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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: jonah on April 08, 2008, 11:41:28 pm

Title: comparing trades !
Post by: jonah on April 08, 2008, 11:41:28 pm
£? a month !  Doing the job 12 times and collecting the money each time !   Just thinking we must be the most hard working trade out there getting paid in installments !   
Title: Re: comparing trades !
Post by: peter holley on April 08, 2008, 11:45:20 pm
toooo right,,,,i'm knackered ;D
Title: Re: comparing trades !
Post by: Londoner on April 09, 2008, 07:21:48 am
No way! Its the best business going.

 You only have to go out and get a customer once and its regular money month after month for years.

What other business could say that?
Title: Re: comparing trades !
Post by: Chris Cottrell on April 09, 2008, 07:52:10 am
A milkman maybe?
Title: Re: comparing trades !
Post by: windowwashers on April 09, 2008, 08:14:01 am
£? a month !  Doing the job 12 times and collecting the money each time !   Just thinking we must be the most hard working trade out there getting paid in installments !   
clean the jobs 12 times and dont collect (get them to send it or pay online)
physical yes hard sometimes maybe, the most hard working trade no way.

Digging holes in roads for 8 hours is way harder than window cleaning ;)
Title: Re: comparing trades !
Post by: Helen on April 09, 2008, 08:36:14 am
£? a month !  Doing the job 12 times and collecting the money each time !   Just thinking we must be the most hard working trade out there getting paid in installments !   

How come installments? Each job is a finalised payment each time you do it. Don't collect will save you man hours. Hard......yes wc'ing is hard, physical work, but then so are most things in different ways ;D
Title: Re: comparing trades !
Post by: Moderator David@stives on April 09, 2008, 08:48:30 am
I use my plumber regular , so far paid him £4000 for about 2 weeks work.
Title: Re: comparing trades !
Post by: cbcs on April 09, 2008, 10:38:47 am
My Uncle sometimes helps me out when he's quiet, then I help him out when he's busy. He's a gravedigger and does it by hand and shovel. Now that is hard work!
Title: Re: comparing trades !
Post by: frames to panes on April 09, 2008, 02:29:26 pm
Take your pick then.  ;)
Title: Re: comparing trades !
Post by: DaveG on April 09, 2008, 04:11:50 pm
Take your pick then.  ;)

Good one!!
Title: Re: comparing trades !
Post by: Ian Lancaster on April 09, 2008, 04:13:56 pm
I use my plumber regular , so far paid him £4000 for about 2 weeks work.

The mind boggles ::)  I'm almost afraid to ask what you use him for? ;D
Title: Re: comparing trades !
Post by: Tosh on April 09, 2008, 04:29:53 pm
I paid a plumber and his apprentice an arm, a leg, two of my teeth, a kidney and my left knee cap for the removal of an old heating system and the installation of a new combi and ten new radiators.  It took them both four days; not really full days either.

They did a top job though; no complaints; very professional, but I believe Corgi registered plumbers have to fork out about £2K a year just for their Corgi registration.
Title: Re: comparing trades !
Post by: Tosh on April 09, 2008, 04:59:11 pm
Plasterers in opinion, work the hardest for the lowest turnover.

I can get a few plasterers for £70 a day, plus materials.
Title: Re: comparing trades !
Post by: jonah on April 09, 2008, 05:01:17 pm
What I meant , is that you have to do the job to a high standard several times a year , and still get paid each month !     You have to keep the customer happy 12 times a year !  Over a number of years keeping them happy takes a lot effort  ;D
Title: Re: comparing trades !
Post by: Londoner on April 09, 2008, 07:46:54 pm
My Uncle sometimes helps me out when he's quiet, then I help him out when he's busy. He's a gravedigger and does it by hand and shovel. Now that is hard work!

The trouble with being a gravedigger is that you never build up a regular clientel
Title: Re: comparing trades !
Post by: cbcs on April 09, 2008, 07:48:42 pm
Its a dead end job, although people are die-ing to meet you.
Title: Re: comparing trades !
Post by: Londoner on April 09, 2008, 07:56:38 pm
And you don't get a lot of complaints.
Title: Re: comparing trades !
Post by: jonah on April 09, 2008, 10:26:41 pm
I am gravely concerned that our trade can be compared to a grave digger !      After the hole is dug you woudnt get complaints about not getting into the corners , and asking when you are round next  :P