Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Lee Burbidge on May 04, 2016, 09:47:56 pm
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Who would you nominate from the window cleaning industry that you would consider as an industry hero? In your opinion that could be another window cleaner that has showed an act of kindness, saved a life, cheated death and soldiered on? It could be a window cleaner that does charity work? Your nomination might be an inventor of the tools you like, or you might consider that your person was instrumental in changing the face of the industry in some way? For whatever reason, and whomever it may be we would love to hear of your heros. YOU MUST VALIDATE YOUR NOMINATION WITH A REASON. Those without a reason cannot be accepted, unfortunately.
Click this link to nominate: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/5R25SY9
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H-Man, Window Cleaner Bloke. Herman, he's always beavering away coming up with new little ideas. Some great, some ok. But he still finds plenty new stuff to invent or make your life a bit easier.
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H-Man, Window Cleaner Bloke. Herman, he's always beavering away coming up with new little ideas. Some great, some ok. But he still finds plenty new stuff to invent or make your life a bit easier.
Hey bud click the link and add your nomination :) You might have to wrestle with your conscience as you need one name. They are all good guys mind.
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That Matt Bateman bloke; he's a trail-blazer, none of us would be where we are if it wasn't for him.
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https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/5R25SY9
Who would you nominate from the window cleaning industry that you would consider as an industry hero? In your opinion that could be another window cleaner that has showed an act of kindness, saved a life, cheated death and soldiered on? It could be a window cleaner that does charity work? Your nomination might be an inventor of the tools you like, or you might consider that your person was instrumental in changing the face of the industry in some way? For whatever reason, and whomever it may be we would love to hear of your heros. YOU MUST VALIDATE YOUR NOMINATION WITH A REASON. Those without a reason cannot be accepted, unfortunately.
Click this link to nominate: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/5R25SY9
still posting poop i see.
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That Matt Bateman bloke; he's a trail-blazer, none of us would be where we are if it wasn't for him.
I agree Matt
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dazmond
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Stanley Ogden
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Stanley Ogden
Eddie Yeats was better.
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Stanley Ogden
Eddie Yeats was better.
Sallys bloke is better because he's wfp ;)
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Yes I have a window cleaning hero... Me as I taught myself everything I know and that's not a lot ;D
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Sad, sad times when we think of shiners as heroes
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Even sadder when we think a window cleaner can't be a hero.
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Met an old chap in Reading last week, 74 years old and still on the tools, WFP
really nice, chatty guy,..I hope i am as fit as him a that age
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My late dad. Forearms of steel from twisting scrims and used to walk around upstairs bay windows. Strangely he used to clean domestics with chamois and scrim, but used a squeegee on shops. I used to do his collecting on a Friday night when I was 10/11. When I started I got his tin in which he used to keep his takings that I used to nick and now my takings go in there. It was his dad's before who was a window cleaner in Liverpool after demob.
I started cleaning windows after he died. I would love to be able to chat to him about my business. I reckon he'd be staggered to be honest.
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Even sadder when we think a window cleaner can't be a hero.
Excellent post - true and succinct
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My late dad. Forearms of steel from twisting scrims and used to walk around upstairs bay windows. Strangely he used to clean domestics with chamois and scrim, but used a squeegee on shops. I used to do his collecting on a Friday night when I was 10/11. When I started I got his tin in which he used to keep his takings that I used to nick and now my takings go in there. It was his dad's before who was a window cleaner in Liverpool after demob.
I started cleaning windows after he died. I would love to be able to chat to him about my business. I reckon he'd be staggered to be honest.
That explains why you are so driven to do well. Fair play matey..he would defo be proud.
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Sad, sad times when we think of shiners as heroes
One example for you to consider is a window cleaner called Jand, a NY window cleaner. His job was to window clean in the Twin Towers. He saved several lives after finding himself stuck in a lift with others as it was filling with smoke during their escape. Only the brass Ettore handle was all they had and so he scoured through drywall and lead people to safety literally minutes after, the tower collapsed behind him.
I can't remember the other guy in the UK, that saved a drowning man by using his extended water fed pole for the drowning man to grab on to. He saved his life.
The inventor of Ettore squeegees changed our industry regards traditional window cleaning for example as well as such individuals as Craig Mawlam of Ionic Systems bringing water fed pole tech to the masses in the UK or Ivr Tucker inventor of the first water fed pole products that were way heavy but familiar to us today as our everyday tools. Any of these can be industry heros depending on what you think. If you dont have an industry hero then that's ok too :)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STo0AehStKg
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Some really great people out there who make this world a better place, but could you actually call a person who invents
a product to make money a hero ?
