Cleaning Services Featured

  It was moment to celebrate for these three Tauranga business owners who’ve studied hard to gain an industry recognised qualification. Andy Lee, Maninder Singh and Japinder Pandher are the latest CrestClean franchisees to gain a Level 2 Certificate in Commercial Cleaning. The certificate, awarded by the Master Cleaners Training Institute, officially recognises that they

CrestClean business owner Isha Pyakurel knows the importance of maintaining hygiene and cleanliness around children. As a mum herself, she has worked at kindergartens as a staff reliever. So when Isha began looking after the cleaning at Lollipops early childhood centre, New Plymouth, the work was second nature to her. “Maintaining good hygiene is important

  Twenty one years was a talking point when CrestClean’s boss dropped in on one of the company’s high-profile customers. CrestClean is marking 21 years of providing a professional cleaning services to its customers throughout the country. So when Managing Director Grant McLauchlan paid a courtesy visit to food manufacturer Frucor Suntory he took along

  Working for themselves had seemed an impossible dream for husband and wife Afelee Niumea and Makalita Afelee. They’d managed to buy a home of their own – but the New Plymouth couple, who have five children, were struggling financially to make much headway. However that all changed last year when they joined CrestClean and

  When Barbara de Vries bought a cleaning business in 2008 it was meant to be stopgap until she figured out her next move. Now a decade later she and her husband Shane have just clocked up a decade with CrestClean and recently received a long service award to mark the occasion. Barbara laughs as

When Janeth Luna left the Philippines to join her husband for a new life in New Zealand her first job here couldn’t have been more hands on. She faced a steep learning curve that was more than a little out of her comfort zone. Milking cows on the Southland dairy farm was something the former

  By the time she was 21 Jill Shepherd had had nine jobs. “I was a bit of rebel when I left school,” she freely admits. Jill has certainly had a rich and varied working life. She’s been a trainee microbiologist; run a motorcycle parts department; driven vans, and owned and run dairies; and worked

Clean toilets are often said to be one of the marks of a good school. They are an area renowned for getting messy and ensuring they are properly cleaned calls for a systematic approach using tried and tested techniques. Improving the cleanliness of the loos was a driving factor that spurred Principal Neil Simons into

Aznayne Ali enjoys working at Palmerston North’s Milson School where the children go out of their way to make his job a whole lot easier. But it hasn’t always been like that. When Aznayne recalls his first term at the primary school it’s hard to believe he’s talking about the same school. Before he could

During the time Mukesh Kumar worked at a wood manufacturing company the idea of homeownership had been firmly pushed to the far corners of his mind. With Bay of Plenty property market running hot, he saw zero chance of one day being able to afford a place for himself and his wife Sheron Shikha. “In

Chris Churchward is delighted how shiny the floor looks at the vehicle dealership he manages. But when he thinks back to how things were a year ago before CrestClean was engaged there’s just no comparison, he says. Chris, General Manager of Autoworld Timaru, says Crest business owner Murray Kelly has done an amazing job with

When Neville Hall was going through the motions of purchasing his CrestClean business in 2016 he knew the vehicle he chose for the job was a crucial decision that he had to get right. But by opting for a Nissan NV200 van he had no idea it would make him a trendsetter. The spacious model