How much time ?

[robbysand61]

So Finally got my first work here...and it took 35 min to clean a room with the normal carpet sweeper..

What was the your time on your first job ? or usually how much does it take to clean a carpet..i know it depends on the tools you are using.

But just want to share some ideas..

 

[EddieM]

Kind of depends on the size of carpet too.

 

[tony1851]

Kind of depends on the size of carpet too.

Just carpet for a normal-sized room - say 30ft x 50ft

 

[misterhelpful]

I don't understand. Are you telling us that you are a house cleaner?

@ tony1851
I wish I had a cosy little room like that in my house.

 

[cajar]

I do them in 20 mins. up your game

 

[enyam]

I do them in 20 mins. up your game

What do you use though,1001 could clean a big big carpet for less than 1/2 a crown.

 

[tony1851]

1/2 a crown.

What year were YOU born??

 

[KenGMac]

Up here that equates to about 400 Groats?

Used to love Half Crowns, you could at times go out for a night on two of them

My first job as I recall paid £3.17 and six pence a WEEK !.

Where is the "living wage" now?

Ken

 

[jockscott]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3wacuIsdug This is what Enyam's on about.

 

[JBR]

Up here that equates to about 400 Groats?

To be precise, half-a-crown is equal to seven-and-a-half groats!

Of course, groats were a little before my time, but I do remember using ha'pennies and I have seen farthings (with a little wren on the back) although they weren't legal tender when ah wer a lad.

 

[tony1851]

I do remember using ha'pennies and I have seen farthings .

Presumably, then, you remember threepenny bits, tanners, florins, ten-bob notes and of course pennies the size of saucers!

 

[noseall]

I saw a couple of farthings once. One was so far away I couldn't even make out what it was.

 

[empip]

Groat or bottle tops to replace the £ ?

 

[Micilin]

Bottles could be returned for 1d in the late sixties/early 70s.

Ken, the living wage shows we earn fewer pints per hour now.

My first job as plasterers mate in London 1984, £30 a day, he was on £65. I paid 30% tax so took home a ton a week for five days.
. Pint of lager was £1 .

Today average pint lager is £3.20. Twenty pints a day would make plasterers mate on £64 a day after tax A plasterer would have 45.5 pints a day, 145.5 after tax. I found this surprising!

 

[JBR]

I do remember using ha'pennies and I have seen farthings .

Presumably, then, you remember threepenny bits, tanners, florins, ten-bob notes and of course pennies the size of saucers!

Of course. But you missed out bobs!

There were also pound notes and five pound notes, so I believe, but we were so poor I never saw any of those.

We lived in a cardboard box.