[jeff1]

watch out Somerset! My missus & family friend ( also Carla ) are taking to the streets on the quad 1 day a week from April!  Had a Brodex demo on monday for a light pole. I reckon in 2 months they'll be earnng £250 a day. And demo day was the 1st day on WFP. The only tedious bit with this quad set up is the reeling in. My only concern is that the chaps are drooling over the Bike already, so if they're overly impressed with the 2 lasses, the wives will bin us!

Kevin.

What part of Somerset Kev?

And to keep on topic Anna, my Mrs worked with me for years and now my daughter has taken over the round, there is also a couple of male and female teams around here.

[kevin James]

Hi jeff,
We're in Frome, where you to?

Kevin.

[jeff1]

Hi Kev
Were in Yeovil

[dave carroll]

yes my wife and she goes out by herself sometimes, she probably picks up more new work than me aswell. 8st ringin wetchucks a 24ft brodex about no problem.

    dave

[AuRavelling79]

Re mr gold: it's not a start up. Imtaking a day off looking after young lad, so wife can have a change of scenery & earn something for herself.
I thought this forum was to encourage all, not just for selfish interest. Maybe others would like to encourage their family members, of either sex, and before launching them it woyldbe good to know what financial returns are possible. You need to know the cost of the towerbefore building it. If startups worry you, then you should look to your foundations.

But those points weren't readily obvious from your post Kevin (May I use first name terms? Call me Malc by the way - I like to inhabit an informal and friendly forum  ) - as for the tower building analogy you need to know not just the return from building the tower but the context it is set in - as well as the costs too.

It's not simply selfish interest that makes me ask for forum members to desist from posting figures such as those you did - if inexperienced onlookers get the impression that all they need is a quad bike and a pole then they will soon get disillusioned.

[Tosh]

watch out Somerset! My missus & family friend ( also Carla ) are taking to the streets on the quad 1 day a week from April!  Had a Brodex demo on monday for a light pole. I reckon in 2 months they'll be earnng £250 a day.

Kevin.

Mr Gold has a valid point; this forum isn't for bragging about your daily turnover; even if you do it in a 'sideways' fashion.

[Chameleon]

My wife worked (Traditional) for over two years with me before the children came along!

Also, I would not say window cleaning is hard work!
It's boring, tedious, and anyone, that knows you, never thinks it's a real job, and treat you you as the lowest class of all classes!

Just look at the Scots
Up there you even need a license
(We must be scum, and we should watched at all costs!)

sorry lost it there for a mo! :

no the license is to prove you can sign your name.
that's why you don't have it in England

But I can sign my name,
I got a rubber stamp from Vistaprint, so I know it's me when signing!
  :

[kevin James]

malc, I take the point that inexperienced ones couldcome a cropper if they didn't ask enough questions. I'm trying to put the point across that van systems are the heritage if commercial work & fresh ideas such as the quad suit residential cleaning better. Afterall it's a motorized trolley capable of pulling 400 liters of pure. And my point is that two novice females can get a good return within months with such a system. Thanks for reply, though

Kevin

Mr tosh,
1) is £250 a day for two females bragging? (£125 each?)( I earn way above this myself but no figures)
2) if I was free braggin' would I have not started another thread rather than hiding it away on a thread on female cleaners? It was supposed to be informative & helpful to would be wfp lasses.

Thanks kevin
2) I ear

[Tosh]

Sigh!

[NWH]

Never look down on anybody unless your helping them up.

[kevin James]

Like that one.

Kevin.

[Londoner]

Back to the thread,  I have seen quite a few husband and wife teams about over the years. It really wouldn't work for me and my wife.

[Tosh]

I work with Wor Lass; she's pretty good; but still slow after seven years!

We rarely actually work together; we do our own separate areas and meet up for lunch; and it's a benefit.  People always approach her for quotes; rather than me; probably 'cos I'm ugly; in fact the last three (out of four) occassions where we've been 'nabbed' in the street it's been her they've asked.

Another benefit is she disciplines me.  Wor Lass likes to know what we're doing the day before, so I'm always organised and we set off at a set time; normally 9.00 am (but I do all the really early stuff by myself and return to pick her up); and if I'm not ready I get a 'thick ear' because of it.  She normally works till about 2 or 3 pm, and I drop her off and I go and do some drive-betweens; usually larger jobs that I WFP the lot, rather than 'tops only'.

She's not keen on the cold, but she's supremely fit (she runs at least one marathon a year, countless half marathons and represents East Wales in regional cross-country races) and copes well with the work.

Although not for everyone, it works for us; we actually think we have a stronger relationship because of it; when we're not fighting with each other that is.

[Anna Warren]

Yes thats true, but, try this...
Next time you meet someone for the first time, bring into the conversation;
"What do you do for a living?"

When they then ask you the same question, watch their face...

it's something like this        :   

[/table]
I  understand what you're saying. When people ask me and I say "I'm a cleaner" , they looked like              :        So I say " I run a cleaning business" and they are like this   

[Charlie C]

yep - i use wfp.  No other females window cleaners in the area though!!!

[kevin James]

And where would you be Charlie?

Kevin.

[escorttdi]

watch out Somerset! My missus & family friend ( also Carla ) are taking to the streets on the quad 1 day a week from April!  Had a Brodex demo on monday for a light pole. I reckon in 2 months they'll be earnng £250 a day. And demo day was the 1st day on WFP. The only tedious bit with this quad set up is the reeling in. My only concern is that the chaps are drooling over the Bike already, so if they're overly impressed with the 2 lasses, the wives will bin us!

Kevin.

wot is brodex like  am gettin a demo aff them  6th o march

[kevin James]

Hi, Brodex pole arrived today. Seems stronth enough, thermal sleeve seems useful. ( ask for it foc!)   it's alloy, 4 lengths & lighter than my 2 length Omnipole. No free pole though
Kevin.   

[seandyer2003]

Yes thats true, but, try this...
Next time you meet someone for the first time, bring into the conversation;
"What do you do for a living?"

When they then ask you the same question, watch their face...

it's something like this        :   

[/table]
I  understand what you're saying. When people ask me and I say "I'm a cleaner" , they looked like              :        So I say " I run a cleaning business" and they are like this    

Ive started just to say i run a cleaning services business and the response from people is much better I dont do it for the pride or anything just manipulating the way they treat me, people take you much more seriously ie at your bank etc, so i do that.... And the response is much more