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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: choice.clean on July 04, 2007, 05:45:42 am
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i would like to be able to hear some music while working have looked at various things was taken with ipod shuffle what do any of you use. my ideal would be listening to radio 4 has anyone got a setup they would recommend. any thoughts welcome
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Take a small radio that can go on a belt, That way you can listen to music and still here whats going on. ;)
Thanks Cat9921
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I use my ipod and only have one ear piece in so I can still hear whats going on around me
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I have my ipod plugged in all day long. My customers know this and just tap me on the shoulder (always makes me jump) or they wave at me. Always have a joke about it but never an issue. I would not be without it. I tried a portable DAB radio but they are all crap. DAB only works form a static position.
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I have a ipod, I have music, talking books, documentaries etc........would not be without it.
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just get a mobile with mp3 on em
i have a motoralla l7, it came with 64mb card which was pretty usesless so i got a 512mb card and i got rucks of songs, on me mobile, and when someone rings, it cuts the music, i press the button on the headphones talk to them, they hang up, and the music kicks back in again... ;D
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Thats strange. I'd love to be able to listen to Radio 4 whilst at work, but of course with radios the reception comes and goes, just by turning round.
Witha n ipod do you lose reception at all when you move, rotate, or do something that work make a normal radio go doo lally?
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You could try a personal digital radio :o
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with a mobile the headphones act as an aerial so the reception is very good and as lwc says you can answer the phone whilst working and then the music kicks back in when they hang up
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You could try a personal digital radio :o
No loss of sound with one of those?
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Used to use a radio on my phone, when the phone rang it would turn the radio off. Now I just use an ipod strapped to my arm and ignore the customers. :o
Simon.
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i do sometimes listen to music on my phone when im cleaning, but to be honest it can be a bit dodgy for me, i tend not to concentrate on what im doing which can be shall we say dangerous so after a few near misses, standing in buckets etc i don't really bother now ::)
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i always liked the thought of getting an ipod or somethng simular but there is always the risk of me singing at the top of my voice and shattering the windows!
Mrs scrim
xx ;D ;D ;D
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I use one of those cheapo "it looks like an ipod but costs £2 and is a radio" things from Asda.
I am always wrecking them lol but its £2 so what the hell. Reception on them is ok too. I might move up to a cheapo clips on the belt job though as I think it would be slightly less of a pain moving about.
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;Di have found customers give me funny looks when i start line dancing on there front lawns :o :o
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I would use a little radio, but you try finding one with MW.
Can't find an mp3 player with it.
Certainly not not crappy overpriced Ipods.
I want Talksport and nothing else. >:(
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I would use a little radio, but you try finding one with MW.
Can't find an mp3 player with it.
Certainly not not crappy overpriced Ipods.
I want Talksport and nothing else. >:(
You appear to have dropped your rattle
Do you want it back?
;D ;D
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Does it have Medium Wave on it?
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I just work, I think it looks un proffesional to listen to music. i think customers want to know that your attention is on the job at hand
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i think its very unpro to listen to music when working I think you should be
concentrating on the job so you don`t balls it up like some of the noobs
that USED to work for us EDD :o :o :o :o :o
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Why unprofessional...music keeps me entertained whilst performing a very mundane and very often boring task....obviously having it so loud that I would not hear someone talking to me at a normal distance would be a tad silly....but unprofessional....hardly.
Just another tool to get through the day.
Dave.
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I think it looks un proffesional to listen to music. i think customers want to know that your attention is on the job at hand
At the end of the day we are cleaning windows not performing brain surgery. If you are right by a really busy main road or street perhaps but when you are stood on someones patio squeegeeing their conservatory door wheres the problem??? ???
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I say this as I work with my wife 3 days a week so If I can listen to music instead of her then all the better.
Even when the batteries are dead I leave the head phones in.
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no sorry guys if im charging from £30 to clean someones windows i think out of respect to the custie
that i should be looking as to be doing a proper job not looking like the chave on the street lol EDD
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What if my headset that is for my phone (handsfree) and it plays music and once a call is recieved switches to phone until conversation is over then reverts back to music...?
I clean my equipment, polish my boots each day....turn up when I say and do the very best job I can....but nowadays as long as something looks the part it seems to baffle the masses...Take your former prime minister for instance... ;D
;D Dave
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Sorry to spoil it for you music lovers, but not only is it unprofessional to have music blaring either via headphone or other but also it's dangerous.
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Why Neil?...not that this thread is particulary important but would love to hear why dangerous...
Would news or Buddhist chanting change it?
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IE: the idiots who walked into me are the same gormless muppets listerning to the ipod type things
and not watching or looking where they were going :(
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And that is it....you were walked into by someone who had earphones in and that makes it dangerous....Thanks I am convinced.
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v8edd has answered it for me.
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The trick is to put the earphones in your ears and not in your eyes.
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And all Doctors are bombers?..lucky we no longer have witch hunts...
This topic is beyond belief....'keep em burning'
Dave.
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I only want to listen to talking.
On medium wave. >:(
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no sorry guys if im charging from £30 to clean someones windows i think out of respect to the custie
that i should be looking as to be doing a proper job not looking like the chave on the street lol EDD
Agree with you edd
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Got to admit im a fan of Talksport and FiveLive myself as it makes the ol brain tick.
But I do find music can do a lot for the ol motivational side of things.
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Style over substance....Exactly what difference do you think the wearing of earphones makes...
Many professions use earphones/headsets for communication both RX/TX and are able to do complex things at the same time...fly spaceships, planes, fight wars...lets also stop the listening of music in cars....get real.
