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Window cleaner smashes world record
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This expert window cleaner was taking no chances as he smashed his own world record for speed.
Terry Burrows, or "Turbo Terry" as he prefers to be known, glided into the Guinness World Record books when he cleaned three large glass panes in a speedy 9.14 seconds.
Terry, who is 54 and from Essex, was in the resort for the Federation of Window Cleaners annual conference and decided to try to better his existing 9.24 second time.
Glass was gleaming at the De Vere Hotel as a squeegee- wielding Terry warmed up for the challenge.
Colleagues from across the UK watched in awe as the man dubbed the Linford Christie of window cleaning tried and failed in his first three attempts.
On the fourth try squeaky clean Terry hit the jackpot, shining the three 45in x 45in panes in record time.
He said: "I'm elated to have shaved so much time off my record.
"It's extremely hard, it takes a while to warm up and I drove 270 miles this morning so I wasn't feeling too fresh. By my fourth time, however, I was back in the zone and actually managed to clean the planes in 8.14 seconds with two half-second time penalties."
Terry believes his glass shining stealth is due to his former career as a boxer and karate instructor, which taught him the importance of fast hand movement.
He spends less than three seconds on each pane and can use only a 12in squeegee and a 14in T bar in line with Guinness guidelines.
Any smear of soap left on the pane picks up a time penalty and Terry must wipe the sill at the bottom to complete the challenge.
He smashed his first record in 1995 as part of TV show Record Breakers with a speed of 9.99 seconds.
In 2005 he broke his own record during The Cleaning Show at NEC Birmingham with a 9.24 second time.
Terry said: "I'd never say never as far as beating my own record again goes, but at the end of the day, a man can only go so fast.
"I would love to die with my record and know I went as the world's fastest window cleaner."
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