FEATURE
A LIFE LESS ORDINARY
Whether you’re cleaning a world-famous monument, or the office block next door, Kärcher believes extraordinary results start with understanding what makes your own project unique.
Priceless treasures the world over trust Kärcher to deliver specialist cleaning solutions. Over the years famous landmarks old and new, from the 3,000-year-old Colossi of Memnon in Luxor, to the London Eye have turned to Kärcher for specialist cleaning, restoring them to their former glory, whether troubled by mildew, lichen, or the ravages of pollution. Indeed over the last 35 years, the global cleaning giant has completed more than 100 projects on six continents, including the Presidents’ heads on Mount Rushmore and the Statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro – the latter of which they have helped clean four times since 1980.
Conserving and preserving valuable cultural assets, historical buildings and monuments for future generations is of special importance to Kärcher and as such the company provides its services free of charge to selected sites in its award-winning Cultural Cleaning programme.
While the challenges may be on a larger scale – no power, access restrictions, working at night so as not to disrupt tourism, disposal of waste water etc. – the process of designing a cleaning solution for a
52 | Tomorrow’s Cleaning
heritage site is no different from that at a factory production line, railway station, shopping centre or luxury hotel. The process begins with a site survey, test investigations/trials on site, client and stakeholder approval, execution and monitoring, and concludes with designing a care plan for the future. When the teams meet the specific technical challenges of these unique sites they gain valuable experience that proves useful in improving cleaning methods and the knowhow is leveraged in the development of new products.
From Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages, baroque, classicism and into modernity, detailed upfront investigation and planning can make any cleaning result possible. The core kit of cold and hot water pressure washers, ice blasters, steam cleaners, industrial vacuum cleaners, wet and dry vacuum cleaners are available in a range of sizes and power options to enable the best customised pairing for the task in hand.
While restoration and preservation are key in the heritage programme, for our business clients the challenge is to maintain ‘as new’ for longer through less invasive preventative, daily and interim cleaning, delaying the need for
costly and time-consuming restorative cleaning. Moreover plans like these allow you to own smaller machines for your regular tasks and hire in specialist cleaning kit for occasional deep cleans.
All buildings, whether old or new have to contend with problem areas. As opposed to off-the-shelf machine purchases, or replacing your old machine like-for-like, a site survey and resulting customised care plan will often combine machines, accessories and detergents from different product families to provide a unique, labour- saving solution for exceptional results.
Cleaning often represents 80% or more of an FM’s contract costs, so an improved methodology which allows work to be completed faster and to a better standard – often using fewer resources – can deliver a rapid payback. There are many different approaches to a single task; for example you can clean and clear a floor with a steam generating vacuum, a pressure washer paired with a hard surface cleaner or a scrubber drier – Kärcher can find you the most effective and economical way to complete the task.
www.karcher.co.uk
Check out a couple of videos from these projects here and here.
twitter.com/TomoCleaning
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88