Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Paul Redden Countryfresh on December 19, 2007, 07:47:58 pm
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Does anyone else find your custy has booked workmen in the same day as your clean? Today I had the chimney sweeps plus half the chav population playing games on the tv!
Tues a guy came to fit a handrail on the HSL I was cleaning.
And when they won't put the dog away ::)
Or I'm just popping out won't be long....yeah right.
Have a good un...Paul
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Pet hates.....
People who expect you to tidy up before you can start. Kids bedrooms are the worst but my solution is to just 'chuck'everything into one big pile on the bed. And make sure its all a mixed up pile too ;D
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Mine is where customers watch me sweating by xxxxs off and sit there drinking without offering me a tea or coffee.
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When you have finished and starting to pack away and they say OH is it to late to just do this room too, I forgot o ask ou earlier >:(.
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When the customer trys to be to helpfull and moves all the furniture out from the wall just slightly.
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my pet hate is either a bedroom at the back of the house where you have to drag all your pipes over the existing carpets which you're not going to clean so you have to be extra careful
and.... cleaning a suite in a room which had a new cream carpet fitted the day before >:( >:(
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neil i never pick up junk off the floor! will move furniture but not junk! not my job and i tell them so
Cheers Goron
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How many times have we all heard this..."You could'nt just give that rug a quick going over could you"?
I can sense it whenever I walk in.
Will
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Billy we call it 'Can You Just'
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neil i never pick up junk off the floor! will move furniture but not junk! not my job and i tell them so
I now take a somewhat perverted enjoyment in seeing how high I can stack stuff on a bed. My record is 12 inched from the ceiling (seriously). I'll even put bedside cabinets on there too just to make a point.
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Who is "We"?. Is that the superduper masonic carpet cleaning fraternity?
Will (Billy ;))
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Hi
parking
Being given the wrong keys by the La & the property is the other side of the city.
Arriving at a property and the builder, carpet fitter, electrician,nplumber, painter, plasterer have just started or won´t be finished for about 2 weeks.
being told ``its only just´´
Regards
Martin 8)
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Oversized sofas in tiny rooms.
Kids running around because 'its raining outside'.
Customers working from home running up and down the stairs with coffee.
'How long are you going to be?' Despite having been told.
Other workmen
Kitchen sink water source out of use
Pump/vac failure (that Oh No! feeling)
Difficult access
Elderly people's homes with three trillion/rugs/trays/tables/chairs/ornaments
Quoting rural areas in the dark
'I haven't got your money for you just now-can you come back...?
People who cancel because 'I've bought a Bissell'
And loads more I can't think of right now...
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Surely the problem of having people in the same room as you cleaning can be solved by telling them (when you are doing the quote) that due to health and safety they are not allowed in the same room as you are working. You can just refuse to work if they refuse to move out of the room and blame it all on the health and safety requirements.
Chris.
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Dogs that follow you about and start licking your backside etc !
(hope that's not just me :o )
regards
steve
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Now! Now! i think we should keep our sexlife to ourselves personally! :P ;D
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I love pets.
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Cleaning a suite on wood/laminate flooring.
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the family dog is a crotch sniffer, not good when your trying to quote!
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Had labrador sniffing my nuts as I am trying to talk to custy upon entering job on Monday. Bloomin thing wouldnt go away until she grabbed him by collar.
Nigel.
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Well i think its really unproffesional going into a custys house while eating a bag of nuts....salted or dryroast!
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Waiting till your packed away to say can you just run over this room or rug >:(
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my pet hate is cleaning any carpet and any 3pc ::)
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When they say "So, is this a franchise" >:(
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When the price is, say £85 and the customer has £90, so I fumble about looking for a fiver which I don't have and they just stand there waiting. I just want to say "Give me the ninety ya tight git I`ve done a great job for you"
Happened last week and she had money, I said just "give me the eighty", but I`ll catch her next time.
Another one, I tossed him for it and he won, had a laugh and moved on.
Yeah I should carry a few fivers on me.
Anyway guys have a good one and don`t get too pashed.
Aw the best.
Rab.
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my hate is the guys in the job trying to look down my top when im doing the edges 8)
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It's not really dirty, so can you give it only a light going over
Customers water pressure being very low, on some jobs I swear that I could piddle quicker :o
Paul
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are they big then ? wear a roll top jumper ;D p.s u come from cleaveland dont u ? ;D
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are they big then ? wear a roll top jumper ;D p.s u come from cleaveland dont u ? ;D
ahh ahh ahh and yes they are big the extracta exel and scruba is not the the smallest cleaners to lug around :P :P
the other things i hate is getting chatted up as well trust me this happened alot but i storted this out when i started going out as a pair they thought my male cleaner (staff) was my boyfriend ;D
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the other things i hate is getting chatted up as well trust me this happened alot but i storted this out when i started going out as a pair they thought my male cleaner (staff) was my boyfriend ;D
Must be a man thing, but for me thats one of the perks of the job... ;D Mind u, when they are old enough to be your grand mother, that another story :o
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Loads of un-washed crockery in the sink!
Car parked on the drive when I arrive (you new I was coming so move the f***** thing)
Billy Turton phoning me!
People who simply dont prepare for my arrival
Billy Turton phoning me!
Phil
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When the price is, say £85 and the customer has £90, so I fumble about looking for a fiver which I don't have and they just stand there waiting. I just want to say "Give me the ninety ya tight git I`ve done a great job for you"
Happened last week and she had money, I said just "give me the eighty", but I`ll catch her next time.
Another one, I tossed him for it and he won, had a laugh and moved on.
Yeah I should carry a few fivers on me.
Anyway guys have a good one and don`t get too pashed.
Aw the best.
Rab.
Rab, thats goin to be my new year res as ive lost loads this year not having a fiver.
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Getting a cll Sunday afternoon asking can you come at 9-15 Monday morning instead of 9am. No problem
Then you turn up at 9-15 on the Monday (that is today-last job before the break) and all the curtains are still drawn and 2 long rings on the bell does'nt get them up. And if it did you just know the room is going to be as it was on Sunday night.
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Getting fingers bitten by dogs delivering leaflets through letterboxes. You hear them sometimes running to the door but there are some that adopt a silent approach.