[8weekly]

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.

[Shrek]

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

[johnny bravo]

I used to do paving,   Id use a water spray to keep dust down when in residential area,     most dont bother,  just let the dust blow everywhere,  this dust is Concrete.     
Work on weekend if needed. i do.     as long as you get all your work done ,    theres always another day.   
If they are not cutting paving slabs just clean as normal.       Did you say they were cutting slabs.

[Smurf]

I remember doing a full exterior deep clean on a new property. Made sure none of the builders were going to start cutting poop up first or start blowing crap about before I started. Anyway halfway through the job a road gang turns up and digs up the road to lay new pipes. Oh ffs why do I bother sometimes I thought at the time as they totally trashed the look of the place in thick dust that I just spent hours working on. Bless em   

[johnny bravo]

did you catch them secretly smiling,  haha

[nathankaye]

Im also not a fan of when either customer or a gardener uses a strimmer to cut wet grass, which ends up sticking to the glass and you turn up to scrub grasd of either the windows or patio doors 😠

[Smurf]

did you catch them secretly smiling,  haha

As it happend yes I did. But I had the last laugh as got paid twice for the same job as was asked to come back a month later to do it again 

[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.

 

[dazmond]

i must admit i have skipped jobs due to workmen cutting slabs.i hate the noise and the smell of concrete dust as well as potentially making the windows dirty on a property.i usually skip them until next time their due too as i cant be bothered going back a week later disrupting my schedule(unless the customer phones me up)

[SeanK]

i must admit i have skipped jobs due to workmen cutting slabs.i hate the noise and the smell of concrete dust as well as potentially making the windows dirty on a property.i usually skip them until next time their due too as i cant be bothered going back a week later disrupting my schedule(unless the customer phones me up)

Same here but it depends on where I'm cleaning, if its the next street or close by I would pop round and clean the missed property a few days later.

[8weekly]

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.

[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.

[richard groves]

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.

well said

[8weekly]

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.

[p1w1]

I don't see what having a full round or not has anything to do with it, more about how compact it is. If that was me I would have missed them and just knocked a few off the next days work and just popped back when they have finished..simples

[nathankaye]

I don't see what having a full round or not has anything to do with it, more about how compact it is. If that was me I would have missed them and just knocked a few off the next days work and just popped back when they have finished..simples

Ditto. My round that was affected by this, thats exactly what i was able to do. Its s 2 day tound on wfp. Sadly due to not expecting to swap days i didnt notify my 2nd day clients to open gates so it meant i could do an add on job else where and simply start the 2 day round on the next day. For me it wasnt an issue, other than simply pointing out a small flaw of wfp and perhapd my method of texting customers about gates. Tho the latter is not normally a problem, other than when circumstances outside your control makes you swap days and then for me it fails 

[Smurf]

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.   

[Soupy]

Here's an unusual sentence:

I agree with nathankaye and SeanK.

 

If there is work on leave it. Write them a note explaining why you've missed them out if they are not in.

This job is about keeping hassle to a minimum. Builders, gardeners etc are hassle all day long, it's their specialty.

[Soupy]

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

[nathankaye]

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.

There was a time when i got called away from work (had to take my ickle girl to hospital) and so didnt get to all customers i txted. However i txted them all to apologize  and that i got called away from work.  Thankfully i didnt get any angry txt from the customers.

I have a standard txt in phone that i send out. Just takes five mins when in evening to send so not much of an hassle really.

I also organise my round that i do those jobs that i txt first as early in the day as possible.