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Title: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: Feen on May 21, 2008, 08:34:25 pm
And I mean window cleaning - wise. Not as my dear late Mum once told me "don't get your girlfriend up the duff"!! Mine was read on here a few weeks back (and I think it was Macmac - not sure?). " All windows look clean when they are wet."
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: DaveG on May 21, 2008, 08:38:38 pm
rinse rinse and double rinse ;D

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Post by: xxmattyxx on May 21, 2008, 08:40:17 pm
Never eat yellow snow
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Post by: windowwashers on May 21, 2008, 08:41:12 pm
Never eat yellow snow
lol
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Post by: Feen on May 21, 2008, 08:43:21 pm
Never eat yellow snow
Maybe you should Matt, it might help you read :o :o
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Post by: NWH on May 21, 2008, 08:46:38 pm
Never P*** into the wind lol. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: Chris Cottrell on May 21, 2008, 08:47:06 pm
Never eat yellow snow
Maybe you should Matt, it might help you read :o :o

Great mnds think alike, when I read the first post thats exactly what I thought
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: macmac on May 21, 2008, 08:47:19 pm
And I mean window cleaning - wise. Not as my dear late Mum once told me "don't get your girlfriend up the duff"!! Mine was read on here a few weeks back (and I think it was Macmac - not sure?). " All windows look clean when they are wet."

It was me & it's true ;D  IMO it takes quite a bit of time & experience to be able to leave a property in full confidence that the windows will dry clear & free from spots/smears etc. I see silly quotes on here like- 4 bed detatched, pull up, clean wfp, drive off in 10 mins! nonesense. Maybe it's these who have all the complaints from customers. ::)


Tony
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: elite mike on May 21, 2008, 08:49:10 pm
take the money and run    FAST  :D
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: Feen on May 21, 2008, 08:52:56 pm
Good one Tony. I remind myself about that when I'm tempted to rush and get to the next job ;)
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Post by: Rob_Mac on May 21, 2008, 08:56:05 pm
'You get nothing for nothing' from an old farmer

Rob ;D
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Post by: macmac on May 21, 2008, 09:00:39 pm
Good one Tony. I remind myself about that when I'm tempted to rush and get to the next job ;)

Got your sponser request, I'm an adopted yorkshireman living in scotland don't forget, you may need to come round with a crow-bar! ;D

I'll need hard evidense of your toil!  ;)


Tony
 
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: Clive McDonald on May 21, 2008, 09:31:48 pm
Puts one in mind of Spike and Prince Charles.
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Post by: s.w.c on May 21, 2008, 09:33:41 pm
 take two Valium a day and it is always a good day :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: groundhog on May 21, 2008, 10:24:58 pm
Set yourself a minimum charge, avoid council estates like the plague!!, Do an execptional job and charge well for it! Keep your costs to a minimum! Get yourself a Harris pole for £15 from b&q!!! (thanks Dai)
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: mci services on May 21, 2008, 10:28:12 pm
you can be the best window cleaner but a good salesman/ mediocre window cleaner will always do better
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Post by: jaykie on May 21, 2008, 10:35:58 pm
To canvass areas days after doing a leaflet drop there.

Chris
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: groundhog on May 21, 2008, 10:45:18 pm
you can be the best window cleaner but a good salesman/ mediocre window cleaner will always do better

Fantastic salesman, exceptional window cleaner will do even better!!! especially if he has a bit of business sense as well!!!!  ;)
(why would you settle for being mediocre at your job? I strive to be the best I can in everything that I do!!!)
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: mci services on May 21, 2008, 10:48:59 pm
you can be the best window cleaner but a good salesman/ mediocre window cleaner will always do better

Fantastic salesman, exceptional window cleaner will do even better!!! especially if he has a bit of business sense as well!!!!  ;)
(why would you settle for being mediocre at your job? I strive to be the best I can in everything that I do!!!)
your right but what the guy was getting at was he knew i was a good window cleaner but i wasnt selling my self. now i do both ;)
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: L.J.Thorpe on May 21, 2008, 10:51:18 pm
STOP WORRYING ;D
if they keep paying.......why worry
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Post by: groundhog on May 21, 2008, 10:51:42 pm
Good for you Stu!   :)  
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Post by: Pj on May 21, 2008, 11:00:00 pm
No-one will ever criticize you for doing a good job and charging a fair price for it ;)
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Post by: mci services on May 21, 2008, 11:09:48 pm
heres another tip a few will recognise the six Ps
i will miss out one the Ps
prior, planning,prevents, (blank) poor, performance
not given to me ref w/c but applies all the same
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: groundhog on May 21, 2008, 11:14:06 pm
No-one will ever criticize you for doing a good job and charging a fair price for it ;)

Thats what my Dad has done all his life, and he's still working hard at 75 years of age!!! :(
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: L.J.Thorpe on May 21, 2008, 11:32:55 pm
dont spit on your own doorstep  ;D
(works on any business)
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Post by: mr D on May 21, 2008, 11:43:53 pm
treat others how you would like to be treated your self!

not just a w/c peice of asvice but fits the world over.

at the end of the day none of us are rich enough not to worry about how much we pay trades men so we all hate being ripped off.

i,e to exspencive, poor job.
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: simon knight on May 22, 2008, 11:53:42 am

Best advice for me was from mum:

Always put a bit aside for a rainy day.

