[bernlyn]

my very first days experience

i went friday and did my very first clean. i was so busy concertrating trying to carry everything that i went straight to the house and got stuck in cleaning the wnidows. i was busy with the last 1 when the door flew open and she asked WHAT ARE YOU DOING! 

i said imediately giveing your windows a free clean. shucks i was at the next doors windows.  WELL needles to say LESSON LEARNT! i checked every door number after that.
funny thing is that she only realised that i was cleaning her windows when i was nearly finished 

did anyone else make fist day mistakes and what were they

[jonah]

I did same exept I cleaned the gutters as well ! In her defence she did thank me for the good job I had done  :

[d s windowcleaning]

not while doing windows but some years ago i used to help out a roofer job was a strip and retile we had a big section of the tiles of before findind out we should be next door it turned out ok though as theres was being done the following week .

[L.J.Thorpe]

i passed a couple of houses on to a mate,he did the right house numbers.....but on the next street :,best thing was both of em paid him

[Village Gleam]

I got a phone call to quote and went straight there. Got Hubby first and explained his wife had phoned me, then halfway throught she joined us. After agreeing a price and when the job should be done it was only when I got a phone shortly after asking where I was and she had seen my van drive past in her street that i realised i'd got the wrong house.

It did made me wonder. One fault I have is not listening to what others say.

[L.J.Thorpe]

It did made me wonder. One fault I have is not listening to what others say.

you are just feeding me lines now mate

[mci services]

i turned up to clean a flat done the windows knocked the door and got paid, turned up next time started cleaning women comes out, what you doing she said cleaning your windows i replied. she say i do my own always have i says number 6 she says no number 8 number 6 is upstairs. the first time i cleaned the wrong flat and got paid. i always thought the higher number was the upper flat.

[L.J.Thorpe]

off topic but....on monday i was doing a row of four houses all detached ,gates are never locked and they are always empty,on house 2 the wind blew "novelty hedgehog" aside and slammed the gate shut,trouble is its forced the gate past the post and bent the sneck,so now i cant open it without breaking something :.No problem  just hop the fence....troble is fence panels seem to have been made from old ice cream wafers,and no way are they gonna hold me.....i aint over weight but 14 stone will destroy them,so now i have a problem it took me half an hour to get out without damaging anything

[Village Gleam]

Don't know how you got out thorpey, but there are these three ice cubes in a glass. Using only a five inch peice of cotton how do you get them out?

Oh, and i'm not overweight but at 14 stone, and i'm feeding you lines

[L.J.Thorpe]

i am six foot four so i personally dont think 14 stone is overweight(the machine in boots does tho,it says i should be 12 st 10lbs : i used to be 15st 10lbs when i was training regular.....still not fat tho) any way i broke a blade in my scraper then used the thicker "spine" to unscrew the latch plate,very frustrating ......as for the ice cubes,i dont know..do you let them melt then loop the cotton lay it in the water and freeze em again

[Village Gleam]

Okay no one on this school skipping doughnut eating forum is likely to get it.

Lay the end of the cotton on one of the cubes, sprinkle some table salt lightly over it ( I mentioned the salt didn't I ), and after about ten seconds the cotton is affixed securely enough to the ice cube to pull it out.

Unscrewing the latch plate was good.

[frames to panes]

I did the wrong house too - went by the number on the wheely bin, only the bin was on the wrong drive, first clean too took me ages and they never paid.

[L.J.Thorpe]

Don't know how you got out thorpey, but there are these three ice cubes in a glass. Using only a five inch peice of cotton how do you get them out?

Oh, and i'm not overweight but at 14 stone, and i'm feeding you lines

SALT where does it say SALT ....easy if you had said cotton AND salt 

[s.hughes]

No I have never done that while w/c but I did work for a company putting gas hobs in on building sites. One day I had a job in north herts, I had the plot number and company site address and was informed it was a really urgent job. So I got there fitted the oven hob and hood only to find I had the right plot number the right company but the wrong site. The site I needed was just down the road. It would have been an easy day if it werent for that.

Steve

[Londoner]

My friend Derek and his mate were ambulance drivers who used to do windows on their days off. They would sub work off another driver.

This one day they went out with a list to do, started at the first road and did about five houses before they realised they were in the wrong road.

[Paul Coleman]

my very first days experience

i went friday and did my very first clean. i was so busy concertrating trying to carry everything that i went straight to the house and got stuck in cleaning the wnidows. i was busy with the last 1 when the door flew open and she asked WHAT ARE YOU DOING! 

i said imediately giveing your windows a free clean. shucks i was at the next doors windows.  WELL needles to say LESSON LEARNT! i checked every door number after that.
funny thing is that she only realised that i was cleaning her windows when i was nearly finished 

did anyone else make fist day mistakes and what were they

Bit different to yours but when I was cleaning trad, I was only meant to do the upper floor maisonette but ended up doing the ground floor as well forgetting it wasn't a house   

[Sir Squeaky]

I did similar last week.
I was asked to clean a new one and priced what looked like a simple 4 bed house at £12.

I cleaned the front then went to go around the back, then realised it was a semi and I'd cleaned the front of next door too.

Best thing was she was happy with the price and I got a piddly little semi at nearly double the price I needed to.

[frames to panes]

£12 for a four bed? Jeez i wouldn't have got out of bed for that!

[L.J.Thorpe]

£12 for a four bed? Jeez i wouldn't have got out of bed for that!

[Neil Williams]

Priced up a large house. Customer said ok and the following week arrived to do the job.
Greeted on the left side of the house by a woman who asked what i was doing? Stated the obvious...window cleaning as agreed.
It was at this point she explained that the building was 2 houses and that she didn't need a window cleaner.
Yes I'd got the go ahead (full building price) from the woman owning only the right hand side of the building.
Must admit she's not had a price increase in 2 years