Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Klean07 on December 21, 2008, 02:56:29 pm
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Some people really make me laugh with some of the excuses they give for not wanting windows cleaned. Here are some of the ones that I've experienced recently.
"Oh can you miss me this time I've just had drive block paved and don't want any water getting on it"
"Erm can we leave the windows this time because our relatives are here from Australia"
"Can you come back next week because my husband is in bed with the flu"
They must think we wcs are damn stupid or something.
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"Can we leave them this time because the wife and myself are clay-pigeon shooting"
We never called back (£50 a time barn conversion)
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Can we leave it this time round as a spider has made her web in the corner of the living room window...I watched her make it and she worked so hard!
Never returned ;D
Why don't people just say: A bit short this month, can I skip it this time round?
I've been strapped for cash more times than I would care to remember so readily understand that clean windows aren't important compared to putting grub on the table or paying the mortgage/ rent.
I suppose it's a pride thing ::) with some people!
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"Can we leave them this time because the wife and myself are Clay-Pigeon shooting"
We never called back (£50 a time barn conversion)
Well at least the clay pigeons wouldn't be able to poo on the windows ;)
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How about "I'm sorry mate but they really don't need doing" I had to agree with him.
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Not today thank you - all the recent rain and bad weather has washed them clean. ???
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I do them myself ! Want to say well there minging thats why i knocked .
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Can you leave it for two weeks as Im in!
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Not today - I haven't cleaned the insides yet!
Also i had "not today can't you see i'm decorating the bedroom?"
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Not today my husband is home and he thinks I do them myself ;D
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had one say to me
you cannot do them today as i am going out ::)
she,s history
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I had 1 say "I could squirt a hose on them myself" (about the wfp system).
I said "ok then, you do that" ::)
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I'm going to have to cancel, its not me its Bob. He says the house gets wet enough without you washing the windows.
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Not today thank you - all the recent rain and bad weather has washed them clean. ???
Actually that is true. Rain water being pure enough to do the job.
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OK everyone ready for this. Honestly it's true.
"Can you give it a miss please because the CAT is not well"
Yes the world stopped because the cat wasn't feeling too well ;D
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Matt.
No guesses which area this one came from.......Tadley ;D
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That would explain it!
I never knew you went out there too. You get about a bit dont you!!
BTW Neil Happy Christmas to you and you better half if I dont see you before. Hope next year is good and prosperous for you both.
Matt
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BTW Neil Happy Christmas to you and you better half if I dont see you before. Hope next year is good and prosperous for you both.
Same to you Matt.
We only a few there now, all located before you reach the swimming pool roundabout. After that point the brain cells diminish at an alarming rate the closer you get to the Atomic Weapons Establishment ;D ;D ;D
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They have brain cells to diminish? ;D
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Not this time - my (5 year old) son isn't well
Not this time - it maked the dog bark
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could you leave the windows we have company,well thats another one ill just collet in without cleaning them ;)
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"Can you leave them for a few months as we're going to Africa"
They haven't been away for the last 3 months so far!!
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Can you leave them this time as the long range weather forecast says there's going to be gales and rain at the end of next week. (This was on a Monday morning)
Another one that didn't get any more visits.
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All the newbie's will be picking up these dropped customers, and then a new thread will start this time next year with the same excuses :)
Andy
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The most annoying reason given to me was, "you wont get paid". That's good though as I'd been looking for a reason to drop this one.
Simon.
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Can you leave them till spring time , I cant see the point in having them cleaned when they will be just as dirty tomorrow. DUMPED!
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can u not do windows i have the flu, I thought to my self I wonder if his windows have caught it. ;D
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It's not a best, but pathetic excuse. I did the house next door and he waited until I drove out of that house and back down the drive into his before coming out and saying " we don't want them cleaning any more because we're not doing the insides." I can kind of see the logic that if you are going to have dirty windows they may as well be dirty inside and out, but what p'ed me off was him waiting until I'd moved rather than speaking to me over the fence. I still do the next door and am dying for him to ask me to resume ;D Oh, what shall I say......
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I've had two customers watch me set up my hose and come out just as I'm about to pole and say: leave the windows "'cause you'll start the dog barking", both told politely to take a run and jump and are on my history list. Start as you mean to go on is one of my mottos, don't except lame excuses as that type of customer is dumped from the start of trouble.
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one shop front, the owner says "come back later, I'm busy" I never did go back, ever. from that comment you would have thought he helps me clean his windows!!! ???
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Cleaned the whole house... last window just finished...
Lady of the house appears;
Her... "Erm, I thought you had finished? They said you had and cleaned them yesterday!)
Me... So why did you watch me clean them then?
Her... "I don't know really! I'm not paying though!"
SPEECHLESS! :o >:(
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Cleaned the whole house... last window just finished...
Lady of the house appears;
Her... "Erm, I thought you had finished? They said you had and cleaned them yesterday!)
Me... So why did you watch me clean them then?
Her... "I don't know really! I'm not paying though!"
SPEECHLESS! :o >:(
dropped i guess.
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Cleaned the whole house... last window just finished...
Lady of the house appears;
Her... "Erm, I thought you had finished? They said you had and cleaned them yesterday!)
Me... So why did you watch me clean them then?
Her... "I don't know really! I'm not paying though!"
SPEECHLESS! :o >:(
dropped i guess.
E N F U R I A T I N G ! ! ! ! ! !
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Cleaned the whole house... last window just finished...
Lady of the house appears;
Her... "Erm, I thought you had finished? They said you had and cleaned them yesterday!)
Me... So why did you watch me clean them then?
Her... "I don't know really! I'm not paying though!"
SPEECHLESS! :o >:(
dropped i guess.
E N F U R I A T I N G ! ! ! ! ! !
dont think i would have been speechless >:(
think i would have been tempted to smash every blooming window ;D
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All the newbie's will be picking up these dropped customers, and then a new thread will start this time next year with the same excuses :)
Andy
...and thus completing the circle of life ;D