[Llaaww]

 It was a real double take thing. It made me 

There it was large as life, two light weight ladders with scrims tied on and an old brown bucket shoved in between the rungs and lurking beneath was a magnificant 95 blue mondeo (with dings)...outside the bookies.

What a great job.

Anybody with a bit of nous, balls and drive can be in business for less than £500.


Happy Christmas Mondeo man, you deserve one, if only for trying.

Keep it up and soon you will be able to whine and bitch about dodgy passat geezer as you breeze past in a shiny new van with all mod cons...

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous new year windies. Though maybe not too prosperous round my way If you don't mind...

[leights]

guy like that in swansea. got an old astra , shop ladder on the roof, bucket on the rack...
i personly know he's got about 200 shops,
fair play to him.

hope dirty windows reads this, taking the mic out of my old escort van !!

[clearlyclean]

That Mondeo man gets about a bit saw him in Manchester last week DIY ladders and metal pale bucket on rack cruising around,probably got a brand new Merc or BMW parked on his drive  I don't domestic customers take any notice of what you drive unless its brand spanking new van then they may question how much their paying you,human nature.And if you do shops and park up and walk you round if I had 200 shops in town I would use the bus or Tram to get about.

[LWC]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CVco2G6pys

[darren clarke]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CVco2G6pys

i love that vid,  its amazing how many on you tube think it is real

[keith66]

probably earning a fortune, just like a guy i used to work for had a blue escort estate with holes in each wing but was making a killing always florida for 6 weeks in august with the kids, spose its what your like as a person and doing a good job rather than the image thing never done any commercial though just domestic

[jeff68]

Why should it matter what vehicle you use for work?Wether you drive a brand new shiny merc vito or a beat up old robin reliant its wether or not you do a good job or not and your customers are happy!!!
Vehicle snobbery is a crime!!!!
What next,looking down on window cleaners coz they don't where Guchi shoes!!! :

[G Griffin]

Why should it matter what vehicle you use for work?Wether you drive a brand new shiny merc vito or a beat up old robin reliant its wether or not you do a good job or not and your customers are happy!!!
Vehicle snobbery is a crime!!!!
What next,looking down on window cleaners coz they don't where Guchi shoes!!! :

Well said Jeff.
Some should remember that when people look down on them for being just a window cleaner. Or that their van/tools are not as good as someone elses.
Just think, you could be Mondeo Man to others.

Oh, and it`s Gucci and they are pain to work in. I stick to Cheaney or Loakes.

[JSMC]

i know someone who drives a little car witha ladder on top and all of us on here would bite his arm off for his business. all commercial every last bit of it and all easy work and nothing hard at all. Took him years to get wher ehe is but what a business he has.

[jeff68]

Why should it matter what vehicle you use for work?Wether you drive a brand new shiny merc vito or a beat up old robin reliant its wether or not you do a good job or not and your customers are happy!!!
Vehicle snobbery is a crime!!!!
What next,looking down on window cleaners coz they don't where Guchi shoes!!! :

Well said Jeff.
Some should remember that when people look down on them for being just a window cleaner. Or that their van/tools are not as good as someone elses.
Just think, you could be Mondeo Man to others.

Oh, and it`s Gucci and they are pain to work in. I stick to Cheaney or Loakes.

[supernova77]

This is a picture I took earlier this year...

The red mondeo

[bobby p]

old car windie has SOUL .  new van windie = NO SOUL .


  FACT !

[Klean07]

I used to be a Cortina man, Sierra man, and Mazdaman. We all have to start somewhere.

[supernova77]

I used to be a Cortina man, Sierra man, and Mazdaman. We all have to start somewhere.

Exactly!

In 2003 me and my brother started out in a Mk2 Golf GTi... Then we got a clapped out old escort van... Then we gave up!

Then in 2005 I started up again on my own with a Pure Freedom trolley in an old Transit van... Now I use a van mount in a Peugout Expert van.

The end result hasn't changed... I still "just clean windows"...

Andy

[clearlyclean]

Ha Ha that looks my dads old Mondeo he got rid of it about 10 years ago,bet it don't spend much time off the road and if it fails MOT just throw it away buy another for £200 and I bet he never worries about parking and coming back and finding its been nicked

[Johnny B]

A friend of mine used to use an old Lada for carting his w/c gear around. He had it for years, it was built like a tank and he couldn't care less what it looked like.

One day he left the keys in it by mistake in Woolwich (south London). At the end of the day it was still where he left it. On the windscreen was a note which said "Sorry mate, I don't want it either!"

Who needs a shiny new van when an old Lada or Mondeo will do!

John.

[cozy]

A friend of mine used to use an old Lada for carting his w/c gear around. He had it for years, it was built like a tank and he couldn't care less what it looked like.

One day he left the keys in it by mistake in Woolwich (south London). At the end of the day it was still where he left it. On the windscreen was a note which said "Sorry mate, I don't want it either!"

Who needs a shiny new van when an old Lada or Mondeo will do!

John.

Classic

[jeff68]

Great replys keep it up!!Just goes to show that we all started in the gutter and now some of us are with the stars.But never forget where you came from and remember they are building houses left right and centre so expect a few mondeo men to pop up and in a few years they to will be in nice shiny vans!!!!
Long live window cleaners and all that shine with us!!!!!!

[keith66]

my uncle was just the same god rest his soul old peugeot diesels and fords, what did he go home to though a big farmhouse with a garage as big as most peoples houses with a roller and two 230 convertible sl mercs from the sixties all from doing windows,worked his nuts off then took it easy doing weddings in the roller 

[Richard Neal]

Ive been Toyota Estate Man and Ford Escort Van Man, Couldnt afford a Mondeo! Nothing to be ashamed of, ive always found its the person cleaning the windows properly and politely that brings the money in a lot more than the vehicle!