[DG Cleaning]

My will to live

[A & J Owen Window Cleaning]

 

[ascjim]

hahaha this post has made me laugh.

I've broken a few windows and pulled my hose all over the bonnet of a Audi.....

[simon w]

Working for a firm about 10 years ago, we had the Oxford University contracts and WF Poles weren't the same as they are today (thanks Gardiners)  Anyway I was cleaning one of many Georgian town houses that they own in the City centre, part of the Sciences Dept, I was using one of the very old Tucker poles, brushes were great but the pole a 40 footer had jubilee clips for clamps : You had to keep a screw driver in your pocket for tightening pole sections each time you opened or closed a section  anyway a section twisted and the aluminium stock smashed a pane of glass and the brush was inside the window shooting water at all the lab technicians  The flow on WFP back then was incredibly high (pre flow controllers) the tail end which in those days was connected to 100 metres of half inch hose pipe was some way from where I was working so by the time I'd made it over to the hosepipe to disconnect I'd given all the lab technicians a good soaking 

Good job the Department Bursar was very laid back He just said don't worry about it we'll get it fixed 

[Crystal-clear]

good topic lets all put how much it cost us or cleans too

im always very very carefull carefull but i think i got 4 insidents to share apart from the obvious small tiny pots that have been sitting for decades that no one notices
even those i may have broke 3-4 in my life time   


2008: slightly reversed into a customers right front car wing £120 payment in money <that was a stinger first month with van too>
2010: a dragon fly garden thing <customer had a go at me but didnt want money for it>
2011: a large pot filled up with a plant <amazingly customer didnt want to charge me in anyway>
2011  a Tile cornered to a velux window £60 3x cleans customer was given credit <no more walking on tiled roofs>

[[GQC] Tim]

Curtain ornament was fixed with just an eye bolt on a hook, I pulled up the blind, darn thing came crashing down, obliterating the antique below it. My jaw was on the floor. At that time best customer, so said I would pay for it all, no fuss. Even though it was hardly my fault, accident waiting to happen.

Customer said antique had just sentimental value, but curtain ornament was £225.

[simon w]

Curtain ornament was fixed with just an eye bolt on a hook, I pulled up the blind, darn thing came crashing down, obliterating the antique below it. My jaw was on the floor. At that time best customer, so said I would pay for it all, no fuss. Even though it was hardly my fault, accident waiting to happen.

Customer said antique had just sentimental value, but curtain ornament was £225.

Sorry thought we were talking external window cleaning  silly me. Now internal window cleaning disasters where do we start 

I've had a few but I don't want to bore you guy's 

[dave f]

head off a garden knome, ho and seized my ts1