[Ben Walker]

avoid houses with cat/dog poope!

 

new customer, the woman didn't seem to click that if it gets on your shoes then it gets on the ladder, and if it gets on the ladder it...

i was scrubbing my ladder on the pavement with a brush! needs detox now.

yackertyyack

charged her tenner extra 

but actually, cheap at the price 

[windows_chepstow]

It's an old tip, but a good one.

I've dropped accounts where they weren't to particular about cleaning up the mess their animals make.

Cats I can forgive; you can't control them and often it isn't your customer's cat whose made the mess, but dogs is different.

There's nothing worse than climbing down your ladders only to find the smelly-mess you've just walked up them.

It drives me barmy.

Once, I must've placed the foot of my ladder right into a lump of dog poo, then on lifting my ladder, I changed my hand grip so that I pushed the ladder up by the foot and received a handfull of disgusting brown stuff.

I lost my teddy that moment and never cleaned that account again.  You should've heard me shout and swear.

I also clean an area called 'Garden City'.  Wor Lass calls it 'S hit City' because dog owners let their animals foul in all the little alley ways behind the houses.  It's not to bad in Summer when the poo dries and disperses quickly, but in winter it's like picking your way through an Iraqi mine field.

If ever I see a dog owner let their animal foul and don't pick it up; I remonstrate with them; regardless of how big they are, or how vicious their dog looks.

Poo; hate the stuff.

[Sir Squeaky]

No poo!

I live in the area Tosh is talking about, but no dogs by me.

[tomo]

tosh and roger howz it going....bit windy in chepstow today wern't it? clocked off early 3:30 nevermind it shouldn't be as bad when i am using water fed ploes....(hopefully it won't anyway )

[windows_chepstow]

tosh and roger howz it going....bit windy in chepstow today wern't it? clocked off early 3:30 nevermind it shouldn't be as bad when i am using water fed ploes....(hopefully it won't anyway )

Hi Tomo,

Had I been using ladders (which I did for three accounts) I probably still would've worked in this weather.  It was windy mind.

Fine with WFP though - no problems at all - just be carefull where your leaving your extended pole. 

Ian_Giles informed me this morning that all the wind-bourne particles might contaminate the water droplets left on the windows and dry leaving spots.

He's great for your confidence when you've just been at it a few weeks!

[tomo]

i can't see it being enough to notice as it probably happens all the time with the rain but it doesn't leave spots does it?....i have never noticed that so why shoud wfp be any different. By the way i altered david@stives wfp change over letter and made a little booklet out of it stapled two A4 sheets together for the front/ back and the inside sheet two pages in the middle it looks the business and one of my customers thought so to...

[windows_chepstow]

Tomo, you've got 'good communication skills' and a Tom Cruise smile.

I bet you could clean your customer's windows with an oily rag and they wouldn't complain.

Me, I have to work at it.

[tomo]

Tosh we could be brothers . I will call down one friday and have a beer...brewers is it?...Do you still have to weigh in at the door for your fighting weight