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Shame it was done so badly :-)

Last week I noticed a group of men with clipboards walking up and down the Close.
Then i had a piece of paper put through my letterbox - they were contractors, who'd been hired by the council to 'do 'External Decoration Works'.

I was intrigued.
All the windows and doors are UPVC. The guttering and downpipes are plastic, and the soffits are asbestos. I have 2 holes in my soffit, one of which was used by a pair of House Sparrows earlier this year.

Today, in the rain, I watched 2 men get out of a car, put on hi-vis jackets and identity cards. They then proceeded to clean the UPVC.
Unfortunately, in their enthusiasm, they've made my windows smeary.

This was their 'External Decoration Works' :-S

How much did it cost to have a gang of 'middle management' walking up and down the roads with clipboards, identifying houses ?
I bet they were on more money than the 2 who messed up my windows!

It also looks like my House Sparrows can come back to nest in my house again next year :-D :-D (they're still around)

Oooh, the power of a hi-vis jacket.... Doesn't make them better workers though :-|

Sounds a grand title for making a mess of your windows.

When I was in a small town near here recently, I saw 2 men, suited and booted but no hi-vis, who appeared to be checking out the town library exterior.
One had a clip board and they both wore white hard hats :-S

Not sure what they needed protection for, but I will look to see if Kent have similarly got money to spare for External Decoration Works.

The 'officials' didn't have hi-vis on, but it took them nearly an hour to 'note' the 20 bungalows in the road. Perhaps the fact that there are 3 different designs confused them!

I'd have wiped my window frames for £20 - probably a lot less than it cost.
Actually, I'd cleaned the back frames 2 weeks ago - while I was cleaning the windows, that they've now smeared. . :-(

Just think if you’d just paid to have your windows cleaned ;-)

I know!! Many people down this road actually do that.

We paid to have out guttering and sofixs cleaned plus all the white boards on the house. OMG the state of the windows I was praying for rain dfor weeks in the hope it would wash the muck off. Yesterdays rain ( thank god) didn't seem to do that job as I can see a cobweb outside from where i am sitting :-|

I have no problem with cobwebs or spider's eggs on the outside of the windows.

I was woken up one morning by something tapping on my window.
I carefully opened the blind a bit, put me specs on, and lay back in bed.

It was my House sparrow family munching on the contents of the cobwebs
:-D

They do it on the living room window too, and I swear they look straight at me :-S

Methinks they know what windows are (objects that humans cant get past, but a way of watching the funny things) :-D :-D