Wish I'd taken that advice ::)
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: Ian Lancaster on May 22, 2008, 03:00:50 pm
Try your hardest to achieve perfection - be satisfied with what you get!!
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: Pj on May 22, 2008, 04:50:00 pm
No-one will ever criticize you for doing a good job and charging a fair price for it ;)

Thats what my Dad has done all his life, and he's still working hard at 75 years of age!!! :(

Don't knock it Grumphog, there are plenty of graves with 74 year olds in them!
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: groundhog on May 22, 2008, 05:43:22 pm


Don't knock it, there are plenty of graves with 74 year olds in them!


Agreed, but I would rather make enough money to really enjoy my retirement, instead of working 8 hours a day!!
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: Tosh on May 22, 2008, 06:18:13 pm
The best advice with regards to window cleaning I've had was not to undercharge... followed by a long seminar on why you shouldn't!  It was given to me by an elder window cleaner.

And the best advice I've had non-window cleaning was from my Dad who said, 'Son, the best things in life are hairy'.
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: dai on May 22, 2008, 06:21:28 pm
The one I always remember is,
"you only get one chance to make a first impression".
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: NWH on May 22, 2008, 06:28:06 pm
I`ll tell you the worst advice i`ve been given,buy a Harris pole.
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: dai on May 22, 2008, 06:31:52 pm
Why? I am happy with mine, and Groundhog said it was the best advice he'd had on here.
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: NWH on May 22, 2008, 06:34:12 pm
Why? I am happy with mine, and Groundhog said it was the best advice he'd had on here.
Yeah well lets just say i`ve seen him galloping down the road on shergar with his 10 gallon hat on,either that or it was a cowboy.
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: groundhog on May 22, 2008, 06:59:42 pm
Why? I am happy with mine, and Groundhog said it was the best advice he'd had on here.

Yes it was Dai, and thanks again for introducing me to a fantastic little pole, and saving me a fortune as well!!!!!  :)
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: groundhog on May 22, 2008, 07:11:24 pm
Yeah well lets just say i`ve seen him galloping down the road on shergar with his 10 gallon hat on,either that or it was a cowboy.

Nobody could ever accuse you of being witty could they mate!!!  ;D
Or original for that matter!!!!  ;)
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: stig on May 22, 2008, 09:57:55 pm
dont poop on people on the way up, cus you might meet them on the way down.....
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: NWH on May 22, 2008, 10:05:06 pm
dont poop on people on the way up, cus you might meet them on the way down.....
I`d just P*** on them on the way down,give em a good wash lol. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: Moderator David@stives on May 22, 2008, 10:07:39 pm
Complete integrity in everything you do

One small white lie can do you more harm than you ever may think
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Post by: jonah on May 22, 2008, 10:23:28 pm
Keep your friends close , and your enemies even closer !   Godfather !
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: D.Salkeld_Ltd on May 22, 2008, 10:39:07 pm
Hi All,

When I first started WFP Phill Washington Thomas ( a member on here and a good friend of mine) showed my his system and said

"If you wet it, wash it!"  refering to any part of a window.
He meant that if you get water on any part of the window and don't wash and rinse it then dirt will run onto the glass!!.

The other pearl of wisdom was way back in 2004 when a chap said about WFP
" WFP is not a 'Magic Wand'"

David
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: groundhog on May 23, 2008, 12:07:27 am
Hi David, I like the one about if you wet it wash it, thats very true!! Not seen you on the forum lately?  :)
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: mark dew on May 23, 2008, 01:41:41 am
Set yourself a minimum charge, avoid council estates like the plague!!, Do an execptional job and charge well for it! Keep your costs to a minimum!

can't comment on the council estates as i don't work them but the rest is so true.
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: Londoner on May 23, 2008, 07:46:18 am
A good piece of advice and one that I say often these days to my teenage sons is

"The best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place"

A few moments thought can save you so much grief later.
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Post by: alan andrewswestsi on May 23, 2008, 01:00:59 pm
dump your trolley and get a vanmount
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: Ian Rochester on May 23, 2008, 01:14:48 pm
Here's three of them

Keep it simple!

If you do a good job they'll tell two of their neighbours, if you do a bad one they'll tell ten!!

There's the can'ts and the won'ts, tran the can'ts and get rid of the wont's!

And there endeth the first lesson!  ;)
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: Conflagration2000 on May 23, 2008, 01:33:32 pm
My Dad: "Sh*g em while your young lad, you can always drink beer when you

get to my age".  ;)

And No 1: "Don't bother with a trolly, go straight for a van mount". Various.  :-[
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: AuRavelling79 on May 23, 2008, 03:49:09 pm
Complete integrity in everything you do

One small white lie can do you more harm than you ever may think

Unless it's to reassure your other half about the size of her bum!
Title: Re: What's the best advice you've had?
Post by: Tosh on May 23, 2008, 05:17:16 pm
"Lick everything", advice given to me during an education exam by a semi-illiterate soldier called 'Big Sid' from the Shankhill Road, Belfast.