[pdhanson]

Ok chappies, we've all had funny experiences while window cleaning, lets have your best.  

Be it strange customers, encounters with other window cleaners, or falling off a roof into a pool!  What's your funniest, strangest or whackiest window cleaning story?

Here's one to kick off:

A windy December day I was on a little roof when a sudden gust blew my ladders down.  Too high up to jump down, street deserted, customer not home! STUCK!

Luckily I had my mobile, and a friend who lived nearby came to the rescue!  I had a few weeks of mick-taking tho!

Lets hear yours!

[shinnyshinner]

Hi silly philly
When I was 14 I started working with my dad in London we used to clean the windows of a sauna that opened up in Kings Cross (you know the sort).
After we cleaned the windows we popped in for a cup of tea while I was drinking my tea I was admiring the girls low cut tops, as you do at that age, not watching what I was doing spilt my tea down my overalls through my jeans and it hurt like hell then nearly died when the girls told me I went rather red and did I want to take my trousers off.
Alan

[Neil]

Hi Silly Philly
When I was helping a mate with his round a few years ago we used to do a posh hotel in town. I would do the ground floor and my mate would do tops.
One day he came down the ladder so fast I thought he had jumped
Quick he said go up and take a look! Not a stitch on! Totally Starkers!
I had visions of a young bit of stuff laying on the bed so I was up that ladder like a rat up a drainpipe. As I pretended to clean the window I looked in to see the young nymph but what I saw was not what I had hoped for (yes I know I should have guessed) there was this Great hairy ar@ed sales rep stood at the wash basin brushing his teeth looking back at me in the mirror wearing nothing but a big smile.
As I looked down there was my mate lying on the floor laughing his head off.
It took a Very long time to live that down but was worth it for the beer talk afterwards.  

[Majestic]

One window cleaner said he earns £72k per year

[shinnyshinner]

Hi majestic
Tell you what would be funny,
If he wrote abook about it.
Oh sorry he did did'nt he, from a forum wasnt it
Alan

[denzle]

About a year ago whilst out collecting on a Thursday night, one of customers came to the door to pay.
She asked me if her dog had barked at me whilst i was cleaning the patio door.
She looked really saddened when i told her that it hadn't,
Why i aked ? Oh we found him dead on the carpet by the patio door when we got home and we just thought that if he had died barking at the window cleaner then he would have died a happy dog.
That kept me amused for days
Denzle

[Cov_Cleaner]

My ex girlfriends mum lives in Polperro, Cornwall and we had to go down for a fortnight every year (yawn!)

Last time I decided to take the ladders so I could get myself out the way for a bit! One day canvassing and Two days cleaning made me about £130. I had to smile to myself when customers said "see you in a month"!

[AJ]

Dug this one out from 2003!


I changed a job over to WFP about 18mths ago. Its 4 storey flats (G,1,2,3). I clean them every 3 months. Ever since I changed it, one customer has complained every time I visit. Anyway, went there last week, same again, complaint. Turned up there yeatserday to sort it out and thought "right, lets have a look at these windows". i got my triples off (don't miss them one bit) went up to take a look. What greeted me was unbelievable. Picture it- adult entertainment on the TV, man lounging on the sofa with one leg on the back going absolutely hammer and tongs. i think he thought he was Steve Irwin the way he was wrestling the anaconda! either that or he was trying to start a fire with it. A short sharp tap on the window and that complaint was sorted without even getting the window wet. I have never seen anyone leave a room without touching the floor. Funny enough he hasn't called today.
PRICELESS!! Grin Grin Grin
By the way, there was nothing wrong with the windows.
Anymore guys?

[steven ainger]

perhaps the spotting was on the inside!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[windowcleaninginessex.co.uk]

One day I climbed up ladder to get on flat roof of a garage, so I could clean a bedroom window. I heard a female voice in the bedroom say quick it is the window cleaner, of course you then look, well there was no net curtains, but there was a bed at one end of room with the lady of the house on it, naked and legs in the air along with two midwifes and the husband. She was givig birth to her first child, little bit awkward, one of the midwifes shut the curtains and  i just cleaned the rest of the windows as normal, the husband did come and pay me and he had a little laugh and said maybe we should call the baby Darren (me).When i saw the lady next clean she did go a little red or should i say very red.

This happened about 8 years ago and i still clean there windows.

Beat that

Darren

[Tosh]

This post is over four years old and was started by Philip Hanson!

He used to be a moderator on this forum; he wouldn't have tolerated such topics as the one he started; which makes me smile; it must've been in his pre-mod days.

After window cleaning, he moved onto be the Editor of Professhional Window Cleaning Magazine, but he's now selling double glazing in a Bristol Tesco's Supermarket, so I'm led to believe.

[Feen]

Have to go onto a flat roof to clean a few windows. One day I'm just starting to wash one when I become aware of a face looking at me. When I focus on said face (female about 20 years old) I realise I can also see her bare arse. Straight off to the next window. Turns out it was the bathroom and she was about to use or just had used the toilet

[Ian Curtis]

Long time since cov_cleaner posted!

Come on cov_cleaner, where are ya?

[Tim82]

 One customer came out and paid me while I was going for a wee in his drain while cleaning his window. Didnt think anyone was in!! I stopped weeing but I was still hanging out. He either didnt notice or let me get away with it. (He was a fellow self employed person and probably does the same!). Embarrassing nontheless. Just the not-knowing whenever I see him now!

 Oh and my ladders got blown over and landed right on top of some poor guy's nice shiny car. Poor guy thought i was knocking to get paid when I knocked on his door to tell him! Thankfully it was a company car and he just traded it in without claiming on my insurance.

[kris martin]

the guy i work with climbed up the A ladder to clean the windows downstairs and gaught the guy ten to the dozen with a rude film on telly, he diddnt come to the door for about a year and when he does now he goes really red

[poleman]

he's now selling double glazing in a Bristol Tesco's Supermarket, so I'm led to believe

 

Thats a turn up! if true...

[Paul Coleman]

he's now selling double glazing in a Bristol Tesco's Supermarket, so I'm led to believe

 

Thats a turn up! if true...

I hope he hasn't turned traitor by selling the self cleaning stuff

[NWH]

Crikey Phil are you finding it that hard to fill that ionic magazine every 2-3 months,just put another couple of pics of the Thermopure in it as winters well and truly on the way now lol.

[Moderator David@stives]

he's now selling double glazing in a Bristol Tesco's Supermarket, so I'm led to believe

 

Thats a turn up! if true...

Is this true ?

[poleman]

Dont know dave, Tosh will have to elaborate a bit more...Tosh!