I just did the first clean in a LONG TIME on my first store EVER that was 17 panes of glass. I did them inside and out. I offered to do it for $45 and 5 hours later with no breaks and some spots that were just not removable I left feeling like a whipped pup.
There were what looked like streaks of water that had run down the window and i tried multiple times from both sides to remove them but somehow it didn't even lighten up. I have no idea what it couldve been because it looked like just a single pane plate glass window. I left what looked like streaks on some of the windows but I went back after I finished the major clean up and tried redoing them where I saw the streaks but I couldnt get them to come off or lighten up, so i dont know what was up???
It was my very first job ever and I wanted to do it PERFECTLY but I just couldn't. Two things went wrong, one, there was so much crap to move for every window and some of it was real heavy and the second thing was I didnt have a handle that allowed me to angle my squeegee so some of the difficult windows inside over some permanent shelving that i had to reach in from the side couldn't get cleaned well because after I washed them I couldnt squeegee. So I just bought a flat mr clean type mop with a microfiber mop head on it and windexed the mop head and scrubbed the window without squeegeeing it. I dont know if that is some sort of window cleaning sacrilege but I did it and I haven't heard back from the manager or the DM yet of the store.
It looked like a million bucks compared to what it was but it was not perfect by any means. Hopefully I can look back at this and laugh one day when i realize I had to spend $9 of the $45 I made from the job at the actual store I was cleaning and spent 5 hours there. I think it may have been a good learning experience and Now I know to only bid the outside of windows and if I do bid insides bid WAY higher and specify they have to move all their stuff.
He wants me to do this and 8 other stores on a monthly basis and I don't know how I should approach him about this nightmare that is totally not worth $45 in/out, any suggestions? (This store and one other are the only ones like this the rest I know are easy but these two in particular are crazy hard.)
There were what looked like streaks of water that had run down the window and i tried multiple times from both sides to remove them but somehow it didn't even lighten up. I have no idea what it couldve been because it looked like just a single pane plate glass window. I left what looked like streaks on some of the windows but I went back after I finished the major clean up and tried redoing them where I saw the streaks but I couldnt get them to come off or lighten up, so i dont know what was up???
It was my very first job ever and I wanted to do it PERFECTLY but I just couldn't. Two things went wrong, one, there was so much crap to move for every window and some of it was real heavy and the second thing was I didnt have a handle that allowed me to angle my squeegee so some of the difficult windows inside over some permanent shelving that i had to reach in from the side couldn't get cleaned well because after I washed them I couldnt squeegee. So I just bought a flat mr clean type mop with a microfiber mop head on it and windexed the mop head and scrubbed the window without squeegeeing it. I dont know if that is some sort of window cleaning sacrilege but I did it and I haven't heard back from the manager or the DM yet of the store.
It looked like a million bucks compared to what it was but it was not perfect by any means. Hopefully I can look back at this and laugh one day when i realize I had to spend $9 of the $45 I made from the job at the actual store I was cleaning and spent 5 hours there. I think it may have been a good learning experience and Now I know to only bid the outside of windows and if I do bid insides bid WAY higher and specify they have to move all their stuff.
He wants me to do this and 8 other stores on a monthly basis and I don't know how I should approach him about this nightmare that is totally not worth $45 in/out, any suggestions? (This store and one other are the only ones like this the rest I know are easy but these two in particular are crazy hard.)
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