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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: MJH on August 21, 2008, 07:47:45 pm

Title: Summer brigade!!
Post by: MJH on August 21, 2008, 07:47:45 pm
Im sure a lot of the summer brigade have packed up early around here!! i wonder if its all the rain we've had ::) ::)
Title: Re: Summer brigade!!
Post by: john tomkins on August 21, 2008, 08:48:04 pm
I think they have all rusted ;D
Title: Re: Summer brigade!!
Post by: m.b.s. on August 21, 2008, 08:52:04 pm
Im sure a lot of the summer brigade have packed up early around here!! i wonder if its all the rain we've had ::) ::)
are you complaining  :P
Title: Re: Summer brigade!!
Post by: geefree on August 21, 2008, 08:55:22 pm
are you getting over run with work bud.... you know where i am..... ;D ;D
Title: Re: Summer brigade!!
Post by: dave0123 on August 21, 2008, 08:56:08 pm
I dont no weather its the summer brigade or the credit crunch but phone calls seem abit slow here  ??? no calls for anyone wating a window cleaner this week :o


what about other people?
Title: Re: Summer brigade!!
Post by: MJH on August 21, 2008, 09:00:43 pm
Im happy to see the back of the summer boys, they do my head in, either do the job as a job or bugger off!!
Title: Re: Summer brigade!!
Post by: jeff1 on August 21, 2008, 09:24:05 pm
I went to pick a van up with my daughter yesterday and got chatting to the guy selling the van, he told me a guy turned up with a set of ladders and asked if he wanted his windows cleaned?

He said he hadn't got a window cleaner so how much to do a 7 bedroom house, WC replys £15 the guy jumped at it, This guy turned up once again and he hasn't seen him since ::) To far for me to travel but I priced it at £35 for the amount of windows he had.
I said its one of 2 reasons you haven't seen him again.
1. Priced it wrong
2. Summer brigade
Title: Re: Summer brigade!!
Post by: geefree on August 21, 2008, 09:28:08 pm
i quoted a filthy new huge house...( new build)...and side converted barn..

£50... and 35 thereafter.... wife said yes ... hubby said i can get a guy to do it for a tenner....


i said.. bye. ;D
Title: Re: Summer brigade!!
Post by: L.J.Thorpe on August 21, 2008, 09:47:02 pm
i quoted a filthy new huge house...( new build)...and side converted barn..

£50... and 35 thereafter.... wife said yes ... hubby said i can get a guy to do it for a tenner....


i said.. bye. ;D
classic ;D
go back and make sure wife has your number
tell her to ring you when tenner guy stops coming
which will probly be the next time he is due ;D
Title: Re: Summer brigade!!
Post by: magic1 on August 22, 2008, 02:04:41 pm
one of my customers had a4 sizs sheet with a mobile no name offering con roofs done for £5!
Title: Re: Summer brigade!!
Post by: Ian Lancaster on August 22, 2008, 02:49:06 pm
i quoted a filthy new huge house...( new build)...and side converted barn..

£50... and 35 thereafter.... wife said yes ... hubby said i can get a guy to do it for a tenner....


i said.. bye. ;D
classic ;D
go back and make sure wife has your number
tell her to ring you when tenner guy stops coming
which will probly be the next time he is due ;D



Ask them what they're going to do if he puts a ladder through a window

(No name, address, only a mobile no etc etc)
Title: Re: Summer brigade!!
Post by: MJH on August 22, 2008, 06:06:28 pm
i quoted a filthy new huge house...( new build)...and side converted barn..

£50... and 35 thereafter.... wife said yes ... hubby said i can get a guy to do it for a tenner....


i said.. bye. ;D

I had a similar one was it crossgates mate?
Title: Re: Summer brigade!!
Post by: geefree on August 22, 2008, 06:56:32 pm
yes did you get the job.... not saying your the tenner guy at all.... just asking bud..  :)
Title: Re: Summer brigade!!
Post by: MJH on August 22, 2008, 07:17:51 pm
As yet still waiting mate, i will be suprised if it doesn't come my way i know what the other quotes were ;)
Title: Re: Summer brigade!!
Post by: geefree on August 22, 2008, 07:50:32 pm
the big house and barn ?
Title: Re: Summer brigade!!
Post by: MJH on August 22, 2008, 08:09:51 pm
the big house and barn ?
Sorry mate, got confused with our telephone conversation yesterday!!! But i did do one near the industrial estate one off job, nice house and no not a tenner ha
Title: Re: Summer brigade!!
Post by: tonyoliver on August 22, 2008, 08:35:31 pm
summer and winter start ups are fine we all started this way except me i worked on a  firm for a year lernt the job the hard way commercial price work is a killer .put what i learned to good use 20 years later .........
ithe main issue with the i will do your school for a tenner is when theygo and the custy calls you  call you and you say£££££££££££££ they say how much and think you are ripping them off big time. yet even as a fast and properly equiped wc we know what the rate for the job shoul be the hourly rate for them appears to be just a few quid an hour also we have to repair the damage done to confidence in our proffesion now that is what is so gauling when they f off and leave us to pick up the peices it gives the cust the impression that we are all beer money  dole scroungers ect when the truth is the opposite that what put us into disrepute