[tradman]

found this on a site called 'weekly gripe' this is what braggers are doing to our industry




Window cleaners taking us to the cleaners

We used to have a nice little man come around on his bicycle with his ladders, and he charged £3 to clean the windows.  Anyway, I heard that he ended up in prison for stealing from a customer. 

I wasn't bothered too much about him going, but then new window cleaner came on the scene.  He has a big transit van with a system to clean the windows using pure de-ionised water.  He wanted to charge me £18 to clean the windows on our house !  Can you believe that?! 

He says it's illegal to use ladders, but my aerial erector chap uses ladders.  I've read about other window cleaners earning up to £1000 a day using this system.

Further Information: Many window cleaning businesses are claiming that laws are about to come into force due to European Directive 2001/45/EC that will make ladders illegal for window cleaners, forcing a change to WFP systems.  However, the government denies this stipulation, as ladder use for window cleaning is "low risk and short duration" - source

[trike]

how many years ago was that 3quid,thats cheaper them me ,i still charge the same as i did befor i changed to wfp,but i know people who doubled what they charged when they changed.but lost a good few custies,but still gained because of price rise,and does less houses

[ronnie paton]

im sorry but doesnt it say it all he was sent to ptison for stealing!!!!

if they would rather employ that type of person more fool them but we are running a business and have business costs and for a proper job to be done a proper charge must be put in place.

[geefree]

plumbers used to charge 10 per hour.. 20 years ago...

now they charge the earth.. and still get the work.

Times move on

similar must apply.

[trike]

plumbers are not coming for payment each fortnight or month,carnt realy compare

[geefree]

its a service which customers use and pay for...plumbers dont call each month to do a job either.... but that was not my point.

[lovewindows]

"Low risk and short duration"  ? dont most traffic accidents happen on short journies , i can't see the govt saying that.
Anyway if i was that nice man on a bike i would only charge £2 to not do her windows anymore.

[johns window kleen]

Had a look at this site, just for general whingers. If the nice old man was cleaning windows for £3.00 on a bike good luck to the idiot. If he run a proper business and charged realistic 2008 money, he wouldnt have had to alledgedly stolenl money from customers.

[L.J.Thorpe]

"Low risk and short duration"  ? dont most traffic accidents happen on short journies , i can't see the govt saying that.
Anyway if i was that nice man on a bike i would only charge £2 to not do her windows anymore.

actually that is pretty much what they do say

[geefree]

. If he run a proper business and charged realistic 2008 money, he wouldnt have had to alledgedly stolenl money from customers.

and he would be able to buy a van.

[Tosh]

found this on a site called 'weekly gripe' this is what braggers are doing to our industry




Window cleaners taking us to the cleaners

We used to have a nice little man come around on his bicycle with his ladders, and he charged £3 to clean the windows.  Anyway, I heard that he ended up in prison for stealing from a customer. 

I wasn't bothered too much about him going, but then new window cleaner came on the scene.  He has a big transit van with a system to clean the windows using pure de-ionised water.  He wanted to charge me £18 to clean the windows on our house !  Can you believe that?! 

He says it's illegal to use ladders, but my aerial erector chap uses ladders.  I've read about other window cleaners earning up to £1000 a day using this system.

Further Information: Many window cleaning businesses are claiming that laws are about to come into force due to European Directive 2001/45/EC that will make ladders illegal for window cleaners, forcing a change to WFP systems.  However, the government denies this stipulation, as ladder use for window cleaning is "low risk and short duration" - source

That's all put together a little too neatly; it's been posted by a window cleaner having a larf; I'd bet money on it.

[L.J.Thorpe]

this was posted up on here a while back by someone else as a link to the site in question

[RSWindows]

found this on a site called 'weekly gripe' this is what braggers are doing to our industry




Window cleaners taking us to the cleaners

We used to have a nice little man come around on his bicycle with his ladders, and he charged £3 to clean the windows.  Anyway, I heard that he ended up in prison for stealing from a customer. 

I wasn't bothered too much about him going, but then new window cleaner came on the scene.  He has a big transit van with a system to clean the windows using pure de-ionised water.  He wanted to charge me £18 to clean the windows on our house !  Can you believe that?! 

He says it's illegal to use ladders, but my aerial erector chap uses ladders.  I've read about other window cleaners earning up to £1000 a day using this system.

Further Information: Many window cleaning businesses are claiming that laws are about to come into force due to European Directive 2001/45/EC that will make ladders illegal for window cleaners, forcing a change to WFP systems.  However, the government denies this stipulation, as ladder use for window cleaning is "low risk and short duration" - source

That's all put together a little too neatly; it's been posted by a window cleaner having a larf; I'd bet money on it.

cant believe im saying this but yeah i agree with Tosh

[brett walker]

He wants locking only charging £3.00 per house : thats why hes only riding a bicycle as for stealing from his customer they should chop his hands off

as for the rest of the article i too think its been put together too carefully

Brett

[matt]

to be honest, on most sites i use, if the topic comes up " what do you do to earn a living " i say " window cleaner " i allways get replies, they earn top whack money these days and i even get a few private messages about how much i earn

look at the security gaurd who i used to speak to on 1 of my comercail jobs, he put together a biz pack and touted around all the sites he works, from what i have been told, he has got a few jobs now, not enough to live on, but enough to finish the security work and now he window cleans and drives a taxi on the weekend

people these days think we earn more than a professional person or a manager, who it to blame for that, the people who need to brag about themselves

[seandyer2003]

erm arent you one of the £500 a day boys

I think people always have a whinge like that article, one of my custys is minted he runs a second hand car business out of his huge grounds, but always goes on about how much window cleaners earn last time he asked if i wanted his wifes audi for 14, 000 and that was a bargain, like id pull it out out of pocket from my days earnings and pay mental, its if the daily mail prints stories like that article you need to worry

[matt]

erm arent you one of the £500 a day boys

that was last year, now its 750  try and keep up 

[alanwilson]

£750 a day?

wouldn't get out of bed for it.

I wish. 

[spark1]

STINKS OF BULLpoop!!!!

[dave0123]

I agree with tosh!
 

there using all the short words for it such as wfp which they would use something silly like a "pole" or "stick thing" and all the codes for the hse sheets i dont even know them myself so i highly doubt a woman at home in a 3 bed semi would!


lol @ 1000 per day though x through out the year with a few holidays i would be a millonare 2 times over by now