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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Where Does The Time Go?
« Last post by Simon Trapani on Yesterday at 07:43:24 pm »I’ve still got some of my original customers. 34 years this year!
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: How cheap is cheap.
« Last post by Scottish Cleaning Service on Yesterday at 06:50:15 pm »My best customers are usually pensioners. They all appreciate my work and pay on time. I raised my prices by a Pound and still have everyone that went up.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Where Does The Time Go?
« Last post by dd on Yesterday at 06:36:00 pm »I started in 1988, I still have a few original customers (from the first year or so of trading), although I still clean quite a few of the original houses, just for new people.
When I started aged 23, all my customers were older than me. Now at 61, I am older than a lot of my customers.
When I started aged 23, all my customers were older than me. Now at 61, I am older than a lot of my customers.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Where Does The Time Go?
« Last post by Splash and dash on Yesterday at 06:32:39 pm »It's even stranger when you suddenly realise those customers who had babies when you started cleaning are now adults.
I have customers that when I started doing there windows didn’t have kids , now they have grown up kids that have left home and we do there Windows as well 😂 makes you feel old
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Where Does The Time Go?
« Last post by The Jester of Wibbly on Yesterday at 05:52:20 pm »It's even stranger when you suddenly realise those customers who had babies when you started cleaning are now adults.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Where Does The Time Go?
« Last post by AuRavelling79 on Yesterday at 05:39:28 pm »The customer I have cleaned for the longest time is a commercial one.
I've cleaned it monthly since 1999.
I've cleaned it monthly since 1999.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Where Does The Time Go?
« Last post by Bungle on Yesterday at 04:31:54 pm »I'm sat here inputting the work I've done today. On the screen it tells me when I first started cleaning the windows at each job. I've been gobsmacked by the amount of years I've been cleaning some of them. I genuinely thought I'd been cleaning some of them for 5 years or so, but they're like 10 years plus.
It's scary. Where has the time gone?
It's scary. Where has the time gone?
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: How cheap is cheap.
« Last post by AuRavelling79 on Yesterday at 01:22:35 pm »Get your prices up now people.
Why now?
Your customers don't pay council tax on February 1st and March 1st.
The pensioners get 4.8% extra in April (8% last April) that's £50 a month.
Why now?
Your customers don't pay council tax on February 1st and March 1st.
The pensioners get 4.8% extra in April (8% last April) that's £50 a month.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Purefreedom Reelmaster
« Last post by NBwcs on Yesterday at 11:04:44 am »Don't think you've thought this through enough Scottish. What if the incredibly reliable PF reel, which has been known to be still in good working order after 9 years malfunctions, meaning you have to switch to your new £1k reel, and then some idiot hits your van, damaging the new reel, you'll be absolutely bollockest. Surely any self respecting windy needs a minimum requirement of 3 reels, (one at the front) if they want to be out "trousering" all day.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Purefreedom Reelmaster
« Last post by AuRavelling79 on February 16, 2026, 11:12:17 pm »... because a complex oil drilling platform cutting miles through sea, rock and the Earth's crust to a pressurised sea of oil and gas in the elements of the North Sea is going to have the same corrosion and degredation in 7 years as your electric reel has while sat in a van for 24 hours, eh Scottish?
It works for me, after 18 years my van is still going and hope my new reels last as long. I now have everything I need after 7 years as a window cleaner so hopefully no outgoings in the future and I can save up for a new van.
Scottish - my van is 14 years old, my Claber reels and pumps about 7.
I don't intend buying another van.
It's the youngest vehicle I've got.
You will need to replace your Xtremes though.
