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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: ok cleaning on September 16, 2008, 05:27:53 pm

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Post by: ok cleaning on September 16, 2008, 05:27:53 pm
hi everyone do you notice that there are ,more and more window cleaners on the road now i notice someone new nearly everyday . lookslike that everyredundant person is becoming a wc
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Post by: trike on September 16, 2008, 05:55:39 pm
yes you never saw many them years ago,now there everywere,i know a few who started but they didnt last long,as soon as winter hits ther gone,i sold a round,guy done it twice,never saw him again,i got all the work back how mad is that.
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Post by: simon knight on September 16, 2008, 06:03:25 pm

Yep, every other van or car seems to have a set of pointers on the roof. I smell undercutting in the air >:(
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Post by: Tosh on September 16, 2008, 06:40:58 pm
hi everyone do you notice that there are ,more and more window cleaners on the road now i notice someone new nearly everyday . lookslike that everyredundant person is becoming a wc

I wouldn't worry, I'm in my seventh year of window cleaning and I can only think of one full-time window cleaner who started after me and has stuck it for more than three years (Terry P for the local guys; and since he's paid off his mortgage, he's planning on winding his round down); and given the abysmal Summer we've had; I've never seen it rain so much; coupled with the Credit Crunch, I think new starters won't be finding it that easy.
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Post by: dave0123 on September 16, 2008, 06:42:59 pm
ive also noticed a few more cars on the road with dodgy ladders or step ladders on the roof! they stare at me so i stare back!

Ive never understood the staring bit ???
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Post by: NWH on September 16, 2008, 06:45:01 pm
ive also noticed a few more cars on the road with dodgy ladders or step ladders on the roof! they stare at me so i stare back!

Ive never understood the staring bit ???
LOL they do stare don`t they,get orrrrrfffff my laaaaanndd. ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: seandyer2003 on September 16, 2008, 06:46:09 pm
ive also noticed a few more cars on the road with dodgy ladders or step ladders on the roof! they stare at me so i stare back!

Ive never understood the staring bit ???

haha, i know what you mean, i see wc's everywhere at minute but they all look like like walked out of an AA meeting, and i dont mean the car rescue firm....
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Post by: trike on September 16, 2008, 06:47:26 pm
the other day,four fellas all got out of a car,all took a ladder each,all done same house,looked at me and laughed,i was using wfp,they put ladders on and away they went,they only done the one house
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Post by: dai on September 16, 2008, 07:05:32 pm
There is nothing that gets a window cleaners attention more, than the rattle of aluminium ladders when they're not his.
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Post by: Clive McDonald on September 16, 2008, 07:29:35 pm
I'm a minority cleaner where I live (other window cleaners have most of the work), but one keeps selling his work to different people, so we now have at least three more teams on  to top of what was already about four of us.(they all seem to do a good job but from custies comments they are sick of new faces every month)
Annoying.
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Post by: dave0123 on September 16, 2008, 08:51:00 pm
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[/quLOL they do stare don`t they,get orrrrrfffff my laaaaanndd.   


lol yeah, i feel like getting signs put on my van so when they stare they wil see,

Ive got my work... youve got your work.... so what you f**n starin at LTD ;D ;D
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Post by: L.J.Thorpe on September 16, 2008, 09:04:51 pm
get ready to see plenty more ;)
redundant joe ::)
coming soon to a town near you
with all that redundancy money,burning a hole in ionics pockets ;D
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Post by: Rob.Hall on September 16, 2008, 09:09:30 pm
They will be very up market. Ex bankers/brockers and all that.  ;D

Working in suits no doubt  ;)
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Post by: dave0123 on September 16, 2008, 09:13:56 pm
 ;D lol
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Post by: L.J.Thorpe on September 16, 2008, 09:25:55 pm
They will be very up market. Ex bankers/brockers and all that.  ;D

Working in suits no doubt  ;)
mind you the 5000 or so that worked for that yank bank may not even get paid
and anyway....plenty of merchant bankers on here already ;D
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Post by: Oakley Windows on September 16, 2008, 09:40:18 pm
They will be very up market. Ex bankers/brockers and all that.  ;D

Working in suits no doubt  ;)
mind you the 5000 or so that worked for that yank bank may not even get paid
and anyway....plenty of merchant bankers on here already ;D

Merchant what?

;D
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Post by: seandyer2003 on September 16, 2008, 09:52:14 pm
They will be very up market. Ex bankers/brockers and all that.  ;D

Working in suits no doubt  ;)

Very true, one of my rounds came from a redundant banker a few years back....
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Post by: Tim82 on September 16, 2008, 10:25:11 pm
hi everyone do you notice that there are ,more and more window cleaners on the road now i notice someone new nearly everyday . lookslike that everyredundant person is becoming a wc

Yeah but how long is it til they become redundant again?  ;D
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Post by: vision tech on September 16, 2008, 10:40:34 pm
Dai
 spot on mate,every time i hear another ladder i nearly fall of mine looking round to see who it is and where they are.
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Post by: johnny_h on September 16, 2008, 10:48:16 pm
this is my 3rd year and i have never seen so many new guys 2 new ones were doing one i dumped last month and my custy commented that i have competition on the street i said why not ask them to quote for you then? not b***dy likely they wont be about come november like you will .... there for not competition