Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: bernlyn on March 08, 2008, 08:55:32 pm
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my very first days experience
i went friday and did my very first clean. i was so busy concertrating trying to carry everything that i went straight to the house and got stuck in cleaning the wnidows. i was busy with the last 1 when the door flew open and she asked WHAT ARE YOU DOING! >:(
i said imediately giveing your windows a free clean. shucks i was at the next doors windows. :-[ WELL needles to say LESSON LEARNT! i checked every door number after that.
funny thing is that she only realised that i was cleaning her windows when i was nearly finished ;D
did anyone else make fist day mistakes and what were they
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I did same exept I cleaned the gutters as well ! In her defence she did thank me for the good job I had done ::)
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not while doing windows but some years ago i used to help out a roofer job was a strip and retile we had a big section of the tiles of before findind out we should be next door it turned out ok though as theres was being done the following week .
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i passed a couple of houses on to a mate,he did the right house numbers.....but on the next street ::),best thing was both of em paid him ;D
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I got a phone call to quote and went straight there. Got Hubby first and explained his wife had phoned me, then halfway throught she joined us. After agreeing a price and when the job should be done it was only when I got a phone shortly after asking where I was and she had seen my van drive past in her street that i realised i'd got the wrong house.
It did made me wonder. One fault I have is not listening to what others say.
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It did made me wonder. One fault I have is not listening to what others say.
you are just feeding me lines now mate ;D ;D ;) :)
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i turned up to clean a flat done the windows knocked the door and got paid, turned up next time started cleaning women comes out, what you doing she said cleaning your windows i replied. she say i do my own always have i says number 6 she says no number 8 number 6 is upstairs. the first time i cleaned the wrong flat and got paid. i always thought the higher number was the upper flat.
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off topic but....on monday i was doing a row of four houses all detached ,gates are never locked and they are always empty,on house 2 the wind blew "novelty hedgehog" aside and slammed the gate shut,trouble is its forced the gate past the post and bent the sneck,so now i cant open it without breaking something ::).No problem ;D just hop the fence....troble is fence panels seem to have been made from old ice cream wafers,and no way are they gonna hold me.....i aint over weight but 14 stone will destroy them,so now i have a problem :( it took me half an hour to get out without damaging anything
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Don't know how you got out thorpey, but there are these three ice cubes in a glass. Using only a five inch peice of cotton how do you get them out?
Oh, and i'm not overweight but at 14 stone, and i'm feeding you lines
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i am six foot four so i personally dont think 14 stone is overweight(the machine in boots does tho,it says i should be 12 st 10lbs ::) i used to be 15st 10lbs when i was training regular.....still not fat tho) any way i broke a blade in my scraper then used the thicker "spine" to unscrew the latch plate,very frustrating >:(......as for the ice cubes,i dont know..do you let them melt then loop the cotton lay it in the water and freeze em again ???
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Okay no one on this school skipping doughnut eating forum is likely to get it.
Lay the end of the cotton on one of the cubes, sprinkle some table salt lightly over it ( I mentioned the salt didn't I ;D), and after about ten seconds the cotton is affixed securely enough to the ice cube to pull it out.
Unscrewing the latch plate was good.
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I did the wrong house too - went by the number on the wheely bin, only the bin was on the wrong drive, first clean too took me ages and they never paid.
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Don't know how you got out thorpey, but there are these three ice cubes in a glass. Using only a five inch peice of cotton how do you get them out?
Oh, and i'm not overweight but at 14 stone, and i'm feeding you lines
SALT ??? ??? ??? where does it say SALT ??? ???....easy if you had said cotton AND salt ;D ;D ;)
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No I have never done that while w/c but I did work for a company putting gas hobs in on building sites. One day I had a job in north herts, I had the plot number and company site address and was informed it was a really urgent job. So I got there fitted the oven hob and hood only to find I had the right plot number the right company but the wrong site. The site I needed was just down the road. It would have been an easy day if it werent for that.
Steve
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My friend Derek and his mate were ambulance drivers who used to do windows on their days off. They would sub work off another driver.
This one day they went out with a list to do, started at the first road and did about five houses before they realised they were in the wrong road.
