Wagtail Winner + More Window Cleaning News

Ed Turner (pictured) is the winner of this months Whirlwind Wagtail giveaway! Ed is not only into window cleaning but restoring floors as well. He will find the Wagtail Whirlwind particularly useful for floors when he combines the Whirlwind with the wagtail angle adapter. Ed works in the Durham/Clarington region of Ontario, Canada & uses eco friendly products. His website Turner Clean Services is due for a revamp - so Ed reckons. Your Wagtail 14" & 18" are winging your way out to you tomorrow Ed!

Plea for help: Chris Morris of "Reflection Window Cleaning" is calling out for donations no matter how small for his partner participating in a 10 mile midnight walk in aid of a local hospice that his step daughter Danielle goes too. The Chestnut Tree House serves when a child develops a life-limiting illness. Not just for the child but for their loved ones as well. The aim at Chestnut Tree House is to provide the care and support these families so desperately need, whether practical, physical or emotional. If you can help - any amount will do - please consider in helping a fellow window cleaner out. As an incentive a free 14" & 18" Wagtail Whirlwind will be given away in a lottery for donators. Please donate here:
http://www.justgiving.com/michaela-poolton
Read more from Chris here.


Spiderman and Superman abseil into the Evelina Hospital: The children at the Evelina Children's Hospital had a surprise this week when Spiderman and Superman dropped in to help clean the windows. The grime fighters – better known as Paul and Nick from All Clean, the window cleaning contractors for Guy's and St Thomas' – abseiled from the top of the building to clean the windows of the wards that look out onto the hospital's atrium. "It was a real treat for the children to see the superheroes at the hospital and they all ran to the windows when they saw them descending from the roof," says ward sister Shelia Campion. "We are so grateful to the guys at All Clean for being such good sports."

Southwest Florida business owners get help, financing: The program is urgently needed in light of the region's lingering high unemployment and tight credit markets, Scott said: "Anybody who wants to start a business needs capital; right now, they have to have it on their own." "Even with this program, they'll still have to put skin in the game," Scott said: "Either cash or a loan co-signer - someone who is willing and capable of repaying the loan if they don't." The American Association for Enterprise Opportunity defines microenterprise as businesses with five or fewer employees. It estimates there are more than 24 million microenterprises in the country, representing 18 percent of all private employment and about 87 percent of all businesses. Up to 100 applicants will be accepted yearly, said Elliot Rittenhouse, director of microenterprise at Goodwill. If their business plans pass muster, those who complete the microenterprise course can begin applying for the loans of no more than $30,000. Kevin Gorham of North Fort Myers aims to start a window-washing company. Until getting laid off in March 2009, he worked in construction: "I was on a 20-man crew that dropped to a five-man crew." Gorham is excited about being his own boss: "I won't have to worry about a job."


£27,000 Window: Drunken yobs escape £35,000 bill for trashing luxury hotel suite: Two men who wrecked a room at Manchester’s luxury Hilton Hotel after getting ‘disgustingly drunk’ have been spared jail – and the £35,000 repair bill. Mark Kenny, 36, and David Goggin, 30, checked out of the 4-star Deansgate hotel leaving a trail of destruction behind them. The pair had wrecked the 16th floor suite after coming back from a lads’ night out in the city centre last September. One of the building’s floor-to-ceiling windows had been broken and blood and vomit soiled the walls, bedding and carpet.
But they escaped the massive repair bill after their lawyer, Mark Ferguson, disputed how much the damage would cost the Hilton. Judge Gilbart fined them £1,000 each. They have also been ordered to pay compensation of £290 each to the hotel, which will cover the specialist cleaning bill. The Hilton says that the smashed window can only be repaired by removing all the glass from the outside and that replacing the window alone costs £27,000. But the hotel chain will have to sue Kenny and Goggin if it wants the money back. Mr Ferguson said Kenny took home no more than £55 a week, while Goggin only earned £150. Judge Gilbart asked: “Am I to take those figures seriously given that they booked a room in the Hilton, Manchester’s most expensive hotel?” Mr Ferguson said the room had been paid for in advance by Mr Kenny and his now estranged wife. Rather than let the room go to waste, Kenny invited Goggin to go on a ‘boys’ night out’, Mr Ferguson added. Mr Ferguson said his clients were ‘remorseful and regretful’.