Window Cleaning News & Videos

For John Randazzo, owner and general manager of Fish Window Cleaners, the toughness of his job is more physical. "My company specializes in window cleaning up to three stories high, but nonetheless, you are dealing with windows up to 40 feet," Randazzo explains. "It's scary, you know, but I don't think we've ever been in a situation where our lives have been in real danger." Jonathan Randazzo works for Fish Window Cleaners, which is owned and managed by his father, John Randazzo, who says cleaning windows up to 40 feet high can be scary.

Cleaning for a Reason: They were planning on doing something to give back to the community but they didn’t have anything etched in stone. Until one day, while Gladys Marchadie was surfing the Internet, she came across an organization that struck a cord with her. Gladys and her husband, Harry, both lost their fathers to cancer. So when she came upon Cleaning for a Reason, it was the perfect fit. “I wanted to do something for cancer patients,” Gladys said. The Marchadies, who own Gladys Cleaning Services, Inc. of Ocala, did some research on the organization and recently joined it. Their business became the first in Marion County to offer the service, which offers free house cleanings to women with cancer. Cleaning for a Reason was formed in 2006 in Lewisville, Texas, and currently has 250 partners throughout 32 states. The nonprofit organization verifies the patient is in treatment, then provides free professional housecleaning services to women undergoing cancer treatment. Gladys Cleaning Services will do a general cleaning – like sanitizing the bathrooms and kitchen, as well as dusting and vacuuming, for cancer patients. The couple hopes that other cleaning-related businesses in the community will get involved. Harry said it would be great if those who do window or carpeting cleaning would offer their services.

Road rage driver attacked a cyclist: A self-employed window cleaner and has built up his business over very many years assaulted a cyclist in what was described as a 'road rage' incident was given a suspended prison sentence when he appeared at High Peak Magistrates Court.
John William Sanderson, 48, was convicted after a trial of assaulting Charles Baker on May 5 at the Wash, near Chapel-en-le-Frith, and appeared on Tuesday for sentencing. "The assault followed specifically him losing his balance caused by your overtaking when there was not sufficient room to do so. Sanderson had believed cyclist Mr Baker had lashed out and damaged his car's wing mirror. "You reacted to that by aggression known commonly as 'road rage' and chose to use violence in front of a young child who was present with you."

Space saving water butt: This Mini Water Butt will fit neatly into the smallest corner in your garden but has a capacity to store 100 litres of rainwater. This space saving water butt will allow you to start collecting precious rainwater now and help guard against possible water shortages. The Space Sava Mini Butt's straight sides ensure that it will fit neatly into the smallest corner in your garden. It is finished in dark green to blend in with your garden and has a five-year guarantee. The Mini Butt is compact in size yet has the capacity to store 100 litres of rainwater. It measures 94cm (37in) high and 38cm in width and is made from high-density plastic, and comes complete with a lid and tap. Do remember to position your water butt high enough to enable easy access to the tap. Included with each water butt is a stand that raises the water butt to the perfect height for filling a watering can, and free rain diverter worth £9.95. The ingenious rain diverter is easily fitted to a square 65mm (2.5in) plastic downpipe or 68mm round plastic downpipe and ensures that the butt is kept automatically topped-up without overflowing. The Space Sava Mini Butt is on offer for just £39.94, including special delivery and the Rolson water butt pump is on offer for only £49.99 including p&p.

Quick, call a Transparent Wall Cleansing Executive! Remember when a 'flueologist' was simply a chimney sweep? It's time to cut the job-title jibberish, says John Walsh, executive originator (words). Harrow Council, in north London, has just issued a ban on elaborate jargon words that mask simple concepts. So from now on, "public realm" is just a road again, a "civic amenity site" (though it sounds like an emergency lavatory) goes back to being a rubbish tip, and a "civil enforcement officer" returns to the primeval shame of being a traffic warden. A councillor called Paul Osborn said: "Every organisation uses jargon, but we know that councils have been among the worst offenders. Our residents want to hear plain speaking and that is what we will deliver." Amusingly, Mr Osborn's title is still the not-uncumbersome "Portfolio Holder for Communication". Everybody will welcome any initiative for plain speaking at local-government level, but it would be a shame if Harrow's clean-out of verbiage spelt the end for the fancy job title, a form of nomenclature that has given the world much amusement over the past 20 years or so. Is it really true that the guys who clean the windows of the Empire State Building aren't window cleaners but Transparent Wall Cleansing Executives? Or that the bloke plying the rake and hoe in Kew Gardens probably answered a classified ad for a Technical Horticultural Maintenance Officer? Or did someone make them up for a laugh?

A few videos for you. Mark Henderson of Window Cleaning Resources UK, showing how its done with a wagtail on a pole. The second video, unbelievably a high rise window cleaner in Beijing, China - using a hosepipe on the windows. Who knows? It could be RO or DI water? Third up, an unfortunate window cleaner shows us his cuts & bruises from his latest accident. The forth video - a little high rise work from Portland, Oregon. And the fifth - a little quality contol secretly filming his employee through the window.

Lastly, nothing to do with window cleaning - but working at height....This demolition project is 200m away from the tallest building in Beijing in the heart of the CBD. The developer who has bought the land in Soho China, is knocking down the existing building while trying to save as much money as possible and with little regard to the safety of the workers. They need to get the job done as quick as they can with very few men and machines before the olympics. The only way is to risk their lives as shown in this video.