pictures of our office's extreme window cleaners

[emmelinemay]

The window cleaners, yesterday. Click on the thumbnails for big pictures!

They're self belaying, as our windows are all weird shapes, so there's no platform. There was also a 70mph wind blowing about our office yesterday.

I was talking to some of them at lunchtime, they're all mental! One of them liked my bike :) They take jobs like this for the pure thrill of climbing Stuff. They said that it was bloody windy, and they almost got blown off, which made it more fun... I said i wanted a go, and he said 'wait until summer' :)

extreme window cleaning
extreme window cleaning
extreme window cleaning - showing off
extreme window cleaning - pretending to fall. He went 'arrrgghh' and everything.
extreme window cleaning - spot the window cleaner
extreme window cleaning

Comments

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

totally :)

I was sat here updating my website looking out at them feeling SOOOO jealous!

[dougw (from livejournal.com)]

really? I was sat there feeling very appreciative of my indoor job!

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

nooooo. Their job looks WAY more fun!

[load-of-flannel.livejournal.com]

*applauds*

[miss-soap.livejournal.com]

There was a guy who used to do the building opposite ours in the same fashion; self-belaying.

Once done he would just swing about up there and occasionally flick water at passing bankers. :)

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

one of them asked me if he got to take a photo of me being blown off my bike in return for my taking photos of them...

They were nice blokes! Shame the windows don't get cleaned very often...

Access workers.

[robtrooper.livejournal.com]

My kind of people.

[mazzmatazz.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that freaked me out when I used to work in London, you'd be sitting there then this guy would just drop outside the window and start cleaning it. Very cool job though.

[mnowster.livejournal.com]

That's made my day! So f**king cool, me wanna do that and wear a ninja outfit. Ninja Mazz Silent speedy Window cleaner extraordinaire!! hehe :)

Looks a hell of a lot more fun/enjoyable/healthy than my job now!