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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Davew on September 19, 2007, 07:38:36 pm

Title: wfp speed
Post by: Davew on September 19, 2007, 07:38:36 pm
Had a retirement block to do this week. Whilst I was cleaning inside the communial areas I got chatting to a resident - "you coming back to do the outsides tomorrow?" "no" I said "i'll be doing them in a couple of hours" "well the last cleaner used to take three days". Strange that 'cos I was finished by half two in the afternoon!
Title: Re: wfp speed
Post by: Feen on September 19, 2007, 07:48:09 pm
I'm starting to be aware of this. People think we're working too quick and so we're either a) not doing a good job or b) we're charging too much. I think lots of people are happier to see me us go up and down a ladder and take 20 minutes than wfp the place in 10. They think they're getting better value for money. I definitely now take my time a bit, pack up, generally fart about doing things i would need to do, before going to get paid, if they are in. If not, it's full steam ahead :) Either way they get the same result - clean windows. If I have a row of say 4 houses, I do all the upstairs and then all the down. That way I'm "around" for longer ;)
Title: Re: wfp speed
Post by: Captain Scarlet on September 19, 2007, 07:48:40 pm
I was quoting a huge hotel 100 massive windows ( 4 times bigger than a standard house windows ). The owner used to have a trad cleaner doing it, he took 4 days on his won. Some wfp guys do it now and it takes 3 of them 2-3 hours!!!!!
Title: Re: wfp speed
Post by: NWH on September 19, 2007, 07:53:00 pm
He must have been slow even though he was trad,that job must have been quiet high by that i mean he must have been having to lean out and do the outsides from the insides for it to have taken him that long,must be a big job.
Title: Re: wfp speed
Post by: Captain Scarlet on September 19, 2007, 07:55:01 pm
the job is massive, he did it all outside because the windows are huge. Queen Victoria stayed their once! We didnt get the job though  :(
Title: Re: wfp speed
Post by: NWH on September 19, 2007, 07:55:55 pm
Why was that then.
Title: Re: wfp speed
Post by: dai on September 19, 2007, 09:24:52 pm
If someone thinks your doing then too quick, tell them that yes it's much quicker, but have they seen the price of DI water in Halfords
Title: Re: wfp speed
Post by: NWH on September 19, 2007, 09:26:13 pm
LOL,i thought that the other day.
Title: Re: wfp speed
Post by: Davew on September 19, 2007, 09:31:05 pm
I'm seriously thinking of selling it to customers as an add on it would be so easy to fill their container for the ironing.
Title: Re: wfp speed
Post by: craig jwc on September 19, 2007, 11:23:01 pm
Last time someone told me it was done quick i told them that it was a tool to help me do my work which made it safer, quicker with a better result.

I asked them if they moaned when they took their car to the garage to get new tyres fitted when they used an air ratchet to undo the wheel nuts instead of a wheel brace.

They went away thinking about it them ;D
Title: Re: wfp speed
Post by: windowwashers on September 20, 2007, 12:16:19 am
Last time someone told me it was done quick i told them that it was a tool to help me do my work which made it safer, quicker with a better result.

I asked them if they moaned when they took their car to the garage to get new tyres fitted when they used an air ratchet to undo the wheel nuts instead of a wheel brace.

They went away thinking about it them ;D
quicker and safer and they get frames cleaned at the same time.

If someone thinks your doing then too quick, tell them that yes it's much quicker, but have they seen the price of DI water in Halfords
Dai that is a Fantastic reply m8 I will use that myself cheers  ;D
Title: Re: wfp speed
Post by: Paul Coleman on September 20, 2007, 09:09:00 am
When someone remarks that I have done the job quickly I just say "Yes.  I'm getting pretty good at this".
Title: Re: wfp speed
Post by: colley614 on September 20, 2007, 12:27:13 pm

I told a customer the other day. I've just used about £50 worth of di water on your windows. They couldn't understand how I can do it for less than the water is worth! So I explained that my garage looks like something you would find beneath a swimming pool. They think I'm the bee's knee's of w/cing now!  8)