Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: cockney rebel on February 14, 2010, 02:47:37 pm
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How long has everybody been cleaning windows for. I'm in my third year now. ;D
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16 years
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Coming up to my 12th year now, God that makes me feel old and im only 29..........
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6 years now and last year was my best ever for new customers contracts etc
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It would be interesting to know how old is the oldest tradder, but give or take a couple of years to keep their age private if they want. :)
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Started in the late 60's (can't remember the exact year). Still have a day's work a month that I do 'trad'
Turned 65 in December. ;)
There's at least two others on here older than me and still working full time on ladders :o :o
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26 years, 20 years trad and 6 wfp
We have a saying .... that old window cleaners never die.... they just come round less often. ;D ;D
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We have a saying .... that old window cleaners never die.... they just come round less often. ;D ;D
Hee, Hee... ;D
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I have a mate who retired (not through choice)at 65 as a window fabricator, he hated doing nothing so started a small window round, him and his wife did it for a few years till she got very poorly so he sold me 90% of his work keeping back a few bungalows to “give him something to do”
After his wife recovered his round just kept growing.
He is now back to 5 full days a week, on ladders in all weathers. He is 74 and looks fitter now than he did the day they kicked him out of the factory at 65.
I keep telling him its time to give in coz I want his work ha ha
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20/21 years..... cant remember ??? think its cause im nearly 40 :o ::)
trad for 99% of that :-X
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6 years - age 63 and rising fast (my age that is - nothing else rises fast these days !! :( )
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wish i had a tenner for every time this subject comes around ;D
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my mate ben cleaning 38 years since he started with his dad,and hes still as fast as a rat.
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WC for 6 years
52
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14 years with one 18 month break and one 11 month break ...just started up from scratch again ..... ;D
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14 Years then 10 year break (building and plumbing trade)
Been back wc for 11 months now
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Cleaned windows first in 1959 when I worked for a guy for 6 months,
Went back to it 15 years ago, 3 and a half years WFP.
I'm 67 and can't retire as my Mrs is expecting in 6 weeks time.
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Cleaned windows first in 1959 when I worked for a guy for 6 months,
Went back to it 15 years ago, 3 and a half years WFP.
I'm 67 and can't retire as my Mrs is expecting in 6 weeks time.
;D ;D ;D go on dai lad ;D ;D
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started 13 years ago , drifted away 4 a while but now bak at it and lovin it
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25yrs
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Cleaned windows first in 1959 when I worked for a guy for 6 months,
Went back to it 15 years ago, 3 and a half years WFP.
I'm 67 and can't retire as my Mrs is expecting in 6 weeks time.
Dai I take it you're Welsh? You boyos believe in living life to the full, don't you? Can I be rude and ask how old your Mrs is? :o :o :o
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Cleaned windows first in 1959 when I worked for a guy for 6 months,
Went back to it 15 years ago, 3 and a half years WFP.
I'm 67 and can't retire as my Mrs is expecting in 6 weeks time.
Dai I take it you're Welsh? You boyos believe in living life to the full, don't you? Can I be rude and ask how old your Mrs is? :o :o :o
My Mrs is a lovely 33 year old Indonesian, The nicest person I ever met.
Her cooking is to die for, and I've put on 2 stone in the 6 years we have been married.
Only 4ft 10 ins tall, and looks like humpty dumpty at the moment.
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I started trad in 1987. Been wfp for last 3 years aged 51.
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1988 :'(
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Started when I left the Army in 1973 full time until a drunken customer, female came up to me in the pub and said jokingly 'can I pay in kind again this month? ' unfortunately my wife at the time didnt see it as a joke and I was forced to find another job. Worst thing was I'd only cleaned her windows.
Cleaned windows part time until last April when went full time, with another partner! Loving every minute of it, wish i'd done it ages ago, worked through the snow, nothing compared to 20yrs as a sales rep.
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4 year's all trad,cant see meself goin wfp,no need at moment ;D
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36 years