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Title: raining...AGAIN!!!
Post by: Cleaner Windows on January 17, 2008, 12:59:47 pm
went out this a.m, did one job worth £39 (georgian windows all round) then on to a manor house worth £100 about 15 - 20 miles away but was raining again by the time I got there and the lady of the house said "no thanks, not in this weather" Have had to come home again now :(

This rain is doing my head right in! when is it gonna end? I'm still not in a position to have much savings behind me and I'm getting deeper into arrears with rent etc. Every day is poop at the moment work wise  :'(

HEEEEEEEELP!!!
Title: Re: raining...AGAIN!!!
Post by: rhys11 on January 17, 2008, 01:06:20 pm
i know dude its rubbish
Title: Re: raining...AGAIN!!!
Post by: jonah on January 17, 2008, 01:11:55 pm
Last year was the driest in ages so we are now making up for it !  Wont last forever though looking forward to summer  ;D
Title: Re: raining...AGAIN!!!
Post by: Cleaner Windows on January 17, 2008, 01:20:49 pm
Summer last year was cr*p though, if I remember rightly april was hotter and better weather wasn't it?
hopefully this summer will be fairer! not too hot so we can avoid hosepipe bans, just good weather would be nice enough eh ;)
be nice to have the lighter evenings too to get all those extra houses done every day!
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Post by: elite mike on January 17, 2008, 01:24:07 pm
get on your XBOXES
:d  :d
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Post by: cvdewsbury on January 17, 2008, 02:02:00 pm
cleaner windows ...can,t really blame the customers for having that attitude....what you have got to ask yourself is.....are you in this for the long run as these spells of bad weather happen...hang on in there kid
Title: Re: raining...AGAIN!!!
Post by: Cleaner Windows on January 17, 2008, 02:05:01 pm
get on your XBOXES
:d  :d
now THAT is a bloody good idea ;)
Title: Re: raining...AGAIN!!!
Post by: jampot on January 17, 2008, 02:08:00 pm
just got in. managed to get 1/2 day done in the wind and rain.  :-\
customers didnt really like it that much. but hey , what can you do.
even picked up a new one :)
just hope its going to change into summer next week  :-\ :-X
(i wish)
Title: Re: raining...AGAIN!!!
Post by: Cleaner Windows on January 17, 2008, 02:12:37 pm
cleaner windows ...can,t really blame the customers for having that attitude....what you have got to ask yourself is.....are you in this for the long run as these spells of bad weather happen...hang on in there kid
I know I know ;) I cant really blame them but it is annoying, I'm blaming the weather more than anything lol
And yes regardless of what happens I am in this for the long run. I built up a wc'ing business before and then sold it because I thought a "normal job" would be better, but when I went and got a normal job I hated it! only lasted 3 months and came back to the land of wc'ing for ever!

Its a nightmare when the weather is bad but I've been building this new business of mine from the ground up, and most of the time I love it its just having no money to fall back on gets a bit worrying when the rain keeps coming and you dont know when its gonna stop  ::)
Title: Re: raining...AGAIN!!!
Post by: Cleaner Windows on January 17, 2008, 02:13:17 pm
just got in. managed to get 1/2 day done in the wind and rain.  :-\
customers didnt really like it that much. but hey , what can you do.
even picked up a new one :)
just hope its going to change into summer next week  :-\ :-X
(i wish)
we can only wish lol
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Post by: NWH on January 17, 2008, 02:14:32 pm
I reckon when the weather does change we will be in for another cold spell,normally this time of the year it`s brass monkeys.
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Post by: john tomkins on January 17, 2008, 02:48:22 pm
Last year was the driest in ages so we are now making up for it !  Wont last forever though looking forward to summer  ;D

Where are you.... the sahara desert?
Did you miss all the floods :o
Title: Re: raining...AGAIN!!!
Post by: matt on January 17, 2008, 02:56:40 pm
they say, more of the same for next week
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Post by: xxmattyxx on January 17, 2008, 03:44:55 pm
they say, more of the same for next week

Where did you hear that?
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Post by: frames to panes on January 17, 2008, 04:02:15 pm
I'm off to slit my wrists!
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Post by: simon knight on January 17, 2008, 04:14:51 pm

Just got indoors and the heavens opened. Rain coming in sideways, thunder, lightning and a bit of hail too. The woman whose house i finished at 3.30 must be thinking  "why did I bloody bother".

