What is a static system? A static system is essentially a tank system that is stored inside a business premises or garage. Most static systems are plumbed into the water mains with pre filters screwed to a wall or other permanent structure. Because a static system is plumbed into the water mains this type of system will generate pure water 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. It is important to mention that a solenoid switch must…
A Sheffield property and cleaning company was fined for breaching Work at Height regulations. Turbo Property and Cleaning Services Ltd of Wade Street, Sheffield was issued with a Prohibition Notice on 13 November 2014 after an employee was found to be working on a fragile roof with no protection measures in place to prevent them from falling. The company was then found to have breached the conditions of the notice and had failed to take sufficient…
Window Cleaning Magazine has just received great pics sent in from our guest correspondent in the field Steve Blyth at the ISSA/INTERCLEAN Amsterdam 6 – 9 May 2014 event. Unger is smashing it with lots of new stuff for window cleaners to drool over. Steve Blyth picks up the story: “Lee, A report from your guest correspondent… I stopped at the Unger Booth to see the new trailer, yesterday and was immediately intrigued by all of the little…
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…
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…
“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…
This is a good question. So, we at WCM contacted DEFRA (Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs) DEFRA has policy responsibility for water resources in England. This is their response: Under the Water Resources Act 1991 and the Drought Direction 2011, an ordinary drought order may authorise a water undertaker to prohibit or limit the use of water for cleaning a window of a non-domestic building using a hosepipe other than for health or safety…
