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Poll

How long you been cleaning have you been cleaning windows as a living, no-one else can see what you have voted.

Less than 6 months
4.2%
5 (4.2%)
Less than a year
5.9%
7 (5.9%)
Less than 2 years
5%
6 (5%)
Less than 3 years
6.7%
8 (6.7%)
Less than 5 years
10.1%
12 (10.1%)
Between 5 and 10 years
19.3%
23 (19.3%)
10+
18.5%
22 (18.5%)
15+
5.9%
7 (5.9%)
20+
24.4%
29 (24.4%)

Total Members Voted: 99

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Roy Harding

  • Posts: 1986
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #20 on: October 02, 2010, 10:26:54 pm »
28 on the 1st of December

Roy
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CLEANCARE WC

  • Posts: 4454
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #21 on: October 02, 2010, 10:36:33 pm »
roy did newspaper and vinegar actually used to work?  ;D
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gewindows

Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #22 on: October 02, 2010, 10:45:47 pm »
Only when it rains
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s.w.c

  • Posts: 1174
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #23 on: October 03, 2010, 01:40:31 pm »
Quote from: DAN ELSOM on October 02, 2010, 10:23:13 pm
or maybe its because there are too many idiots bragging and telling people what we can earn.


surely you don't believe everything your told ???
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DaveG

  • Posts: 6348
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #24 on: October 03, 2010, 02:25:43 pm »
Originally started w/c in 1982 for 3 or 4 years . Then did other jobs and started again in the early 90s for another 2 or 3 years. Then got back into it in 2008 and this time Im sticking to it, what with WFP and all  ;D.

So I voted 10 years.
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CLEANCARE WC

  • Posts: 4454
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #25 on: October 03, 2010, 04:55:33 pm »
no i dont swc, but was just saying that the sudden upsurge of new window cleaners in the last couple of years might be to do with this. there is a commercial company round my way that often have an ad in the local paper saying "earn between 6-£800 a week" as a cosequence quite a few people have asked me if windys really earn such good money, I try to play it down. I know some will say plenty of work for everyone but at some point surely the market will saturate and drive prices down. all i am saying is whatever business your in the less competitors the better for you. Dan
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gewindows

Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #26 on: October 03, 2010, 05:14:35 pm »
Dont worry the Polish never did materialise  ;D

We've been cleaning our windows in this country regularly for generations, window-cleaners have always been well paid, it aint going to change.
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Roy Harding

  • Posts: 1986
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #27 on: October 03, 2010, 06:14:42 pm »
Quote from: DAN ELSOM on October 02, 2010, 10:36:33 pm
roy did newspaper and vinegar actually used to work?  ;D


 ;D ;D
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Ian Lancaster

  • Posts: 2811
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #28 on: October 03, 2010, 06:18:53 pm »
I think Tel boy is the only one on here that might have been doing it longer than me ::)
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darren clarke

Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #29 on: October 03, 2010, 06:21:49 pm »
Quote from: DAN ELSOM on October 03, 2010, 04:55:33 pm
no i dont swc, but was just saying that the sudden upsurge of new window cleaners in the last couple of years might be to do with this. there is a commercial company round my way that often have an ad in the local paper saying "earn between 6-£800 a week" as a cosequence quite a few people have asked me if windys really earn such good money, I try to play it down. I know some will say plenty of work for everyone but at some point surely the market will saturate and drive prices down. all i am saying is whatever business your in the less competitors the better for you. Dan

these are the same people who say plumbers earn 100,000 a year,  suddenly everyone is  a plumber and the prices crashs as they are all fighing over the same work,  it happened where i was people where fitting full bathrooms for £80
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lee_dewing

  • Posts: 3124
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #30 on: October 03, 2010, 06:27:47 pm »
7 years, 2years of this for someone else.

beem wfp 4 yrs now.
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Rob Knapman

  • Posts: 209
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #31 on: October 03, 2010, 06:45:35 pm »
30 years this year, just going over to wfp this month ;D
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Ross G

  • Posts: 1099
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #32 on: October 03, 2010, 06:56:50 pm »

Started in 1984 been a year wfp :)
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Johnny B

  • Posts: 2385
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #33 on: October 03, 2010, 11:32:45 pm »
Will be 14 years come February.  :)

John.
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Ola Normann

  • Posts: 93
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #34 on: October 05, 2010, 08:49:09 am »
Starting on my third year. Been TRAD until today, now its WFP all the way :)
Looking forward to it :)
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sarahbelleee

  • Posts: 59
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #35 on: October 05, 2010, 09:21:58 am »
Less than two years. Hope to be still in bussines after 2-3 years.  :)
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jsm

  • Posts: 558
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #36 on: October 05, 2010, 09:33:20 am »
giving windows a shine since 1989   -- 21 years ...  :P
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John Malone
JSM. Window & General Cleaning
(  North Wales  )
Giving homes a shine sicne 1989

one of the early gang of wfp er's ---- remember , when you cant see out - give JSM a shout

elite mike

Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #37 on: October 05, 2010, 05:18:18 pm »
god i feel so old   ;)
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NJWindowCleaning

  • Posts: 521
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #38 on: October 05, 2010, 11:21:50 pm »
I first started window cleaning in 1983 with Brian until he retired, so started by myself in 2002 and still do ladders and having been doing wfp since 2006.
I wouldn't do anything else for a living.
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Gav Camm lammy 283

  • Posts: 7520
Re: Length 0f time
« Reply #39 on: October 05, 2010, 11:30:51 pm »
started in 83 wiv ma uncle then full time 85
25yrs  not all for myself i hasten to add ;D
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