How rude!

Ah it could have been worse, you could be me - I'd be running crying out the house to hide in a neighbours house while they went and told him to go away. I hate windowcleaners. I live in a third floor flat with manky windows and I don't care!

I don't think you overreacted. I would be annoyed too. He should have at least asked you if you minded him moving it.

I'd be hacked off too!! Cheeky begger.

Whilst we are ranting about window cleaners, it really annoys me when they turn up, clean the windows and then knock on the door for money - errrr I never asked you to!!

they do this!??!?

ours always knocks first, asking us if we want them done and then if we dont, off he pops!

Um, this wouldn't bother me in the slightest. Maybe I'm broken....

Does that actually happen? I'd tell him to do one!

I don't like window cleaners! We don't have them now, we do them ourselves. When I was younger 14/15 maybe it was before 8 in the morning I had just got up I was in my Pjs (shorts as a sports bra type thing) walked out of the bathroom and came face to face with a window cleaner. My bedroom window was opposite the door and he was level with me. I shrieked and ran back in the bathroom and hid. It was before 8 in the morning! I was so scared.

How would he have cleaned the upstairs windows without moving your clothes horse?

Perhaps he didn't know you were in?

As long as he moved things nicely, it wouldn't have bothered me.

Oh he did see you were in. Maybe he just didn't want to disturb you.

Maybe he was moving it so he didn't splash his water on your washing.

I don't think this would bother me! Maybe I'm broken too. I'd be more annoyed if I had to get up and go to the door! #lazy

Your having a strop because he moved your washing out the way? wowsers, you must be really ill and grumpy cos I wouldn't give a flying ***.

My window cleaner does this, but we arranged with him to clean them once a month, and you can tell that when he has done them, so I always expect a knock within a few days (he never knocks at the time he cleans them as it is always during the day and OH and I both work during the day)

Have you not agreed that you want your windows cleaning ????

Our old one in particular who gave me my phobia was diddlying old grannies out of money this way - just putting the card throught he door saying they owed money for the service when he'd not done the windows...

I remember when I was revising in my bedroom once and looked up to see the window cleaner waving at me. Nice chap but scared the life out of me ?

Actually where I live it would be the "responsibility" of the neighbours to get permission for the WC to enter your property. As in..

"Mrs Custard, the window cleaners are coming round to do us tomorrow. Please may they have access to our windows through your garden?"

"Of course, Mrs Neighbour. How good of you to ask. I'll make sure the gate is open"

We are soooo polite round here.

I have an irrational fear a window cleaner may catch us on the job if we do daytime bonking. To the op though unless he dropped the washing I wouldn't be fussed.

Yes, i was in one stonker of a mood, and where he moved it to, it would still have got covered in his disgusting window water. all he had to do was ask if i could move it inside while he washed the upstairs windows.

Looking back it was completely ridiculous how much it annoyed me, but at the time i was not in the mood. It probably didn't help that i knew the boy from school and he's a bit of a tosser!

I'm quite sure everyone has these days. Today happened to be mine.

Oh totally RKB, I know those mis-og moods better than anyone ?

It figures that i'm now in a much better mood and if he came round now i'd have bet him to it and been very pleasant about the whole thing.

ah well. I can just be the *** in apartment (insert flat number here) ?

ETA: Hitched now have a bad word detection system. It's starred out the B word in my statement. I wonder if that's got anything to do with why the site keeps going down...we all swear too much...

Us too, we live on the first floor and our windows are filthy. FIL dropped off some books to us the other day and inside the bag was a window squeegee, i wonder if this was a hint for us to try to clean them ourselves! ?

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That wouldn't bother me at all, he had to move it to do his job. What did bother me, was looking out the bedroom window one day and our 2 window cleaners (they come every 2 weeks and come back the following evening for payment), had decided to take their lunch break in our garden! They were sat at our patio table and chairs, in the middle of our lawn, flasks and sarnies out, smoking fags and chatting away! If they would have asked I wouldn't have been bothered but I just thought it a bit hard faced!