How important is your presentation to you ?

[Mickyplumb]

That's not exclusive to BG, think about it, you are told you must wear company workwear and safety shoes/boots so how can you take them off cause the customer has a nice clean carpet, blue paper shoes on at the door every time, even if the customer says don't bother, I always say it's no prob, I would rather put them on, TBH in some houses it helps keep my shoes clean, and in the clean ones it just removes and doubt that you left a mark on the carpet
I would never take my shoes off in someone's house, you could injure your foot, then who pays the wage while you recover, and anyway I'm not walking about people's houses in my socks, I mean they need to last me all week

My reply was a little vague, I meant only take shoes off when turning up to do the estimate or prior to putting dust sheets down before actually commencing any work.

We all know it's a bit of flannel really as it's probably very, very rare that we would have mucky trainers or boots anyway.

I remember how I felt when I had sky tv installed many years ago, 2 blokes going in and out for 4 hours, needed the carpet cleaning afterwards.

Now, if these guys were plumbers and this was their first job for me, do you think I would ever use them again.

You have to respect or at least be seen to respect your customers home.

It's similar, if ever I drill a hole in an internal wall, I will always either hold the nozzle under the dill bit or Hoover up afterwards.

We all know that goes a long way.

 

[village idiot]

The first thing I do when I walk into a house is take off my shoes or pretend to take them off. In most cases, the customers will beg you to leave them on. If I think my boots are 'cleaner' than the carpets, I'll leave them on. If carpets are clean or perceived to be, and you can see that next to the door or steps are loads of shoes and everyone indoors is got no shoes on, then what reason do you have to have yours on?
When I come to do the job, then dust sheets go down. I've been told dust sheets will soon be banned?

 

[Mickyplumb]

The first thing I do when I walk into a house is take off my shoes or pretend to take them off. In most cases, the customers will beg you to leave them on. If I think my boots are 'cleaner' than the carpets, I'll leave them on. If carpets are clean or perceived to be, and you can see that next to the door or steps are loads of shoes and everyone indoors is got no shoes on, then what reason do you have to have yours on?
When I come to do the job, then dust sheets go down. I've been told dust sheets will soon be banned?

Seriously, banning dust sheets?????

I suppose though, they are the ultimate trip hazard.

 

[village idiot]

Seriously, banning dust sheets?????

I suppose though, they are the ultimate trip hazard.

Yep. Apparently, in the not too far away time, tradesmen/women will have to ''batten'' them down or something to that effect. It will happen, me thinks

 

[Mickyplumb]

Yep. Apparently, in the not too far away time, tradesmen/women will have to ''batten'' them down or something to that effect. It will happen, me thinks

I agree, it probably will at some point.

Our work lives are difficult enough as it is though.

 

[Ray Stafford]

Yep. Apparently, in the not too far away time, tradesmen/women will have to ''batten'' them down or something to that effect. It will happen, me thinks

Yep - like this

 

[Killy Bing]

Yep - like this

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Ive been looking at them, 28 quid from plumb centre

 

[Mickyplumb]

Are we talking about dust sheets on a flat floor as well though ?

 

[Ian Earnshaw]

The last job I estimated for new shower room, £5500 was asked to go and see them & measure up ect that day, no shave, shorts & t shirt pretty much waterproof thanks to dow corning and yes, I was embarrassed! Happy to say, I got the job, no questions and have nearly finished. Old lady, her son, a BA pilot, quite serious & very professional, but they appreciate my caring attitude towards her, not bothered about my clothing!

 

[Ray Stafford]

Are we talking about dust sheets on a flat floor as well though ?

As far as I know, there is no specific legislation coming in with relation to dust sheets.

However, as we all know, the HSE have "flavour of the month" in their enforcement procedures, and I suspect that dust sheets will be one of those hot topics for a while.

Just do and document the risk assessment. If you have the stair battens, there is less likelihood some asswipe will get uptight about flat-floor sheets.