[PaulKing]

new post to kept it going and not stale.

Here's a challenge

How many cups of tea can you get offered in a day!

I always work on customer should be happy with you and the job being done, and logical next step is they offer you a tea or coffee as you work.

So no PC belly aching " i don't drink tea " "only energy/vegtable/toufu/sparkling water/blood of young virgins/groud coffee/fresh fruit smothie drinks" cos yoru barred already, just how many cuppas can you get offered  in a day.

Put a bucket in the back f the van if your weak of bladder.

Reckon I can average 5 a day this week no hassel  lets report as we go !!

p.s coffee is aceptable

bonus points for chocky biccys

[carpet guy]

Guess my reputatation goes before me, as it's usually the first thing I get offered on arrival 

rob m

[bennymon]

when i worked at dennis there was a geezer who could drink 8 cups between 6am and 8am

[Shaun_Ashmore]

I can't think of 1 day that I don't get offered choccy bikkies, never gone a day in years.

At Xmas I have about may be in customers homes 8-10 a day but they are longer colder days, at this time of year I'd say same as you 5.

Shaun

[*paul_moss]

Yep but how many cups go in the waste tank 

[Neil Williams]

Yep but how many cups go in the waste tank 

If the customer is one of those who insist in following you around everywhere and generally getting in the way, then I've been known to have offered 6 cups in 2 hours, purely to keep them out of my way and then suck the stuff up the waste pipe. 

[Mike Halliday]

cups of tea : : thats easy! tell them you are a vegetarian and only drink tea with soya milk, see how many you can get to go to the shop and buy some

Mike

[capital-services]

Best I've had  (more than once) is offer of a small tipple in my coffee. comes in handy on the cold days ahead.

Dennis

[John Gregory]

The One thing I love about this job is that you get to meet some really nice genuine people, sitting down at a table eating a bacon butty that Mrs Smith has made you ,really nice

[Shaun_Ashmore]

I used to clean for an old lady (passed away now) who wanted me on every visit to drink a barley wine with her, I can't stand the stuff so I used to get a cuppa instead.

I have another who grows tomatos for me on my very own plant in her green house.

A lady who books in for 3rd Monday morning in November at 8am precisely to clean her thru room and I get a slice of home made carrot cake and a slice to take with me.

A man who gives me bulbs for my van lights as he works in that profession.

All these are regulars who make the job so sweet.

Shaun

[nick p]

very rare that i dont get a cup of tea

sat down with a whole family once to enjoy a curry

and a jamacian jerk chicken on another job

dont get that on your normal 9 to 5

i love this job

[Fintan_Coll]

The cup of tea, yes we still get offers of cups of tea every day but I have to say not as many as years ago. Some people just do not offer you any. Maybe times are changing and old traditions are dying.
I never take the tea for the sake of drinking it, thats is not important, but what is important is to use the time to talk to your customers and let them feel that you are genuinely interested in them. That is one of the ways to build up repeat business.
I always like to think on that cup of tea as a "cup of conversation" instead.

[will01]

For some reason, when offered a beverage I always have a black coffee (no sugar).

Now I never drink this at home (milk and 2 sugars) but for some strange reason I find myself saying "Black please no milk or sugar"

God I think I might be strange 

Will

[prodry]

Going from a portable to a TM I noticed that time spent talking to custys had fallen by quite a bit. Mainly due to not being in the kitchen with a bucket under their tap.

I have over the last few months made a real effort to spend more time with the custy and have had more recomendations and much more further work from them. As well as being more on a first name basis with them.

Offering a stranger in your home a cup of tea is a part of British culture, like talking about the weather to them.  They are making the effort and I think refusing the cuppa is rude and bad for business.

Does anyone remember the Beadles About, when the alien landed in the womans back yard and she asked the alien if he wanted a cuppa.

[AquaMagic]

Same here most jobs you are offered Tead/ Coffe occasionally a cold lager, i once cleaned for an old lady and she never made us a drink called up later that day (was thinking id have to go back) but she was calling to apologise for not offering us a cuppa, said she just forgot.

Dene

[Doctor Carpet (Ret'd)]

Paul

What an interesting idea for a thread.

It's a killer when working in empty properties and there is no home owner to offer a drink, although they can give you permission to help yourself (empty rental properties can be even worse).

For me it's coffee upto lunch and tea in the afternoon. Some clients I know will offer me a sandwich so when they phone up to book I always only seem to have a slot around 12.00 available.

ON really good days it can be a drink every 40 minutes or so. Good job we sweat a lot doing this job!