Scammed at the front door!!!!

raineshoe

Ours, a husband and wife team, charge £4.20 for a 4 bed house. They do a really good job too.

wary

Many years ago, I came home from work to find a note from the window cleaner saying he'd done our windows today. When they're cleaned regularly, it is often difficult to be sure whether they really have been done without very close scrutiny, and indeed on closer inspection they did look a bit grubby. The real give-away was the back window where a ball had been bounced against it and the marks were still there.

I phoned him re the ball marks and he immdeiately said that if I'm not happy with the job then he won't charge. Of course it wasn't that he hadn't cleaned them very well; rather that he hadn't cleaned at very least one window at all.

Call me My Cynic but I did wonder whether with it being that no one was in, he just didn't bother doing them at all in the hope that we wouldn't notice, knowing that if we did then he could simply offer not to charge us and he'd be no worse off.

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Hi,

ab7167 wrote: »

Our is £15... Am I being done?!?

Hope so, you should normally notice a difference when looking out. :rotfl:

gucciqueen

Mine would be £10 for my house but i make my husband do them lol i am mean he is scard of hights as well....lol

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Hi,

gucciqueen wrote: »

Mine would be £10 for my house but i make my husband do them lol i am mean he is scard of hights as well....lol

hope you give him the tenner for a pint. :beer:

planemad

I do mine myself, we had new windows a few years back and they have these sort of 90degree hinges that make cleaning the upstairs really easy by doing them from inside.

gucciqueen

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Hi,



hope you give him the tenner for a pint. :beer:

Nope :rotfl:he does not drink. i make him a nice cup of tea :rotfl:

Jeff_Bridges_hair

£17.50 for my window cleaner and always lets me pay afterwards by cheque too..

fluffnutter

C_Mababejive wrote: »

This is supposed to be MSE.
Clean your own windows.

Yeah right. So some old dear gets the ladder out and climbs up to the first or possibly second floor windows carrying a bucket, squeezee and a cloth does she? How ridiculous. There are numerous people who wouldn't feel confident or able to clean upstairs windows. Some types of windows tilt round so you can clean the outside from the inside, but most people's houses don't have these. Cleaners have the kit and are comfortable nipping up and down ladders all day. To suggest everyone cleans their own windows is naive at best, and downright dangerous at worst.

Jeff_Bridges_hair

fluffnutter wrote: »

Yeah right. So some old dear gets the ladder out and climbs up to the first or possibly second floor windows carrying a bucket, squeezee and a cloth does she? How ridiculous. There are numerous people who wouldn't feel confident or able to clean upstairs windows. Some types of windows tilt round so you can clean the outside from the inside, but most people's houses don't have these. Cleaners have the kit and are comfortable nipping up and down ladders all day. To suggest everyone cleans their own windows is naive at best, and downright dangerous at worst.

mine dont have ladders just big extension washer brushes with that new cleaning stuff which dries streak and smear free.. Its good too because living by the seaside we get a lot of sand and sea salt stuck to them