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Title: How Behind
Post by: MNWC on January 12, 2008, 11:11:52 am
Hi

What with Christmas/New year and the wet wheather how behind are you guys

Im about 3 weeks  ::) ::)

Customers understand though (luckily)

Marcus...
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: Sir Squeaky on January 12, 2008, 11:22:31 am
Don't know.
A week maybe. ???
Glad of it too.
Less people will say no, and I won't run out of work.
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: Nathanael Jones on January 12, 2008, 11:25:49 am
100% up to date!!!

Probably for the first time ever! WFP and 16 hour days before Crimbo to thank for it though!
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: MNWC on January 12, 2008, 11:28:25 am
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Probably for the first time ever! WFP and 16 hour days before Crimbo to thank for it though!

What about 6 months before crimbo

im lucky to work 7 hours at the minute

Marcus...
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: Ian W on January 12, 2008, 11:30:38 am
About a week at the moment. Roll on the summer. Let's hope it isn't a washout like last year...  :(
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: Nathanael Jones on January 12, 2008, 11:36:49 am
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Probably for the first time ever! WFP and 16 hour days before Crimbo to thank for it though!

What about 6 months before crimbo

im lucky to work 7 hours at the minute

Marcus...
6 moths before Crimbo I'd just ordered my WFP,.... I was so far behind I was counting it in months not weeks!
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: Sanity on January 12, 2008, 11:44:58 am
With the rain yesterday I am just 4 jobs behind...
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: Sir Squeaky on January 12, 2008, 11:48:10 am
About a week at the moment. Roll on the summer. Let's hope it isn't a washout like last year...  :(
???
I got rained off about 4 or 5 times all last summer.
Very good year for work.
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: Andy@w.c.s on January 12, 2008, 11:51:52 am
Now about 10 days, :'(
we did work all week this week on our commercial work ,but its back on the round next week
still it was nice to have 16 days off over the Christmas break :)
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: Ian W on January 12, 2008, 11:55:29 am
I got rained off about 4 or 5 times all last summer.
Very good year for work.

You must have been one of the lucky ones. I got rained off lots of days (for the summer) and from what I remember so did lots of others on here.
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: xxmattyxx on January 12, 2008, 11:57:47 am
I got rained off about 4 or 5 times all last summer.
Very good year for work.

You must have been one of the lucky ones. I got rained off lots of days (for the summer) and from what I remember so did lots of others on here.

I f I was 2 weeks further on then Id not be quite so concerned. Need some dry weather, xmas has set me back a bit time-wise.
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: Sir Squeaky on January 12, 2008, 12:14:52 pm
I got rained off about 4 or 5 times all last summer.
Very good year for work.

You must have been one of the lucky ones. I got rained off lots of days (for the summer) and from what I remember so did lots of others on here.
Most of the rain was at night or weekends.
Or it lashed it down all morning and I worked later.
Or I got rained off after 12.

How many days did it rain all day?
Not many.

Bear in mind I'm 30 miles from Gloucester, so we had the worst of it.
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: chrismroberts on January 12, 2008, 12:53:38 pm
I'm 2 weeks ahead  ;D ;D In need of some more work  :o :o
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: MNWC on January 12, 2008, 12:55:20 pm
Jdemarco, if you need a hand The Sheepmeisters your man

marcus...
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: windowwashers on January 12, 2008, 12:56:07 pm
Jdemarco, if you need a hand The Sheepmeisters your man

marcus...
is he back ?  :-\
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: Ian W on January 12, 2008, 01:03:00 pm
Squeaky, I am not disputing your experience. What I experienced is another matter. I got rained off numerous times during the summer - and I don't mean all day, but enough to make life more difficult than it should be at that time of year. I am sure there were numerous threads at the time of others saying pretty much the same as me.
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: Bobs Window Cleaning on January 12, 2008, 01:16:20 pm
Last summer was terrible. Lots of all day raining here in norfolk.

I cant understand how rog only lost 5 days????

I can remember looking at the weather and most of the uk was washed out on quite a few days. Maybe you were just lucky in your area.
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: Paul Coleman on January 12, 2008, 03:46:50 pm
I'm a couple of days behind with some work, up to date with some other work and about a week behind with yet more work.  None of this is due to weather or Christmas though. It is due to me taking on some extra work. The work that's a week behind I'm OK with because I want to merge two neighbouring villages so that I do them about the same time.  Therefore, I have allowed it to get a bit behind.
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: Dean Aspects on January 12, 2008, 05:07:11 pm
I took two weeks off over xmas and just rescheduled everything so i am on time
But as if i hadn't rescheduled everything then i would have been two weeks behind

Dean
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: Feen on January 12, 2008, 07:04:34 pm
I,m up to date. I missed a load last week due to the frost and snow. I told them I'd be back next month, rather than trying to squeeze them in and give myself a big backlog and headache. They were all happy with that, most were surprised I bothered to tell them and some were very grateful to be kept in the picture. At least i know that they know i haven't just p*ssed off and forgotten about them.
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: East coast window cleaning Services on January 12, 2008, 07:07:02 pm
1 Day behind not the end of the world though. How do people get three weeks behind is that 3 weeks as in (15 days)
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: LWC on January 12, 2008, 07:21:53 pm
after being away for about 7 weeks at that big job, coming back about 2 weeks to try and keep it up, i got everyone done in december, and im currently up to date, a bit to up to date for my liking lol
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: zeusjazmin on January 13, 2008, 09:15:15 am
sqeaky,up here i was rained off for lots of days in the summer,probably one of the worst ones i have ever had
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: frames to panes on January 13, 2008, 09:46:56 am
I'm with squeaky on this one - i lost one day from Feb till June then about three untill the end of the year. That's full rained off days. This year i've lost four already.
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: Sir Squeaky on January 13, 2008, 10:50:35 am
I'm with squeaky on this one - i lost one day from Feb till June then about three untill the end of the year. That's full rained off days. This year i've lost four already.
Thanks DJW, people probably think I'm spouting rubbish. ;D

It really wasn't that bad.
It was just hyped up because of the floods, but that was because the rain was so heavy and persistant when it did happen.
But most of it was at night, and over by mid-morning, or started at lunchtime, when again I've made a decent wage already.

Like you say, I've had as much time off already this year.
Title: Re: How Behind
Post by: rhys11 on January 13, 2008, 11:53:41 am
with x mass im 2 and a half weeks . bloody weather