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00:00Modern life is messy.
00:02This is really bad.
00:04And somebody's got to clean it up.
00:05If you have a weak stomach, it's not for you.
00:08Meet the people who get down and dirty
00:10to keep the country spick and span.
00:14Coming up...
00:14At first, there was a smell that got me.
00:17I was near gagging all the time.
00:18Now it's time to go check the cleaners.
00:21That's how we keep them on their toes.
00:23This is my camera.
00:25This is what we use to survey the drain pipes.
00:31This is Cleaning Up Ireland.
00:35Hello, boy. How are you now, boy?
00:36Welcome to it, boy.
00:37Get the work done, boy.
00:40Drainage engineer John Hurt and his team
00:42have arrived in a slightly soggy off boy, County Meath.
00:47The pipes aren't working properly
00:48and they're flooding the streets,
00:50so we're investigating to see for damage
00:51and integrity of the pipes.
00:54So Liam's working on the camera system,
00:57which is a robotic remote control.
01:00And it's able to see exactly what's going on
01:02in the pipe by a guy driving it.
01:05Well, this is my camera.
01:07This is what we use to survey the drain pipes.
01:11She's built up at the moment to shoot the 300mm pipe
01:14that we're about to survey.
01:15You can make money at this industry,
01:18but you have to invest it back in.
01:20We've got robotic camera systems that are sitting at €100,000.
01:23So the investment is in not only the equipment,
01:26but it needs to be in the people, it has to be in the training
01:29and it has to provide the service.
01:31But these cameras sometimes have a mind of their own.
01:35Over 22 years working with camera systems
01:38and we've lost a good few.
01:39So from ripping the heads off them getting stuck
01:41to falling down into chambers,
01:44digging the road to try and get your camera back,
01:46it has happened where we've lost them.
01:48It's stressful and it's because it's so expensive.
01:51Jemima is one of our robots.
01:53Susie.
01:54We had Dougie.
01:55It was a yellow machine.
01:57It was then re-nicknamed as a yellow submarine.
02:03As you can see, this pipe has been repaired before.
02:07What you're looking at there now is an old patch.
02:10And up ahead, you can see the lines doesn't look too healthy.
02:15You can actually see on the pipeline
02:17where the actual water has filled up from major flood events.
02:20The pipe has been under pressure trying to carry that water.
02:23That is a defect.
02:24That's definitely a point of repair for us.
02:28Have you got me a pot noodle?
02:30I'll get you a pot noodle, John.
02:31And the kettle on?
02:32Didn't get a kettle yet.
02:34Very hard on battery.
02:35The boss man doesn't allow.
02:36I know John from working with him many years ago.
02:40We both worked together in bars and nightclubs around Kingscourt.
02:44So we had some good times.
02:46That's on your down.
02:47Down three. I'm going from eight down to seven.
02:49Pipes under people's houses that's collapsed.
02:51That's a big drama.
02:53People don't want to dig up in their house.
02:55So we've got robotic machines that go in.
02:57You don't need to dig up your kitchen floor.
02:59There's loads of technology that's advanced.
03:01So we're going to attempt a survey from the next manhole
03:05and we're going to be travelling upstream this time.
03:08With the first pipe surveyed, the team chased the problem across the town.
03:13Yeah, there you go. Hold on.
03:15I have a dream where I'm just constantly going down the same old tunnel the whole time.
03:20And even when I wake up, go squeeze my sponge or go for a cup of tea or whatever it
03:23is,
03:24I go back to sleep, I'm down the same pipe again.
03:27This is what we call a hole, obviously.
03:30That's a defect and that requires a repair.
03:33A patch.
03:35Danny, going for it again.
03:37We have infiltration.
03:39So water will be infiltrating this line, creating more water in the network.
03:43This could cause a flood on the road further downstream.
03:46It could cause anything.
03:48Possibly causing a subsidence.
03:50Grounds could collapse or a foot pack could start cracking.
03:53Coming home, boys.
03:58Probably from walking in the bark to walking in the drainage now.
04:02It's coming along a good bit, I suppose.
04:05Either way, we still have to do ****.
04:07Yeah, that's true.
04:10With the cracks showing and the solution figured out, the team will return in the morning to start the repairs.
04:20It's a very different morning routine for Tati, owner of Made in Ireland.
04:26First thing in the morning, I make my coffee.
04:28And then I come in here and then I'm going to see what is my desires and that's what I
04:33want.
04:34Manifesting.
04:35This is a reminder every day to never give up and then remind of what I want to achieve.
04:42I am actually like now an Irish citizen.
04:46I've been approved with my passport and I'm so proud of it.
04:50You can see me in this picture that I have three vans.
04:53Now I have four.
04:54It does work, I'll tell you.
04:58Meanwhile, in one of Tati's vans, employees Giselle and Evelyn are on their way to the first job of the
05:03day.
05:05Yeah, the relationship between the cleaner and the client is very important because they are the ones that are going
05:11to look after that home.
05:13I start in the top and she start in the bathroom.
05:18It's very important to put the right people together because you work five days a week together as a team
05:25because we work as a team.