Unprofessional please explain the difference between 'headphones & my phone hands free'....
Dave.
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Hi,
Try lbc 97.3
Kevin WINDOLENE.
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i agree with squeaks you cant beat a bit of talk sport always on in van dont wear my radio much now im wfp but when i was trad i never worked with out it you cant beat alan brasil with porky or beacky if im working early or john gaurnty from 10 i could go on and on but i wont
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small radio from argos,FM/mw/lw-£19.99.Keep in front pocket of trousers,thread earphone cable under shirt & kept in place by pouch belt.Switch to mono & keep just one earpiece in.Listen to Radio 2 all day,volume just high enough to hear but not too loud to drown out people talking etc.Not at all dangerous or unproffessional & been doing it 20 years-stops me going more goofy than I am already. 8)
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Anything that can help make window cleaning less boring has to be a good thing! and music is great for keeping me motivated and helps keep me going through the day. We are window cleaners at the end of the day and the customers don't give a sh*t if we are listening to music or not as long as their windows are cleaned!! ;)
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i agree with squeaks you cant beat a bit of talk sport always on in van dont wear my radio much now im wfp but when i was trad i never worked with out it you cant beat alan brasil with porky or beacky if im working early or john gaurnty from 10 i could go on and on but i wont
Gaunty's a legend.
Should be Prime Minister.
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Listening to certain types of music makes the brain more open for learning....
anyway, get your self a Creative Zen M:vision then you can listen to the radio, listen to music or watch window cleaning videos all day long! The battery lasts for 16 hours or so.
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I have a ipod, I have music, talking books, documentaries etc........would not be without it.
where do you get the talking books from pylofm??
do you use any web sites???
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Hi
To Be honest all the wires for the music would just be another burden, and would probably just get tangled up in my hose like everything else. ;D
and anyway... its rush on rush off... drive here , drive there...
aint got time for music.... now if pound notes could sing i would be listening to them all day...
So for me its ... rush but enjoy , but music would def slow me down, and i would certainly lose concentration.
Gary.
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All the wires...??? please
Talking books...commercial site is audible.co.uk and also I search the internet for podcasts and download those as well...
Loads of freebies out there....
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no sorry guys if im charging from £30 to clean someones windows i think out of respect to the custie
that i should be looking as to be doing a proper job not looking like the chave on the street lol EDD
Respect to the custie?
Whats listening to the radio got to do with respect, we're talking about listening to the radio here not abusing them or shaggin 'em.
I have yet to see a apinter and decorator that doesnt listen to the radio, does that mean all painters and decorators are disrespectful individuals?
This thread is about simple entertainment whilst perfroming what ahs already been said is a mundane job a times.
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Hi everybody , I live in Germany and listen all day to BFBS radio on my mobile, Nearly all my work is inside and out and my customers don´t have a problem with it - I only use one earpiece so I can hear what´s going on in the background , It makes a days´ work a hell of alot more enjoyable :) :)
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I learn languages. I now speak 3...English, Yiddish and Rubbish. ;D
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Has anyone lost a job due to wearing earphones?
Imagine...
Customer- "Sorry i'm finding another window cleaner"
Window Cleaner- "Why?"
Customer- "you wear earphones whilst working"
We're window cleaners for god's sake not doctors or lawyers ::)
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True story about music and doctors.
4 years ago my wife was in hospital ready to give birth to our eldest. After being told she was ready and they `started` her off 3 days later the little chap had not arrived. Suddenly she was rushed into theatre for a c-section.
I went in to watch the fun and the anaesthetist put on a CD player. Loudly. Obviously noticing my look of confusion he said the doctor finds it helps him concentrate on the job in hand.
If a doctor can manage to work with music in his ears perhaps us window cleaners can cope.
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All the wires.....
Was a joke... meaning i get tangled up anyway.... so why would i need another distraction....
Music is fine for those who want to listen to it, and can afford a steady pace, because thats what music will do... steady the ship and slow it down......
for me its about getting the job done as quickly and professsionally as possible, whilst trying to drop some leaflets in surrounding houses
Not to mention not hearing the phone ring for potential new business.
Its personal choice and when my round is full and i no longer have to worry as much i might pop some music on....
In the van!! between calls.
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Gaz you are such a rebel man ;D ;D
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love it love it.... ;D
i love music too, much rather have somoene to work with,
thats why i aint time for music just now,, i have to make up and catch up. ???
i am on a mission now,... i was ordered to make it successful pete :-X
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Your listening to the wrong music Gazza if it slows you down!! my music makes me work twice as fast!!! You need some high tempo motivating music!!!! ;D
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my Mp3 player earns me a extra 20 - 30 quid a day
if i leave it at home, by lunch time im bored of the work and my head drops and i earn less
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I used to like listening to the radio 4 plays until one day I found myself calling out an answer to a shouted question only to turn round and find no-one there. It was on the play! :-[
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I lost money since dropping my phone in a bucket of water ::), Put the phone in top pocket while music playing and it fell out when i had to wet the applicator up :'(....So now i sing ;D
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I had a couple of very talented custies who also kept me entertained some years ago.
One was an excellent pianist that I used to go to school with and the other was an elderly gent who had a terrific voice and he didn't care who heard him. He used to sing in his garden in the summer and I could hear him for an hour or so whilst I was working in the area. The pianist I couldn't hear for so long, but for a couple of houses either side I could hear him loud and clear. He was real good too. Ended up teaching in a Uni somewhere I beleive.