A question about windows

J Phipps TN

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The other thread made me wonder this,

How many of you do your own windows and how many hire someone to do it?

I have a friend who has helped me in the past but decided I do just as good a job and for free, so I do my own now.

What do you do?


Jennifer
 
just curiuos....you mean cutting em or washing em ?????
 
We do our own windows, display and cleaning. Customers get a kick out of seeing me out there with a sqeegie (sp) and bucket.

We change out our window displays about every two weeks. We have a lot of foot traffic downtown. Usually the same people all the time going to get coffee.
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Always have and always will do my own...and wash my own too. I enjoy getting out and doing them and even did them often when I had many employees.

Dave Makielski
 
Yet another dissenting opinion:

Window washing is a competitive business, at least around here.

For about 20 years, a guy came and did my windows for just a few bucks each week. He had the materials, equipment and experience to make them sparkle - even when it was 20 below.

I once spent a half-hour scrubbing those windows and they still looked like crap. What's your time worth?

Jerry, when I get glass in that looks like my windows after a bad week, I recommend we throw it away and start with new.
 
That's what you were going for - right Jerry?!
 
Dressing up my window display is one of the things I do and look forward to every month. There is nothing as challenging and fulfilling as outdoing your previous month's display. I would welcome fresh new ideas from my employees and would even let them do my windows once in a while...but at least I'm enjoying doing them myself now.
 
Ha! Touché, Jerry.

Ya, I could've washed a lot of windows in the time that it took to develop a POS.

In my own defense, though, I'd like to mention that my system predates nearly all of the commercial POS programs. It even predates Windows. I used to run it on a little hand-held computer that was programmed in BASIC.

If I were doing it today, I'd buy a package. Ironically, I may end up doing just that, since my system won't run with Windows XP. It's getting increasingly difficult to keep the "old" PCs running Windows 98.

Now that I read some of the other responses, I have to wonder if Jennifer was asking about washing the windows or designing the window displays. If it's the latter, "Never mind."
 
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