Works for me, I've always done it that way, nobody has complained in 40 years, thats they way I was taught...

[Mikey P]

How many times have you heard something to that effect and had hold back and not tell them that they spent their life time or career doing something wrong or poorly.


I could give countless examples, the most recent was a "professional" Glazier who did his own shower wall to shower floor caulking. He was so proud of his horrible, gooped up, wrong color abomination...



Here in Retirementville NV, shitty workmanship runs rapid. A smart tradesman would make his money elsewhere, working for those who still have expendable income. But dummies like me who put a good life before making millions are the norm.

but somehow, I can do exceptional work and save time to live...

 

[Jim Pemberton]

A smart tradesman would make his money elsewhere, working for those who still have expendable income. But dummies like me who put a good life before making millions are the norm.

There you have it.

I cannot imagine you going back to S'cruz for any amount of income.

What does Paula think of your life on the other side of the border from crazyville?

 

[Mikey P]

What does Paula think of your life on the other side of the border from crazyville?

Like most, she can't figure out how I go out and clean most day, keep the banter going here, organize Fests, improve the IICRC, keep one eye on Scruz, organize group rides every week, organize clean ups, shill Glides, keep relevant on FB, find time to watch Survivor and still find time to ignore her....

 

[Jim Pemberton]

and still find time to ignore her....

That can end up becoming a very expensive practice

 

[Jimmy L]

BRAVO!

MAGNIFICO!

 

[hogjowl]

I can’t imagine Mikey not saying anything

 

[Kenny Hayes]

BRAVO!

MAGNIFICO!

Oh my gawd, Mikey, you got Bravo from Jimmy.

 

[steve_64]

I haven't had any job or hobby for 40 plus years. Unless you talking drinking and smoking.

The times I've heard people talk like that was usually putting others down.

 

[randy]

There you have it.

I cannot imagine you going back to S'cruz for any amount of income.

What does Paula think of your life on the other side of the border from crazyville?

Then problem is Crazyville is expanding outward more than is immediately noticeable. Inside the Beltway has alway been occupied territory with some really weird characters (many of them in congress) but WOW who would have thought. In the last 7-8 years I have ...

1) Showed up at a Dressbarn at 9:30pm for a regularly scheduled cleaning and had to wait as a mother was helping her SON find the perfect dress for an event and it took a bit longer than closing time.
2) Upon arrival had to leave a move out cleaning because the tenants were taking a smoke break and the cannabis fog combined with the rotten strawberryish vaping was making me very ill. Two days latter the owner called and said the carpets looked terrible and my guys smoked pot in his house leaving a broken water pipe in the kitchen. Needless to say the price skyrocketed when I met the landlord and he deducted it from the flunkies deposit. Thank God for ozone units.
3) Had a wife approve the quote and pay me to have her husband call three hours latter threatening to kill me for charging $590 for " only a two bedroom apartment. " Yeah sure, only a two bedroom , living room /dining room that required two gallons of pet stain off to even attempt to save it.
4) Been asked to clean around a bed while another member of the household is asleep in the bed.

I used to get shocked at the wackadoos that would take a shower when you are there cleaning. Disappear while you are cleaning leaving minor children alone with techs they don't know. You go up stairs and ask where is your mom ? "oh she went to the store".

 

[randy]

I almost forgot ...
5) The bizarre woman that opened the bathroom door and asked about the carpet while she was on the toilet.

 

[Cleanworks]

I almost forgot ...
5) The bizarre woman that opened the bathroom door and asked about the carpet while she was on the toilet.

What did she want to know!

 

[Nomad74]

I almost forgot ...
5) The bizarre woman that opened the bathroom door and asked about the carpet while she was on the toilet.

Was she hot?

Asking for Marty

 

[Mikey P]

I almost forgot ...
5) The bizarre woman that opened the bathroom door and asked about the carpet while she was on the toilet.

Big deal
.

I have way worse stories from the 80s in SoCal

 

[hogjowl]

Don’t drag me into this you cross eyed rug fag

 

[Willy P]

The whips and chains loonie. The clothing optional customer. The old guy looking for his pet squirrel.( found mummified behind the couch) . More marital aids than you can shake your stick at. Pissed drunks at 8 in the morning. The property manager offering crack at the same time. A job where the traffic lanes wouldn't budge. Owner's brother hand gangrene on his foot. The manager who asked for a little deodorizer. The tenant was dead 2 weeks and leaked into the suite below. Loaded gun and a crying customer just broke up from his wife. I could go on.....

 

[Mikey P]

I'll admit to waaaaay too many years of using the TH40 Brush Ring on ceramic and porcelain tiles thinking it didn't matter.



Idiot.

 

[DAT]

I'll admit to waaaaay too many years of using the TH40 Brush Ring on ceramic and porcelain tiles thinking it didn't matter.



Idiot.

Brush ring no good?

 

[DAT]

Nvm, looked it up. Brush ring is king.

 

[Mikey P]

Brush ring no good?

its mandatory for stone but a PITA

 

[Mikey P]

the plastic glide is king and queen on "synthetics'....

 

[Kenny Hayes]

Brush ring no good?

He talks in riddles, you can’t keep up!

 

[Tom Forsythe]

A comment that I have heard says that 40 years of experience can be only 1 year of experience repeated 40 times.

 

[Lee Stockwell]

To roughly paraphrase Vince Lombardi, "practice doesn't make perfect, PERFECT practice makes perfect "

 

[Cleanworks]

If you're not learning and adapting, you're just repeating the same mistakes. That's what makes forums like this great. You get to see what others are doing and where they have success or failures.