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Arnold Palmer

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Re: What’s the biggest job you have refused.
« Reply #20 on: August 27, 2020, 11:26:26 am »
Got offered £118 million to supply the NHS with PPE.

Turned it down, I've never even seen a rat.
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Gringo

  • Posts: 315
Re: What’s the biggest job you have refused.
« Reply #21 on: August 27, 2020, 09:01:18 pm »
£3.50 front only
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Steven Biggs

  • Posts: 1350
Re: What’s the biggest job you have refused.
« Reply #22 on: August 29, 2020, 09:54:21 am »
About 5 years ago . Turned down 2 schools . Gave them the price for the outsides . Then a separate much higher price for the insides . Hoping they would go go for outsides only . Accepted it but knocked em back . Cos I really hate cleaning any inside windows . Also had a pub for years .well priced , outsides were great to clean . But the insides were awful . Kept banging the price up , every 3 months .thinking they will cancel . In the end I stopped going . Not got one single inside window on the round now .
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robbo333

  • Posts: 2419
Re: What’s the biggest job you have refused.
« Reply #23 on: August 30, 2020, 08:48:03 pm »
I priced up a large school with separate buildings on either side of a main road.

Then I decided it was far too big for me and not practical to do...and I couldn't be bothered. My mate is the school caretaker.

I gave it to a mate of mine who only does commercial work.

In return, he gave me a little fsg and windows clean on a 3 bed semi. I was well chuffed!

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jo5hm4n

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Re: What’s the biggest job you have refused.
« Reply #24 on: September 01, 2020, 11:48:46 am »
Turned down a job to clean 22 hospitals and medical centres for a  big commercial contract linked to NHS.  Job was worth £50,000+ but the amount of stress and planning involved and the fact that my health is absolute poope it just wasn't worth it at all, so i ended up upping the price by 50% just so they would turn me down!

Think we'll stick to our domestics thank you very much.  Probably would of lost it anyway due to covid, would of been an absolute nightmare trying to carry this out over covid period and lost it would of been down alot of money from having to invest in a new van and equipment.
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G Griffin

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Re: What’s the biggest job you have refused.
« Reply #25 on: September 01, 2020, 02:19:50 pm »
I turned down doing The Shard.
Not the one in that London; the carbon one in Daz's thumb 👎.
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tlwcs

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Re: What’s the biggest job you have refused.
« Reply #26 on: September 01, 2020, 04:35:05 pm »
A big house in Meridian in the midlands. Over 300 windows with 54 in the garage block.
As we walk round the Lady of the house moaned about the window cleaner, gardener and stable girls.
I thought you ain’t going to moan about me.
Told her I couldn’t carry enough water to complete the job and promptly left. I never gave a price.
I drive past occasionally and have never seen anyone there and wonder who she’s moaning about now. Some people!
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