Green Pro Clean Ltd
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Guess who's back..........(well sod all on TV and wife on night shift)
Some time back we are on a job -- another woman comes running up practically begging us to add her on our rounds as she cant get a window cleaner. She is top floor of a two story flat. I give her a price and explain monthly service and so on,
First clean, got paid no problem.
Next month young Nick is on his own and gets 'oh can you leave it this month?' so he does. He tells me.....
Following month it is myself on the job and I explain exactly what 'monthly' service means. They seem to understand, so the windows get done, (they had already asked to pay later in the week and I had said ok)
I pop back early following week but no answer, oh well.
Next clean comes around and it just gets done as no one home, now they owe me two cleans..
I go back a couple of weeks later, husband answers, 'no money till friday mate' ..OK I Think, well 'your windows are due again on monday so can you settle it all up then?' I ask 'Sure no worries' he says.
Come the monday there is a note on the door.
'Do not clean the windows as we are moving in the next couple of weeks. If I wanted to just squirt water at them from a hose pipe I could do that myself ((referring to my very efficient WFP system)) come back saturday for your money.'
That is pretty much how the note read word for word.
Well these people are your typical council benefit scroungers so I know that even if I go back saturday there will be some bull sh1t excuse as to why my money is not there.
I get an old microfiber out of my bucket, get it all soapy and wet and then roll it in the soil in their yard then I throw it up at the windows -- simply restoring them to a condition of dirtiness that they were in before I had bothered to clean them.
Well I get a well ****** off message on my answer phone, 'how dare i' blah blah blah etc etc. I ignore it and carry on. Two weeks pass and I get a very polite message on my answer phone asking if she can pay over the phone. I am so done with her and had already written off the job that I ignore her again.
A few days pass and I am on the house next door and she approaches me with my money in her hand and pays me with apologies and all that good stuff and then asks if I could do her windows again.
Well I simply give her an incredulous look and said 'sorry luv, I dont cover your area' (ten feet away) and walked off leaving her looking confused. (not difficult really)
To date no one has cleaned the mud off her windows and she is still living there nearly four months down the road.
I used to get all huffy puffy about a non payer but now when apparent it is not going to happen I just dirty up the windows best I can and leave it at that. I figure even if they were arsey enough to call the law the most they could do is make you clean them but I doubt they would bother.
Some time back we are on a job -- another woman comes running up practically begging us to add her on our rounds as she cant get a window cleaner. She is top floor of a two story flat. I give her a price and explain monthly service and so on,
First clean, got paid no problem.
Next month young Nick is on his own and gets 'oh can you leave it this month?' so he does. He tells me.....
Following month it is myself on the job and I explain exactly what 'monthly' service means. They seem to understand, so the windows get done, (they had already asked to pay later in the week and I had said ok)
I pop back early following week but no answer, oh well.
Next clean comes around and it just gets done as no one home, now they owe me two cleans..
I go back a couple of weeks later, husband answers, 'no money till friday mate' ..OK I Think, well 'your windows are due again on monday so can you settle it all up then?' I ask 'Sure no worries' he says.
Come the monday there is a note on the door.
'Do not clean the windows as we are moving in the next couple of weeks. If I wanted to just squirt water at them from a hose pipe I could do that myself ((referring to my very efficient WFP system)) come back saturday for your money.'
That is pretty much how the note read word for word.
Well these people are your typical council benefit scroungers so I know that even if I go back saturday there will be some bull sh1t excuse as to why my money is not there.
I get an old microfiber out of my bucket, get it all soapy and wet and then roll it in the soil in their yard then I throw it up at the windows -- simply restoring them to a condition of dirtiness that they were in before I had bothered to clean them.
Well I get a well ****** off message on my answer phone, 'how dare i' blah blah blah etc etc. I ignore it and carry on. Two weeks pass and I get a very polite message on my answer phone asking if she can pay over the phone. I am so done with her and had already written off the job that I ignore her again.
A few days pass and I am on the house next door and she approaches me with my money in her hand and pays me with apologies and all that good stuff and then asks if I could do her windows again.
Well I simply give her an incredulous look and said 'sorry luv, I dont cover your area' (ten feet away) and walked off leaving her looking confused. (not difficult really)
To date no one has cleaned the mud off her windows and she is still living there nearly four months down the road.
I used to get all huffy puffy about a non payer but now when apparent it is not going to happen I just dirty up the windows best I can and leave it at that. I figure even if they were arsey enough to call the law the most they could do is make you clean them but I doubt they would bother.
