[Gringo]

With you on all of that Stootsy, prod doesn't bother the lads in swivel chairs and off the tools

[Smudger]

All jobs are easy from where I sit 

[Shrek]

Cleaning egg 🍳 off bedroom windows 😢

[Stoots]

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. 

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

I'd give up window cleaning if I were you

Darran

Oh i think of that every day believe me but then when i finish for the week on a thursday it doesnt seem so bad 

[robbo333]

Conny roofs...
especially the ones that are nearly perfectly flat and have no run-off,
or the ones that are really angled, but have a really narrow access down one side against the neighbours,
or the self cleaning glass ones where you have to use just pure and elbow grease,
or the the plastic ones where dirt has got between the two layers of plastic and you're not sure if it's there or not,
or any ones where the insides are so dirty, it wasn't really worth doing the outside anyway,
or wooden ones,
or the ones where little bits just keep on bleeding out of the framework,
or the ones where, when you're up a ladder, there is something right behind you, so you've got no free elbow or arm movement,
or the ones where the custy is sitting inside having their lunch and watching you,
or the ones with an apex roof that leans back against the house, with a box gutter,
or the ones where that stupid strip of facia plastic, just above the gutter line, keeps coming off and you have to keep pushing it back on,
or the ones right under large trees,
ones under small trees,
and don't get me started on pine needles.
So basically all conny roofs! 

[Phil J]

Can't stand any add-on apart from pressure washing, usually rubish money and just slows you down!

[zesty]

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. 

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

I'd give up window cleaning if I were you

Darran

Oh i think of that every day believe me but then when i finish for the week on a thursday it doesnt seem so bad 

Yeah but for 4 days a week, it’s like you’re living in a concentration camp by the sounds of things!

[SB Cleaning]

Can't stand any add-on apart from pressure washing, usually rubish money and just slows you down!

Charge more then 

[Stoots]

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. 

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

I'd give up window cleaning if I were you

Darran

Oh i think of that every day believe me but then when i finish for the week on a thursday it doesnt seem so bad 

Yeah but for 4 days a week, it’s like you’re living in a concentration camp by the sounds of things!

Yeh but same with every job I've ever had, I've never liked going and always felt the same, it's a job isn't it most people who go to work do so begrudgingly. At least with window cleaning it's less hours for more money.

[Smudger]

I've always liked the jobs ive had - be it engineering, parcel delivery and now cleaning - thats not to say ive fallen out of love with a specific company/job at any one time but as soon as it becomes a chore I go get a different job - For me personally if I hated this that much I'd sell up and find something I enjoyed more

Darran

[dazmond]

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. 

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

I'd give up window cleaning if I were you

Darran

I agree....life is too short doing a job that you hate as much as Adam does!

Blimey.....I think he needs some stronger anti depressants

[Richard iSparkle]

I hate auditing my accounts… i avoid it like the plague

Fascia cleaning

Internal domestics

[Simon Trapani]

I think if you actually enjoy cleaning windows you've got something wrong with you. I've been at it full time for 30 years now. I'm 48. Water fed pole was a game changer but I'd never go as far to say I enjoy it & I'm positive I wouldn't be cleaning  without it.

I employ one person in another van & when all's said & done it can be great money for the hours worked so I won't be packing up anytime soon. I go for the money & get home with as much as I can pretty much as soon as I can. Can't say I particularly get any job satisfaction out of it. Maybe out of the odd first clean or fascia & gutter clean. I can turn my hand to most things but I'm just in it for the money & lifestyle balance.

I think real job satisfaction is if you're a doctor or surgeon or something,  curing kids of cancer or similar.  They really work hard & play hard.

[james peters]

yesterday,  I had to softwash 2 walls adjacent to each other about 4 foot apart.    now that was a ball ache.
the only part  I  enjoyed was packing away and getting £85 an hour.

[Eleanor Faulkner]

Anything interior :-(

[dazmond]

its quite simple....if you dont like a certain add on job then you dont have to offer it as a service....

with some of you its as if your not in control of your own business!

to the ones that just hate cleaning in general then you ll probably find you d be just as miserable doing most jobs as thats not the real problem in a lot of cases....

IME its usually a bad lifestyle and/or working long hours that contributes to the misery/poor attitude to my working life(junk food diet,alcohol,drugs,cigarettes),not enough sleep over a long period of time and problems at home with kids/missus,etc...

if you can sort your diet out,get more sleep,learn to relax without having to resort to destructive addictions its amazing how your attitude/mental/physical health can change for the better in all aspects of working  and home life

[DJW]

I ate some blueberries yesterday, made no difference.

[paulswindows]

Getting dog crap on hose or boots or both and then having to spend half an hour cleaning it off. If I see dog crap in a garden regularly (any more than once) I won’t return

[dazmond]

I ate some blueberries yesterday, made no difference.

I know a guy who works shifts(alternate day and night shifts )and has for over 20 years,he s 38 now and eats and drinks as if he s an 18 year old student(pot noodles,crisps and chocolate,etc)and regularly goes off on spectacular alcohol binges late into the night.....no wonder he feels like crap,hates his job and has mental health problems

Poor sleep
Poor diet
Excessive alcohol

It's a recipe for disaster....

[dazmond]

Getting dog crap on hose or boots or both and then having to spend half an hour cleaning it off. If I see dog crap in a garden regularly (any more than once) I won’t return

I keep some industrial anti bacterial cleaning wipes in the van on the odd occasion this happens..👍