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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: cvdewsbury on April 28, 2008, 08:31:22 pm

Title: Fellow men of the cloth...who's the chief
Post by: cvdewsbury on April 28, 2008, 08:31:22 pm: just wondered who has put in the most years service on the site ..I,ll start the ball rolling with 15 long years of w/c;D
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Post by: AuRavelling79 on April 28, 2008, 08:38:54 pm: 11

8 trad.
1 changeover trad/wfp.
2 virtually all wfp.
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Post by: AJ on April 28, 2008, 08:44:23 pm: 21 yrs. Started out at 19, jumping ledges & triple 16 ladders. Started up on my own in 1989. not done much else really except the normal, hod carrying, builders labourer when I was younger.
Scary where the time goes.
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Post by: ducky on April 28, 2008, 08:52:44 pm: 10 years for me :D
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Post by: Dean Aspects on April 28, 2008, 09:03:49 pm: Started the first time in '85 so i could buy myself a pair of reeboks took all summer the second time was 1990 for 18 months then i properly started in 1996
with the last 2 1/2 years wfp so i am into my thirteenth year :-\

Dean
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Post by: stig on April 28, 2008, 09:10:31 pm: started at 15 working for some guy. till 17 then got my driving licence and have been self employed trad window cleaner ever since/totaling 25yrs
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Post by: Alex Gardiner on April 28, 2008, 09:20:53 pm: 23 years (16 trad / 7 WFP)

My dad has been 28 years (21 trad / 7 WFP)

Even my sister managed 4 years trad.
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Post by: LWC on April 28, 2008, 09:22:37 pm: 5 years, 3 trad 2 wfp
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Post by: jeff1 on April 28, 2008, 09:27:23 pm: June is my 11th year and just 16 months wfp
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Post by: brett walker on April 28, 2008, 10:03:14 pm: 17yrs, 15 trad & 2 wfp

brett
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Post by: mci services on April 28, 2008, 10:12:59 pm: should get my dad to join this site 73 years old and only hung up the ladders 3 years ago still does a bit of office work i think he started in his mid twentys :o

me i started at about 13 till i was 21 then gave it up for 15 years(joined the army) still kept a hand in while on leave then started myself again last year
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Post by: Roy Harding on April 28, 2008, 10:25:28 pm: 24yrs 7 months

Roy
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Post by: mr D on April 28, 2008, 10:32:23 pm: 7 years trad with the odd day wfp. only 1 year for my self though.
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Post by: Pj on April 28, 2008, 10:58:34 pm: 21 years

just a stop-gap mind you until I found something i liked doing :o
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Post by: steve m on April 28, 2008, 11:00:44 pm: Gulp!! That means I'm still in nappies
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Post by: leegooner on April 28, 2008, 11:40:06 pm: April 1977 31 years non stop this month
all commercial ,started using wf 7 years ago
up at 5 tomorrow same o same o :)
Title: Re: Fellow men of the cloth...who's the chief
Post by: Window Cleaning Services on April 28, 2008, 11:42:29 pm: Quote from: cvdewsbury on April 28, 2008, 08:31:22 pm
just wondered who has put in the most years service on the site ..I,ll start the ball rolling with 15 long years of w/c;D
25 yrs 8) Syd
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Post by: Glyn H on April 29, 2008, 12:32:35 am: Started 1977 so 31 years in the industry
11 years wfp
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Post by: Paul Coleman on April 29, 2008, 05:06:28 am: In my 17th year but only the past two and a bit on the pole.
I was only going to do it while I was looking for a job.

I still haven't found one ;D
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Post by: Spursboy1972 on April 29, 2008, 05:43:12 am: started 1st time at 15. Kept doing odd bits for my dad until 3 years ago when started up on my own properly. Last year wfp.

Like others my dad started in 1977 and is still doing it and other bits today. he is 66
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Post by: Londoner on April 29, 2008, 06:43:40 am: I started 35 years ago when I was 18 with my mate steve to earn some spending cash. We worked Saturdays cleaning windows on the South Ruislip estate where Steve lived. We had to work there because we had to carry the ladder everywhere, we had no transport.

I am now 54. For most of the intervening years I have done a bit from time to time but with long gaps. Now, when I thought I would be finished with such things I am a full time and enjoying it. Its a healthy job and I like the freedom.
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Post by: simon knight on April 29, 2008, 06:45:07 am: I'm a babe in arms...a mere 4 years :'(
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Post by: Alex Gardiner on April 29, 2008, 07:34:44 am: I know one young window cleaner (26) who is a fourth generation window cleaner. His great-grandfather was a window cleaner in Plymouth and so on down through the generations.
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Post by: billy08 on April 29, 2008, 07:56:11 am: 28 years 6 months and its never been better ;D
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Post by: trevor perry on April 29, 2008, 08:23:05 am: 26 years for me and 5o years for my dad but he doesnt do a lot of window cleaning now he mainly does the powerwashing
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Post by: Ian Lancaster on April 29, 2008, 08:32:33 am: Started in 1969 with a company called A.F.Cheese & Co doing all schools in London. Did about two years with them then set up on my own, been doing it ever since with just a couple of breaks where I thought there had to be something better - there isn't ;D

39 years by my reckoning.
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Post by: Terry_Burrows on April 29, 2008, 08:45:31 am: :D me started around 33 years ago with my late uncle who showed me the way of the squeegee :'(
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Post by: SherwoodCleaningSe on April 29, 2008, 12:56:52 pm: 11 Years and still learning

simon.
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Post by: pjulk on April 29, 2008, 02:35:17 pm: first started 22 years ago had a 3 year break from 2000 - 2003
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Post by: Paul Coleman on April 29, 2008, 05:38:52 pm: Quote from: Paul Griffin on April 29, 2008, 02:35:17 pm
first started 22 years ago had a 3 year break from 2000 - 2003

Part - timer !! ;D
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Post by: pingu on April 29, 2008, 06:03:38 pm: 86 weeks...and a couple of months in 89 when I got out of the army....

Just a newbie...

Dave.
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Post by: Alistair@AWC on April 29, 2008, 06:42:10 pm: As of September 2008 I will have been cleaning windows for......................

2 Years ;D ;D
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Post by: dai on April 29, 2008, 06:49:04 pm: Started in 1959 when I was 17, no squeegee in them days, just a leather mop and scrim.
I stuck it for about a year. Went back to window cleaning in 1993 after redundancy from the engineering industry. Been WFP 3 years come August. Dai
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Post by: ronniemc on April 29, 2008, 07:02:34 pm: Started Feb 95`. WFP for the last 4 years.
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Post by: suds window service on May 02, 2008, 10:41:00 pm: 6 weeks
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Post by: Simon_King on May 04, 2008, 06:00:10 pm: 21 years come this November.