Surprise, big house

I booked a house cleaning today that was supposed to be 3 bedrooms and a living room. It was located out in the yuppie hills near town that was like driving on a roller coaster...but that is a different story.

When I got there, it was about 10 years old and 3 stories tall. The husband scheduled the job, but the wife took over the terms and wanted "everything cleaned" due to some urine habits of her new dog. It quickly became quite a task from the 3rd floor all the way into the finished basement. I am going to be sore tomorrow after this one.

Much of it was beige poly that never impresses me, even after a full scrubbing under a CRB machine, but there were a few large rooms with more emerald green nylon like the rental house from the day before. On the walk through, the wife was almost giddy at how bright the green carpets looked....gave me a tip for that as well.

I wish I could get a steady diet of those green nylons, people would think I was Merlin the Cleaning Magician!

Wow 3 stories home ? Plus basement ? Damn.
Good thing you don't have any other job scheduled.
I wonder what happens if you have another job scheduled later that day ? Do you reschedule the other job or just clean half of that house and schedule the other half another day ?

Luckily, the people around here don't have hectic schedules with most of my customers being stay-at-home mothers so having to re-schedule is never a problem. Just offer them a discount for the inconvenience and all has been good.

I am just glad that I didn't unload the extra hose from my truck. I normally only carry 200 feet to a residential house...I would have been short by about 60 feet if I had.

milspec6 wrote:Luckily, the people around here don't have hectic schedules with most of my customers being stay-at-home mothers so having to re-schedule is never a problem.  Just offer them a discount for the inconvenience and all has been good.

I am just glad that I didn't unload the extra hose from my truck.  I normally only carry 200 feet to a residential house...I would have been short by about 60 feet if I had.

You are not using hose reel ?
I never unload any hoses from my reel.

I do use the reel which can hold 300 feet on the box truck but only 150 in the van. I keep an extra 150 feet rolled up in the van for commercial work, but only an extra 50 ft for residential.

I don't know how you do it, when I do my monthly commercial office, I had to pull all 300' of my vac hoses, and I hate the very end of that hose since the hose right past the cuff always tend to get crushed a bit by the reel's holder, so if I put only 150 feet of hoses and have to use all of the hoses, I would despise seeing that slightly crushed end of that hose. I guess your vac hose reel must be different than mine or you just are not as OCD as me.
Oh I just realized that you have to empty your van due to freezing temperature and unloading 150 feet of hoses is better than unloading 300' of hoses, is that why you only put that much hoses in your truck ?

That is the biggest reason for it, yes.