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LADDER MONKEY

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window cleaning is it in your blood ??
« on: May 15, 2011, 08:39:26 pm »
What ever i try & set out 2do, for some reason or another i always end up back where
i left off.......... WINDOW CLEANING  ::)
Just wanted to know if any of you guys have done the same????
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mci services

Re: window cleaning is it in your blood ??
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2011, 08:52:34 pm »
yes pretty much, my dad was a window cleaner so when I was looking for pocket money as teenager he handed me a ladder and a list of addresses, I worked for him off and on until I joined the army at 21, even when in the army I worked for him when on leave, and 15 years later I trained as a tiler but took on some window cleaning to keep me going while I built the tiling business, but I ended up doing very little tiling and lots of window cleaning ;D

I do have HGV class 1, loads of certificates in management and various IT qualifications, but window cleaning is just easier on the whole
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DaveG

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Re: window cleaning is it in your blood ??
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2011, 08:54:33 pm »
Yep started window cleaning when I left skool :o..got married at 20, then was a van driver, suspended ceiling/partitioning fitter, foundry work, retrained as a plumber, then back to window cleaning in 2007 (although Ive always kept my hand in over the years ;))...

Never would of packed it in if wfp was about in 1984 ;D
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Llaaww

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Re: window cleaning is it in your blood ??
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2011, 08:57:44 pm »
it seems to be. It looks like I am in it for the duration. I don't know how that happened
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LADDER MONKEY

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Re: window cleaning is it in your blood ??
« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2011, 09:27:18 pm »
thanks guys  ;) glad im not alone in this ;D 
im not the sharpest tool in the box, but i know alot about the shine & im good at it  :)
it put a smile on my face reading what u all put  ;D
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LWC

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Re: window cleaning is it in your blood ??
« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2011, 10:50:34 pm »
My dad and grandad did it, ive done it since i was young in summer holidays with me dad. Ive thought about other things...but always always end up back here...i do love it really. :D
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Ian101

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Re: window cleaning is it in your blood ??
« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2011, 10:57:51 pm »
nope not in my blood ... just a means to an end
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mlscontractcleaner

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Re: window cleaning is it in your blood ??
« Reply #7 on: May 16, 2011, 12:39:52 pm »
I only does it cuz I is to fick to do a proper job like ovver folk. I wish a waznt but I left skool wiv no exam results and kant get a job in KFC cuz I cudnt spell it at the intervew. Im so glad sumwon invented wfp cuz I can spell that ;D
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cozy

Re: window cleaning is it in your blood ??
« Reply #8 on: May 16, 2011, 12:47:49 pm »
LOL @ MLS.

I don't love this game. I like the money and free time. I'd rather be truck driving, that's in my blood, but I'm starting to think that at my age and the current economic climate, I'd btter stick with it now. Mostly, it's a good business to be in.
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weetot

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Re: window cleaning is it in your blood ??
« Reply #9 on: May 16, 2011, 03:29:52 pm »
Their making a squeegee shaped coffin for me, everything I try, I always end up back on the windows! ::)
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poleman

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Re: window cleaning is it in your blood ??
« Reply #10 on: May 16, 2011, 05:10:20 pm »
been a window cleaner boy to man...started over 20 years ago its deffo in my blood...will be a window cleaner to the day I die!
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LADDER MONKEY

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Re: window cleaning is it in your blood ??
« Reply #11 on: May 16, 2011, 07:31:13 pm »
think thats the way im gonna be Poleman... a windy till i die  ;D
even if it kills me  :P LOL
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weetot

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Re: window cleaning is it in your blood ??
« Reply #12 on: May 16, 2011, 07:53:38 pm »
Quote from: LADDER MONKEY on May 16, 2011, 07:31:13 pm
think thats the way im gonna be Poleman... a windy till i die  ;D
even if it kills me  :P LOL

If ya use that ladder in your picture, you might just do that! ;D
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LADDER MONKEY

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Re: window cleaning is it in your blood ??
« Reply #13 on: May 16, 2011, 08:09:20 pm »
 ;D ;D HAHAHA well done m8, i didnt think it would take 2long b4 someone made a comment.  ;)
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wpclean

Re: window cleaning is it in your blood ??
« Reply #14 on: May 16, 2011, 08:36:06 pm »
I think once you get used to the money and lifestyle the window cleaning gives you, other jobs just do not compare.   I have left and come back three times, and only now have I really taken it seriously and given it 100 %.
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LADDER MONKEY

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Re: window cleaning is it in your blood ??
« Reply #15 on: May 16, 2011, 09:01:53 pm »
same here wpclean  ;) 3rd time lucky..... i hope  ;)
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NJWindowCleaning

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Re: window cleaning is it in your blood ??
« Reply #16 on: May 16, 2011, 09:16:41 pm »
Wouldnt say it ws in the blood as I prefer the windows in front of me than in your blood  ;D ;D

Great job to do, can be recession proof to a certain point and healthy life style, and also meeting all kinds of characters etc  ;D ;D ;D
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