5p plastic bag charges see a drastic drop in single use carrier bag usage
A clean street, especially one cleaned by one of our hired industrial cleaners, brings us great joy. In the last year, you would have noticed a few things in our towns and cities. Most tangibly, fewer plastic bags littering the pavements. It has become the in-thing to buy a ‘bag for life’ and uses the same bag for months or years. Some people plump for canvas tote bags that are fashionable and functional. Continue reading “English Plastic Bag Use Plunges 85%”
A selection of suction sycophants: in other words, vacuum cleaner enthusiasts and popular cultural icons
Image by Ljupco Smokovski (via Shutterstock).
We at Clean Hire not only hire a number of industrial vacuum cleaners. We are also passionate about vacuum cleaners and other cleaning products. It is our life, our raison d’etre – our reason for being in plain English terms. Needless to say, we salute like-minded people with a great interest in vacuum cleaners. Suction sycophants if you prefer.
For our latest post, we salute four suction sycophants. Some people are fans of vacuum cleaners in the same way some of us like steam trains, photography, and American comics. Continue reading “Dedicated Followers of Suction”
Shock as Indian Railways’ permanent way is paved with rubbish
Image by Joe Ravi (via Shutterstock).
Since UK rail privatisation began in 1994, Rail magazine’s Stop and Examine column had a long-running strand known as BB&W (or the Bin Bag and Weedkiller strand in its longhand form). It named and shamed parts of the UK’s rail network dogged by trackside refuse. For instance: overgrowing foliage, abandoned wagons or substandard tracks with poorly maintained fishplates.
How a Blue Peter approach is used in decommissioning the Dounreay nuclear power station
Holy Atomic Blu-Tack, Batman… The versatility of Blu-Tack and its imitators never ceases to amaze us at Clean Hire. Image by Lucie Lang (via Shutterstock).
Blu-Tack is great for a number of uses. Apart from sticking posters on to walls and mounting keys, it is good for picking up fragments of dust. It is also good for picking up drawing pins and loose staples, though awful on carpets. Over at the Dounreay power plant, Caithness, in the Scottish Highlands, scientists have found a novel way of picking up nuclear waste. Their methods are more Blue Peter than Star Trek. Continue reading “Blu-Tack’s Role in Nuclear Plant Decommissioning”
Sir James Dyson aims to muscle in on electric car revolution
If successful, the Dyson battery-powered car could be as much a feature of our streets as the Ford Fiesta. This, obviously, is not the prototype. Image by Zdenek Rosenthaler (via Shutterstock).
Imagine its 2030. The new names in motoring could either be Tesla or any present-day market leader that has dared to go for electric cars. If James Dyson succeeds, his electric cars could also be seen on the M62 motorway. (Your Uber cab could become your Hoover cab). Continue reading “Would You Buy a Dyson Electric Car?”
A look at Hoover’s best-selling vacuum cleaner
Your parents might have had one in the pantry. There’s half a chance your grandparents – or even your great-grandparents had this model of vacuum cleaner. For the second model in our series of iconic vacuum cleaners, we look at the Hoover Junior. Continue reading “Iconic Vacuum Cleaners: The Hoover Junior”
Toasty toes and clean floors are possible with Evri’s floor cleaning slippers
Could you imagine seeing these with a brush below the soles? Image by Maya Kruchankova (via Shutterstock).
In October 2015, we looked at the engineering marvel that was a pair of vacuum slippers by Alexander Yurkin, Victor Oshlykov, and Timothy and Alexander Smagin Krivenkov. In this blog post, we wondered if floor cleaning slippers were around the corner. Quoting from our 13 October 2015 entry:
Could industrial vacuum slippers be considered?
If popular enough to grace the shelves of Argos stores from Penzance to Wick, an industrial version could be likely. These could use safety shoes instead of slippers and become a boon in tight corners, and designed for small offices. There could be scope for a wet and dry version for the home market known as the Moppasin.
Over six months on, we are halfway towards the development of anything like the (as-yet-uninvented) Moppasin. This in the form of a pair of floor cleaning slippers, which aren’t far off the mark. Better still, they are available now from Amazon.co.uk and other fine online retailers. Continue reading “Floor Cleaning Slippers: A Brush With Cosiness”
A feast of vacuum cleaner video clips
Spring cleaning? Our selection of vacuum cleaner video clips should provide some inspiration. Image by Voyagerix/Shutterstock.
You’ve got to love YouTube. It is a dependable source for cat videos, 1980s music clips, and tracking down obscure sitcoms of questionable quality. On the odd occasions when Clean Hire has too much time on their hands, it’s a chance to look at full-frontal images of vacuum cleaners (You’re fired! – Ed). Before you is a selection of vacuum cleaner video clips. Some of which include images of Hoover Juniors and Henrys in full flow. In some cases, images of vacuum cleaners have been disguised to protect innocent parties, leaving you to enjoy their roar, whine, and growl. Continue reading “Vacuum Cleaner Video Clips”
Clean Hire looks at Two Bettys, the Minneapolis creatives’ cleaning company
Minneapolis: birthplace of the late great Prince Rogers Nelson, and the home of Two Bettys, the ethically aware creatives’ cleaning company. Image by Rudy Balasko/Shutterstock.
Cleaning is seen as a low-level job on these shores. It is characterised by its low hours, low wages and (allegedly) low skill levels. It is seen as a dead-end National Minimum Wage job with few prospects. Without cleaners, mice will be seen in our kitchens, and alleyways could be rat-infested without refuse operatives. On the other hand, it could be used as part of a stable income for pursuing other projects. A group of artists did just that in Minneapolis, where Two Bettys have wowed customers and helped the state’s creatives. The creatives’ cleaning company has gone from strength to strength in the last year. Continue reading “Meet the Creatives’ Cleaning Company”
A look at Numatic’s iconic Henry vacuum cleaner
Iconic: Numatic International’s Henry vacuum cleaner.
It is often said that Britain has no manufacturing industry to speak of. Most of our cars are in foreign hands though some of them are produced on our own shores. The railways, Association Football, and cricket, have been exported far and wide and improved upon outside our island. If you say our manufacturing output sucks, this could be true of Numatic’s products in another sense. In this case, we refer to Henry, the first of a series of iconic vacuum cleaners manufactured and created by Numatic. Continue reading “Iconic Vacuum Cleaners: the Henry HVR200”
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