J
Jon Grainger
Hi everyone
Bit of a long winded story, but before I got married last May, I had my mates come up for a chilled weekend of good food, late nights and hanging out.
We went for a curry, got chatting to our waiter, who asked what we did for jobs, and he asked for my number as he managed a Subway restaurant as well as waitering in the evenings, and they weren't happy with their current window cleaner.
We spoke when I was back from honeymoon and settled, gave him a quote of £10, every two weeks, two windows, a door, and a few small pains of frosted glass above the shop windows, in and out. A fair price, as I want to get a foothold in that area and there is ALOT of passing trade.
He said his existing cleaner who had cleaned for years, but wasn't great, went to Thailand for three months from Christmas to end of Feb. He'd ask me to come during this time, do regular cleans, and then when the old window cleaner came back, say he'd found someone else. This was fine by me, as I was stacked out at the time.
Anyway, went this afternoon for the first time, hate working Sunday's but I am going away next week, and wanted to get him done while he was keen.
WFP'd the outside, and traditional on the inside. As I applicated the frosted glass, I couldn't believe how dirty it was! It turned my newly washed applicator, to a black mess, after three small pains, 1ft x 2ft! I bladed off, and it was running down black. Same was true for the normal windows, and the door glass.
The manager was standing chatting, we get on well, and he was speechless at the state it was in, and the work of the previous guy. He used to pay him £5.00 a free footlong sandwich, and he used to push his luck asking for free extras, costing the shop £9 just for the sandwich! I guess the insides haven't been cleaned for a good six months, maybe just a quick rub over with a cloth if the manager was looking /emoticons/biggrin.png
The guy cleans about ten shops in the same strip, which I'm going to canvass after the subway manager has gone and told them about me. And has done so for years.
Why do people pay for such shoddy workers, who are screwing the customers? I know we all like to price work well, but this guy was taking the mick!
Anyone else got any good story's of appalling window cleaners?
J
Bit of a long winded story, but before I got married last May, I had my mates come up for a chilled weekend of good food, late nights and hanging out.
We went for a curry, got chatting to our waiter, who asked what we did for jobs, and he asked for my number as he managed a Subway restaurant as well as waitering in the evenings, and they weren't happy with their current window cleaner.
We spoke when I was back from honeymoon and settled, gave him a quote of £10, every two weeks, two windows, a door, and a few small pains of frosted glass above the shop windows, in and out. A fair price, as I want to get a foothold in that area and there is ALOT of passing trade.
He said his existing cleaner who had cleaned for years, but wasn't great, went to Thailand for three months from Christmas to end of Feb. He'd ask me to come during this time, do regular cleans, and then when the old window cleaner came back, say he'd found someone else. This was fine by me, as I was stacked out at the time.
Anyway, went this afternoon for the first time, hate working Sunday's but I am going away next week, and wanted to get him done while he was keen.
WFP'd the outside, and traditional on the inside. As I applicated the frosted glass, I couldn't believe how dirty it was! It turned my newly washed applicator, to a black mess, after three small pains, 1ft x 2ft! I bladed off, and it was running down black. Same was true for the normal windows, and the door glass.
The manager was standing chatting, we get on well, and he was speechless at the state it was in, and the work of the previous guy. He used to pay him £5.00 a free footlong sandwich, and he used to push his luck asking for free extras, costing the shop £9 just for the sandwich! I guess the insides haven't been cleaned for a good six months, maybe just a quick rub over with a cloth if the manager was looking /emoticons/biggrin.png
The guy cleans about ten shops in the same strip, which I'm going to canvass after the subway manager has gone and told them about me. And has done so for years.
Why do people pay for such shoddy workers, who are screwing the customers? I know we all like to price work well, but this guy was taking the mick!
Anyone else got any good story's of appalling window cleaners?
J