[edd]

been cleaning carpets for 15 years but today it happened , I was cleaning stair carpet with
the hand tool as you do, then took it off to put the wand back on and CRACK went one of the
newly laid mirror finish black kitchen floor tiles as I dropped the solution hose . It was the brass
 fitting on the end that caused the problem luckily the tile guy was still there to sort it out.

SO even us older guys can f... up big time so be CAREFULL with fittings when dropping them on
the floor you NEVER know until its to late Edd

[colin thomas]

it happens, i have only broken 2 things, one mirror and one hanging plate, both knocked off the wall with my elbow on the rinse stroke of the wand!! really annoying

colin   

[edd]

yeah i also broke an ornamental lamp worth £2500 it just fell over HONEST

[rs_cleancare]

I broke a picture frame with my turbo dryier. Blew it off the table....

Rob.

[ollie]

I had people on here taking the p**s out of what happened to me.......I was cleaning a suite and a picture fell off the wall and smashed on the ground ..smashing ornaments on its impact...the picture was years old as was the string holding it up. so anyway ..I was cleaning the suite and all of a sudden..bang behind me.. picture had falllen down.   i suggested the steam had heated the atmosphere and weakened the string but I got the normal  "clever" answers such as "what is a heated atmosphere lol" etc.  surely steam in a room would weaken the string holding up a very old picture?

[wimbledonhandyman]

Ollie the string eventually rots and breaks without warning. You was just unlucky to be in the wrong place at the wrong time!

I have known it to happen a few times, thats why all the good picture framers use the steel wire and not cheap string.

 

[jbcleaning]

I once caught a glass cabinet with my shoulder when unplugging from underneath it.  A very expensive large ornament toppled off the top, bounced off my head, and smashed a pane of glass in the very expensive antique glass cabinet.

Then my head started to bleed  , luckily not on to the carpet 

This was at the house of my best domestic customer who's husband owns a local chain of estate agents and was absolutely loaded! Whoops 

Luckily she has forgiven me and I've been back several times since 

[Susan Dean (1stclean)]

i think it doesnt matter so much on what you breack (as long as it not from a dead relative) its how you sort it out that counts

i broke a cat figer a few years back when i told the cust and asked her  how much was it worth she said 140 pounds so a paid there and then on the spot for it , and did the cleaning job free

she was well happy with that so i turn it to my gane buy saying that we are a top cleaning company and would nt have our rep. ruined buy not sorting problems out stright away . she still comes back every year along with many of her friends and family

[edd]

why didn`t you tell her to claim off the house insurance and you pay the excess

[Ian Rochester]

These things happen, this is why we all have (or should have!)PL and treatment risk insurance.

[des]

Mine was yesterday . Id just moved one of the 3ps and cleaned behind it ,just before i moved it back i leaned it back to check the feet for loose dye and the foot of the settee caught on the fire place cracking the  hearth  des

[Kinver_Clean]

I was cleaning an empty house the people were just moving into. I hit a large hideous Portugese porcelaine lampshade with my head. A good gash with blood everywhere and a large chunk out of the shade.
The lady went bonkers so I said I'd do the job for nowt and call it quits.
Took the shade off with great difficulty and binned it. Just as I went out to the van the man called over that he was pleased that I had removed the shade as he hadn't managed to remove 'that b..... monstrosity and chuck it.'

Ah well it takes all sorts.

Trevor