About Us
Our Story
ASSIST N CLEAN was established by two local Edinburgh residents with backgrounds in the professional care sector, property and business management.
We are passionate about providing clean and healthy home and business environments for our clients. Our team of experienced cleaners is dedicated to delivering high-quality cleaning services across Edinburgh that exceed our clients’ expectations.
Co-founder/Owner
Our co-founder and owner launched the business after a wide ranging and eclectic career. From cooking breakfasts, dinners, and cleaning for chalet guests in the French and Swiss Alps in the early 1990s where he delighted guests with his own, unofficial, spontaneous culinary creations and simultaneously had the chalet and resort managers despairing that the official and expected menus were not being followed. Interestingly, there were no guest complaints. Rapidly demoted to chalet minor repairs “specialist” – to make it sound like not a demotion – so that the chalet guests would only eat what they were told to eat, he spent long days making random Heath Robinson-esque chalet repairs, unblocking toilets and replacing silicone around showers and baths – a skill that would be resurrected later in his career.
By the early 2000s, after working in property, finance and IT in Edinburgh, he was travelling overseas again. Working in marketing for AXA Asia-Pacific in South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. A very colourful and eclectic career path followed; from irrigating apple orchards in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand and managing backpacker hostels in New Zealand and Australia. Settling back in Australia after a couple of years, he set up a property rental, property cleaning and personal organisation service based in the inner-city suburb of Carlton, Melbourne – or “Little Italy” as it is known. Arguably, the most cultured and culinary corner of the most cultured, culinary and welcoming city in Australia – Lygon Street is a foodies delight – seemingly endless and countless restaurants and gelato gelateria. After selling the business to a large city realtor, he worked with crocodiles in the Northern Territory before heading south again and, perhaps, in the most interesting role of all, worked at Melbourne docks – unloading shipping containers and meeting some of Melbourne’s more colourful and memorable characters.
Returning to Edinburgh many years later – travelling through Asia, Hawaii, the United States and Canada – he once again worked on IT helpdesks and in desktop support roles – yes, that person who tells you to turn your computer off and on again. Eventually he returned to roles within Edinburgh’s ever growing property rental market. Repeatedly disappointed by the standard of cleaning in properties and by the widely accepted levels of unreliability within the cleaning sector he decided to solve these issues and more by creating his own Edinburgh based cleaning company. From that, Assist n Clean was born.