Fixing someone else's laziness

M

maynianj

New member
I have a neighbor who passed out a few of my cards at his office as a favor. His boss owns a few commercial buildings in the area and just hired someone a few weeks ago to clean one of the buildings. Well, she called me yesterday to come out and give her a price to fix where the previous contractor missed. I showed up to find that they didn't even do the rear of the building, and on one edge only ran the surface cleaner and never came back and cleaned against the building where the surface cleaner missed. I gave her a fair price, and she said that it was alot less than what she was figuring to pay since the last guy charged her "an arm and a leg" as she put it.

BTW - I went out today and cleaned everything up, and even put a quick rinse on the building for her (last picture). Now she wants me to quote her house and two more buildings. Doing the job the right way is paying off!!

IMG_7378.jpgIMG_7380.jpgIMG_7381.jpgIMG_7392.JPG
 
Hope you did not use a surface cleaner on the building like he did......
 
To me the first 3 shots seem horizontal flat work, and the last before/after a vertical surface. Only the flat work looks done by a surface cleaner, and the vertical was wand or ball valve work, imo.

Nice pics, I love getting work out of someone else doing a bad job!
 
Yes, the last picture is a stucco wall. I had a little house mix left over from my last job that still had some strength to it, so I went ahead and hooked it up. Already on location + no charge for leftover chems + 15 minutes of my time = happy customer!!
 
Taking an extra few mins to look over the job site as you work not to miss anything. Will always pay off in return work and more jobs in the future.

Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top