[Smurf]

You could buy em all a Bluetooth padlock for Xmas...Problem solved until the battery runs out 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAraojJtUZk

[SeanK]

if you cleaned them while they were doing Groundworks, Sthill saws out, DUST everywhere, cutting Paving slabs.     They will have been a WASTE of time,    all the dust from the paving being cut would have rested on the water on their windows,  they would actually been crap.           Keep well away if work near like this.       keep your ustomers happy.   how would you like to find a docket saying your windows have been cleaned,      to see they are full of dirty dust.

Be Proffesional,     even in window cleaning.    Your customers are your living.  Thers lots of us about.

I don't get this - surely the professional thing to do is to clean the windows on the same day as all the other work? In my opinion it is UN-professional to have to return to a job off schedule in order to avoid something over which you have NO control. If they dry badly then go baxck if asked. That, in my opinion, is professional. To move everything for one customer is actually indicative of a lack of work and arguably amateurish.

Well said

Your easily impressed Shrek, seriously look at it through the eyes of a potential customer watching you clean somebody's
windows in a dust cloud, cowboy, desperado, not a clue hatchet man would all come to mind but it certainly wouldn't be a professional shiner who cares about doing a quality job.

Ofcourse if you haven't got a full round and it's all on your doorstep then you can pop back later.

That's a very poor reply, even with a full round missing one property and cleaning it a few days later isn't going to have
much if any effect on a domestic round, ok I could see a where it would might be a problem if it was a happening daily.

It depends where it is. We go about 15 miles out. There's no way a van could go back for one house. You continually make the same mistake - thinking that what works for you will work for everyone, or if you can't do it, no one can, yet every day I disprove what you think is not possible.

Nobody's suggesting a 15 mile round trip to clean a missed property but if you where heading
out in the same direction which meant you where within a sensible distance of the property then what's the problem.

[Smurf]

I guess the price and size of the job is also relevant if you would trek back out or just leave it until next time you are back in that area.

[8weekly]

Texting the night before must be a nightmare at times?   
I bet custards can get annoyed too if they remember to unlock the gate and you don't turn up for whatever reason.

It can happen but if you explain from the outset that it's not a 100% guarantee of service, and that you are subject to delays for various reasons, 99% are fine.

I text about 20% of my customers now and I'd be happy for that to go to 100

If there's work at the house we'd leave it, but not for work nearby.  There's often building work going on around jobs. As so much work is texted ahead and as whoever is doing the work would have no idea what they are doing the next day until they see their job sheet, they can't make the decision to do it the next day.

Each to their own.

[Soupy]

If there's work at the house we'd leave it, but not for work nearby.  There's often building work going on around jobs. As so much work is texted ahead and as whoever is doing the work would have no idea what they are doing the next day until they see their job sheet, they can't make the decision to do it the next day.

Each to their own.

Unless we're back on that street I wouldn't do it the next day. It would be next month.

[8weekly]

If there's work at the house we'd leave it, but not for work nearby.  There's often building work going on around jobs. As so much work is texted ahead and as whoever is doing the work would have no idea what they are doing the next day until they see their job sheet, they can't make the decision to do it the next day.

Each to their own.

Unless we're back on that street I wouldn't do it the next day. It would be next month.

Ours would have to wait TWO months.

[Smurf]

If there's work at the house we'd leave it, but not for work nearby.  There's often building work going on around jobs. As so much work is texted ahead and as whoever is doing the work would have no idea what they are doing the next day until they see their job sheet, they can't make the decision to do it the next day.

Each to their own.

Unless we're back on that street I wouldn't do it the next day. It would be next month.

Ours would have to wait TWO months.

Can start getting silly having to accommodate and go back to do individual jobs surely whatever frequency their on?

[nathankaye]

I agree, if it only affected one client i would let them know that ive skipped it for obvious reasons and will pick up again from next clean. Unless it was a higher paid job.

It worked out even better in end for me. The add on job i did to fill that day, i ended up finishing in dark. After half 4.  So as i was passing today i called to see if they were happy with job as could see better in day. Great PR!!   They were more than happy and more so with how clean the windows were on wfp and booked me for regular 4 wkly cleans. Its only a minute away from another of my rounds, so can easily accommodate that. 💰💰

[Soupy]

If there's work at the house we'd leave it, but not for work nearby.  There's often building work going on around jobs. As so much work is texted ahead and as whoever is doing the work would have no idea what they are doing the next day until they see their job sheet, they can't make the decision to do it the next day.

Each to their own.

Unless we're back on that street I wouldn't do it the next day. It would be next month.

Ours would have to wait TWO months.

Yeah, well, tuff titties. If they want a call back they pay for it.

[dazmond]

Texting the night before must be a nightmare at times?   
I bet custards can get annoyed too if they remember to unlock the gate and you don't turn up for whatever reason.

texting the night before sure beats having to get the ladders out to get over the gate or just cleaning fronts only.its very rare i dont get round.if i cant for whatever reason i text them again.(i only ever have a handful that need a text at most)

[Shrek]

Texting the night before must be a nightmare at times?   
I bet custards can get annoyed too if they remember to unlock the gate and you don't turn up for whatever reason.

texting the night before sure beats having to get the ladders out to get over the gate or just cleaning fronts only.its very rare i dont get round.if i cant for whatever reason i text them again.(i only ever have a handful that need a text at most)

+1 although I txt a hell of a lot , big properties, electric gates , side gates , security conscious. It'd be a PIA climbing over gates/ fences all day long with my wfp