[SherwoodCleaningSe]

Sometimes I take my kid collecting with me, helps out on the tips, but he keeps asking if he can come to work with us (my wife as well) in the school holidays.  I'm very reluctant as he's only six and a half and don't think it's very safe.  But we might get work done a little faster with another pair of hands..... Only joking.  Has anybody ever done this with there kids, I know  6 is young but what about a little older maybe for work experience at 14 or 15 years old.

[AuRavelling79]

I'll say no - but tell you about the exception.

My middle daughter 13/14 helps me out twice a year when I clean a small Junior School (Easter and October hols) and to the extent she can reach from the ground she wipes the ground floor sills and frames for me as I go.

There is no one else around at the time to cry health and safety/insurance at me! She works next to me at all times.

[chris@c.m.s]

Years ago I used to take my 10 year old daughter with me she didnt get out the car untill the tops were done, then she followed me around wipeing the sills, most of the old dears loved it and she got far more tips than me  :. things have changed a bit since then, though last summer I saw a lad of about 10-11 up two floors on a scaffold working  

[dai]

My daughter used to help me when she was in college. she used to do the bottoms.
Best worker I ever had. Work the nuts off most of the guys who have helped me out in the past. A true grafter like her dad. Dai

[trevor perry]

my dad used to take me working in a cradle 12 floors up when i was 8yrs old i thought it was great but dont think you would get away with that now.

[SherwoodCleaningSe]

Wow working 12 floors up in a cradle, how long ago was that?

[mike richardson]

i take my lad who is 14 with me when we do schools in the hols, he foots ladders on inside tall windows, cleans inside windows from ground height, when doing outsides he soaps up the downs with a applicator on a pole & we follow with squeege,but now ive got a wfp he uses that aswell,as long as he's not up a ladder i dont mind,neither do the site managers

[trevor perry]

sherwood cleaning  i was 8yrs old so that makes it 32 years ago, when i left school i went fulltime and used to love all the climbing work we did then , i know the job then was dangerous climbing down ropes and walking on ledges but really enjoyed it more than what i do now .

[poles apart]

I've taken my 12 year old daughter with me in the hols. She does the ground floors and helps out with the driving!

[marc]

im a single dad and there were times in the past when he had to come with me only shops no houses or ladder work and after a while he would say can i have a go dad so in the end i got him his own tools i would do my work then follow him round  he soon got hang of it , he is now 15 hasnt work with me now for a few years and i told him in the summer hoildays he would be working with me he was not happy until i told him he would be getting paid i am hoping to have a family run bussiness soon my nephew starts in may