05:26Obviously, they have to get on because otherwise it won't work.
05:30I work before for cleaning another company.
05:34It's very different this company because she knows about the job.
05:39Normally, the people supervisor don't know about the jobs.
05:45With such a large team on the road, it's important that everyone cleans to the same high standards as the
05:51boss.
05:53I have a way of cleaning.
05:56It's a system.
05:57That's why people sometimes, they think, how we do it so fast?
06:00Because we have a system.
06:02And then we do it over and over and over.
06:04Eventually, like, we just do it like, like a magic, you know, and it's like, two, done.
06:09With my knowledge, knowing how to clean, I want to make sure that no cutting corners or anything.
06:20Evely and Jean, they are with me for the last two years and a half.
06:25When we finish, we need to take pictures for St. Tati after the job because she check clean very well
06:35or not.
06:37Tati is a big hurt, you know.
06:41She's so friendly.
06:43Sometimes I need she, how she, she help me every time.
06:48Tati is my family.
06:50My boss, but finished work is my family, yes.
06:55Giselle, she is the one and is an accountant.
06:58And then she's actually working now towards to actually get some certificates in here.
07:04Then actually one day she can move out of the cleaning and actually be what she's supposed to be, an
07:11accountant.
07:12We're doing around 300 to 400 hours a week of cleaning.
07:17I'm always listening to my employees.
07:20I've been there so I don't need to keep telling them, yes, you have to do this, you have to
07:26do that.
07:26I don't like that. That's not my kind, that's not my style.
07:30This is another part of my routine because now it's time to go check the cleaners.
07:34I like to do spot checks.
07:36I can just surprise in there because if I tell them how I'm going to be around, I'm sure the
07:41job is going to be perfect.
07:43It is a good system. It works.
07:45That's how we keep them on their toes.
07:47A lot of ways to keep them on their toes.
07:50You know, it's an important client for us and I want to make sure then the job is done.
07:55So I'm sure they won't disappoint me.
07:58But you have to make sure then it's perfect.
08:04There's a very different clean-up required in Dublin city centre at 6am on Sunday, the morning after the night
08:11before.
08:1322-year-old council worker Megan is starting her early shift and she definitely wasn't on the tear last night.
08:21I don't really have a social life.
08:24Normally I just be home, I go to the gym, get my dinner, spend time with my mum, family and
08:30stuff.
08:30And then once I know I'm up early, I'll get into bed for about 9 o'clock and probably browse
08:34on my phone.
08:35But I never sleep at the start of the earliest.
08:37I'll probably start only sleeping on a Monday or Tuesday and then you hit a wall then when it's the
08:42Wednesday.
08:43But, you know, I prefer the earliest though because it flies in quicker, I think.
08:53I was at a point where I didn't really know what I wanted to do.
08:56I never really liked going to school and I tried out college and college and school just was never for
09:03me.
09:03So I was just jumping from kind of retail to warehouse and I liked warehouse because it was more manual
09:09work.
09:12So I start at 6 in the morning and I'll go out in the multi-hog, which is a sweeping
09:17machine.
09:18I will be going around O'Connell Street, Henry Street, Cable Street, Aquias.
09:22At first you are a bit nervous because you're thinking, oh, what if I hit off someone?
09:26Or if a cyclist comes up beside you and you don't see them or someone just walks out in front
09:31of you,
09:32you not come across a day where nobody looks or says something.
09:36Did you give us a lift up the road? No, unfortunately.
09:39It is just the case. They're not used to seeing a girl, a young girl out down, like, dirty work.
09:45She's gorgeous. She's gorgeous.
09:48You'd get used to it.
09:50But mostly you'd have a laugh with a few of them like that.
09:52They were harmless, but unfortunately you do get some bad people.
09:58You do get the groups that would be sitting around, drinking, causing trouble.
10:03So you'd see that from a mile away.
10:05Like, you'd get used to different crowds, so you'd know who to avoid.
10:09I've heard stories about them throwing stuff at the multi-hogs and stuff,
10:13so I'd rather just avoid that situation and go back to that park later.
10:20My friends think I'm a bit mad doing it because, you know, it's not, like, the prettiest job to be
10:25doing
10:25and they're a bit shocked that I tell them that I love it.
10:29When I first met Megan, she couldn't look me in the eye and speak to me
10:32because of the role I hold as a senior member of staff.
10:36Now she has no problem just saying hello and, you know, having a conversation.
10:41She's an excellent employee for DCC. I hope one day she gets my job.
10:48Yeah, no, I actually love it. These would be my favourite, the sweetest.
10:51They're more cosier and, you know, it's very satisfying when you're going over rubbish
10:55and it just sucks everything up.
10:58Just kind of like second nature to me and I'm leading whizzing around on it.
11:04Yeah, I just stick on me Bluetooth and it's just off I go.
11:13If I'm having a bad day, I'll listen to me sad playlist.
11:16If I'm having a good day, I'll listen to me happy playlist.
11:19The likes of this stuff, you'd have to pick it up and put it into the nearest bin
11:22just because the sweeper will only take up so much.
