Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: LWC on January 29, 2009, 10:03:51 pm
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I know 9 time out of 10 husbands dont want us to clean the windows but they can be so rude.
Got to one tonight and i was like "hello window cleaner"
Get the look "yeh...." real short
"Cleaned your windows the other day"
"yeh....."
"just collecting the money?"
"i aint got any money"
"ok"
He was really ambrupt (spelling?) Stood there feeling really embarassed, theres no need for them to be so rude.
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Yep,use to get it myself when i did alot of domestic
Went like this, Knock on door
Husband would answer "ye"
Me "window cleaner"
Husband "her ins`nt in"
Me GOBSMACKED
What the hell is wrong with some people ??? >:(
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Yeah ive got a few like this but I give them back exactly what I get.
One tells me not to bother no more as he will do em, so next month I go back I knock on door and missus comes out and I ask if she wants em done as hubby said leave it, and she says yeah he told me what he had said, but he wont do em , so carry on doing them,. She then said she was going out so when finished knock and he'l pay you.
He comes out all sheepish, pays me, I just smile at him take me money and walk off.
Love it!!
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Abrupt(if ya wondered) when am i gonna get the title of CIU spellchecker?lol Mate,sometimes people and quite often,insignificant men(in my experience too) raise their ugly head. It's probably nothing personal at all. Just the run o the mill control freak who frequents in physical matrimonial activities,if ya know what i mean. I think i've built up a psychological profile of people like this. Just nasty twats. Me? I'd move on. Ok, fellow comrades,slaughter me :-X
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"i aint got any money"
So you take a step forward, have plenty of eye-contact, and say, 'I will take a cheque...'
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I didn't call them fools....I called them Tw*ts......stop monitering my cursing ;D
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"i aint got any money"
So you take a step forward, have plenty of eye-contact, and say, 'I will take a cheque...'
I usually do but this guy looked like he wouldnt of minded lamping me one...eek
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Have ya got an ettore scraper LWC? ;D
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Have ya got an ettore scraper LWC? ;D
Lol, yeh, in m back pocket all the time, handy little tools them!
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if the hubby answers the door, i allways ask " is she in "
seems to allways get there attention ;)
if they are not it, i always say, oh i will call back then
they then ask, whats its about
oh its ok i reply
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Quality Matt...........Can't beat the occasional mind game ;D I'd chuck in "Oh she asked me to do her insides too" That oughta boil the blood ;)
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If there in I always give them the choice of paying there and then or sending a cheque, I hate it when they are running around raiding the kids piggy banks just to pay, I really am very relaxed about payments and I feel my customers respect that and pay promptly anyway, and I always have a steady flow of cheques through the post and very few problems.
I also feel that if they regularly don't have cash around and your at the door demanding it they are more likely to say forget it.
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I can see this post running for a while 8)
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I act dumb(quite easy).I put up with a bit of ignorance then trample over their flower beds on the way back to the van.If they are too rude,i don't take any s*&@.
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In 24 years of window cleaning, I have never gone round collecting so have not encountered this. Either they pay me when I do the job, so if the husband is there when you clean they feel part of the process so have no problems or I never see the husband - just a cheque in the post.
I have also found that quite often it is the husband that initiates the WC process as they want a 'way out' of doing it themselves. This is exactly what I have done, I arranged for another window cleaner to clean my windows once a month and I pay him by standing order. Means they get done regularly and I do not get nagged. It means that I am always glad to see the window cleaner.
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I agree about the husbands thing. They're a pain.
Another thing that happens is when the bloke sees you when you turn up, and it's the wife you know, not him...
More often than not he says "no thanks mate!" >:(
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Abrupt(if ya wondered) when am i gonna get the title of CIU spellchecker?lol Mate,sometimes people and quite
Generally you put spaces between words ;)
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Don't collect, don't collect, don't collect, don't collect, don't collect ...
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Abrupt(if ya wondered) when am i gonna get the title of CIU spellchecker?lol Mate,sometimes people and quite
Generally you put spaces between words ;)
Cheeky sod. My spacecheckers broken ;D
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The wife isnt in!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Just had message on phone with the wife (shes really nice) apologising...poor girl
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Get in there ;D
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If you had a misses like mine you'd go collecting too.
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If you had a misses like mine you'd go collecting too.
here here lol!
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Don't collect, don't collect, don't collect, don't collect, don't collect ...
I like collecting :)
I get to see customers face to face that otherwise I'd never see.
I like the chat on the doorstep and it helps give my service the 'personal' touch ;)
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I'm currently skint; though all the bills and shopping have been paid/covered (just); but I'm outstanding just about all of my commercial work payments I've done this month, and a few from last month too (it all adds up to a tidy sum I could book a holiday with); and I did them all at the beggining of the month.
The only thing I like about collecting from domestic customers is that it keeps my cash flow to a reasonable level; especially at times like now; and I can cover the bills.
I really dislike being skint when I'm owed so much money.
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A lady asked if we could quote for her house, so we did, and put a card through her letterbox while she was out. We then hear that the husband refuses to pay for the windows to be done and that HE will do them himself (yh ok). Lady has given him an ultimatum, do the windows within the next two weeks or we get the job...lol He works 12 hour shifts, the windows are mostly leads, one sitting above a pitched roof and two large sets of patio doors, one of which is on the 1st floor !!
Oh I do like it when the female of the species puts her foot down ;D
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A lady asked if we could quote for her house, so we did, and put a card through her letterbox while she was out. We then hear that the husband refuses to pay for the windows to be done and that HE will do them himself (yh ok). Lady has given him an ultimatum, do the windows within the next two weeks or we get the job...lol He works 12 hour shifts, the windows are mostly leads, one sitting above a pitched roof and two large sets of patio doors, one of which is on the 1st floor !!
Oh I do like it when the female of the species puts her foot down ;D
PMSL, I was the Male in these situations 12 months ago, we got town house and my missus asked a w/c how much, £15 was his price, i told her theres no way and that ill do them, lol she said, if you say so, within 2 months id bought a renault trafic, got 650 ltr system put in and now i clean my own windows (when i can be bothered) oh and when i now quote for 3 storey town houses i know exactly what the man of the house says when the doors shut ;D
Chris
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lol excellent story Chris ;D Somehow I don't think this guy will be starting up though ::)
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one of the reasons i wont colect is the attitude of the husbands and hate it even more if they are in when i do them they seem to think its so easy have been told " dont bother mate " and not gone back only to be confronted by the wife who went totally nuts when she found hed cancelled he does them now every now and again ive been told takes up most of his saturday when he does