[gordons]

How bad does the weather have to be before you cant clean windows?

[AuRavelling79]

A dozen w/c will give you a dozen replies.

As for me if it's drizzle coming straight down I'll carry on if I'm in the mood. Any worse, unless I'm well behind in my work and I don't continue.

Try to get some inside w/c work that you can turn up (as and when) and clean and this will help fill in the gaps as it were.

[jakeandmia]

Hi

I cleaned a block of 34 flats and duplex apts today and carried on through rain(not like me) and was amazed no one said a word.They even put the thumbs up and smiled as i went about my work.Not so sure it would work if it was normal houses though.

WAYNE

[rosskesava]

Today it started sunny then by about 10 it was overcast and then for the next 5 hours it rained heavily on and off. If it's just spitting or just one or two showers we'd carry on. Today was heavy showers and normally we'd just stop but we're so far behind we thought we'd try and carry on. Mistake.

At 12 we gave up after the 4th person said no because it was raining.

I don't know about anyone else but since the beginning of February we have not done a full weeks work because of the weather. I sure it hasn't been this bad in previous years.

Another problem of doing a few houses is a round is that the rounds end up muddled and all over the place.

[windows_chepstow]

At 12 we gave up after the 4th person said no because it was raining.

I've never had this said to me, although one customer did get a little 'stroppy' and a few months later asked me to stop doing her windows because her husband said he'd do them from now on!

I'd say that if you're willing to clean them in the rain, they should be willing to have 'em cleaned.

I did a large new clean this morning; in the rain.  An old Villaige School converted into a posh house.  The customer didn't comment on the rain once, and why should they?  Their windows were left clean.

Drop them as 'bad customers' if you've got enough business.  I think some tightwads use the rain as an excuse not to pay their window cleaner; but still want to have their windows cleaned on a 'fairly regular' basis.

[marc al]

  I have been very lucky today, it was fine upto about 11-30 when I ran out of water, went home to fill up and got a call, went and priced that job, was going back to the area I was in to leaflet, when i got there the sun was out so I finished all my scheduled work for the day.

[easycleanwindows]

i work untill its pouring down even on residential.If they moan abouth the weather i give them a guarantee if there dirty when it stops raingin ill give full refund.In two years not one call.Any way i only use wfp not ladders so can carry on in the rain as rain water is as pure.Hhow much rain do you seen on the glass when it stops raining?none.And when they say rain leaves dirty spots then i tell them thats the dirt underneath.

[replacement]

Totally agree, I clean in nearly all weather only Heavy Rain i give it a miss, but giving a full weather guarantee works great in the last 1yr not one call back, and not one lost customer. Get out there and work them.

Justin

[petetaylor56]

 :)the girl on the weather tonite reckons this has been the driest 6 month since 1997 yea 

[windows_chepstow]

Yeah, work on unless some old fool moans.

No-one has ever moaned at me, but if they did, this is what I'd do:

I'd ask them to watch while I took a handfull of mud and smeared it on a window.  I'd ask them if they agreed the window was now really filthy.  Obviously, they'd have to agree.

I'd then clean it and ask them to phone me if the muck is back after it has stopped raining.  If it was I'd give them their money back.

It's called 'reducing the argument to absurdity', (can't remember the clever Latin phrase), but I'm sure it makes the point that windows CAN be cleaned in the rain, and rain doesn't (automatically) dirty them again.

If they were still unhappy, I'd drop 'em!

[baldeagle]

If it's raining straight down, that is, not driven by wind, then I carry on.
If it's windy and chucking the rain at the windows then I stop.
The little old ladies take pity on me when it's raining anyway, and bring biscuits out with a warm drink, [I've always been able to charm little old ladies ever since I was a little lad, and had hair! Not lost the touch!]
Baldeagle

[thewindowcleaner1]

Work all weather except driving rain, If a customer says give it a miss because it's raining or looks like rain no problem but then I miss them the following month, by the time they see me again they tend to be pleased that they had not upset me and I'd stop going.
I used to stop at the first sign of the wet stuff but then I realised just how much £ i was loosing,

[brett walker]

  rain rain rain.  do your customers say now youve come to clean the windows you'll make it rain or you not doing them today are you its going to rain .  it really p***es me off .  The sun can be out but you clean the windows but 5 mins later it can throw it down personally i dont think that the windows get that dirty after youve just cleaned them its us the window cleaners that get soaked were just trying to do our job.  It never rains but it pours .sorry for the moan   regards brett

[Darryl]

My crowd only want their glass to sparkle in the sun.

 Well dare he turn up in the rain!!  £0.00

You know the ones I mean.  But two days of sun shine and I Cant even go into the local shop, or wee martha, is waving me out to work with her walking stick

Bate on, because in the rain the windows are wet when you get to them, keep on blading    £10000.00

[s.hughes]

When a customer wants their inside windows cleaned (1 that dosnt have it done regular) I say that I will do it when it rains. Sometimes they have to wait a while but they all understand and it means that I am always busy. The next time it rains I'm getting my accounts done cause I'm way behind.

Steveyboy

[rosskesava]

Hi How Much??

When a customer wants their inside windows cleaned (1 that dosnt have it done regular) I say that I will do it when it rains

Now why didn't I think of that?

Sometime I astound myself just how I miss the obvious. 

Cheers

[Steve Chapman]

we've always still gone out in the rain but knock and offer to do the insides instead, you'll be surprised at how many take you up on the offer, especially if they don't have  it done often.
have been doing this for 12 years and hardly had a week when we didn't work!   i also kept a list of people who were guaranteed to be at work, crafty but still effective!

[replacement]

Thats a good idea. Like your list as well. I just tell them i work in the rain they can either take it or find someone else.

Like the EasyClean Business Paper Steve, looks like i will have to speak to my local one now

Justin

[windows_chepstow]

If it's raining hard, it's rare I clean because Wor Lass complains that I'm a task master and I doubt I could spent a whole day soaked either.

But I will clean in the rain if I'm behind, and we always clean in the often drizzly weather we get in South Wales.

You don't have to be crafty.  Just turn up, all professional like; don't even mention the weather.

Clean the windows, knock, say, 'Good morning' and collect what you've earnt!

If anyone gets funny (which has happened ONLY ONCE) to me in 2 and a half years, just politely explain that you've got that much work on, if they want their windows cleaned regularly, they get cleaned every month; no matter what the weather is like.

I asked the same question about cleaning in the rain about two years ago.  It might've been Lionheart (I'll have a look now) explain to me that all I required was some 'balls', and once I acquired them it wouldn't be a problem.  He was dead right.