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Do they hibernate over the winter months?Because i have'nt seen one round our way since last Octoberish.:confused:

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I don't think they hibernate........there is one who does the windows where I live and we see him every two weeks...rain, hail or snow.

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Mine comes once a month!:)

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yeah our windowcleaners seem to take a winter holiday too :(

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Sorry should have said that he's still been cleaning them over winter.

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I find it impossible to find a window cleaner round here - it drives me crazy.

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Ours never uses water! Whats that about?

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LOL yea you shoulda...made me laugh tho! ;)

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maybe he jacked it as it can be a 'pane' of a job and to be honest 'folk can see you coming'...

coat on and leaving already..:cool:

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my mate asked her local window cleaner if he would take her house on as she had just moved in and he told her he was far too busy......huh when did that happen then....they would go bloody mad if they saw someone else on their patch....

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Maxwell Silver , you beat me to it , Only today I was thinking about posting a thing in the nostalgia thread, asking how many folks still have a window cleaner or is it a job that has gone the way of mopping and stoning the front step.
My Grandma allways used to leave his money on the upstairs outside windowsill to make sure he had been ,her thinking was if he climbed the ladder for his money he would do the windows while he was up the ladder

:D

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Have you seen one, or know of anyone in the area in the last few months?

If not then the 'goodwill' that he had has gone, you could therefore employ anyone that was prepared to, to do them.

Basiclally it's just like having your milkman not deliver for a while, you'd go and ask another one. It is is or can be a very territorial business depending on where you live, i will say however the WC who turned around and said no as he was too busy is inviting anyone onto his patch with statements like that! I KNOW, IT'S WHAT I DOO FOR A JOB!!:)

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Where's your patch then Spud?

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Mine comes from burnley. The one who used to do them didnt come round for about 6 months and i saw this one doing the pubs and asked him to do mine. About 3 month after he started doing them the old window cleaner came round and i told him i had a new window cleaner but the best one was he said he had been round that i hadnt just seen him and when he came to get paid that no one was in the house - big mistake - mum never went out unless it was a hospital appointment or we'd made arrangements for respite. She'd never seen him. Really lit into him then. He didnt even say sorry for it either just stalked off and aint seen that one since.

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Mine vanishes for weeks on end too ! I asked him last time if and when he had been round. That was some 4 weeks ago and not seen him since !

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Knuzden and a few bits around blackburn. I have done one-off jobs but they tend to be expensive on account of time taken to get to, from, and set up, pack away from job.

What i did once say to someone who asked me was, get me a few people/neighbours close to your own house and then it's worth my while coming to do them, I ended up getting quite a few off that one and still have them now.

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Thats what happened with mine. He said that to me and i told the neighbours and they all cornered him and now he does them all round here!

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Yeah, thats what we had to do to get the window cleaner to do ours, now he does most of the houses on our road.

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Ours hasn't been round since just before christmas:( Think he only came round then because of the christmas tips:mad:

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It sounds like some dont work through the winter.

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Well, the one round here does.......although it isn't as interesting in the winter as he is always fully dressed......in summer I know some of the neighbours wait to see him do their windows showing off his manly pecs and you can hear the 'phwoars'......not that it affects me in that way. I'd rather have a good meat pudding with plenty of gravy!

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[quote=Margaret Pilkington;394114]Well, the one round here does.......although it isn't as interesting in the winter as he is always fully dressed......in summer I know some of the neighbours wait to see him do their windows showing off his manly pecs and you can hear the 'phwoars'......
Sounds like a 'diet coke' moment:D

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you can clean them windows yourself miss kitty, i used too;) :D
you still got the leading on??