm
Put a stop end on the hose from the van to the hose reel, if it pops off again, you won't lose any water.
Title: Re: Arrrrrrgggghhh!!! number 2
Post by: matt on April 16, 2007, 08:26:12 pm
well i lost 30.50 of work today

2 deaths

1 in a OAP home

1 moving to spain tommorow

i can take a house or 2 leaving me, but 30 quid, i had to go and claw some back, i knocked on 2 doors next to houses i do

picked up the first for 9 quid then the 2nd for 18 quid

then my pole wouldnt open, so i packed up and came home

made me laugh in the end
Title: Re: Arrrrrrgggghhh!!! number 2
Post by: Sir Squeaky on April 16, 2007, 08:37:31 pm
well i lost 30.50 of work today

2 deaths

1 in a OAP home

1 moving to spain tommorow
What, one of the dead ones is off to Spain? ;D
Title: Re: Arrrrrrgggghhh!!! number 2
Post by: Steve_Richardson on April 17, 2007, 02:52:45 pm
turned up on a house today and the muppet husband said "not this time, the windows are clean......" Grrrr, usual story, wife desperate fir a regular WC'er, husband an idiot who thinks it's a waste of money.

Tried all the usual chat to convince him it's worth it blah blah but lost my rag in the end as he was a complete numpty.

Oh well, next house was a lovely customer with a nice cold drink. His loss...and now he's got to tell his wife how he lost their excellent window cleaner  :P
Title: Re: Arrrrrrgggghhh!!! number 2
Post by: JM123 on April 17, 2007, 04:25:43 pm

His loss...and now he's got to tell his wife how he lost their excellent window cleaner  :P

A mate of mine lost a customer a few weeks back - customer thought he was too expensive (£5 for a 3 bed semi), so I canvassed the same house about 2/3 days later, she asked me how much - I quoted £8 just for a laugh, you want to have seen the look on her face! She couldn't march me away from the house quick enough, muttering something about trying to rob people etc etc

Priceless!!