[Sean Kelly]

Hi guys, I've started window cleaning this year and have a good round going, do people drop you in the winter though??

[windiewasher]

Hi guys, I've started window cleaning this year and have a good round going, do people drop you in the winter though??

Only about 90 %

[home6442]

Yes you might get a few messers who will.
Put up with it until you no longer need their custom and then take great pleasure in dumping.

[windiewasher]

Get a winter job m8

[Sean Kelly]

I'm a fire fighter aswell so don't really need a winter job, do you have a winter job windiewasher??

[formb]

Yes but it is not really an issue. You can't clean as many houses in Dec/Jan as you can in Jun/Jul anyway so it usually works out fine.

[windiewasher]

I'm a fire fighter aswell so don't really need a winter job, do you have a winter job windiewasher??

No mate.im joking i think 2 said they dont want them cleaning in the winter and infact i still picked a lot up in the winter.

[ascjim]

Everyone still gets cleaned in the winter. Thus is when the windows are at their dirtiest

[richard jagger]

      Many customers are quite thick when its comes to window cleaning. Its the misconception that rain cleans windows,they seem to not notice that you agitate the dirt off the glass with a brush then rinse.The rain does not have a brush to clean before rinsing.  Winter being a wet environment does not have much sand and dust but as most dirt on a glass is made up of pollution which is slightly oily from e.g car exhaust pollution, which rain cannot rinse off the glass. It is this oily substance that sand and dust sticks in that summer.  If this oily pollution was not present on the glass the sand would just slide off or be blown off the glass by wind.
      
Use this information to educate your customers.

  Top nerd Tip: Purified water has the ability to clean better that natural pure. ( This is after much research.) For the science interested, purified water has more imbalanced hydrogen molecules  to absorb the  dirt )it`s is for this reason that naturally pure water is never Tds 000. Natural pure water will always come in contact with other elements to balance its atomic nucleus  
    
      

[C o z y]

I canvass a lot at this time of year. The custies I pick up are good, because they know you work through winter. I rarely get people cancelling for winter, because when I canvass, I tell them that we're all year round. I don't take back people who cancel, so it sorts itself.

Winter is also the time of year when the windows get dirtiest, so why would anyone want to cancel for that period?? 

You sometimes get the odd dozy custy saying that rain makes windows dirty etc. If that's true, would they like you to call back after rain and clean them again, as long as they pay of course? No, because they aren't dirty.

The issue isn't winter or rain, it's people who never really give a thought to the logic of it all. Why should they, it's only window cleaning?  That's how things are mate, so clean all year, and just take the hits from ignorant custies who don't understand.

Welcome to the world of window licking cleaning. 

HTH

[richard jagger]

Answer for Cosy:You sometimes get the odd dozy custy saying that rain makes windows dirty etc. If that's true, would they like you to call back after rain and clean them again, as long as they pay of course? No, because they aren't dirty.

The sandy deposit on glass is more visual that pollution. The customer being dozy will not notice it. Why they say rain makes the windows dirty is because the rain water disturbs the dirt and makes the dirt visible.
I know I am a nerd. yes yes. But,   Knowledge is power.

[C o z y]

lol, know what you mean mate. I actually had a town centre shop owner say she didn't want her shop front cleaned if it was raining!! Wonder who cleans them now..................

[richard jagger]

This answer will be answered by the established windy as NO.( I have ironed  out and dumped all the messes) The still building  a round windy, in these current times will be, YES .( And will need every customer you can get to survive the winter with a sane mind) .

[dannymack]

Stick to your job as a fire fighter I'm sure you earn good money & leave the window cleaning to us professionals lol !!!!

[Tom White]

The longer you're at this, the less customers you get who say stuff like "Oh, can you stop doing them and come back in May?" (or something like that).

Why?  Because you drop 'em and just stick with your regular hard-core of customers who have you month-in-month-out (or whatever your frequency).  As time goes on, you build a round of good, dependable customers.

[ray mck]

just had one yesterday, said can i ring you when my windows get dirty ? yes course you can.myarse.

[PoleKing]

I have a customer that stops between November and April.
Wouldn't normally bother with him but he is in a spot where I clean 9 other houses from one park so don't mind.
Wouldn't do it for a van move though.
As with most things-it's subjective.

[Sean Kelly]

Stick to your job as a fire fighter I'm sure you earn good money & leave the window cleaning to us professionals lol !!!!

Danny, you try living off a fire fighters wage, I'm a professional window cleaner as much as you are lol

[Sean Kelly]

The longer you're at this, the less customers you get who say stuff like "Oh, can you stop doing them and come back in May?" (or something like that).

Why?  Because you drop 'em and just stick with your regular hard-core of customers who have you month-in-month-out (or whatever your frequency).  As time goes on, you build a round of good, dependable customers.

Cheers tosh started 3 months ago and have now gone waterfed. I love it, I've got a lot of military houses up the marine camp these are my hardcore ones, and about 10 commercial got loads of I think are reliable so hopefully will do ok through my first winter,

[PoleKing]

Stick to your job as a fire fighter I'm sure you earn good money & leave the window cleaning to us professionals lol !!!!

Danny, you try living off a fire fighters wage, I'm a professional window cleaner as much as you are lol

£40k? More than most bud...
One of my friends was a firefighter-she wasn't short of a few quid!
To be fair though, I'd want more than that to see some of the stuff she had to.