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Dick

  • Posts: 304
Now be honest.
« on: June 15, 2014, 07:53:40 pm »
You're in a bit of a hurry to complete some jobs due to wet weather and a customer says before you do next doors, 'oh they're away next door, wont be back for another week'. Now do you very carefully do all the windows you normally do or just knowing there's no one in to check do you miss say the odd window and put a windows cleaned note through the door.
Honest answers.

duncan h

  • Posts: 1875
Re: Now be honest.
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2014, 07:57:03 pm »
clean it. For what it takes, its not worth missing.

matthewprice

  • Posts: 758
Re: Now be honest.
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2014, 07:57:19 pm »
Always same standard good chance someone is watching,or come back early ect

SB Cleaning

  • Posts: 4285
Re: Now be honest.
« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2014, 07:58:09 pm »
I would do the whole house as normal....you never know who's watching  ;)

We never miss windows always a propper job.

keyser soze

  • Posts: 1694
Re: Now be honest.
« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2014, 09:01:04 pm »
not worth skipping windows. tbh

Arnold Palmer

  • Posts: 20717
Re: Now be honest.
« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2014, 09:02:59 pm »
Never miss windows.
They're eeeting the dogs.
They're eeeting the cats.
They're eeeting the pets,
of the people who live there.

Ste b

  • Posts: 362
Re: Now be honest.
« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2014, 09:04:42 pm »
Id be charging for the full house so id clean the full house



Have you been caught out dick ?
The purpose of life is to have a life full of purpose

PoleKing

  • Posts: 8974
Re: Now be honest.
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2014, 09:06:23 pm »
clean it. For what it takes, its not worth missing.

+1
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Chris Buchan

  • Posts: 64
Re: Now be honest.
« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2014, 09:17:26 pm »
as above

Simon Mess

  • Posts: 1097
Re: Now be honest.
« Reply #9 on: June 15, 2014, 09:28:10 pm »
clean it. For what it takes, its not worth missing.

Ditto

AuRavelling79

  • Posts: 25318
Re: Now be honest.
« Reply #10 on: June 15, 2014, 09:30:44 pm »
You're in a bit of a hurry to complete some jobs due to wet weather and a customer says before you do next doors, 'oh they're away next door, wont be back for another week'. Now do you very carefully do all the windows you normally do or just knowing there's no one in to check do you miss say the odd window and put a windows cleaned note through the door.
Honest answers.

Are you trad. Dick?
It's a game of three halves!

koopmaster

  • Posts: 498
Re: Now be honest.
« Reply #11 on: June 15, 2014, 09:37:00 pm »
i never miss a window

Richard Neal

  • Posts: 1737
Re: Now be honest.
« Reply #12 on: June 15, 2014, 09:53:09 pm »
Always do a full clean, always tell anyone that works with to work as if you're being watched :) CCTV everywhere these days.
Im not scared of heights, just falling from them.
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J.D

  • Posts: 636
Re: Now be honest.
« Reply #13 on: June 15, 2014, 10:30:34 pm »
Never leave windows out, that's a low punch in my book!

martin hulstone

  • Posts: 323
Re: Now be honest.
« Reply #14 on: June 15, 2014, 10:36:41 pm »
I once worked for a fella who told us that if no one was in that cleaning frosted glass was a prerogative!
Suppose in days of trad it was one less climb.

SeanK

Re: Now be honest.
« Reply #15 on: June 15, 2014, 10:45:54 pm »
Picked up a  few customers from shiners who thought they could get away with
leaving out frosted windows.
So I wouldn't risk missing them when cleaning a property.

Ian101

  • Posts: 7887
Re: Now be honest.
« Reply #16 on: June 15, 2014, 11:03:39 pm »
so next time you come around both of em cancel or give you a hard time for missing windows and 1st neighbour seeing you miss windows.

however if they had nice knomes I would nick em  ;D

Johnny B

  • Posts: 2385
Re: Now be honest.
« Reply #17 on: June 15, 2014, 11:23:44 pm »
I am never in a hurry. I would clean them as thoroughly as if my every move were being watched.
 
John
Being diplomatic is being able to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.

rosskesava

  • Posts: 17015
Re: Now be honest.
« Reply #18 on: June 16, 2014, 12:17:01 am »
I picked up a new job 3 weeks ago which was a very large shop.

The previous window cleaner didn't know the owner was parked across the road in his car making a phone call.

He watched the windie walk up to the shop front and pour some water along the ground in front of each window to make it look like he'd done the windows. 30 minutes later the windie is back asking to get paid. That window cleaner had been doing that shop's windows for 13 years.

Apart from the principle that if you're paid to do a job then just do it, I wouldn't want to live on that mental knifes edge of cheating customers.
Just chant..... Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. It's beats chanting Tory Tory or Labour Labour.

Clever Forum Name

  • Posts: 5942
Re: Now be honest.
« Reply #19 on: June 16, 2014, 07:07:33 am »
Do it all the time as my horse doesn't like to be left for long periods of time.