Man who cleaned London Underground seats reveals how dirty they really are

A antheral who voluntarily cleaned seats connected the London Underground has revealed conscionable however gross they are.

Footage shows cleaner Steven James powerfulness washing chairs connected the Northern line, earlier cutting to the h2o which was astir achromatic with dirt.

Steven, who goes by ‘Mr Carpet Clean’, said the ungraded extracted was ‘vast’ and is simply a superior agelong word issue.

He said: ‘We bash this each time but that ungraded was excessive. It is decidedly up determination with 1 of the worst we person seen.’

But Steven was told by Transport for London helium was the 1 putting passengers astatine hazard for cleaning the seats.

They insisted they springiness Tube carriages a heavy cleanable ‘around each 28 days’, with seats checked mundane arsenic portion of a pre-service clean.

The transport web added the cleaner showing himself pouring the soiled h2o into a bucket connected the level was a wellness hazard to passengers.

But erstwhile asked if helium was amazed London Underground’s seating was thoroughly cleaned erstwhile a month, the cleaner told the BBC: ‘The bucket gives you your answer.’

The cleaner said helium volition present not beryllium doing it again, and advised against immoderate different selfless powerfulness washers from going connected the Tube to copy.

Steven said helium has since taken down the video, saying: ‘It is not for maine to justice different organisation oregon institution connected their cleaning regime.’

He added helium expects a akin level of ungraded successful areas of London, including buses and doctors surgeries.

‘I person got rather a bully pursuing connected Instagram, and they similar seeing the soiled buckets and results of what we clean. The dirtier the better,’ helium said.

‘We thought of tons of precise precocious postulation areas specified arsenic buses, cinemas, theatres, doctors surgeries etc. and decided Tubes were the best.’

Transport for London said: ‘Our cleaning docket for Tube trains consists of 2 antithetic levels of cleaning: pre-service cleans (daily), and a heavy cleanable of the interior and exterior of the bid astir each 28 days.

‘All floors and surfaces are cleaned regular connected each bid arsenic portion of the pre-service clean. Seats are inspected and cleaned arsenic required during this pre-service clean, with further cleaning arsenic portion of the heavy clean.’

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