[Fast 1 *]

Was anyone window cleaning during the recesesion?if so,how did it effect your business.

[Roy Harding]

Did not efect me at all.

Most of my work is large houses and most are well off.

Roy

[Alex Gardiner]

Down 'ere in Cornwall we never eard tell of no recession.

Alex

[neil100]

I worked through the last one.

It never had much effect on me. I do mainly domestic in fairly good areas.

You lose the odd one and gain new ones.

Nel.

[windows_chepstow]

When was the last recession?  Was it around 1985?  The job scene wasn't good around then - high unemployment - so instead of trying to get an heavy-engineering apprentiship (like my brother and all of the other males in my family), I joined the army.

I have lost a couple of customers around April/May time though, which I always think is strange, since they've put up with me cleaning their windows all the way through a dark and gloomy winter; only to drop me when the sun-shine is about to appear.

I can only think that it's the Christmas debt kicking in.

[Trevor Knight]

I went through the recession in 1998 and that was fine, high interest rates going through the roof, unemployment was high and I think I only lost around 5% of my customers.

Trev

[dai]

I have lost a couple during the last few weeks. One thanked me for the good work over the years. She has recently split with her husband, interest rates have gone up as have fuel prices. I think a few people are begin to feel the pinch. DAI

[Paul Coleman]

Was anyone window cleaning during the recesesion?if so,how did it effect your business.

I'm assuming you mean the one in the early to mid 1990s rather than the one we are drifting into now.
I started up my window cleaning business in late 1991.  It was slow getting it off the ground but picked up eventually.  It was noticeable that with the high interest rates, most of my earlier customers were either renting or were people who I imagined to be well advanced in their mortgages or had paid them off (in other words, people who were fairly advanced in years).  When the rates plummeted after Britain's withdrawal from the E.R.M., a lot of younger people started coming on board.