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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: pjulk on March 03, 2009, 07:04:02 pm

Title: How long have you been a window cleaner
Post by: pjulk on March 03, 2009, 07:04:02 pm: There is a lot of new window cleaners lately on this forum so was wondering how long most of the window cleaners on here have been window cleaners.

I have been cleaning windows i think is about 23 years.

Thats why im still a window cleaner as i have made myself unemployable in anything else.
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Post by: cozy on March 03, 2009, 07:09:33 pm: Pull up a sandbag and take ya helmets off boys. (rumble of thunder in the background) When I first started WC we had a horse with a leather bag on it's side to store water..................
erm ...Started April 89. Still broke ::)
so I've taken up drumming 8)
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Post by: Gordon Saunders on March 03, 2009, 07:10:54 pm: 9 years next month s/employed and 2 yrs employed so 11 in total .
was getting bored sick of it till the credit crunch livened things up and made it a challenge again.
G
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Post by: dave.e on March 03, 2009, 07:12:20 pm: 6 years now. god don't time fly when ya having fun
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Post by: poleman on March 03, 2009, 07:14:02 pm: Window Cleaner for 20 years 8) 8 years WFP 8) and 6 years on here :'( :-[

Andy
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Post by: GTR Windows on March 03, 2009, 07:18:29 pm: just starting up ;D
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Post by: elite mike on March 03, 2009, 07:21:08 pm: just over 28 years,

did a bit part time before that
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Post by: dave.e on March 03, 2009, 07:29:45 pm: Hi elite 28 years god mate you need acertificate.
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Post by: brett walker on March 03, 2009, 07:31:11 pm: 18 years 8)

brett
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Post by: elite mike on March 03, 2009, 07:33:22 pm: Quote from: dave@shine4u on March 03, 2009, 07:29:45 pm
Hi elite 28 years god mate you need acertificate.

hi dave

some say i am certifiable ;)
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Post by: mlscontractcleaner on March 03, 2009, 07:38:34 pm: Started out in 1992, after returning home from the FIRST Gulf War. I'm a chef by trade; learning to cook in the navy ( RFA ) but took up window cleaning after discovering that a civvie cook didn't earn as much as a navy cook. I love cooking but like earning a good living more ;).
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Post by: DaveG on March 03, 2009, 07:45:46 pm: originally started in 1983 for a few years......then went onto other things ..then came back to it early last year
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Post by: DCWC on March 03, 2009, 07:58:06 pm: I've been doing it 6 years, didn't even realise it was that long!

Daz
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Post by: supernova77 on March 03, 2009, 07:58:56 pm: 3 years, 4 months 8)

Andy
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Post by: CLEANGLASSUK on March 03, 2009, 08:10:26 pm: 8 Years wfp
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Post by: sparklebright on March 03, 2009, 08:19:36 pm: 6 years now, all but 3 months of that on WFP.

4 months of that I was still working as a Sales Rep., fortunately my company car had roofbars so I squeezed my calls into three days and window cleaned for the rest, cheeky aint the word :)
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Post by: Glyn H on March 03, 2009, 08:34:24 pm: 32 years
dont clean windows myself anymore but still run a commercial window cleaning company as well as Omnipole
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Post by: easy on March 03, 2009, 08:38:18 pm: 10 years...going on strong,WFP for around two years....
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Post by: choice.clean on March 03, 2009, 08:40:14 pm: started 1975 don't do much now just manage the business its where you need to be by 50
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Post by: Milltown Cleaning on March 03, 2009, 08:41:22 pm: 5 years window washing, power washing, roof spraying and anything else employed by someone else.
self employed for about 4months and about to go WFP!!
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Post by: neil100 on March 03, 2009, 09:57:15 pm: 29 years and counting.

Neil
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Post by: Dean Taberner on March 04, 2009, 07:22:49 am: 12 years :o :o :o :o

Dean
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Post by: S.A.J on March 04, 2009, 04:08:56 pm: 9 years for me and dont see myself doing anything else!!

Stuart
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Post by: pingu on March 04, 2009, 05:19:07 pm: Since Aug 06 and find it boring at times but thankfull that I am able to be bored..

Dave.
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Post by: pjdcleaning on March 04, 2009, 05:39:10 pm: 9 Years still going strong
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Post by: matt cloud on March 04, 2009, 05:40:48 pm: 22 years :o 4 months wfp god i wish i switch 20 years ago ;D
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Post by: Dean Aspects on March 04, 2009, 08:00:16 pm: Coming up to 13 years and in my 4th year wfp

Did it for a while when i was at school so i could buy myself an expensive pair of trainers then did it for another couple of years later on when i left school then did some other jobs before coming back and will probably do it till i retire as i cant and dont want to work for anyone else
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Post by: weetot on March 04, 2009, 08:50:03 pm: June 1983 while the pit strikes were on, stopped countin the years!
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Post by: dai on March 04, 2009, 10:24:46 pm: Started in 1958, did other things and got back into it 15 years ago, WFP 3.5 years.
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Post by: dave0123 on March 04, 2009, 10:43:32 pm: Five full years for me!
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Post by: geoffreyspecht on March 04, 2009, 11:01:35 pm: cleaning windws for 32 years
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Post by: mci services on March 04, 2009, 11:28:21 pm: started when i was about13/14 now 37, done saturdays as a teenager on a few houses my dad gave me to get some pocket money in, then worked off and on w/c till i was about 21 for my old man, then took a 15 year break and joined the army but everytime i came home on leave my old man had me on some contract that needed doing ::) so left the army 2007 and went self emloyed w/c
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Post by: AJ on March 05, 2009, 02:21:08 pm: 21 yrs ago i said 'its only till something comes up.'
If nothing else, i'm patient.
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Post by: D.Salkeld_Ltd on March 05, 2009, 09:45:59 pm: Quote from: matt cloud on March 04, 2009, 05:40:48 pm
22 years :o 4 months wfp god i wish i switch 20 years ago ;D

TOTALY Agree............except I've been 3yrs WFP

David
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Post by: dai on March 05, 2009, 10:12:20 pm: Quote from: Stan The Man on March 04, 2009, 10:37:49 pm
Quote from: dai on March 04, 2009, 10:24:46 pm
Started in 1958, did other things and got back into it 15 years ago, WFP 3.5 years.
thought i was old being born in 1958,Dia how old are you minium must be 65

67 next birthday. There were no squeegees around in those days, just a mop and a clean damp scrim.
No detergent allowed near either of them.
It's a shame that many window cleaners are unaware of just how good a clean, damp scrim is, had to be washed out very frequently though, and you had segs on your hands from wringing them.
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Post by: martindrz400 on March 06, 2009, 10:54:13 pm: well i started when i was 16 and im now 43 27 yrs and about 9 yrs wfp
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Post by: Dale Smith on March 06, 2009, 11:59:22 pm: 1 and a half yrs, and love it.. ;D