[Mike 108]

The bad weather at this time of the year seems to be playing havok with peoples earning potential (reading all the posts).

It makes me wonder how window cleaners in Scotland manage to earn a living!

If the weather forcasts are to be believed, its always blowing and raining up there - even in Summer (obviously not 'always', but much more often than south of the border).

Give us some idea what it's really like, lads (Och Aye)

Mike

[Dave71]

Im from perthshire, yea we get slightly more rain than you guys if the rain is comming straight down and its not effecting the windows i always go out no matter how hard its comming down, a good pair of oilskins helps. if i didnt work in rain i would only get out about 3 days a week on average never had a complaint from any of my custys as they know i got to earn to pay the bills and always get offered a hot cuppa. dont you guys work in the rain then?

[Jeff Brimble]

I am an avid weather watcher and feel every sympathy from the rain hail and snow our Scottish friends have had to try to work through this month 

[DASERVICES]

I get by making sure I budget for occasions like this. I earn all my money in the summer and then live off the funds on bad winter days.

Have only been out av. 2 days a week compared to normal 4 days. If it carries on through Feb I will begin to panic.

Just been out collecting, floods everywhere.

[simon knight]

I get by making sure I budget for occasions like this. I earn all my money in the summer and then live off the funds on bad winter days.

Have only been out av. 2 days a week compared to normal 4 days. If it carries on through Feb I will begin to panic.

Just been out collecting, floods everywhere.

The W/C'ers I really feel for are the ones who work in the parts that seem to get flooded out every year....Glouscester and such places.

I mean who wants their windows cleaned when their sofa is floating down the road?

[jonah]

is it a cheap foam sofa or a classy leather one ?

[jonah]

mine would sink the amount of copper in the bottom !

[jonah]

Tip : whenever you throw a sofa away .....cut along the bottom ( looks like scrim ) and you will discover about £ 2: 34p  and a few jelly babies and 6 old pencils without a point !

[Dean Aspects]

It doesnt rain all the time here but as long as i can get three days per week then i do alright next month is usually the month that is hardest for me with the weather and abit into march but so far this month done ok and nearly upto date

Tip : whenever you throw a sofa away .....cut along the bottom ( looks like scrim ) and you will discover about £ 2: 34p and a few jelly babies and 6 old pencils without a point !

If i was a pencil and had been down the back of a sofa for six years i would think their was no point aswell

Dean

[jonah]

what about after 4 months ?

[jonah]

If you had said when i left school after 24 years you wil be talking to a virtual donkey about window cleaning I would have asked for the gun straightaway !

[tacky]

im the same as d. a .services . on my good weeks i put some in diff account for really bad weeks . i e like the couple we just had . n cut back on few things . like i tell some of my custies . caviar in summer .oxtail soup n mashed pots in winter

[jonah]

tacky are you for real ?

[HIGH LEVEL WINDOW CLEANERS (scrimmy)]

yeah me 2.....champagne and cavier 1st week of the month......potnoodle and buckfast the last.

[Andy McGeechan]

I am an avid weather watcher and feel every sympathy from the rain hail and snow our Scottish friends have had to try to work through this month 

       
                     I work in the Edinburgh area and the weather is not much different from most of England & Wales. The south of England gets more sunshine in the summer but seems to get floods as well. And when it rains here its not on all day so you sometimes have to stop and start. All in all we still manage to earn more than most. (touch wood )   

[HIGH LEVEL WINDOW CLEANERS (scrimmy)]

touch wood is a great name for a company......wish i thought of it........och well.....i take it you clean a lot of windows with wooden frames? :

is he seroius?

[macmac]

The big difference is between east & west. more often than not the weather comes in from the atlantic so the west gets the worst of it. over on the east here it's generaly not any different to england (apart from the last month).
It's the guys on the west coast who have the worst time.

tony

[HIGH LEVEL WINDOW CLEANERS (scrimmy)]

mac...i agree......although its normally the far west that gets the brunt....and glasgow gets all seasons in one day.....ie i can be in clydebank in the morning...rain bouncing off the street...then at lunchtime i might be in coatbridge or airdrie.....warm and sunny.....then late afternoon i could be close to home on the southside of the city at shawlands and its snowing.....weird i know...and most people think i am talking mince(rubbish) if i say its been snowing today..and all day it been sunny where they are....microclimate i think. :

[macmac]

mac...i agree......although its normally the far west that gets the brunt....and glasgow gets all seasons in one day.....ie i can be in clydebank in the morning...rain bouncing off the street...then at lunchtime i might be in coatbridge or airdrie.....warm and sunny.....then late afternoon i could be close to home on the southside of the city at shawlands and its snowing.....weird i know...and most people think i am talking mince(rubbish) if i say its been snowing today..and all day it been sunny where they are....microclimate i think. :

Can be a bit like that here sometimes.
Drove 6 miles to another village last winter. when i got there everyone was looking at my van funny. I hadn't even realised myself, the van had 4 inches of snow on it & they hadn't had a drop in this place!

tony