Revealed: Some of the Strangest Things Found by Pro Cleaners

                                                            (Warning: Reader Discretion Advised)

Cleaning can be a boring task.

Not many people enjoy it as it takes up a lot of our spare time and can get messy.

But for professional cleaners, the pride in doing a good job makes the effort worthwhile — plus there can be some funny and fascinating moments along the way. Clearing up clutter and getting to those hard-to-reach places often conjures up some unusual discoveries.

Here are some of the strangest objects that Pro Team cleaners have come across.

A real elephant’s foot

We’ve all heard of the ‘lucky rabbit’s foot’, but surely fortune doesn’t extend to elephants? Either way, this is what one cleaner was confronted with as they spruced up a customer’s house.

With an elephant’s foot said to weigh around 200 pounds, you certainly wouldn’t feel lucky if it fell on your toe.

 A dead bat 

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When a roof gutter gets blocked, it’s often down to dirt or debris that’s fallen from the roof. Imagine our surprise, then, when one of the Pro Team Clean staff found a dead bat blocking a customer’s gutter. 

Bats are a common feature of UK wildlife, with 18 known species in our gardens and woodland, but it’s still a shock to find a pair of batwings as we clean!

All the more reason to regularly clean your gutter to keep it mud — and animal — free and get a professional clean, followed by a maintenance clean every two years.

5ft plaster cast of a penis

According to experts, size doesn’t matter, but it clearly did to this homeowner. Having such an artefact pop up must have been a shock to the cleaner in question, and maybe they needed a stiff drink afterwards.

Perhaps the 5-foot size was down to it being a scientific exhibition, or a model for a human anatomy class. Or maybe the owner in question had a bizarre fascination. Looks like we’ll never know...

A jar of dead moths

The moth isn’t as popular as the butterfly, its closest relative, which is probably down to its dull colour and tendency to come out at night. So, you might wonder why anyone would want to keep a live one in a jar, let alone a bunch of rotting moth corpses.

Yet this is exactly what one cleaner came across as they performed a routine sweep of a house a few years ago. The decaying mix of wings and antennae must have seemed like something out of a horror movie, but at least they didn’t come back to life and start flying around the room.

A roof meadow

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Some people might find the objects we’ve listed so far to be unpleasant, so let’s end on a cheerful note.

As we can’t see on top of our roofs from the ground, especially if we don’t clean them regularly, a phenomenon known as a roof meadow springs up. This is where a combination of sunshine and rain creates an oasis of plants and flowers that flourish on a part of the roof.

These can be beautiful to look at when discovered, but there is a downside. The roots of the plants can burrow underneath roofing material and cause leaks, leading to expensive repair work. But, still it’s a nice thing for a cleaner to come across!