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    How many customers do you have and want?

    I started my business in January, I live in a small village and there are at least 6 other Window Cleaners that cover this village, 1 lives in the village. I have 37 regular 4 weekly customers, my average is just under £10 (lots of £5 flats brought the average down). I00 is my first target...
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    Looking for pole upgrade

    Thank-you RWCleaning, I had a look at the CLX range, looks good. I guess they are only available direct from Gardiner?
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    Looking for pole upgrade

    I am a traditional window cleaner but also clean the occasional FSG and Conservatory roofs with a water fed pole. My current pole is 18 feet extended, light aluminium. It only cost £50 with the brush and hose included and has been very good as I only use it on average once or twice a week. The...
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    Working in the rain

    Absolutely brilliant, thank-you for the link. Apparently "No precipitation throughout the week, with high temperatures rising to 66°F on Tuesday."
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    Working in the rain

    Yes if you know it is only a passing shower then it is worth sitting in the vehicle until it passes but I am no good at telling if it is a shower or going to be raining all day. The forecast was rain Monday and Tuesday but it did not rain at all and I had no work. Today was meant to be dry and...
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    Working in the rain

    I would rather work in the rain to keep up to date with my round, even though it is a small round. It would be a bit of a pain to go back to some that don't want them cleaned when it is raining. I tell my customers I work in the rain and so far they all seem accept that. It does take a bit...
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    Competitors calling

    I clean a lot of flats and houses on this one estate and it was one of these customers that asked me for my card to give to her friend (a couple of miles way) that was looking for a window cleaner. She telephoned me the next day and when I went to give her the quote she told me that she...
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    Competitors calling

    I am civil if I see another window cleaners. A few weeks back there were 3 of us all working in the same small close, I could see one of them keep looking over so I said hello, we had a long chat, mostly him telling me how many customers he has and how much he earns (way more than me, I have 32...
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    Competitors calling

    A customer of mine asked if I could give her friend a quote, which I did and cleaned the windows there and then. When I had finished I thought I would put a few leaflets out in the nearby properties. Only dropped about 20, saw a guy sitting in his car with a ladder on top outside one house so...
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    Coin holder

    I clean some flats and terraced houses in blocks, some of the flats I need to do from their balcony, I accumulate a lot coins which easily fall out of my work trousers pocket. I am thinking the best way is to get some kind of coin holder that I can attach to my trousers with a caribener hook...
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    Public Liability Insurance

    As I only started trading in January I waited until the new financial year to get P/L insurance. I called A Plan (who I am sure you know is just a Broker) and at the end of giving all my details I asked if it covered the glass or Conservatory I was cleaning and was told, "No". He was supposed...
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    Dry film left after cleaning glass

    Thank-you for that, I think that might be the cause then. The panes were so filthy so I gave them a good mopping right to the edge and past onto the beading, squeegeed off the solution and then used a damp cloth to wipe the suds off the beading and probably was careless with the cloth and wiped...
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    Dry film left after cleaning glass

    I use W5 from Lidl and have been since early January, this is a new problem I have noticed this week on a couple of jobs. I wash all my cloths and rags each weekend. I was using an old T shirt to clean the frames which had been used on the job before. The Microfiber cloth I used was the first...
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    Dry film left after cleaning glass

    I have picked up a few jobs the last couple of weeks where the customer said their previous window cleaner left smears all over the glass and skipped windows. One actually thought he had chucked dirty water over the glass because he did not want the job anymore and apparently he did not seem...
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    Public Liability Insurance

    Well I was in email contact with a Gleaming manager, I told him my situation, sole trader, no employees, no keys to hold, no chemicals used. I wanted cover for any damage I could cause to a property or car including the windows I was working on. He told me 2nd Feb they were launching a new...
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    Traditional cleaner what are you happy to earn a day

    I agree WFP is quicker and safer, the reason I am starting out trad is because of cost. I only started in January with my medium sized 2003 car. Spent about £300 on tools and work clothes. I now have 12 regular customers and 2 occasional customers, are all Bungalows.  At least 4 that have...
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    Do you need to use purified water to clean FSG?

    I am quoting for a window cleaning job tomorrow. The potential customer also wants me to quote for gutter clearing, conservatory roof cleaning and FSG cleaning. I will quote £25 a side to clear the gutters. £5 per conservatory roof panel. £3 a meter for FSG cleaning. I clean windows...
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    Best was to get black marks off a UPVC frame

    Thanks Jimbo, I will try them next time I clean her windows.
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    Best was to get black marks off a UPVC frame

    I did a first clean yesterday on a bungalow with UPVC windows. When soaping up the glass loads of black liquid came running out, obviously months of  dirt and grime build up. I expect more dirt and grime to come out the next few cleans, problem is it stains the white UPVC frames. The...
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    Low earnings and council tax benefit.

    Thanks for the replies. On the form it asked me if I had been trading less than 12 months to fill it in with the earnings and expenses to date. I started January 5th 2018 so started there and included the next 2 weeks. I returned the form but then received a letter say it was not complete and...
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