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my very first days experience
i went friday and did my very first clean. i was so busy concertrating trying to carry everything that i went straight to the house and got stuck in cleaning the wnidows. i was busy with the last 1 when the door flew open and she asked WHAT ARE YOU DOING! >:(
i said imediately giveing your windows a free clean. shucks i was at the next doors windows. :-[ WELL needles to say LESSON LEARNT! i checked every door number after that.
funny thing is that she only realised that i was cleaning her windows when i was nearly finished ;D
did anyone else make fist day mistakes and what were they
Bit different to yours but when I was cleaning trad, I was only meant to do the upper floor maisonette but ended up doing the ground floor as well forgetting it wasn't a house :)
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I did similar last week.
I was asked to clean a new one and priced what looked like a simple 4 bed house at £12.
I cleaned the front then went to go around the back, then realised it was a semi and I'd cleaned the front of next door too. ;D
Best thing was she was happy with the price and I got a piddly little semi at nearly double the price I needed to. ;D
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£12 for a four bed? Jeez i wouldn't have got out of bed for that!
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£12 for a four bed? Jeez i wouldn't have got out of bed for that!
;D ;D ;D
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Priced up a large house. Customer said ok and the following week arrived to do the job.
Greeted on the left side of the house by a woman who asked what i was doing? Stated the obvious...window cleaning as agreed.
It was at this point she explained that the building was 2 houses and that she didn't need a window cleaner.
Yes I'd got the go ahead (full building price) from the woman owning only the right hand side of the building. ;D
Must admit she's not had a price increase in 2 years ;D ;D ;D
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£12 for a four bed? Jeez i wouldn't have got out of bed for that!
Would have taken about 12-15 minutes.
Is £50-60 per hour too cheap?
Sorry for not being a cowboy.
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£12 for a four bed? Jeez i wouldn't have got out of bed for that!
::)
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When I was landscaping we used to do a lot of commercial work, laying lawns for those who'd bought a house on building sites. Anyway, invariably whenever the new person moved in the lawn was buggered after all the trades had stomped there way across it (sparkies, roofers, chippys etc) so we'd have to go back, lift the old lawn and replace it to keep the punters satisfied.
I sent a guy down to start lifting this lawn once, i was to follow in another vehicle once we'd loaded up with plants and the boss was also meant to turn up on site, meeting with site-agent or something.
So an hour or so after the first guy turns up, I turned up. He'd spaded off this lawn, bloody hard work, in front of this house. I took a lookie at the plot number on the front of the house. He'd spaded the wrong houses lawn off. Plot numbers and house numbers NEVER coincide. He was told to lift the lawn on PLOT 7 but had lifted the lawn on house NUMBER 7 ;D
Oh how I laughed. The boss didnt when he turned up. The bloke that did it by mistake felt such a twat for the rest of the day, did I say I laughed, well if I didnt, I sure did ;D ;D
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£12 for a four bed? Jeez i wouldn't have got out of bed for that!
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£12 for a four bed? Jeez i wouldn't have got out of bed for that!
Would have taken about 12-15 minutes.
Is £50-60 per hour too cheap?
Sorry for not being a cowboy.
he IS joking chaps ;D 12 for a 4 bed is well dear for djw ;)
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:) thought Squeaks would have picked that one up. Yes, just a joke i don't want to start another war! ;D
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the 300 a day thread is locked or i would have bumped it to prove the fact ;) ;D
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Early on working with a mate as his assistant. No-one home, climb over gate only to find owner in back garden with nothing on except trainers and hat. He's pruning roses in the buff.
We look at each other in total amazement before he huffily informs us that we've got the wrong house and to clear off. Which we do but warn him to be careful what he cuts off with his secateurs.
We got round the front and I was wetting myself laughing!
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:) thought Squeaks would have picked that one up. Yes, just a joke i don't want to start another war! ;D
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I thought so, but I played the defensive card just in case. ;D
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:) thought Squeaks would have picked that one up. Yes, just a joke i don't want to start another war! ;D
You're always starting wars dave, infact, at this rate you could end up in the whitehouse! ;D ;D ;D
Tony
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Can't understand it, i can post a quite innocent thread that ends with people leaving the forum. I must have a knack i suppose - at least i'm good at something! ::)
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Can't understand it, i can post a quite innocent thread that ends with people leaving the forum. I must have a knack i suppose - at least i'm good at something! ::)
You Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad ;D ;D
Tony
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when i 1st started out thought a upstairs flat was on my list started cleaning and noticed the tv on.......then noticed the porn on it................then noticed the guy half naked.....followed by "you dont clean my windows".........................guess not mate sorry ;D