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zesty

  • Posts: 2452
What jobs do you least like doing?
« on: May 18, 2022, 09:06:10 pm »
For me it’s builders cleans.

FSG cleans.

And then inside work.

Not a thread about ‘well just don’t do them then’, it’s more just out of interest.

windowswashed

  • Posts: 2577
Re: What jobs do you least like doing?
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2022, 09:26:16 pm »
Irregular cleans, they soon get dropped, too much hassle

Smudger

  • Posts: 13438
Re: What jobs do you least like doing?
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2022, 09:27:42 pm »
I didn't mind doing insides - but not in the summer - I remember doing 1 Conservatory and I didn't get to it until  the afternoon and it was well over 100 degrees in there - made me ill with the stifling heat

Job I hate most are those customers who not only want the gutters cleared but also want the inside washed so its "clean"

Darran
Never argue with an idiot, they will only bring you down to their level, and beat you with experience

Slacky

  • Posts: 8278
Re: What jobs do you least like doing?
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2022, 09:31:09 pm »
For me it’s builders cleans.

FSG cleans.

And then inside work.

Not a thread about ‘well just don’t do them then’, it’s more just out of interest.

Exactly those.

The ones I much prefer these days are solar panels and pressure washing.

dazmond

  • Posts: 23966
Re: What jobs do you least like doing?
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2022, 11:15:47 pm »
Builders cleans
Gutter clearing
Inside windows(inclu inside conny roofs)

These are my top 3....I don't offer these services anymore.... ;D
price higher/work harder!

markymark

  • Posts: 155
Re: What jobs do you least like doing?
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2022, 11:40:46 pm »
Builders cleans (not done any more. Simply not worth the effort or hassle)

Roof lanterns and interior windows (done, but for a select few and at a price that makes me happy.)

Anyone whose partner passes comment on the work afterwards, no doubt seething with resentment that I'm being paid to do something that they could do - but never actually does. (Done still, but always with a view to dropping or squeezing a few more quid out of at every opportunity)

The good thing about science is that it's true whether you believe it or not.

deeege

  • Posts: 5008
Re: What jobs do you least like doing?
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2022, 07:05:45 am »
Hate conservatories these days and will only do them for regular customers at a push, funny that as I used to love them.

Don’t actually mind the odd builders clean. Did one this week for a fella that I clean a load of commercial properties for. 12 apartments, roughly 40 windows internal only, priced it at 2 days work which he was very happy with. Got the job completed in 3 hours.
"....and it's lend me ten pounds, I'll buy you a drink, and mother wake me early in the morning."

Rob.Hall

  • Posts: 1077
Re: What jobs do you least like doing?
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2022, 07:18:40 am »
Secondary glazing....hate it.
Coney inside roofs when it's stuffed with furniture....refuse to do unless it's cleared.

Bucket

  • Posts: 16
Re: What jobs do you least like doing?
« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2022, 07:27:37 am »
Interior cleaning - especially with chatty customers and items left on window sills


alank

  • Posts: 648
Re: What jobs do you least like doing?
« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2022, 07:55:39 am »
Anything three stories and above  ;D

james peters

  • Posts: 950
Re: What jobs do you least like doing?
« Reply #10 on: May 19, 2022, 08:04:54 am »
gardens with plant pots everywhere.
I have stopped calling to a few

Smudger

  • Posts: 13438
Re: What jobs do you least like doing?
« Reply #11 on: May 19, 2022, 08:14:44 am »
Secondary glazing....hate it.
Coney inside roofs when it's stuffed with furniture....refuse to do unless it's cleared.

Secondary glazing - that’s a good one - thankfully very rare
Never argue with an idiot, they will only bring you down to their level, and beat you with experience

Ggh

  • Posts: 1776
Re: What jobs do you least like doing?
« Reply #12 on: May 19, 2022, 08:30:47 am »
Anything that requires getting a ladder off the van.

Simon Trapani

  • Posts: 1559
Re: What jobs do you least like doing?
« Reply #13 on: May 19, 2022, 08:38:03 am »
Anything even slightly awkward.

DJW

  • Posts: 1008
Re: What jobs do you least like doing?
« Reply #14 on: May 19, 2022, 09:32:05 am »
Any jobs where I have to get out of bed.


AuRavelling79

  • Posts: 25382
Re: What jobs do you least like doing?
« Reply #16 on: May 19, 2022, 11:04:56 am »
Interior cleaning - especially with chatty customers and items left on window sills

Yep. Those Lladro figures don't come cheap...
It's a game of three halves!

Gringo

  • Posts: 315
Re: What jobs do you least like doing?
« Reply #17 on: May 19, 2022, 11:05:05 am »
Windows were custard stand watching you do them or follow you round talking gibberish

Stoots

  • Posts: 6211
Re: What jobs do you least like doing?
« Reply #18 on: May 19, 2022, 11:37:51 am »
Builders cleans, internals, roof lanterns, Fsg, gutter cleans, conny roofs, solar panels, velux windows. 2 storey plus windows, dormers, any windows set back over an extension.  Electric gated houses, big houses, mid terraced, anywhere with poor parking. Houses where you have to stand directly below windows to hurt your neck, any with bins or plant pots etc. Customers who want to chat, customers who watch you, underpriced houses, barking dog houses.

Probably a load more to boot.

Funny next house I'm going to  i hate, it's big, 3 storey, hard to reach back windows etc was just thinking about dumping it.  ;D

A better question might be  what houses do you like doing.

Smudger

  • Posts: 13438
Re: What jobs do you least like doing?
« Reply #19 on: May 19, 2022, 12:28:27 pm »
Builders cleans, internals, roof lanterns, Fsg, gutter cleans, conny roofs, solar panels, velux windows. 2 storey plus windows, dormers, any windows set back over an extension.  Electric gated houses, big houses, mid terraced, anywhere with poor parking. Houses where you have to stand directly below windows to hurt your neck, any with bins or plant pots etc. Customers who want to chat, customers who watch you, underpriced houses, barking dog houses.

Probably a load more to boot.

Funny next house I'm going to  i hate, it's big, 3 storey, hard to reach back windows etc was just thinking about dumping it.  ;D

A better question might be  what houses do you like doing.


I'd give up window cleaning if I were you

Darran
Never argue with an idiot, they will only bring you down to their level, and beat you with experience