Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: nevil on July 30, 2008, 12:12:03 pm
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Most of the time I don't worry about this type of thing as everyne I meet seems more concerned about the standard of work than anything else.
However, on my way to a recent job I did feel ever so slightly intimidated when I caught a glimpse of the property I was heading for.
As it turned out, the chap was only interested in my carpet cleaning prowess. Which luckily for me is not lacking.
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Nevil looks like a quick getaway with the Family silver. ::)
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Not so sure he was as minted as you may think. He said he chose me because I have a TM.
also because the last CC used so much electricity he had to put another 50p in. 8)
He was the sort of bloke you could bump into and never guess how successful he is.
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God my wife had been threatening to get someone in to do the carpets :o
S
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Why doesnt he have windows in his humble aboad?
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Loads of places like that by me, only thing is i dont live in one!
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must be saving on the window cleaning ;D ;D
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Well in that case I best invest in a generator to run my machines. Is the credit crunch really that bad? I am surprised he let you take a photograph.
Tell him he gets better deals on a pay monthly meter. ;D
And do not take image or presentation for granted, it accounts for a lot. That customer is unique.
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Hi Nevil,
just interested to know why the hoses go half way down the drive then back again?
steve
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Steve
It took 100ft of pipe to get from the van to the room I was working in. The two lengths of "2" pipe have just been pulled out of the front door ready to be rolled up.
Clinton
I am using an old Hydramaster 4.0. Doesn't look much but it performs very well.
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oh, just being nosey really,
thought it was some special technique to go around the garden first before entering the house ;D
regards
steve
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So, it's a house, with pillars !!!!!!!!!!!!
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Well I guess it's outside his house every morning ::)
;D
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Good reason for them sealed windows,
The window tax was a glass tax which was a significant social, cultural, and architectural force in the kingdoms of England, Scotland and then Great Britain during the 17th and 18th centuries. Some houses from the period can be seen to have bricked-up windows, as a result of the tax.
Not my words.. from Wikipedia. Your wealth was always determined by how many windows your home had and this was used as a way of working out a sort of council tax of that period. That’s why so many thrifty toffs back than got out the bricks and cement and sealed them up ::)
Pete
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When the window tax was introduced, it consisted of two parts: a flat-rate house tax of 2 shillings per house and a variable tax for the number of windows above ten windows. Properties with between ten and twenty windows paid a total of four shillings, and those above twenty windows paid eight shillings.[3] The number of windows that incurred tax was changed to seven in 1766 and eight in 1825. The flat-rate tax was changed to a variable rate, dependent on the property value, in 1778. People who were ineligible for church or poor rates, for reasons of poverty, were exempt from the window tax.[4] Window tax was relatively unintrusive and easy to assess. The bigger the house, the more windows it was likely to have, and the more tax the occupants would pay. Nevertheless, the tax was unpopular, because it was seen by some as a tax on "light and air".[5]
Thats where the term 'Daylight Robery' came from.
God I need to sleep!
Pete
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Very interesting Peter. Old style tax avoidance eh!
I thought maybe it was an efficient blackout in the war.