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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: AuRavelling79 on April 17, 2007, 06:04:18 pm

Title: How has this forum helped you?
Post by: AuRavelling79 on April 17, 2007, 06:04:18 pm: Please help us to see what are the most valuable things we can do to improve our window cleaning rounds.

Vote for all that apply to you personally.

Thanks.
Title: Re: How has this forum helped you?
Post by: pylofm on April 17, 2007, 06:07:18 pm: I find those little questions can be thrown in and asked, also the feeling of not being alone is a comfort....

Cheers
Dave.
Title: Re: How has this forum helped you?
Post by: Paul Coleman on April 17, 2007, 06:35:24 pm: I voted for the first and last two. On the last one I will say that reading of other people's experiences has helped to give me the confidence to be straight with customers - even if it's something they don't want to hear.
Title: Re: How has this forum helped you?
Post by: brett walker on April 17, 2007, 06:40:23 pm: wfp 8) all the way 8)

brett
Title: Re: How has this forum helped you?
Post by: Cleaner Windows on April 17, 2007, 06:43:40 pm: its helped me with pricing and pruning poor work, but has also helped me improve my wc'ing techniques and counless other things too, even though i dont get to come on here that much its good to bounce questions and ideas off ppl and then take the info that i agree with and use it to my advantage.

tis a quality forum ;)
Title: Re: How has this forum helped you?
Post by: jeff1 on April 17, 2007, 06:49:36 pm: Top and bottom one for me.

Changing over to wfp from being a long time Trad, can not only be daunting but a nightmare and a mine field.

Making the final decision to change to wfp, were to buy your equipment can only be made by the Individual, but with lots of help and advice from the guy's on the forum, you can collate all the information you collect and its then upto you to make the decision.

The bottom poll is on going for the majority of us, this always consists of problem solving and problem sharing.
Title: Re: How has this forum helped you?
Post by: Tosh on April 17, 2007, 06:52:15 pm: I voted 'other'.

For me this forum proved the support I needed, particularly when I first started and was struggling to build up enough work to pay the bills. I guess there were numerous occasions during my first two years where I nearly jacked it all in because I found it such a 'crap job'.

It's cathartic to have a whinge now-and-again, and also good to hear other people moaning about stuff that you think is only happening to yourself!
Title: Re: How has this forum helped you?
Post by: Majestic on April 17, 2007, 06:54:31 pm: I have ticked all boxes as it has helped me with all of them. But I do like to read how much people say they earn ;D
Title: Re: How has this forum helped you?
Post by: Davew on April 17, 2007, 06:58:54 pm: It's a mine of information for me. As I'm a sole trader the only other way to get advice would be through a fellow windowcleaner. I doubt if I could have got going without this forum. Then there are some suppliers like Gardiner Poles who not only provide an outstanding service but chip in with lots of (almost unbiased advice). Then you have the likes of Jeff Brimble who experiment at the lower end of the scale and happily share their results with everyone- this forum benefits everybody. :)
Title: Re: How has this forum helped you?
Post by: Alex Gardiner on April 17, 2007, 08:03:09 pm: How dare you say our advice is 'almost unbiased' - we always strive to be completely and utterly biased ;)
Title: Re: How has this forum helped you?
Post by: Davew on April 17, 2007, 08:24:09 pm: Quote from: Alex Gardiner on April 17, 2007, 08:03:09 pm
How dare you say our advice is 'almost unbiased' - we always strive to be completely and utterly biased ;)
Yes, there has been a lot of buyus this and buyus that going on in my house and a lot of it has been going to Cornwall! ;)
Title: Re: How has this forum helped you?
Post by: Sir Squeaky on April 17, 2007, 08:54:09 pm: I voted WFP, but time will tell if I'm right...
Title: Re: How has this forum helped you?
Post by: JohnL on April 17, 2007, 10:00:05 pm: :)

Oh and to get to the point of the thread I voted other as well as WFP because of the vast amount of knowledge and info gleaned from this and other forums.

The :) was for Rogers reply :)
Title: Re: How has this forum helped you?
Post by: Clive McDonald on April 18, 2007, 10:08:14 pm: I'm like most people in that I don't like new ideas and I don't like change. When I see other peoples problems laid out(like squeaks) it's so obvious what they need to do- Be more accepting of new ideas, be more flexible and adaptive in their approach, take notice of the strategies of more intelligent people like myself etc...
Then I think, hang on you're telling him, get your finger out your back00de and start taking your own advice.
So the best thing for me is you get to tell other people what to do( even if you don't post you think it) and then a little voice saying, if you're so clever you do it! Which is good because that's when I start making money..
Title: Re: How has this forum helped you?
Post by: marc on April 19, 2007, 09:03:03 am: wfp and this forum for me i dont need to buy a paper any more i spend so much time reading your posts marc
Title: Re: How has this forum helped you?
Post by: Lizzy on April 19, 2007, 05:16:36 pm: I voted OTHER cos

This place has confirmed I'm not the only nutter in the UK. ;D
Title: Re: How has this forum helped you?
Post by: AuRavelling79 on April 19, 2007, 05:31:54 pm: Quote from: Lizzy on April 19, 2007, 05:16:36 pm
I voted OTHER cos

This place has confirmed I'm not the only nutter in the UK. ;D

No - there's me and Tosh too! ;D

Seriously though - you folk on this forum have given me so much more confidence from the advice/experience on offer.