[andy roberts]

Which famous people have you done work for?

I've worked for JACK HIGGINS author of 'The Eagle has Landed'
The late JACK WALKER former owner of the airline Flybe
ALAN WHICKER as in Whickers World
IAN WOOSNAM the golfer
RICK PARFITT from Status Quo

what about you?

[Len Gribble]

Andy

Quite a few including some royals, sorry don’t give out names could jeopardize my standing with them and there family members. Also got some which are called villains!

Got some pictures with them and I by van, these are on wall in my luxury office (loft) the only people I have shown them too are my are my yank relatives and they are in ore (sad aren’t they )

What is most important to me is there signature on my customer care sheet! Not forgetting the cheque

Len

[stevegunn]

Do footballers count :

[Liahona]

I would have to tell and shoot too. Of some customers I make more for signing a disclosure than I do

for cleaning their textiles. As Len has said though, to jeopardize any standings I have with whom I

work for isnt worth the naming of them. Best, Dave,

[Len Gribble]

Steve

Not in my books, bunch of over paid fairies, but I will take there money! By the way I do a few! (Don’t you just love footballer’s wives? Rugby wives are better) none are the lion’s replicating there supporters methinks.

Richard

Know what you mean a quip remark thought I was of to the Tower! Beefeater it was!

Tried calling you this evening got some Scottish bloke?

Dave

I must come clean do a lot Smiths or is it Brown but never a Gribble 

Len

[tomh]

i wouldn't get too excited over working for someone only because they were on the telly or got a few pounds !
a friend of mine own's a farm & has antique shop in a barn vinnie jones comes in has a look about & want's a cash deal with several items so they strike a deal ( can't remember the figure's ) but over A couple of grand load's the van up & off they go no word for a few hour's & some bird phones up wanting to know where to send a cheque too ! he's vat registered so that deal cost him a few quid i.e. lost money, his leson learnt & mine

[HolmansUKLTD]

My famous client list is strictley confedential but it does include prem footballers, rock stars including one mentioned  allready tv personalitys actors and supermodels!!

Not bad for a CC

[andy roberts]

Blimey you lot,

Its not as if their gonna read a cleaning forum is it. Or a potential robber is gonna track you down to hijack your van and infiltrate their security. Come on...... 

[Liahona]

Andy, but if they did or more to the point their "people" did .... and if they were,,,, they wouldnt know

who to follow now would they, apart from those who you have mentioned. Most importantly if we

answered the question as you would have had us do, we then wouldnt get the jobs that we do do. In

my case as I am sure in Lens and the Comfort Sector, it is because we dont say who we work for is

why we work for who we doin the first place. Sometimes I talk to people about who I clean for as long

as I am allowed to legally but wouldnt dream of doing so on here. Again I am sure it is the same for

most people who clean for high profile people who want to stay low profile, if that makes sense? Best,

Dave.

[Comfort Sector]

Dave,

Spot on mate my core business is mattress sanitizing and urine contamination problems. When I price these jobs for the client group that we are discussing I include Van hire a lot of my clients don't want a van with decals arriving at their door. Payment is never an issue. Confidentiality is everything.

[jasonl]

roy vasey, aka , Roy chubby brown , in East harsley, N yorks ,  wanted /expected a big discount, I called him a fat bloke from South bank in Middlesbrough when he complained about the price.... south bank is the real dump of middlesbrough,,,, it was true though and he saw the funny side, I charged him 1250 plus vat to sort a flood out caused by his gardener leaving on a hose pipe in his carpeted garage,,, was nice carpet too.

[Len Gribble]

Andy

I do drop hints to potential customs (carry a scrapbook as proof)

Jason

You were robed. Like the word was! where is it now?

Richard

(lot of my clients don't want a van with decals arriving at their door) so true I do 3 cc homes they grumble at price but the pay it. Confidentiality mums the word

Len

[Liahona]

Richard, absolutely right, a non-signwritten van is a must. Also, drop me an e-mail as I dont do what

you do and can maybe pass some work your way. I pressume distance isnt a problem? Best, Dave.

[Scott Martin]

Have done some some royalty up this neck of the woods, nothing to major.

A few local celebs and 2/3 'a' listers if thats what they are called. No probs with them and they are treated the same as all other customers.

Even had one of them make me coffee and toast, should have smuggled it out and put it on ebay. ha ha

Cheers

[Paul Simpson]

Spent pretty much all day today cleaning a "celebs" house after visiting & quoting for them last week.

Carpets, laminates and stone floor kitchen, all came up a treat. He & she both very happy and say they want me back a regular intervals especially for the laminate flooring which covers most of downstairs.

Both very friendly and down to earth. Even after breaking one of their ornaments the moment I walked in the door, all he did was joke about it and make funny remarks that kept me laughing.

Wife is a midwife and use to work in the "exclusive" Portland Hospital in London delivering the babies of the rich & famous and some of the "celebs" she use to say were a big disappointment to meet.

Anyone else have a famous client on their books now or in the past?
What were they like to work for, better than expected or a disappointment?

[Dave Roelants]

I have quite a few, generally they're more interesting to talk to than most of my clients, I can't think of any that have laminate floors though

[northstar]

I used to run home inspection company in Hancock Park, Los Angeles, doing GFCI and earthquake gas shut off etc, so I got to meet quite a few famous people.
Once made Randy Newman laugh by singing "I love LA" in my Barnsley accent.
First got into carpet cleaning by doing one of Eddie Van Halen's expensive Ardebil Persian rugs.

[carpet guy]

Got a few footballers as regular clients and a number of TV people, also a world champion kick boxer. No different from anyone else except for the higher than average number of referrals they generate.

[gwrightson]

Paul,
obviously not an A class celeb

Laminate throughout!   surly real wood much better option

geoff

[mark_roberts]

How do you clean laminate and long does it take and how much do you charge?

Been asked many times but just walk over it to get to the carpets.

Mark