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Title: Whats the Strangest thing you have been asked to clean?
Post by: jeff1 on November 01, 2007, 04:14:05 pm
Today  one of my good  customers asked me to clean the Little pig? in her garden  ::) I did it as a freebie, or should I say I got the Boss to do it,  ;D but whats the strangest thing you have been asked to clean, and maybe charged for.
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Post by: m.b.s. on November 01, 2007, 04:19:59 pm
your allowed back on then jeff good for you m8
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Post by: xxmattyxx on November 01, 2007, 04:26:17 pm
Yesterday, I was doing a big place I do, (£95.00 Georgian gaff) when the owner came out she said in her hoytee toytee way 'Excuse me, have you seen theres a dead rabbit on the patio', I says 'Yess....?', she says 'How brave are you feeling?'

I says '?'  ;D

She says 'Might you need a shovel?', I says 'Yes, I would', she says' Theres one in the childrens sand-pit, a pink plastic one',

I says 'Havent you got a gardeners shovel?', she says 'I think theres one in the shed but its locked', I think to myself 'And youo havent got a key !! ?'

Anyway, I went for my lunch and came back, the rabbit was gone, I think the Halloween witch took it  ;D



Not exactly a cleaning request, but puzzling all the same, I might look like Baldrick, I was thinking all along, but theres no need to speak to me as if I really am him  ;D
Title: Re: Whats the Strangest thing you have been asked to clean?
Post by: jeff1 on November 01, 2007, 04:28:57 pm
your allowed back on then jeff good for you m8
It was Joe who got locked out not me, if I get locked out once I wouldn't come back. :o
Title: Re: Whats the Strangest thing you have been asked to clean?
Post by: jeff1 on November 01, 2007, 04:30:31 pm
Yesterday, I was doing a big place I do, (£95.00 Georgian gaff) when the owner came out she said in her hoytee toytee way 'Excuse me, have you seen theres a dead rabbit on the patio', I says 'Yess....?', she says 'How brave are you feeling?'

I says '?'  ;D

She says 'Might you need a shovel?', I says 'Yes, I would', she says' Theres one in the childrens sand-pit, a pink plastic one',

I says 'Havent you got a gardeners shovel?', she says 'I think theres one in the shed but its locked', I think to myself 'And youo havent got a key !! ?'

Anyway, I went for my lunch and came back, the rabbit was gone, I think the Halloween witch took it  ;D



Not exactly a cleaning request, but puzzling all the same, I might look like Baldrick, I was thinking all along, but theres no need to speak to me as if I really am him  ;D
Don't talk to me about witches I hate them  ;D ;D
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Post by: m.b.s. on November 01, 2007, 04:36:15 pm
sorry jeff thought it was youm8
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Post by: GAZZA B on November 01, 2007, 04:57:14 pm
On Monday when I was cleaning this woman’s house, I was asked to clean the horse box at the back of the house, good money. When I had finished she said that is the cleanest it has ever been, can you do it every time you come? Yes please ;D ;D ;D

Gazza
Title: Re: Whats the Strangest thing you have been asked to clean?
Post by: jeff1 on November 01, 2007, 07:03:50 pm
On Monday when I was cleaning this woman’s house, I was asked to clean the horse box at the back of the house, good money. When I had finished she said that is the cleanest it has ever been, can you do it every time you come? Yes please ;D ;D ;D

Gazza
Its when she starts to ask you to clean the horse, you can start to worry! ;D ;D
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Post by: Kwackers on November 01, 2007, 07:06:23 pm
Why, i bet they'd come up well with some Pure, TFR and WFP actually, neeeehhh.

I was asked to clean a tree for my mates dad, i told him it would either blow off the bark or go furry....£25 for 30 mins of tree trunk cleaning!

Title: Re: Whats the Strangest thing you have been asked to clean?
Post by: Jason Atwell on November 01, 2007, 07:06:52 pm
A drunk woman asked me to clean her you know what, (down below) I say drunk could quite easily of been drugs, i just dint reply!!!
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Post by: Tosh on November 01, 2007, 07:23:29 pm
A drunk woman asked me to clean her you know what, (down below) I say drunk could quite easily of been drugs, i just dint reply!!!

I'd have declined the job offer on the basis that I'd left my fourteen-inch-squeeqie at home.

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Anyway, the strangest thing I've ever cleaned were a pair of boots belonging to a Leutenant Colonel (the Commanding Officer), when I was in jail.  He just dropped them off at the guard room and said to the Guard Commander that he'd pick 'em up the following morning.

Finding this task demeaning; I abused his boots.  I won't tell you how exactly, but it took a took a lot of imagination and a 'right handed work-out to a Cindy Crawford keep fit video'.

The git.
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Post by: Sir Squeaky on November 01, 2007, 08:00:32 pm
A drunk woman asked me to clean her you know what, (down below) I say drunk could quite easily of been drugs, i just dint reply!!!

I'd have declined the job offer on the basis that I'd left my fourteen-inch-squeeqie at home.

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Anyway, the strangest thing I've ever cleaned were a pair of boots belonging to a Leutenant Colonel (the Commanding Officer), when I was in jail.  He just dropped them off at the guard room and said to the Guard Commander that he'd pick 'em up the following morning.

