Inverness Window Cleaning
Meet The Highland Team
Clarke
Position: Owner / Cleaner
Clarkes time is split between running the business and finding time to get out and work alongside the team.
Previous work roles: Traffic Management & Steel Fabrication.
Started with company: Clarke started the company on his own in 2017.
Out of work time: You will find Clarke normally doing more work! If not he will be at ‘The Barn’ organising something to do with building his car. He may just get to drive it one day… If he isn’t working or at the barn, you’ll find him cuddling O’Jay (the dug) on the sofa!
Danika
Position: Window Cleaner / Supervisor
Danika is the real boss. She works full-time as a window cleaner and helps keep things organised alongside Clarke.
Previous work roles: Iceland Shop Assistant & Poundland Retail Supervisor.
Started with company: November 2020
Out of work time: Danika enjoys keeping her house spotless and spending time with her son out walking the dog. If she doesn’t find something to do then Clarke normally finds something work-related to help with. Isn’t she a lucky girl!
Phil
Position: Window Cleaner Operative
Phil is one of our main window cleaning ops. He will also be seen out gutter clearing and working on some pressure washing jobs with the rest of our team.
Previous work roles: Fibre Cabling & Traffic Management
Started with company: January 2023
Out of work time: Phil enjoys his time at home watching sports, not so much playing them anymore he tells us! Phil is originally from Inverness but spent a lot of time living in South Africa, Hong Kong and Holland. He certainly has some interesting stories to share about these experiences.
A bit more about us..
How It All Started
Highland Window Cleaning was formed in 2017 by Clarke McLean at the young age of 23. He started window cleaning at 18 years old much to his father’s upset at the time. Having just left school and wasn’t working his dad made a joke about waiting for someone to knock on the door and offer him a job. Exactly that happened around 2 weeks after as their window cleaner happened to knock one evening and offer Clarke some work. He kindly accepted this and worked alongside this gentleman full-time for around 18 months before going off to try some other work out for a couple of years. After starting a metal fabrication job, he soon realised that this didn’t really suit him and made the decision to buy a small van and return to window cleaning. This time he had no work, not much money or any experience in running a business but he was sure he knew how to clean a window properly which, of course, includes all the frames and sills!
He began to notice other window cleaning companies and got speaking to them whilst at work or out leaflet dropping in the evenings, and it was clear to see that there were plenty of other window cleaners, but they all worked as one-man bands on their own with no staff.
This got Clarke thinking and he soon realised this could be more than just a job he is creating for himself to work alone and in fact could turn this into a business idea with some staff to help spread the workload should things be busy enough.
We are now 7 years on from this point and have 4 fully equipped vans along with a vast knowledge of our industry and are ready to actively grow our business again from this point.