Well, on Saturday I cleaned the windows of my first house as a WC, and it felt great!!!! Beautiful blue skies ( for an hour at least!), I really got into it. It is an early vitorian 3 bed double fronted house with lots of small windows, and I mean lots!!! As part of my service, I include all frames, sills, and doors in the price. I made my first mistake before even starting....I quoted blind (Doh!!!). When I arrived, the tiny back garden was swarming in pot plants, all on top of the windows of course, so I had to move them, then to my horror found that they had been using the window sills as ash trays...nasty, and the front was on a busy main road.
As I started the custy told my he had been after a WC for years, and that the upstairs hadn't been cleaned in 10 years (he was scared of heights)!
3 hours later, I had finally finished. I probably overdid it with the clean but it was my first job, and I wanted to make the best impression I could I guess. Problem was, I only quoted him £10!!!!!
Anyway, the custy was over the moon! He was so chuffed, he offered to give me an extra £5, but I said no, I had quoted him £10 and I had to stick to it (go on say it...what a mug!), but I joked that I had learnt a valuble lesson.
2 hours later, my work mobile rang, it was the custy. His partner had returned home and couldn't believe what a good job I had done, and demanded I take an extra £10 for the job, and that they would pay me £15 ever 4 weeeks! So, it weren't that bad a day after all.
Roll on the next job...............Be lucky!