I have done some more checking and it looks as if this new guy has taken over the old window cleaners list. Maybe he bought it in all innocence.
On the subject of prices, I was a lot dearer than the previous window cleaner so if he's charging the old prices the customers will love him.
The previous window cleaner was an old timer who had been doing the round for years but had a fall and "packed in"or so the story goes.
I never knew him and interestingly none of his old customers knew his phone number or where he lived even though he had been doing them for years.
I've got wind of another customer who was approached by presumably the same WC but sent him away. Unfortunately, she didn't get his details.
He's not a newbie, the windows on that second house I went to yesterday were good, and he obviously thinks he's got a right to clean the windows.
Its the old problem, often discussed on here, when is a round dead?. When is a new customer fair game? Almost every new customer has an old window cleaner who stopped coming some time back. Can he or someone else expect to move back in after a year?