Daughter joins dad as world's fastest window cleaner

Terry "Turbo" Burrows and Aliscia Burrows now hold the men's and women's records for the fastest clean

The daughter of the world's fastest window cleaner has joined her father at the top of the profession by clocking her own record-breaking time.

Terry "Turbo" Burrows, who has held the fastest clean record for 29 years, has a quickest time of 9.14 seconds.

Joining him at Manchester's Cleaning Show, Aliscia Burrows posted a time of 16.13 seconds, beating the previous women's record by 0.15 seconds.

Terry said he was not surprised as she was "a natural" with a squeegee.

He said the pair were at the show to take on challengers and see if anyone could beat his longstanding Guinness World Record for cleaning three standard office windows in the quickest time.

Mr Burrows said his daughter was "a natural" with a squeegee

Aliscia, who won the 2023 Women's Window Cleaning World Cup with a time of 17.08 seconds, said she wanted to beat the women's world record so they could have a father-daughter record.

Her father said he was "elated" and "almost broke into tears" when he heard her result.

Mr Burrows first broke the world record in 1995 on the BBC show Record Breakers and has since gone on to break his own record nine times.

He was also the winner of the 2023 Men's Window Cleaning Cup.

He said while he had hoped to beat his own time in Manchester, the fact he had only clocked 13.19 seconds did not matter, as his main goal had been to see his daughter break the women's record.

He said he had been impressed by her technique.

"It's like I'm almost watching myself," he said.

"She's really looking like me when she cleans the windows."

Mr Burrows clocked a time of 13.19 seconds at the event, which counts as a slow day for him

He said he believed a father and daughter holding the records at the same time would "never happen again".

But he said he had no intention of giving up his life's passion any time soon and continued to practice on a window of his garden shed, despite his neighbours giving him odd looks.

"When I found out all those years ago that there was a window cleaning world record, I knew I wanted to break it," he said.

"I want to go out of this world as the fastest window cleaner on the planet."