[karlosdaze]

Interested to know what your biggest problem in general is within window cleaning related work?
Would it be - getting customers, winter working, rain, getting paid, technique, crap gear, to far to travel?
Anything you can think of?

List your top 5 problems - preferably No. 1 being the worse problem.
Cheers, folks.

[Sir Squeaky]

1: Equipment faults
2: Weather
3: Motivation!
4: Difficult customers
5: Not getting decent jobs

I'm going to bed, so any questions about that I'll reply tomorrow.
Cheers.

[dazmond]

1.defo wet and windy weather.

2.motivation to get out of bed when its wet and windy first thing

3
.odd custy who hides when i knock on door after cleaning their windowsDROPPED WEN I GET PAID

4.DOG MUCK OR CAT poop.NO MATTER HOW CAREFUL I AM I FORGET SOMETIMES TO LOOK DOWN ::

5.savin money for the taxman.THIS SHOULD BE NO1

[dazmond]

6.gettin to a out of the way job and gettin A NOT TODAY

7.going round for ur money then custy says u didnt do kitchen window.then u remember chattin to neighbour and completely forgot

8.half way home then u realise u left squeegy and mop on a wall 5 miles away

9.coming home after a good wk and melting into chair and no energy for anything else

10.snail trails,tree sap,egg,barbecue grease

[G Griffin]

1.defo wet and windy weather.

2.motivation to get out of bed when its wet and windy first thing

3
.odd custy who hides when i knock on door after cleaning their windowsDROPPED WEN I GET PAID

4.DOG MUCK OR CAT poop.NO MATTER HOW CAREFUL I AM I FORGET SOMETIMES TO LOOK DOWN ::

5.savin money for the taxman.THIS SHOULD BE NO1

Wrong Dazmond, leave first 2 as they are 

[leapstallbuildings]

Interested to know what your biggest problem in general is within window cleaning related work?
Would it be - getting customers, winter working, rain, getting paid, technique, crap gear, to far to travel?
Anything you can think of?

List your top 5 problems - preferably No. 1 being the worse problem.
Cheers, folks.

1. Awkward customers
2. Awkward customers
3. Awkward customers
4. Awkward customers
5. Awkward customers

[jouk45]

1.vehicle break down when your busy,
2.customers that say they have paid already when they have not
3.downstairs custys complaining of water hitting there window
4 when nature calls, no public toilets are available,,and customers not in
5.you never reach your target for the day, as you spend at least 5mins chatting, or explaining wfp with custys
sure i will think of more

[Small but perfectley formed]

Equipment not doing what the manufacturer has stated
Dealing with people who dont understand that you are a business not a charitable organisation

[Jeff Brimble]

Paper work, need a secretary.
Too hot/cold.
Explaining the new technology.
Too much work.
Old age   

[simon knight]

Trying to get the missus and daughter to understand that just because dad's wallet has lots of readies in it doesn't mean that it's the equivalent of the office petty cash tin...there for them to dip into as and when they run short...and that it's my wages that has to be paid into the bank to meet bills.

Oh and all of the other problems posted!

[Sean Dyer]

1. motivation

2. getting new work

3. weather

4. Finding decent staff

5. Getting bored of the job/ kinda in there with motivation

6. Too competitive/saturated a market at times

[Pureandclean]

(1) Bad Weather
(2) Saying no to new work
(3) Keeping up to date with paperwork
(4) Getting sons out of bed and out to work
(5) Back ache

[Ian W]

Awkward customers
Custies not paying up when they should
Trailing plants and bushes covering windows
Equipment failure
Forgetting / losing equipment   

[Niall McAllister]

motivation, just cant find my mojo at the moment

[Davie T]

Price of the longer poles - especially carbon fibre.

Late payers

[Gleaming windows]

Cant get my wallet in my back pocket anymore 

[Niall McAllister]

Cant get my wallet in my back pocket anymore 

eat less pies and your bum won't be so big
problem solved

[mick partington]

1/ dog poop
2/ washing lines [specially with cloths on them]
3/ locked gates
4/ spiders/wasps/snails [in any order]
5/custies [might swap this with nu 1/]
6/ my hands and face begining to look like leather [shut it]
7/ wife wont help [stuck up bitch will only work behind a desk]
that just about covers it, i feel better now its out my system   

[gerard mcmanus]

today its the wind   

[Gleaming windows]

Stay off the prunes.