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Being late

Posh

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With the weather lately I'm gonna struggle to get everyone done before Xmas as usual.

Just wondering how your all doing with this weather. Are you behind & how much.

Another day off as it pi££ed down today again.

 
hey your not as far behind as me....i am actually embarrassed to go in one area that is due as i last cleaned them at the end of july...

and that feckin weather man had it raining till two here....it stopped about ten and never started again...bright sunshine at 12.30 but i really really needed to get some stuff done on the house...so although i felt guilty i feel happy to have tidied up the garden and moved stuff around.....i mean bonfire night was a while back now and that heap of charcoal needed shifting etc...

but i was annoyed as it looked the same forecast as friday when i waited patiently for them to be wrong with the rain forecast and they were right so i had to sleep in the car and today they were wrong ...here anyway...

i used to hate the xmas build up stress as all your customers expect you in the final week but not anymore...most forget in the general stressy period....this is the reason all my monthly work is done in the first week of the month so i dont have to be bothered too much at xmas...

 
Not behind yet ... The next few days look wet ... We'll see ??? I hate that too everyone expects there windows cleaned the last week before Xmas ... We'll see

 
i dont let anybody be more than 1 week overdue , 99% are bang on year round. its a slog keeping it that way but needs must,on time or theyll start cancelling guaranteed

 
With the weather lately I'm gonna struggle to get everyone done before Xmas as usual.Just wondering how your all doing with this weather. Are you behind & how much.

Another day off as it pi££ed down today again.
I'm not doing too bad at the moment, about a week behind. But that can all change very quickly if we get more days like today, forecast for here is fine tomorrow rain for Friday so just don't know how it will be by Xmas, most customers do understand the weather situation but for some reason because it gets near Xmas they start panicking....can't think why maybe it's just because they want to see me to give me a big Xmas tip....!!! ( not ) lol

 
any one else say oh yes of course i will see you again before xmas when in fact you know you wont.....

i do remember one week nicely finishing my area on friday just before xmas to find the winter storms over the weekend had plastered the windows with six months muck....i just ran around and cleaned all the bottom ones again....

most xmas run ups seem to be very wet and dark ....if they are going to tip they will in the new year anyway...i do like to sneak off early as you will find out....but then i sit by waiting for the phone to ring thinking please dont ring....

i do like the monthly fiver one i do that suddenly left me a tenner saying for next time...some people know how not to tip.....me thinks that will be a quick clean next month...

 
Not late yet

Only just got enough custys for a round though

250+ and building.in fits.and starts

 
I've got just enough days till Xmas to get everyone in with 2 days grace. Praying we get a decent weather but know we won't. Have to be a few Saturdays maybe. May cut round down next year. Just cannot keep up. Something always comes up.

 
Not late yetOnly just got enough custys for a round though

250+ and building.in fits.and starts
as we all know daveyboy its not the size its the quality...so look at the bigger picture as long as you build up with quality jobs suitably priced then it will be worth waiting for...as I ve said before "slowly slowly catchy monkey"

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I have done it different this time

When I was doing it before i hadn't priced too weĺl

Especially since it was west london and wembley

 
I'm two weeks behind on the work I'm going to tomorrow, hopefully they will be fine with that. I done 2 monthly work on Monday. A month overdue, they always moan about the price, but didn't seem bothered that I was late.

 
Way way behind posh.....even though I dropped 25 customers last month. Might have to drop another 25. A lot of my monthlys have dropped to 6/7/8 weekly. I sit there every night looking at the list of customers wondering how I am going to fit them in. And I want to work a few less saturdays now. Me and the kids went to the footy on saturday whilst the mrs went shopping. We had a brilliant time and now the kids want to go to a lot more home games....why not.....plus daddy gets a pre match and post match pint (s)!.

 
That was one of the reasons i got back into being self employed tay

Son is nearly 14 and on late shifts and having random rest days etc i sometimes went a fortnight without seeing him

Soon enough he'll be too busy with girls etc to want to spend time with me

My dad was always finding time for me as a kid which carried on until he died ..snooker etc (any excuse to have a beer really)

Gotta make the most of it

 
That was one of the reasons i got back into being self employed taySon is nearly 14 and on late shifts and having random rest days etc i sometimes went a fortnight without seeing him

Soon enough he'll be too busy with girls etc to want to spend time with me

My dad was always finding time for me as a kid which carried on until he died ..snooker etc (any excuse to have a beer really)

Gotta make the most of it
Very true Daveyboy

 
I'm a few days behind now and annoyingly people are starting to asks for insides already so clean for xmas

 
Blast! Had two custys cancel their need for me today. Two emails one after the other.

Both because its winter.

One actually said;

"As of immediate effect we have decided that we do not require our windows to be cleaned, especially through winter. "

Whats that all about? :mad:

 
should be straight after this week and the weather looks good..bit embarrising if i knock on the door after ...er ..such a long time....but hopefully...will be alright...collected two saturday didnt bat an eye so i may just get away with it.....one this morning said ...you have been a long time...i just said...its your ex wife...a custy he passed my way...mind you...he didnt leave me the full amount so i dont think he found it funny........she is a bit...fussy...

 
Weather has been really good up here but getting dark around 16.15. But still on top of things so far will make the customers I've done this month before Xmas unless weather really gets severe. Almost a t shirt day today unreal

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