Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: pdhanson on December 20, 2003, 01:50:35 am
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Has anyone else noticed how there are few Lady window cleaners?
I work with my wife, (she does bottoms, I do tops) and customers are always commenting on how nice it is to have a lady coming to clean their windows, especially if the insides are to do.
I've only ever seen 1 other girl window cleaner.
Perhaps with the advent of the Waterfed pole, and ladders not needing to be carried around we'll see more in the future.
(Not that Ladies can't carry ladders of course!)
Silly
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Hi Silly Philly,
About 10 years ago i had a young lady apply for a window cleaning job and i thought i would give her a job but only if she was treated the same as the others. She gave the job up after about two weeks because she said it was to hard going but i don't know how she would have got on today with water fed poles ???
Steve
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Hi Silly Philly
When I first started about 15 years ago my Mother in Law worked with me. She got herself a small pair of steps (the pointer - which I made - was too heavy for her) and she took some keeping up with. All the ladies, who, lets face it are our customers, loved it.
I would have no hesitation in taking on a lady
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Sounds to me like you prefer t*ts and your misses prefers bums!! ;D ;D Only joking!
I have been in the cleaning business for approx 8 yrs and have never come across a female window cleaner. (not to say we couldn't do it!) I think it would be the fact of working outside all day more than anything else.
I find clients like female cleaners for some reason they think they do a better job! :D good thread for the general cleaning - off there now - check it out! :)
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i was in a partnership until 2 years ago with a lady.
a lot of customers liked a female touch. but the hour waiting till they finished gossiping slowed work down a wee bit.
i did suggest she wear a skirt all she did was slap me
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I work with my missis and she's very good. She's only five foot one, so permenantly carries round a set of six foot A-Frames and we have our own little systems going which make for quicker cleaning.
I've been window cleaning for about a year and around here, I earn around £13 to £18 quid an hour (on days I don't have a trillion drive-betweens). It is quite a prosperous area mind. With Helen it increases to £20 to £25 quid an hour.
So I can't complain apart from... she always wants the bloody toilet, although she will pee behind sheds if she's sure no-one is watching.
Oh, and there was the time we were arguing and she dropped her belt kit, threw her A-Frames at me and told me to "stick my job up my arse"!
We've found that if she works three days a week - we get on fine. Any more than that, we get on each others nipple ends.
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wow ...i took my wife out for a while when i was a little cheesed of with the cusomers.(like u do)
anyway i could have wrote the above...apart from the fact it was a the book she threw a me
i
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I wonder if they would be better door knockers
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theirs a wench in chester works
with a crew ov 3 shes faster lol all shop work trad
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Hi,
I've worked with my wife for about 10 years now, I do the tops, she does the bottoms & collects.
We were trad' until 2 years ago; now WFP, we have 2 Pure Freedom trolleys, I still do tops & she uses a short car cleaning pole to do the bottoms, she still does the collecting, we find it works a treat & the custy's do like the fact that there is a lady cleaning their windows, however I agree that we can get on each others nerves at times, but if we anticipate this we can avoid probs :-X.
Great forum chaps- keep up the good work ;).
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For the past year i've training a lady who'll work with my wife when the weather breaks. She used to be in the Police in rotterdam. And as she is well competent with a magnum, I ask nicely.
Pretty good on the windows (wfp) but a tad too fast. Needs to slow down & rinse but I'm too scared to point it out.
Kevin.
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For the past year i've training a lady who'll work with my wife when the weather breaks. She used to be in the Police in rotterdam. And as she is well competent with a magnum, I ask nicely. Pretty good on the windows (wfp) but a tad too fast. Needs to slow down & rinse but I'm too scared to point it out.
Kevin.
In the summer that'll be a bonus - I prefer the dark chocolate ones! ;D
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there is a lady windy not far from where i live, ive never met her but been told she
is real busy ??? good on her ;D u go girl ;)
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Seeing as this old post has been resurrected, I'll join in.
There is a female cleaner works as part of a gang of four in our street. I have only seen her doing downstairs, never tops.
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For the past year i've training a lady who'll work with my wife when the weather breaks. She used to be in the Police in rotterdam. And as she is well competent with a magnum, I ask nicely.
Pretty good on the windows (wfp) but a tad too fast. Needs to slow down & rinse but I'm too scared to point it out.
Kevin.
The last year? Send her on an NVQ course and get her trained in a couple of minutes days.
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our Business consists of me and 4 female windy's :o :o
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Malc:
I classify how good a summer is by how many Magnum White Lolly sticks are in my tank by September. Last year was the worst, only 2.
Dave:
has been Fridays only. And I'm talking fully competent so I don't have to hold their hands & then I can help you with your overload!kevin