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EVER CLEAN

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rain rain rain !!!
« on: September 30, 2008, 12:54:36 pm »
SIK OV IT !

MANCHESTER IS A RIVER !
service with a shine !

[GQC] Tim

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Re: rain rain rain !!!
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2008, 01:02:22 pm »
It's not too bad over here, wiper setting #2, but I just couldn't be bothered with it, was cold and soaked (wearing my polo lol) and went home.

Should have checked the satellite images.

Ian Rochester

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Re: rain rain rain !!!
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2008, 02:07:17 pm »
I've got two teams out today cleaning gutters and conservatory roofs all day.

This type of work comes in steadily and has been building up for the past couple of weeks,  days like this are just ideal for them!

It started raining here at 8am and is still coming down just as hard now 2pm.


Dean Aspects

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Re: rain rain rain !!!
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2008, 03:26:42 pm »
We had a little bit of rain this morning but this afternoon it has been sunny but a little windy

lee_dewing

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Re: rain rain rain !!!
« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2008, 03:40:59 pm »
lionheart.
do you tell custy's you only do con - roofs on wet days; just wondered.
If so they don't quibble?
Never fancied gutter work, have done, last place i want to be in the pi55ing rain high up elbows in it.

or do you have gutter vac?
lee.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.     - Aristotle

seandyer2003

Re: rain rain rain !!!
« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2008, 04:53:04 pm »
SIK OV IT !

MANCHESTER IS A RIVER !
same in rossendale

that where you are mate....nice, not too far from me...nice area though....
I have seen no dry today once, still raining now...pain in butt!!

seandyer2003

Re: rain rain rain !!!
« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2008, 04:54:58 pm »
lionheart.
do you tell custy's you only do con - roofs on wet days; just wondered.
If so they don't quibble?
Never fancied gutter work, have done, last place i want to be in the pi55ing rain high up elbows in it.

or do you have gutter vac?
lee.

wont that just vac up loads of water though??

Re: rain rain rain !!!
« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2008, 04:58:39 pm »
lionheart.
do you tell custy's you only do con - roofs on wet days; just wondered.
If so they don't quibble?
Never fancied gutter work, have done, last place i want to be in the pi55ing rain high up elbows in it.

or do you have gutter vac?
lee.

wont that just vac up loads of water though??

Just empty it  ;)

Re: rain rain rain !!!
« Reply #8 on: September 30, 2008, 10:14:11 pm »
Get yourself on a carpet cleaning cousre...buy yourself some nice equipment then work in doors for 4 times as much as you do in window cleaning never worry again.....but keep the window cleanign side of your business but nice not to worry about it when it rains...rains..rains

Ian Rochester

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Re: rain rain rain !!!
« Reply #9 on: October 01, 2008, 04:58:09 am »
We do con roofs and gutters in all weathers, however I normally wait until we have enough to last a full day, on average it's probably 1-2 days a month that we do this.

It's all done with ladders, which I still think is the most effective and best way, some of the jobs today had small trees and lawns growing in their gutters with roots that went half way down the drainpipes and I don't think the gutter vac could handle that!!

I've looked at the gutter vacs, but more often than not we can have the job done with ladders and drain rods before we'd have had time to get the gutter vac out and set up, plus the expense of the machinery is too high to justify for the amount of work we get from cleaning gutters.

We always do it in pairs and use ladder stand-offs and rojak ladder stops.

Gutter/Fascia cleaning and Conservatory cleaning is more lucrative than window cleaning but often a lot harder work.

d s windowcleaning

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Re: rain rain rain !!!
« Reply #10 on: October 01, 2008, 06:31:08 am »
looks like no work today for me in barnsley , rain and wind are really bad at the moment .
where theres muck theres money

david wood

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Re: rain rain rain !!!
« Reply #11 on: October 01, 2008, 07:27:54 am »
heavy rain and wind here in stockport :'( :'(

seandyer2003

Re: rain rain rain !!!
« Reply #12 on: October 01, 2008, 09:53:12 am »
glad i dont have to work today, its bowing a gale and pouring down outside, should be in stockport today myself....

david wood

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Re: rain rain rain !!!
« Reply #13 on: October 01, 2008, 03:58:48 pm »
where abouts in stockport do you clean

EVER CLEAN

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Re: rain rain rain !!!
« Reply #14 on: October 01, 2008, 10:23:07 pm »
sean dyer works in stockport...... so do i
sean dyer works in hale barnes.... so do i

is he following me? ;D
service with a shine !

Jago

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Re: rain rain rain !!!
« Reply #15 on: October 01, 2008, 10:26:10 pm »
I have worked in Shorts all week
been ok here on and off but quite warm
Busted my pole today and that was my only drama
To Do Is To Dare

Jago

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Re: rain rain rain !!!
« Reply #16 on: October 01, 2008, 10:26:54 pm »
they started off as trousers but the rain shrunk em
lol only joking
 ;D
To Do Is To Dare

EVER CLEAN

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Re: rain rain rain !!!
« Reply #17 on: October 01, 2008, 10:30:12 pm »
i've got 2 broken ribs, an empty flask, and soggy butties ..... oh and i was 40 last week

its all downhill now :'(
service with a shine !

EVER CLEAN

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Re: rain rain rain !!!
« Reply #18 on: October 01, 2008, 10:32:50 pm »
AND ITS STILL F***IN RAININ
service with a shine !

geefree

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Re: rain rain rain !!!
« Reply #19 on: October 01, 2008, 10:53:27 pm »
worked in the rain all day... there are good bits so worth going out....

if you sit in the house you will keep looking out of the window.... and never move...

i like to get out and give it a go.... its rare that i am rained off as it never pours  like a monsoon for hours on end.... its a mental thing.

get out , stay out.  :D ;D get that money  money money thing in your head lol.