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Some really great people out there who make this world a better place, but could you actually call a person who invents
a product to make money a hero ?
The term 'industry hero' will be who ever the nominator deems a hero. And that can include inventors of tools that have changed window cleaners lives. So we use the term broadly.
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Purple Rhino
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Even sadder when we think a window cleaner can't be a hero.
;D exactly
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Most of you won't like my first one; but it's got to be Craig Mawlam, the owner of Ionics. I believe he kicked off this WFP malarky with his Reach and Wash. No, he didn't invent it, but he made it mainstream.
No2 is Mike Boxhall; forum owner. Although he didn't invent the interweb, his interweb forum has certainly changed the way many of us operate.
No3 is Jeff Brimble; he came up with the idea of lightweight poles. Prior to him it was all aluminium or fibre-glass. He knacked his back (or something) and came up with the idea of using carp fishing poles with a brush on the end.
No4 is Alex Gardiner; he nicked Jeff's idea, developed it, and made some great poles.
No5 whoever invented the flipfast; a much un-posted about bit of kit, probably because it's simple and works brilliantly.
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My first one would be the guy who invented glass
My second would be the guy who decided to put it between walls.
My third would be the guy who decided to give us all access to running water.
My fourth would be the guy who invented a way to filter it
My fifth would be George Formby for making window cleaning look enjoyable
Followed by Tosh's list.
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Most of you won't like my first one; but it's got to be Craig Mawlam, the owner of Ionics. I believe he kicked off this WFP malarky with his Reach and Wash. No, he didn't invent it, but he made it mainstream.
No2 is Mike Boxhall; forum owner. Although he didn't invent the interweb, his interweb forum has certainly changed the way many of us operate.
No3 is Jeff Brimble; he came up with the idea of lightweight poles. Prior to him it was all aluminium or fibre-glass. He knacked his back (or something) and came up with the idea of using carp fishing poles with a brush on the end.
No4 is Alex Gardiner; he nicked Jeff's idea, developed it, and made some great poles.
No5 whoever invented the flipfast; a much un-posted about bit of kit, probably because it's simple and works brilliantly.
Hey Tosh, the Craig Mawlam point is true and a part of history :)
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How about Alex Gardiner he's definitely saved my shoulders and back to a certain degree with the lightweight equipment some of there stuff is pioneering.
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How about Alex Gardiner he's definitely saved my shoulders and back to a certain degree with the lightweight equipment some of there stuff is pioneering.
If you follow the link and add your nomination.
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I followed the link and put in "Lee Burbidge" followed by an error message "Are you havin' laugh son?"
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I put down Wagga as my choice
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I followed the link and put in "Lee Burbidge" followed by an error message "Are you havin' laugh son?"
When I put Lee Burbidge it said "correct".
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Alex gardiner for me has the vote . The lateral clamp light wieght poles and brushes and good quality products at affordable prices and a company thaat give great customer support and service.
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Most of you won't like my first one; but it's got to be Craig Mawlam, the owner of Ionics. I believe he kicked off this WFP malarky with his Reach and Wash. No, he didn't invent it, but he made it mainstream.
No2 is Mike Boxhall; forum owner. Although he didn't invent the interweb, his interweb forum has certainly changed the way many of us operate.
No3 is Jeff Brimble; he came up with the idea of lightweight poles. Prior to him it was all aluminium or fibre-glass. He knacked his back (or something) and came up with the idea of using carp fishing poles with a brush on the end.
No4 is Alex Gardiner; he nicked Jeff's idea, developed it, and made some great poles.
No5 whoever invented the flipfast; a much un-posted about bit of kit, probably because it's simple and works brilliantly.
Hey Tosh, the Craig Mawlam point is true and a part of history :)
Mike Boxhall certainly had a huge effect on this forum in the early days and was a huge influence on wfp for window cleaning when it was considered a namby pamby way to clean windows. Didn't he have a huge spat with the Master Guild of Window Cleaners or something over accounts or what ever and aired it all on this forum? Or was that someone else?
Jeff Brimble definitely is up there. What happened to him?
Alex Gardiner also definitely as he started off with his Bex Bissel brushes or something similar for wfp and built it all up from there.
My own sort of hero is Matt (dunno surname) who started off his own DIY wfp forum who was really the first to go wholesale into DIY wfp as a means to do the same thing as the big boys at a fraction of the cost and who got permanently banned from this forum.
Plus Terry Burrows (the fastest window cleaner in the world confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records) who used to post on here a lot way before wfp was mainstream.