Iqbal Abdullah, CEO of Easyklean, explains how a revolutionary new franchise is redefning how successful and proftable a cleaning business can be. Worth more than £5 billion a year, the cleaning industry is one of the biggest service businesses in the UK. However, with several years’ experience working in the industry, Iqbal Abdullah grew frustrated with the lack of ambition, professionalism and customer-focus that he encountered. As a result, in 2004 he launched Easyklean, a revolutionary…
ErgoTec Ninja reviewed by Richard Lingford So here we have the all singing, the all dancing, new Unger ‘ErgoTec Ninja’ squeegee. The piece of kit that designers call the most advanced squeegee ever designed, perfectly balanced for weight distribution on the glass and virtually un-bendable. So how does it perform on a day to day basis? Is it all it’s cracked up to be? Does it warrant the higherprice tag than its competitors? And is it’s…
The Grafter The GRAFTER is a completely new range of waterfed poles, designed specifically for residential window cleaning. Grafter poles are made from a glass-carbon fibre mix, which makes them ideal for low-to-mid level cleaning. Because of the very short collapsed length, they are particularly easy to use at ground level, and readily stored in any vehicle. Hard wearing and lightweight, the grafter is the ideal robust and affordable residential pole. In producing the Grafter, we…
Deadlines no Issue for Commercial Cleaning Specialists Aquamark A call at 5pm on a Friday night asking for a major window cleaning programme to be completed by 9am the next morning had commercial cleaning company Aquamark gathering the team and setting off at the crack of dawn in order to meet the challenge. A call at 5pm on a Friday night asking for a major window cleaning programme to be completed by 9am the next…
Is this your truck? We are running a new feature in the next issue of WCM. If this picture is of your truck email us at info@windowcleaningmagazine.co.uk now! We are looking for great looking trucks from the well designed to the sublime. We will be scouring the net for truck pics. We will then select the trucks that get our juices going. If you truck is featured in any future WCM issue email us at info@windowcleaningmagazine.co.uk
What does this mean? Well, the FWC ( Federation of Window Cleaners, UK), the IWCA ( International Window Cleaning Association, USA) and the AWCF ( Australian Window Cleaning Federation, AUS ) have announced a strategic alliance. The immediate goals of the alliance is to document and promote accurate technical information related to window/glass cleaning. WCM thinks this is a good idea in order to promote good pratices that are standard worldwide. It means that we will…
In a nut shell, if you supply window cleaning services and want to tender for some large contracts, get down to this event. Lee Burbidge will see you there! Midland Heart is hosting a ‘Meet the Buyer’ open day from 9am to 1pm on Friday 20th January 2012 at BVSC, The Centre for Voluntary Action, Birmingham. “This is a brilliant opportunity for businesses to meet buyers from one of the largest Midlands (UK) based housing associations”,…
