[d s windowcleaning]

We've still not been told anything after cleaning two stores today.

One interesting point; someone suggested earlier that all Iceland stores have the same amount of windows and are the same size; not true at all. Plymouth has four stores and they are all different, so I don't know where that idea come from.

this intresting point came off me BUT  i didnt say the stores have the same amout of glass .
I SAID MOST OF THE STORES are designed the same .
im only speaking on what my mates wife tells me whos been employed by iceland for 11 years and is in a trusted position within the iceland company .

[Rob Knapman]

We've still not been told anything after cleaning two stores today.

One interesting point; someone suggested earlier that all Iceland stores have the same amount of windows and are the same size; not true at all. Plymouth has four stores and they are all different, so I don't know where that idea come from.

this intresting point came off me BUT  i didnt say the stores have the same amout of glass .
I SAID MOST OF THE STORES are designed the same .
im only speaking on what my mates wife tells me whos been employed by iceland for 11 years and is in a trusted position within the iceland company .

Well the three I do/did are all different, similar, but all have different prices due to size, height etc

[mlscontractcleaner]

Well we were informed this morning that after next week's clean their instore cleaners have to clean the windows too.

The manager's take on this, and he reckoned he was told this by head office, is that some "greedy" window cleaners - his words not mine - have ruined it for the others. The store he used as an example is in Exeter; I don't know who cleans it; and though he admitted it's quite big with fifteen windows he reckons the £60 each week they're being charged is a bit steep. As I've never seen the store I can't comment but we charge £10 and £12 for the two stores we clean, and each takes us about twenty / twenty five minutes each. I don't mind charging a little less when the frequancy is so high.

How he put it was for every reasonably priced window cleaner doing Iceland Stores there are more charging too much and this is what ruined it for everyone.

If this is the case I'd like to thank all the greedy sods who think they're football players and deserve to be paid as such

He did also say for the tenner each week he'd rather keep us and that his cleaner will never do as good a job as we did, which was nice I guess

[Kate2]

Might still be salvageable.

[Mike_G]

A chap I know has just lost his.

As for some greedy window cleaners charging too much sometimes its the store managers putting in false window cleaning expense claims that can cock things up, it happened to one of my jobs, I was charging £20 a month but when the manager left and a new one came in he said he couldn't afford £60 a month to have his windows cleaned, it didn't take us long to work out where the extra £40 was going!

[dave park]

The cleaner from one of my lost icelands came out today while i was cleaning shop next door, "What do you put in your water so your thingy slides smoothly on the windows?"
I just couldn't resist-"Well don't tell anyone i told you but best thing to do is put a drop of vegatable oil in when you put your soap in, make sure you use cold water and only about a table spoon of oil though, works a treat"    Brrr ha ha!!!!

Can't wait till next week

[prestige cleaners]

The cleaner from one of my lost icelands came out today while i was cleaning shop next door, "What do you put in your water so your thingy slides smoothly on the windows?"
I just couldn't resist-"Well don't tell anyone i told you but best thing to do is put a drop of vegatable oil in when you put your soap in, make sure you use cold water and only about a table spoon of oil though, works a treat"    Brrr ha ha!!!!

Can't wait till next week

 

[gordonswindows]

Fantastic miscontractor and an entry for post of the year

Charge too much and it just doesn't last long

Great post and if the cap fits any of you guys wear it but mind it doesn't choke you

[BORBRYCE]

So who does Exeter? Surely between all you southern guys you can find out and name and shame. Or at least give a small clue.

[mlscontractcleaner]

Fantastic miscontractor and an entry for post of the year

Charge too much and it just doesn't last long

Great post and if the cap fits any of you guys wear it but mind it doesn't choke you

Blimey; thank you. I'd like to thank my mum and dad, my family, my agent, my ........

I've never won an award before; will it be collar and tie / red carpet???

[Rob Knapman]

Right then, collected one of my other Iceland stores today(Aberdare), nothing was said by the manager, so I mentioned what has happened with Merthyr Tydfil and the others that have been mentioned here and he said he knows nothing about it has not been told anything???WTF.

[mlscontractcleaner]

That's because nobody likes him so the rest of the managers are keeping it a secret from him

[DaveG]

The cleaner from one of my lost icelands came out today while i was cleaning shop next door, "What do you put in your water so your thingy slides smoothly on the windows?"
I just couldn't resist-"Well don't tell anyone i told you but best thing to do is put a drop of vegatable oil in when you put your soap in, make sure you use cold water and only about a table spoon of oil though, works a treat"    Brrr ha ha!!!!

Can't wait till next week

Dave, youre a bad man!!!!!

[mci services]

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF8&q=iceland+exeter&fb=1&gl=uk&hq=iceland&hnear=Exeter&cid=0,0,5266449539645220970&ll=50.72614,-3.525624&spn=0,0.001725&z=19&layer=c&cbll=50.726076,-3.525721&panoid=h8izi1rWRDJYxHL0NpRExQ&cbp=12,335,,0,5

£60 is a bit steep for this store in exeter

[weetot]

The cleaner from one of my lost icelands came out today while i was cleaning shop next door, "What do you put in your water so your thingy slides smoothly on the windows?"
I just couldn't resist-"Well don't tell anyone i told you but best thing to do is put a drop of vegatable oil in when you put your soap in, make sure you use cold water and only about a table spoon of oil though, works a treat"    Brrr ha ha!!!!

Can't wait till next week

I like it..

[Dean Taberner]

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF8&q=iceland+exeter&fb=1&gl=uk&hq=iceland&hnear=Exeter&cid=0,0,5266449539645220970&ll=50.72614,-3.525624&spn=0,0.001725&z=19&layer=c&cbll=50.726076,-3.525721&panoid=h8izi1rWRDJYxHL0NpRExQ&cbp=12,335,,0,5

£60 is a bit steep for this store in exeter

Is this a weekly price?

[mci services]

according to the manager that was a weekly price dean at least that was what was posted on here could be a load of horlicks

[Paul Coleman]

The cleaner from one of my lost icelands came out today while i was cleaning shop next door, "What do you put in your water so your thingy slides smoothly on the windows?"
I just couldn't resist-"Well don't tell anyone i told you but best thing to do is put a drop of vegatable oil in when you put your soap in, make sure you use cold water and only about a table spoon of oil though, works a treat"    Brrr ha ha!!!!

Can't wait till next week

That's evil - but funny  .
Should have told him to put half a litre in though.

[Rob Knapman]

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF8&q=iceland+exeter&fb=1&gl=uk&hq=iceland&hnear=Exeter&cid=0,0,5266449539645220970&ll=50.72614,-3.525624&spn=0,0.001725&z=19&layer=c&cbll=50.726076,-3.525721&panoid=h8izi1rWRDJYxHL0NpRExQ&cbp=12,335,,0,5

£60 is a bit steep for this store in exeter

If thats a weekly price on that, there is something going wrong in this business, there seems to be no consistency here at all, just pure greed/p155 taking. I suspect that is probably monthly price. £15 a week maybe?

[mick sams]

i quoted for window cleaning at the exeter store 6 months ago and £60 a week is a joke  more like that is for a month. i think someones having a laugh.
i lost my store in Honiton this week but picked up 2 new residentials. thats life