to think the window cleaner is rude...

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...because when he comes to do my windows he's always got his hands free up and running and has a full on telephone conversation whilst he is cleaning my windows.I was outside working away and i just felt it was really rude of him and i didn't like to hear him gnattering away about SFA in a thick cockney accent talking about boxing and rubbish like that whilst he was cleaning my windows.I think he can eff off next time i don't like him.

£25!!!

I pay £6 every 3 weeks for a 5 bed house!

Rip off.

Op commenting on his accent is rude. I don't care if he's cockney or Irish or brum! You open badly and lost my sympathy completely there.

Why should he not use his own phone? Did u engage him in conversation? Politely? He's out doors. Why should he be silent if he doesn't want to? Doesn't really harm the windows does it?

God almighty - him talking or not talking on the phone has no bearing on how clean your windows end up!

Yabu.

£25?? Either you live in a mansion or you're being ripped off. My window cleaner is £10 for a biggish detached house, and I don't have to talk to him.

I have discovered via this thread that I'm being massively ripped off by my window cleaner (£40 for a 4-bed semi, and he's crap). No wonder he's always stalking us to agree the next date.

Oh and OP, YABU

My window cleaner is £5 for a three bedroomed semi detached!!

Oh goodness OP you remind me of someone who rang the local council to complain that the bin men were "terribly rude for front line customer service staff"!

Yabu and prejudice.

£25 for window cleaning? £40 for window cleaning??

Do they spray your windows with liquid gold?

OP YABU

Disappointed. I really hoped it was either a perve or that he'd made a derogatory comment about your soft furnishings. Yabu.

Me too lolly

I pay £7 for (the front of) a 5-bed house in south London.

You are getting royally shafted.

He's probably on the phone to his mates bragging about how he's coining it in.

Also, what Icelollycraving said. Heaven forbid!

£5 for a three bedroom house. I get chats and winks included in the price too.

Anyway, why am I even here? This thread is OH-VAH!

Where do you live OP? My DH is a window cleaner and doesn't have a cockney accent :)

£25? Wow, my parents get £5 that's for 3 bedroom windows, 2 living room windows, the dining room window and the kitchen window. :o

cor blimey luva duck twenty five quid to clean some winders? i'll be round in five.

love a bit of George!

I agree with the op, I have also banned the postman from speaking when he is on my property, and delivery men, and the neighbours if they pop over for anything. This is a no talking zone, especially if you have a common accent.

You would think someone who washes windows with unicorn tears would be keeping pretty quiet though,

Seems a little rude to declare the thread 'ended' because no one agrees with you doesn't it?

I suppose as you didn't do it in a common accent that makes it ok though

£25 for how many windows!

Are you serious?

You don't want him to converse with anyone else but you while he's on your property. Even though you're only paying him to clean your windows, which he's doing. Or are you paying for his company too?

Perhaps his prices are sky high so he can save for execution lessons for himself and his cockney ruffian children.

I'm with you OP. Yesterday I slapped my postman round the chops with my white kid-leather gloves as he came to the main door, the main door, not the servants entrance, and asked me to sign for a parcel of toffee noses in a broad Australian accent.

Hahaha. 'execution lessons'

:o