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I'll get to the water part later in the thread, but you must read this part first.
I was due to be cleaning regular customer's houses that are opposite each other today. As I was approaching the two houses I could see a big lorry with roof trusses on the back parked over the drive of one of the houses and a crane off loading it. Not to worry I thought I'll clean the house where the drive was unblocked and hopefully when I'm finished the lorry will have gone. Finished first house and the lorry still had a load of trusses still on the trailer. I asked the granger man if he thought the lorry driver might move so I could park on the drive of my customer. 'I doubt it mate, his load isn't tied down.' Hmm, where shall I park? Cars parked all the way up the road! I know, I'll ask next door but one if I can park my van on his drive and then I can reel my hose up the street passed the lorry and clean. A bit of a ballache but I'd still be able to clean the house. I knock the door of next door but one (who isn't a customer) and ask if I could leave my van on his drive. 'No problem' he says. I thank him and off I go with hose and pole up the road. I clean the house and get back to my van and find two scruffy individuals cleaning the the windows. I'd seen these two years ago and not seen them for ages. I bet they thought the bloke had got a proper window cleaner in when they saw my van ?. I know how these pair of cowboys clean windows so I said 'I'm going to watch you as I'm interested to see how you clean windows.'
Now for the best bit, they had one pair of ladders between them, well two of you can clean a house with one set of ladders right? The one without ladders was also cleaning the tops. How was he cleaning the tops you might ask? He had a pole with a squeegee on it. Ooh he's one of these blokes who can clean like Wagga? No, on the squeegee there was a microfibre cloth! He extended the pole and just moved the microfibre up and down a few times and that was it. No sills or frames were cleaned. The bloke on the ladder was wearing a belt. No tools on the belt just a vape in some sort of pouch ?. He was also using just a microfibre cloth. Fat individual asked if I'd got a microfibre cloth as they're brilliant, err yes I have a few I replied. No water was used, no bucket in sight, no tools were used, just a microfibre cloth each to move the dirt around the glass!
How do these idiots get away with this sort sort of thing? Obviously they're not idiots as they were done by the time I'd reeled in. Probably only charged a fiver but surely customers want a decent job doing?
I was due to be cleaning regular customer's houses that are opposite each other today. As I was approaching the two houses I could see a big lorry with roof trusses on the back parked over the drive of one of the houses and a crane off loading it. Not to worry I thought I'll clean the house where the drive was unblocked and hopefully when I'm finished the lorry will have gone. Finished first house and the lorry still had a load of trusses still on the trailer. I asked the granger man if he thought the lorry driver might move so I could park on the drive of my customer. 'I doubt it mate, his load isn't tied down.' Hmm, where shall I park? Cars parked all the way up the road! I know, I'll ask next door but one if I can park my van on his drive and then I can reel my hose up the street passed the lorry and clean. A bit of a ballache but I'd still be able to clean the house. I knock the door of next door but one (who isn't a customer) and ask if I could leave my van on his drive. 'No problem' he says. I thank him and off I go with hose and pole up the road. I clean the house and get back to my van and find two scruffy individuals cleaning the the windows. I'd seen these two years ago and not seen them for ages. I bet they thought the bloke had got a proper window cleaner in when they saw my van ?. I know how these pair of cowboys clean windows so I said 'I'm going to watch you as I'm interested to see how you clean windows.'
Now for the best bit, they had one pair of ladders between them, well two of you can clean a house with one set of ladders right? The one without ladders was also cleaning the tops. How was he cleaning the tops you might ask? He had a pole with a squeegee on it. Ooh he's one of these blokes who can clean like Wagga? No, on the squeegee there was a microfibre cloth! He extended the pole and just moved the microfibre up and down a few times and that was it. No sills or frames were cleaned. The bloke on the ladder was wearing a belt. No tools on the belt just a vape in some sort of pouch ?. He was also using just a microfibre cloth. Fat individual asked if I'd got a microfibre cloth as they're brilliant, err yes I have a few I replied. No water was used, no bucket in sight, no tools were used, just a microfibre cloth each to move the dirt around the glass!
How do these idiots get away with this sort sort of thing? Obviously they're not idiots as they were done by the time I'd reeled in. Probably only charged a fiver but surely customers want a decent job doing?
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