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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Frequently Asked Questions & Useful Resources => Topic started by: WavieDavie on December 11, 2004, 12:44:44 am

Title: Mentoring
Post by: WavieDavie on December 11, 2004, 12:44:44 am

From time to time I see posts from folk, new to our industry, who have read lots of theory on the window cleaning forums, but are having problems getting up and running when it comes to the practical side of things.

You know the type of thing . . .

Dear Cleanitup,
I've just found your excellent site, I'm totally hacked off in my dead-end job and want to give window cleaning a go. I've done my own windows and have been practising on friends and family before getting out on the streets for real, but I have a few questions for you . . . When I tie the scrim in a bandana to keep the hair out of my eyes, which knot is best - and does this stuff have other uses?  Does any one else find that half a container of Fairy per bucket produces too much suds, and should I be concerned that the dried-out skin on my hands cracks just as soon as I take the top off the container these days?  I've just started and want to know how long it takes to get below the three-day barrier for a two-bed semi, and should I be embarrassed charging £2.50? Apart from not biting my nails, what's the best method of getting birdstuff off glass? If I have one of these jobs just before my lunchbreak, the chips taste funny - is there any connection?
Yours,
Worried, from a hospital bed.

In most cases, what's needed is just going out with an established window cleaner to see what they do, asking them questions about what they're doing themselves, and having a "pro" check over their technique.

We're all very good at offering advice on the boards, but would anyone be willing to mentor a newbie for an afternoon - or less? If so, put your name, and the area you work in, forward on this thread to let any newbies out there know you're available to help.

Thanks in advance if you can assist, and if you do reply to this thread, please put your town/area in the subject line.

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Title: Edinburgh
Post by: WavieDavie on December 11, 2004, 12:46:11 am

Happy to help for folk in and around Edinburgh

Title: Re: Mentoring
Post by: windows_chepstow on January 06, 2005, 08:32:55 pm

Same here in the Chepstow and Caldicot areas!

Title: Re: Mentoring
Post by: Grafters Cleaning Services on January 06, 2005, 10:25:37 pm

Dito in Southampton

Title: Re: Mentoring
Post by: Rob_Mac on January 23, 2005, 09:11:20 am

Same Staffordshire & South Derbyshire

Title: Re: Mentoring
Post by: pete fearn on January 23, 2005, 11:27:14 am

More than happy to help out ,Cirencester & Cheltenham

Title: Re: Mentoring
Post by: Pureandclean on January 23, 2005, 02:38:18 pm

Since replying to similar post on window forums, I have had a number of window cleaners come over and have a chat about wfp, and ask my advice on how to start up. One chap even came around my house to see filtration set-up in the garage. I let him try pole cleaning at one of my jobs. I've passed on web-sites of a number of manufacturers to them as well.

 ::) Blessings  ::)

Graeme

Title: Re: Mentoring
Post by: Leyla on January 23, 2005, 03:56:02 pm

Havent been going long myself but more than happy to help in Poole & Bournemouth :D

Title: Re: Mentoring
Post by: Crystal Cleaning Services on February 23, 2005, 06:52:36 pm

Hi, only just found this thread. We would be more than happy to help. Covering West Midlands / Black country and surrounding

Title: Re: Mentoring
Post by: zeusjazmin on February 23, 2005, 07:17:18 pm

happy to help in cumnock ayrshire

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Post by: Walter Pole on February 23, 2005, 08:26:15 pm

East Devon my patch and would be delighted to help someone new
Mark

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Post by: Roy Harding on February 23, 2005, 09:31:12 pm

20yr experence :) I will help someone Monmouth area just ask :)