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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Which system have you got?
« Last post by dd on January 09, 2026, 06:28:24 pm »You would probably pay more if you refused.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Which system have you got?
« Last post by tlwcs on January 09, 2026, 06:17:12 pm »I’d have asked if I could take discount instead!You get a free wife when you renew your insurance.D.I.Y sounds great in fact on my first system that's exactly what I did it was delivered on a pallet. I remember getting my local garage to bolt the tank frame to the floor which they did with spreader plates on my old Ford Connect. TCW fits for free if you have a system off them but as I'm looking for a flat lay tank this time around I'm going to have to look elsewhere because they only sell upright versions.
I was led to believe that if your tank wasn't professionally fitted then your insurance would be void. I've just renewed my insurance with Howden who I've been with for a while at a cost of only £360. Very cheap I thought.
I renewed mine last month- £91.30 for 12 months fully comp! 😀
What van have you got ? Can’t understand why it’s so cheap , what’s the excess ?
I was wrong, it's actually £101.30.😂
2011 fiat scudo.
£50 compulsory and £250 voluntary.
Uninsured driver guarantee
Courtney van
Glass and locks covered
Protected no claims
Fully comp and wife included. 👍
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Which system have you got?
« Last post by JandS on January 09, 2026, 03:47:50 pm »Had the tank professionally fitted but did the rest DIY.....it's hardly rocket science with cold water system.....RO system in garage.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Which system have you got?
« Last post by dd on January 09, 2026, 02:09:03 pm »You get a free wife when you renew your insurance.D.I.Y sounds great in fact on my first system that's exactly what I did it was delivered on a pallet. I remember getting my local garage to bolt the tank frame to the floor which they did with spreader plates on my old Ford Connect. TCW fits for free if you have a system off them but as I'm looking for a flat lay tank this time around I'm going to have to look elsewhere because they only sell upright versions.
I was led to believe that if your tank wasn't professionally fitted then your insurance would be void. I've just renewed my insurance with Howden who I've been with for a while at a cost of only £360. Very cheap I thought.
I renewed mine last month- £91.30 for 12 months fully comp! 😀
What van have you got ? Can’t understand why it’s so cheap , what’s the excess ?
I was wrong, it's actually £101.30.😂
2011 fiat scudo.
£50 compulsory and £250 voluntary.
Uninsured driver guarantee
Courtney van
Glass and locks covered
Protected no claims
Fully comp and wife included. 👍
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Nightmare customers
« Last post by markymark on January 09, 2026, 11:22:16 am »You'll get the dross at first as you sift through the rubbish you take on at the start just to get the round built. When you've got a reliable round producing work and money at the desired rate it's a lot easier to let the pita customers go - the same ones who complain they can never find a reliable cleaner. And by 'reliable' they mean :
1) turns up at a moments notice when customer decides they need their windows cleaning.
2) can 100% accurately predict the customers interpretation of good weather, and conversely bad weather.
3) Is happy to be turned away half way through a clean because of >insert reason here<. And not be paid for the work they've already done.
4) Doesn't require the payment that the customer has already decided the job is worth, usually a fiver for a detached 4 bed with conservatory, veluxes and roof lantern. You'll be fine for them to wait to remember to pay you because "oh its only a fiver, you're not that desperate are you?"
5) Can also provide pet amusement services whilst dodging the mounds of dog poo and simultaneously fending off their £3k worth of mongrel ("oh its a cockerlabradoodle" - yeah, you mean mongrel) who has "never bit anyone". Then follows the game where its knicked a squeegee and is now ragging it to pieces, to the amusement of the householder. Or has lunged at the brush, grabbed it an wrestled you for it until the amused owner decides it might cost them in vet dental bills and demands you stop letting it attack your gear.
Yeah, I miss those customers
1) turns up at a moments notice when customer decides they need their windows cleaning.
2) can 100% accurately predict the customers interpretation of good weather, and conversely bad weather.
3) Is happy to be turned away half way through a clean because of >insert reason here<. And not be paid for the work they've already done.
4) Doesn't require the payment that the customer has already decided the job is worth, usually a fiver for a detached 4 bed with conservatory, veluxes and roof lantern. You'll be fine for them to wait to remember to pay you because "oh its only a fiver, you're not that desperate are you?"
5) Can also provide pet amusement services whilst dodging the mounds of dog poo and simultaneously fending off their £3k worth of mongrel ("oh its a cockerlabradoodle" - yeah, you mean mongrel) who has "never bit anyone". Then follows the game where its knicked a squeegee and is now ragging it to pieces, to the amusement of the householder. Or has lunged at the brush, grabbed it an wrestled you for it until the amused owner decides it might cost them in vet dental bills and demands you stop letting it attack your gear.
Yeah, I miss those customers
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Which system have you got?
« Last post by ֍Winp®oClean֍ on January 09, 2026, 10:56:19 am »D.I.Y sounds great in fact on my first system that's exactly what I did it was delivered on a pallet. I remember getting my local garage to bolt the tank frame to the floor which they did with spreader plates on my old Ford Connect. TCW fits for free if you have a system off them but as I'm looking for a flat lay tank this time around I'm going to have to look elsewhere because they only sell upright versions.
I was led to believe that if your tank wasn't professionally fitted then your insurance would be void. I've just renewed my insurance with Howden who I've been with for a while at a cost of only £360. Very cheap I thought.
I renewed mine last month- £91.30 for 12 months fully comp! 😀
What van have you got ? Can’t understand why it’s so cheap , what’s the excess ?
I was wrong, it's actually £101.30.😂
2011 fiat scudo.
£50 compulsory and £250 voluntary.
Uninsured driver guarantee
Courtney van
Glass and locks covered
Protected no claims
Fully comp and wife included. 👍
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Anyone moved from CP to squeegee?
« Last post by Plankton on January 09, 2026, 09:52:41 am »I had forgotten about the MTD so checked with Aworka and they'll have it integrated, so one less thing to think about for me.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Weather!
« Last post by zesty on January 08, 2026, 09:33:31 pm »I took the Monday and Tuesday off 
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Water Sloshing in flat tank
« Last post by KS Cleaning on January 08, 2026, 08:50:37 pm »I’m not very creative😆I’m going to buy some perforated drainage pipe tomorrow, hopefully this will stop the sloshing. Downside is I fitted an immersion to the tank for the cold winter mornings that I’ll no longer be able to use.
If you were creative you could probbaly make a wire mesh cage round the element to stop the plastic pipe touching it, not sure how you would fix it though, some sort of underwater epoxy.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Water Sloshing in flat tank
« Last post by Stoots on January 08, 2026, 07:50:28 pm »I’m going to buy some perforated drainage pipe tomorrow, hopefully this will stop the sloshing. Downside is I fitted an immersion to the tank for the cold winter mornings that I’ll no longer be able to use.
If you were creative you could probbaly make a wire mesh cage round the element to stop the plastic pipe touching it, not sure how you would fix it though, some sort of underwater epoxy.