Finding this task demeaning; I abused his boots.  I won't tell you how exactly, but it took a took a lot of imagination and a 'right handed work-out to a Cindy Crawford keep fit video'.

The git.
;D
Title: Re: Whats the Strangest thing you have been asked to clean?
Post by: Wayne Thomas on November 01, 2007, 08:09:44 pm
Dustbin lorries all the time and they really aren't joking about it either. Also high side juggernauts.
Title: Re: Whats the Strangest thing you have been asked to clean?
Post by: jeff1 on November 01, 2007, 08:23:27 pm
A drunk woman asked me to clean her you know what, (down below) I say drunk could quite easily of been drugs, i just dint reply!!!

I'd have declined the job offer on the basis that I'd left my fourteen-inch-squeeqie at home.

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Anyway, the strangest thing I've ever cleaned were a pair of boots belonging to a Leutenant Colonel (the Commanding Officer), when I was in jail.  He just dropped them off at the guard room and said to the Guard Commander that he'd pick 'em up the following morning.

Finding this task demeaning; I abused his boots.  I won't tell you how exactly, but it took a took a lot of imagination and a 'right handed work-out to a Cindy Crawford keep fit video'.

The git.
:o :o :o :o
Thats a clasic Tosh, I've heard of spit and polish but never ???? (fill in the gaps your selfs) ;D

As for Jasons reply, I would now take this type of work on, ;D  as I now have a petrol pressure washer and a 25' lance  ;D

I was asked the other day if I wanted to change my grandaughters nappy :o I replied to my daughter, I don't mind, but hang on while I set my lance and pressure washer up. ;D
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Post by: Nathanael Jones on November 01, 2007, 08:36:19 pm
I got asked to change some lightbulbs today. She'd somehow managed to pull at them, removing the glass bulb, but leaving the metal bits stuck in the sockets. Only took me 5 minutes to do, didn't even need a stepladder. I wasn't going to charge her any extra, but she insisted I take a €20 note!!
 ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Paul Coleman on November 01, 2007, 09:29:47 pm
I ended up cleaning a load of green gunge from a garden marquee once.  It was pre-WFP so I used my Unger pole and applicator.  Took ages but came up OK.  A few visits later I got ripped off for the window cleaning money.  Stinking rich pair of whotsits too.
Another odd job I got as a one off was fdrom an ice cream man.  Baking hot Summer's day so I went to get a cone from him.  He got me to wash his windscreen and gave me a free ice cream   :)
Title: Re: Whats the Strangest thing you have been asked to clean?
Post by: M & C Window Cleaning on November 01, 2007, 10:40:27 pm
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On Monday when I was cleaning this woman’s house, I was asked to clean the horse box at the back of the house, good money. When I had finished she said that is the cleanest it has ever been, can you do it every time you come?

I just read this post out to my other half and she came back quick as a flash: "Doesn't sound like a very stable job."

Oh dear, Oh dear!

Seriously though, I used to regularly clean large sets of mirror wardrobes for two custies a few years back 'cause they couldn't get them smear free themselves.
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Post by: Cleaner Windows on November 01, 2007, 11:00:58 pm
I got a call the other day to ask if we'd be up for earning £30 for getting a cat out of a tree 30 feet up, so we went there and as soon as we put the ladder up to the nearest branch the cat sh*t it self and jumped down lol, so we got £30 for doing hardly anything ;D
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Post by: Cleaner Windows on November 01, 2007, 11:04:22 pm
A drunk woman asked me to clean her you know what, (down below) I say drunk could quite easily of been drugs, i just dint reply!!!

I'd have declined the job offer on the basis that I'd left my fourteen-inch-squeeqie at home.

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Anyway, the strangest thing I've ever cleaned were a pair of boots belonging to a Leutenant Colonel (the Commanding Officer), when I was in jail.  He just dropped them off at the guard room and said to the Guard Commander that he'd pick 'em up the following morning.

Finding this task demeaning; I abused his boots.  I won't tell you how exactly, but it took a took a lot of imagination and a 'right handed work-out to a Cindy Crawford keep fit video'.

The git.
;D
lmao  ;D ;D
Title: Re: Whats the Strangest thing you have been asked to clean?
Post by: LWC on November 02, 2007, 10:19:21 am
i used to half to clean one of those wall butterly things, was annoying when i was trad...dont go there anymore anyway  ;D
Title: Re: Whats the Strangest thing you have been asked to clean?
Post by: Jeff Brimble on November 02, 2007, 05:29:13 pm
An 8ft high glass winged Pegasus in an art Exhibition. Its in some millionaires house on Jersey now.
Title: Re: Whats the Strangest thing you have been asked to clean?
Post by: jeff1 on November 02, 2007, 05:33:18 pm
An 8ft high glass winged Pegasus in an art Exhibition. Its in some millionaires house on Jersey now.
I would have been shaking at the knee's doing that one Jeff.
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Post by: Jeff Brimble on November 02, 2007, 06:11:12 pm
Couldnt have been done without an A ladder, alas no pics.
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Post by: Pole2pole on November 02, 2007, 06:59:51 pm
One of my older custies(but still of sound mind) asked me if my wfp thingy could clean her kitchen blinds. I said probably.............i'll give it a try if she wants to take them down and i'll do it in the garden. She said "oh no......i can't take them down.........can't ya clean them where they are??"
I advised her against that  ;D