What are some good questions to ask a window washer?

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Hello everybody,

This looks like a really nice forum with some cool people :slight_smile:

I’m starting a window washing expansion for my business, and I’m looking to hire an experienced window washer.

What do you think are some good questions to ask our interviewee to show if he’s experienced or not, or just a kid trying to pull a fast one?

thanks

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What do you do now? Are you looking for a residential cleaner or commercial?

You could just put out an ad for an experienced cleaner and then have them wash your office windows to see how they do.

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What are some good questions to ask a window washer?.

I usually get asked, by a neighbour of a customer - do you clean windows (whilst i’m cleaning the windows)

with a van on the drive way saying “window cleaner”

I like bright questions like that…lol

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Your going to want to make sure to hire a WINDOW CLEANER! if you are looking for a window cleaner only, every man and his dog will say they have cleaned windows before. You don’t want a general cleaner to clean windows you need a window cleaner… If you ask a general cleaner to clean a window they will clean it with no hesitation but the whole time they are hating it, and its gonna look cleaner maybe, but doubtfully professionally cleaned. If you ask a window cleaner to clean a toilet… HELL NO, R U FKN SRS will be the response.

Ask the guy that comes for the job how he feels about doing general cleaning duties and get his to demonstrate his method this will easily tell you if you have a real window cleaner.

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This.

Except… for $100/hr I’d clean a toilet.

Steve’s right, you’ll know a window cleaner when you see one. If they show up with a car squeegee, say no thanks. Just go on youtube, watch polzn blade clean an window and then compare it with what you see.

But for me personally, I don’t want to hire window cleaners. I’m looking for customer service oriented people that I can teach how to clean windows. If they’re good with people, they don’t have to be a perfect window cleaner and customers will cut them slack (up to a point). If they suck with people, then they had better be a window cleaning magician.

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Seriously…

Any good quality window cleaner will already have their own business or be involved in a good window cleaning business already.

I’m wary of people coming up to me saying they used to do window cleaning and they are really good… (if they were, why are they asking me for a job? And what sort of bad habits do they bring with them?)

I’d go with getting someone that is customer focused, that you can train to your exact requirements.