[peter holley]

plenty of your lot down here in wales... ::)but their not really a challenge,... itys the customer that decides

[PaulTh]

heres some sound advice from the window cleaning resources website:

 
 Tip: Choose your area wisely. It may be worth testing areas with a leaflet drop first and then concentrate on the area in which you gained most response. Follow up leaflets through door to door canvassing as soon as you can. If another window cleaner has already developed a compact round in the area leaving only one or two houses here and there, then you will struggle to develop a compact round. Look for an area that doesn’t seem to have been sewn up by anybody else. It is likely that a somebody will be cleaning one or two houses in the street, but if the majority don’t have a cleaner then you have room to expand and develop your round. Don’t undercut other window cleaners in an effort to take their work or you could make an enemy of the other local window cleaners.
 

[Tosh]

Lol the English conquered half the known world apart from the scots and the irish not from want of trying...

Sorry?  Are you sure about this?  The only reason that Scotland has roads was because after the Jocks got a kicking at Culloden (the last pitched battle on British soil), roads were needed to ferry English troops about.

Scotland is still part of the Union.  So is Northern Ireland; though admittedly, we gave the South back.

[pingu]

PaulTH I think you are a troll and for me you are not worth any continued dialogue with...But I wish you good luck and enjoy the forum.

No reply required.

Dave.

[Londoner]

Its not just window cleaning, near where I live there is a well respected chip shop, been there for years, part of the local community.
About six doors up in the same parade a sign has just gone up above an empty shop "Mr COD"opening soon.
Some pillock is trying to open another chippy about thirty yards away from the existing shop.

And its a franchise I'm told. Madness, total madness.

[AuRavelling79]

Home for some food Paul? Or is it too windy for you up that ladder?

[PaulTh]

nah not got enough work and i think the guy who was selling me his round is pulling out which is annoying,so im just on here playing poker bored looking for something to keep me amused hehe

[R W C]

nah not got enough work and i think the guy who was selling me his round is pulling out which is annoying,so im just on here playing poker bored looking for something to keep me amused hehe
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Why not go canvassibg or drop some leaflets, will save you buying a round.

[Clean-A-Windows]

were i work there are quite a few window cleaners, but i work all there areas, i am not the cheapist nor the best and dont want to be, its a free market and i will clean were ever i want and were the work is, i have been threatend in the past so just under cut the bloke and took his work, his fault for being a prat.

[AuRavelling79]

were i work there are quite a few window cleaners, but i work all there areas, i am not the cheapist nor the best and dont want to be, its a free market and i will clean were ever i want and were the work is, i have been threatend in the past so just under cut the bloke and took his work, his fault for being a prat.

Calling PaulTh, Calling PaulTh! Lynch mob for Clean-A-Windows please ... with optional firelighting torch for his van and please arrange for the body to be sent to liverpool... 

[Clean-A-Windows]

lol, i find that funny, the van needs torching, its knackard

[davids3511]

Lol the English conquered half the known world apart from the scots and the irish not from want of trying...

Sorry?  Are you sure about this?  The only reason that Scotland has roads was because after the Jocks got a kicking at Culloden (the last pitched battle on British soil), roads were needed to ferry English troops about.

Scotland is still part of the Union.  So is Northern Ireland; though admittedly, we gave the South back.

I'm pretty sure we took it back Tosh. Same can't be said for the Scots.

[martinsadie]

For those who dont think there are patches try muscling in in some of the council estates up North.

Let me know when you try and i will come and watch lol.

It is definately a regional thing, mainly before window cleaners needed cars, you would just walk down one street and back up the other side cleaning all the windows in that particular street or estate, hence why it was called a round, Which you would defend to the death

The downfall of Milkmen over the years wasnt just supermarkets, but increased competition from more milkos muscling in.

Where i lived as a kid the there was 1 milkmen on the estate, 20 years on there was at least 5 or 6 for the same number of houses, bets are now that they have all gone.

at least someone knows what there talking about