[Philip Hanson]

I got a new customer today, the lady stopped us in the street to ask, so we said ok.

Well, the fronts were ok, but when we went to the back garden there was dog poo everywhere.  It really was very bad.  To be honest it made me feel quite sick.

Along with the usual thoughts of "how am I going to negotiate this minefield, where can I put the ladders down" etc, it also crossed my mind to simply shut the gate and walk away.

Surely this has to be a health hazard.  Do you get some horrible blind-making disease if you get poo on your hands? I think I read that somewhere.

Anyway, we (carefully) did the windows this time as she wasn't home and it seemed impolite not to.  But I am seriously thinking of saying I won't do them again with the back garden in that state as it is a health hazard.  (not to mention unpleasant)

Anyone had a similar experience?  Do you think that's fair?  I feel a bit cheeky saying that but also I don't want to get ill if it gets on my shoes, ladders, hands etc

Silly

[Majestic]

Dogs dont just poo, you dont know where they  take a  pee , the thought of that on my shoes no chance , I think I would give it a miss , smell dog sh     not me

[paul]

i have done a cople like that best to avoud i think or ask her to clean the mess up ? ;Dunless you add pooper scooping as an extra ha ha ha  

[stevekennedy]

I can top that! Two weeks ago we were doing a job in a well-to-do area of Aberdeen. When we turned the corner to do the windows at the side of the house we were greeted by a terrible stink and some brown objects all over the place.

A blocked sewer had emptied its contents on the owners lawn!  :

She was very embarrassed  

Needless to say... ...we gave it a miss. Lady paid anyway  

[Majestic]

I used to clean the windows of a lab ,and they used to test human poo, the ones that you take to the doctors in a little jar . I did it 3 times the smell was to bad it was just like being in the toilet  after doing one . I dont miss it

[Simon_King]

If I were you I would'nt go back and do the back until it is cleaned and disinfected. If the yard is as bad as it sounds I dont think she will clear it up. I have a customer who has a Great Dane/ Donkey combo. She NEVER cleans it up and you can smell the back garden two doors down in the summer! Honest.
I clean the house next door and many times I have almost been sick at the stink. You can imagine the size of the hounds mound.
Anyway I told her that I would'nt clean the back because I thought it was a health hazzard. She looked embarassed and said just do the front and side. As I said she never cleaned it up so I dont think theres much hope for you. But I hope Iam wrong!Oh and yes there is a disease that you can get from Dog log its called Toxicariosis and yes it can make you blind.  

[Mikey Warner]

Cat Crap is a nightmare this end, how about anyone else??

I've lost count of how many times i've started to walk down the ladder and blobs of it all over the rungs and had to go home and wash the ladders down  

Mikey

[gibbouk]

i priced a customer up before xmas here back yard was full of dog poop, i said i could not do it as i dont want to walk it up my ladder and get it on my trousers. she asked me to phone a day before and she would clean it up for me. it was done disinfected and spotless and she tipped extra.

[Kevin R]

I have two customers with large dogs. I phone both the night before and they clean it up. Both these houses a worth a few quid to me so I am happy to call - saves embarrassment or poo on the hoses

[Londoner]

Dog mess contains a microscopic worm called Toxicara Plasmosis that lives in the dogs intestines. If it gets onto your hands and you rub your eyes it will infect your eyes and cause blindness.  There is no cure and about 20 people a year go blind in this country each year through it.
It doesnt make much difference if they clear up the dog mess. The ground where it lay is still potentially infected and remains so for some time.

When my kids were younger I used to get really mad at the dog owners in the local park who used to let their dogs mess all over the park. A park should be a place for kids to play in and enjoy themselves not a massive dogs toilet.

[Kevin R]

I have two dogs and I worm them every three months - I imagine most of my customers do the same or at least once a year. Also Toxicaria is more prevalent in cat poo. I only worm my dogs so much as I have small children. However if they don't I regularly wash my hands after these houses and before eating I use an antibacterial gel.

Ok its not pleasant to work in a yard of a person that owns dogs but on the whole my customers are very good. I have sacked three however who were not. Cat poo is much worse 

[Simon_King]

Fox is probably worse than both...

[vision tech]

i refused to go in one customers backyard because of the amount of cat poo,trouble was he didnt own a cat it all belonged to the nieghbours,i told him about a sonic thing you could buy to keep cats away,he bought one solved problem and i now go in his yard                                                               

hey stanny , i bet you leave a bigger mess.

[matt]

Boooooooooo

its a old thread thats been dragged up

i thought craig had let Philip Hanson post on here again 

[Londoner]

Why, whats up with Philip Hanson?

[LWC]

you think its bad getting it on your ladders?

wait until you take your nice clean microbore hose through it, and slide it all the way up it 

[East coast window cleaning Services]

Cat craps by far the worst. Mind you i was doing one of me care homes a few months back and a resident had chucked some of his own crap out of his bedroom window lol. made me feel like chucking me gutts up.

[Tosh]

Boooooooooo

its a old thread thats been dragged up

i thought craig had let Philip Hanson post on here again 

 

I've read somewhere on this forum that Philip Hanson was seen trying to sell double glazing windows in a Bristol Tescos entrance.

Is this true?

[vision tech]

stanny, you said the cats used to go in his yard, now you go,
over here in ireland that means to have a poo or leak

[matt]

Boooooooooo

its a old thread thats been dragged up

i thought craig had let Philip Hanson post on here again 

 

I've read somewhere on this forum that Philip Hanson was seen trying to sell double glazing windows in a Bristol Tescos entrance.

Is this true?

i must have missed that

i thought you would have liked my post tosh