Looking at the various forecasts this weather is set to be like this until early next week...mind you they often get it wrong!
Title: Re: raining...AGAIN!!!
Post by: frames to panes on January 17, 2008, 04:18:48 pm
They forecast rain today in my area - not a drop until three and then the heavens opened.
Title: Re: raining...AGAIN!!!
Post by: matt on January 17, 2008, 04:33:24 pm
they say, more of the same for next week

Where did you hear that?

BBC 24
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Post by: xxmattyxx on January 17, 2008, 06:00:26 pm
I dont know if theres any window-cleaners that work in the north of England but this guy


(http://www.kmatthews.net/personal/images/daniel_corbett.jpg)


has just implied it'll be dry tomorrow in the south after a damp start, clearing about 8am.

Matt
Title: Re: raining...AGAIN!!!
Post by: Cleaner Windows on January 17, 2008, 06:36:19 pm
that would be nice  8)
I bet I'm gonna go to bed a have nightmares about the weather tonight lol
Title: Re: raining...AGAIN!!!
Post by: windowwashers on January 17, 2008, 06:42:13 pm
that would be nice  8)
I bet I'm gonna go to bed a have nightmares about the weather tonight lol
I wont, we will be working however wet it is.  ;)
Title: Re: raining...AGAIN!!!
Post by: Tim Rose on January 17, 2008, 06:48:16 pm
For inner strength, you need to ask yourself what Mike Harding would do in these circumstances...
Title: Re: raining...AGAIN!!!
Post by: Cleaner Windows on January 17, 2008, 07:12:54 pm
that would be nice  8)
I bet I'm gonna go to bed a have nightmares about the weather tonight lol
I wont, we will be working however wet it is.  ;)
i'd love to but would have to go home when the scrims are wet anyway :(
Title: Re: raining...AGAIN!!!
Post by: windowwashers on January 17, 2008, 07:17:06 pm
that would be nice  8)
I bet I'm gonna go to bed a have nightmares about the weather tonight lol
I wont, we will be working however wet it is.  ;)
i'd love to but would have to go home when the scrims are wet anyway :(
Go wfp m8, best thing you will do for your business and trust me I was dead against it years and years ago i then did loads of research should have just done it when i new about it many years ago.  ;)
Title: Re: raining...AGAIN!!!
Post by: Cleaner Windows on January 18, 2008, 08:20:41 am
that would be nice  8)
I bet I'm gonna go to bed a have nightmares about the weather tonight lol
I wont, we will be working however wet it is.  ;)
i'd love to but would have to go home when the scrims are wet anyway :(
Go wfp m8, best thing you will do for your business and trust me I was dead against it years and years ago i then did loads of research should have just done it when i new about it many years ago.  ;)
If I could afford it all, I might think about it lol, it would be good seeing as you can carry on cleaning in the rain, but what do customers think about that? surely you would have to give the customers  a technical leaflet explaining how wfp works and that rain doesn't make the windows dirtier (much)? or waste loads of time chatting to them about it and hope they swallow every word?  :-\
Title: Re: raining...AGAIN!!!
Post by: windowwashers on January 18, 2008, 08:23:42 am
that would be nice  8)
I bet I'm gonna go to bed a have nightmares about the weather tonight lol
I wont, we will be working however wet it is.  ;)
i'd love to but would have to go home when the scrims are wet anyway :(
Go wfp m8, best thing you will do for your business and trust me I was dead against it years and years ago i then did loads of research should have just done it when i new about it many years ago.  ;)
If I could afford it all, I might think about it lol, it would be good seeing as you can carry on cleaning in the rain, but what do customers think about that? surely you would have to give the customers  a technical leaflet explaining how wfp works and that rain doesn't make the windows dirtier (much)? or waste loads of time chatting to them about it and hope they swallow every word?  :-\
I arrive and clean, it they ask I tell them about it, I did not give anyone a tech letter as I was not going to explain to everyone, as long as there windows are clean it is good, they way i got round it with a few that asked I said I would clean there frames free for 2 months  ;D have to clean the frames anyway :-X
Title: Re: raining...AGAIN!!!
Post by: Cleaner Windows on January 18, 2008, 08:28:19 am
lol, nice one, thats the sort of thing I would say  ;D