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GS CLEANING SERVICES UK

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Wfp Cleaners Abroad
« on: January 04, 2013, 07:21:16 pm »
While sourcing the net for holidays , i came across some hotels in Greece , Cyprus etc and just wondered how they clean some of these hotel windows (not talking about Bendorm skyscrapers )

Whenever ive been abroad , ive only ever seen the local cleaning lady doing the windows , so do they have Pro Window cleaning firms like over here or do they stick the cleaning lady on top of a ladder
Mark
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gewindows

Re: Wfp Cleaners Abroad
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2013, 07:24:11 pm »
I think Dave St Ives subs them out.

weetot

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Re: Wfp Cleaners Abroad
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2013, 07:42:23 pm »
Sitting on a beach in 1988 in Tunisia watching a bloke on a Boatswains chair about 15 floors up cleaning the hotel windows!

My palms were sweating watching him manoevering around the hotel on this tiny plank of wood with a bucket on a bit of string..

Looked well dodgy ;)
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poleman

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Re: Wfp Cleaners Abroad
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2013, 07:48:10 pm »
I came back from my hols in nov last year and the hotal had the window cleaners in! (lanzarote)




GS CLEANING SERVICES UK

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Re: Wfp Cleaners Abroad
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2013, 07:49:06 pm »
lol , could be a business opputunity there mate , cant see him being around now .
Mark
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GS CLEANING SERVICES UK

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Re: Wfp Cleaners Abroad
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2013, 07:51:52 pm »
im sure it must be cheaper to get a WFP cleaner in lol
Mark
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G Griffin

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Re: Wfp Cleaners Abroad
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2013, 08:24:34 pm »
I looked into it but the excess baggage charge for my water was prohibitive.
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GS CLEANING SERVICES UK

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Re: Wfp Cleaners Abroad
« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2013, 08:40:51 pm »
lol-nice one Griff ..................would be nice though , to work in a sunny climate , then come home for a dip in the pool -bliss
Mark
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G Griffin

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Re: Wfp Cleaners Abroad
« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2013, 08:45:44 pm »
lol-nice one Griff ..................would be nice though , to work in a sunny climate , then come home for a dip in the pool -bliss

It would  :).
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Re: Wfp Cleaners Abroad
« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2013, 08:56:08 pm »
lol-nice one Griff ..................would be nice though , to work in a sunny climate , then come home for a dip in the pool -bliss

It would  :).

Most of last year it felt like I was working in a swimming pool.
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Re: Wfp Cleaners Abroad
« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2013, 07:56:50 am »
It is  ;D

Re: Wfp Cleaners Abroad
« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2013, 08:19:39 am »
I saw window cleaners at Male airport at the Maldives when we landed. I couldn't believe I travelled all that way and that was the first thing I saw. For the novelty factor, I asked if I could clean a few windows. They obliged which was a great memory!

At the hotel in Egypt, some hotel staff had a huge A-frame ladder, with one side going higher than the other. The lowest side was about 3 storeys, the highest side was about 5. I had never seen anything like what happened. He climbed up the 3 storey side, did what he could reach and to save time moving the ladder, climbed to the apex of the ladder and climbed around the outside of the ladder onto the 5 storey side and kept going up the ladder on that side! It was very dangerous, but strangely exciting to watch too!