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karygate

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working in rain must have its limits
« on: January 23, 2009, 08:51:55 am »
i can understand some people working in showers when working commercial etc but around here today it is throwing it down and just been past a w/c cleaning a shop front. the rain has turned to sleet and is bouncing off the pavement. if i was the shop owner i would tell him where to go.surely there is a limit and some sort of respect for your customers.
gary

tomy jackson

Re: working in rain must have its limits
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2009, 09:07:39 am »
dont be silly most custys dont respekt you your just a window cleaner , yes a poxy window cleaner .

Londoner

Re: working in rain must have its limits
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2009, 11:14:11 am »
I have never worked in anything heavier than a light drizzle. The customers don't like it but thats not the reason. I don't like it - thats the reason.

DC Window Cleaning

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Re: working in rain must have its limits
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2009, 12:19:16 pm »
i do not work in rain

john tomkins

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Re: working in rain must have its limits
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2009, 12:23:57 pm »
Have a look at your own windows after the last couple of nights rain..... Mine were clean but now they are filthy.

Slash

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Re: working in rain must have its limits
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2009, 05:20:59 pm »
dont be silly most custys dont respekt you your just a window cleaner , yes a poxy window cleaner .
Yes but if you take no nonsense and they know that they will respect you,I take it you have been talked to like crap before and said nothing! ;D
I work in light rain but when it's pouring down I stop,not because I am afraid what the customers think but I don't like getting wet!

AuRavelling79

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Re: working in rain must have its limits
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2009, 05:25:33 pm »
As said above - the reason I don't work in more than light drizzle/occasional shower is because I don't like getting wet.

You can educate custy's with a rain guarantee - but unless we have a prolonged spell (like last August) I just work double quick inbetween the showers. The beauty of wfp!
It's a game of three halves!

East coast window cleaning Services

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Re: working in rain must have its limits
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2009, 05:29:47 pm »
I left home this morning from north london to south london took 1h 15mins to get there, When i got there it came down, I had 65 flats to do in a managed block if it was closer i would have gone home but just got on with it. And got wet
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drakestar!

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Re: working in rain must have its limits
« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2009, 05:39:06 pm »
Well you could always sell me that job, im in south london  ;)

East coast window cleaning Services

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Re: working in rain must have its limits
« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2009, 05:39:45 pm »
not a chance its good earner ;D
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simon knight

Re: working in rain must have its limits
« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2009, 05:41:27 pm »
Driving Mrs k into work this morning at 8.30 I saw a w/c cleaning a shop front in the High Street. It was absolutely peeing down and the sight of somebody cleaning windows looked...well, absolutely and utterly bloody ridiculous!

drakestar!

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Re: working in rain must have its limits
« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2009, 05:42:54 pm »
Well it was worth a try  :D

AuRavelling79

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Re: working in rain must have its limits
« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2009, 05:43:06 pm »
Driving Mrs k into work this morning at 8.30 I saw a w/c cleaning a shop front in the High Street. It was absolutely peeing down and the sight of somebody cleaning windows looked...well, absolutely and utterly bloody ridiculous!

Agreed - it does look desperate.
It's a game of three halves!

East coast window cleaning Services

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Re: working in rain must have its limits
« Reply #13 on: January 23, 2009, 06:12:38 pm »
agreed i wouldnt do my residential in it. and like i said if i was closer to home i would have turned in,.
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matt

Re: working in rain must have its limits
« Reply #14 on: January 23, 2009, 06:15:13 pm »
Driving Mrs k into work this morning at 8.30 I saw a w/c cleaning a shop front in the High Street. It was absolutely peeing down and the sight of somebody cleaning windows looked...well, absolutely and utterly bloody ridiculous!

i often think, what do they look like cleaning windows in the pouring rain

Re: working in rain must have its limits
« Reply #15 on: January 23, 2009, 06:22:00 pm »
I wonder if the forums to blame? Did people used to work in the rain?

The wannabees read on here all about window cleaning kung fu and then they go out and become ruthless money machines. What have we spawned?

matt

Re: working in rain must have its limits
« Reply #16 on: January 23, 2009, 06:42:15 pm »
I wonder if the forums to blame? Did people used to work in the rain?

The wannabees read on here all about window cleaning kung fu and then they go out and become ruthless money machines. What have we spawned?

good call

it was allways a no no to work in the rain, though that was the trad way and when you detailed the edges the rain drops would drag aswell

it seems the new comers are just interested in the money, they have allways had loads of new customers, customer service / relations are pretty way down on the list, well down the list under the top item, money

Tosh

Re: working in rain must have its limits
« Reply #17 on: January 23, 2009, 06:50:20 pm »
It's possible to clean in the rain; within certain parameters; using a bit of common sense on what accounts you do.

But obviously if it's hammering down with the rain comming in side-ways; you shouldn't do it.

However,  is working in-between the rain storms any different?  And with WFP I think the biggest bugger is the WIND; not the rain.


WISEOWL

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Re: working in rain must have its limits
« Reply #18 on: January 23, 2009, 06:56:02 pm »
I used to whimper at the remotest hint of rain and waste hours and even days not working when in actual fact a 'rainy day' could be only less than an hour of the entire working day.

Now, thanks to my pole and site jacket, I work through rain...bar the torrential rain that we rarely get.

Tosh

Re: working in rain must have its limits
« Reply #19 on: January 23, 2009, 06:59:33 pm »
Now, thanks to my pole and site jacket, I work through rain...bar the torrential rain that we rarely get.

I know what a pole is, but what's a 'site jacket'?