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Dealing with the angry window cleaner. Are you ‘on his patch’ ?!

When I filmed Window Wars USA for WCM TV in the early part of this year, it was to show the close lives of two competitors and how they worked side by side.   It was my intension to show some of the ugly side of window cleaning from a journalistic point of view too. My hope would be that window cleaners would see that part of window cleaning for what it was and learn that…

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Near death shock for Erwin and his water fed pole!

Up to 450 Volts of electricity! ( See pic below of the house and location it all happened at) Erwin Sørensen just has to be the luckiest or unluckiest window cleaner alive. Working yesterday, Erwin touched an overhead power line with his water fed pole and lived to tell his story. Erwin has been cleaning windows for 25 years in his hometown of Odense, Denmark.  He started window cleaning as a 17 year old for a…

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WCM TV to hit State side again in 2014

    The Window Cleaning Magazine is excited to inform that its production side WCM TV plans a trip to the US in the early part of April 2014 to film the much rumored new window cleaning show based on the life of Peter Artusa, NY. No confirmation of the title is available at this time. Peter was the “..we are freaking awesome!’  star of Window Wars USA, also filmed by WCM TV. http://youtu.be/MNsiqA_DmYg to view Window…

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HSDirect Have A New Company Car
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HS Direct LTD based in Sheffield have a new addition, a 1954 Ford Popular, it’s got to be the coolest company car around. WCM caught up with Nick Murphy today over a cup of coffee. HS Direct has had incredible growth over the last few years and helps businesses in many industries including the window cleaning sector. Their unrivaled online systems make the paperwork easy with RAMS, online invoicing and much much more. HS Direct have…

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Win ‘The Whale Vomit Method’ by Kevin Dubrosky with the Window Cleaning Magazine

Kevin Dubrosky’s ‘The Whale Vomit Method’ book competition. Can you write a 500-600 word marketing article for WCM? The only criterion is that it has to be about marketing and that it is your own work, between 500-600 words. You can think inside or outside the box. Send your finished article to lee@windowcleaningmagazine.co.uk The winning entry will receive a paperback copy of Kevin’s book. The winner’s piece will be published in the January 2014 issue of…

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Terry on the telly, tomorrow around 7.30pm

Called my mate Terry today, this is how the conversation went…. Lee:  So, Terry you are on The One Show tomorrow night, wow dude? Terry: Show starts at 7pm, 18 September tomorrow its on BBC1  Lee: Who are you meeting on the show? Terry: Apart from Usain bolt not sure. Lee: Usain Bolt!!! What the hell?! What is it about? Terry: It’s a window cleaning challenge, Lee. Him against me (laughs) (Un –audible noise) Terry: I think…

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The years roll by (An excerpt from the book Running For Home by Christopher Dawber. Amazon Kindle Store) WCM’s very own Wagga

“One morning a few years back, I had just started work when an elderly woman came out of the house next to the one I was cleaning. She was obviously in distress and shouted that her husband had collapsed. She was on the phone and the emergency services were talking to her when I entered her house. I found her husband Francis, aged 78 collapsed on the floor of the kitchen. He’d obviously fallen against the…

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