11:25So the likes of cardboard, big bags and if I even try to do that, it'll block me up
11:29and then you have to go back to the yard to unblock it.
11:32So, you know, we just pick it up as we go and put it into the bin.
11:36So it makes life easier for you.
11:38At first, there was the smells that got me.
11:41I was like a gagging all the time, but now it's just, like,
11:44it's literally an everyday thing for me.
11:46I just get on with it and I enjoy it as well.
11:49So it just makes it a lot easier that I like the job, so...
11:53It's getting all clean before everybody starts coming in to walk
11:56and the tourists start coming in to see the city.
11:59We try our best to get it up before people start wandering the streets.
12:09Still to come...
12:10Well, the girls, like, they did good, but it wasn't five stars.
12:15This is the PPE that we have to wear when we're washing out machines.
12:19Unfortunately, I have to look like sap for a few minutes.
12:22More! Push more, they're on.
12:45The John Hurt environmental team have returned to Meath to tackle the damaged pipes.
12:53It's a clear pipe. It's quite a severe break.
12:55There's also a few cracks around the edges of it.
12:57If that's not patched up pretty quickly,
12:59there's a good chance that it may break some more.
13:02If there is a crack, you know, this could cause infiltration of water
13:06or it could cause the pipe to break even more.
13:10It could possibly cause a collapse further down the line if it's not resolved.
13:14Think of it as open-heart surgery, but under the ground.
13:18Piece of cake, really.
13:20If I'm explaining it to a customer, I'll relate to a stint,
13:25and most of them will know what I'm talking about.
13:28So what this does is literally installing into the storm line
13:32and fixing the defect in the line.
13:34We're going to have to just take our time with it and be careful.
13:37And if it does bust, we can just install another part liner
13:40and cover the break, like, but we'll try not to do that.
13:44I'm the surgeon by so I am.
13:47So I'm wetting this out with the two-part resin we just mixed up here,
13:51soaking it into the fibre glass, because this is an express resin,
13:55so you haven't got too much working time with it, like.
13:58Right.
13:59Nice and easy down.
14:00All right.
14:01Coming down.
14:03Val feeds the packer into the pipe.
14:05Right, push a little bit more.
14:06While Liam watches on the monitors.
14:09Push more there on.
14:10More!
14:11Are you happy with that?
14:12Yeah, should I.
14:13It has it covered.
14:14It's just unfolding.
14:16So I've inflated this packer here to 1.5 bar, so we have...
14:20So that'll give it enough pressure to blow out of the pipe,
14:22and it'll seal the patch around the defect in the pipe.
14:26So it will.
14:26And we'll just keep an eye on it to make sure it stays at 1.5.
14:29You might have a wee air leak.
14:31Next, Liam sends down the robot to check the progress.
14:35Now, we've reached the point of repair.
14:37That's the packer that was placed in from the manhole downstream.
14:42After 20 minutes, the packer is removed.
14:46He's going to pull his packer out,
14:47and we're going to have a closer inspection of it.
14:50Now, we haven't caused any more damage to it.
14:52This is just a case of the patch probably wasn't just set enough
14:56for the bladder to be deflated.
15:00Obviously, this is frustrating.
15:01If at first you don't succeed...
15:03We'll have to install another patch there.
15:05Put another patch on? Yeah.
15:07Take two.
15:09It's happened to me a load of times before.
15:11We just keep going until it's cracking or breaking or fracturing.
15:15There could be no way out there.
15:16There could be nothing around that pipe.
15:17It could be all loose,
15:18and there's nothing for it to compact against.
15:20So that's why it's breaking.
15:22But hopefully the next patch will take it out of it.
15:25As Val feeds in the second packer,
15:27in Dublin, Tati has arrived for her perfection inspection.
15:31How are you?
15:33You good?
15:36And she's letting her fingers do the walking.
15:38When I walk around, they always say,
15:42where's the little finger going?
15:43Walking, talking, and the fingers like, you know,
15:46because you can touch it.
15:48Evelyn, have to come back here.
15:50Just have like a little, you know, like the plugs in here.
15:53Just pass.
15:54Oh, yeah.
15:55Get your hand, like, sticky.
15:58The rest is perfect.
16:03Here, Evelyn, here.
16:04Yeah, cleaning is a very particular thing to do.
16:08You know, we never, you know, we're here to, you know,
16:10to do whatever the client wants.
16:12We are here, we are people pleases.
16:14That's what we do.
16:15We please people.
16:16You know, we try our best anyway.
16:19There is a saying that I always say,
16:20everything that shines has to be shiny.
16:24That's all the time.
16:25Like, this is in our, even in our language.
16:27We're here to make everything shiny.
16:29That's what it is.
16:30So, and then it is, look, perfect.
16:32I know perfection doesn't exist,
16:36but I try to get as close as I can.
16:39And then here as well, we have, you know,
16:42there is nothing, look.
16:46Well, this one is a bit, look.
16:49Ji, come, Ji, with me.
16:52Just want you to do one little thing
16:54that is missing in here.
16:56Josh, here.
16:57You forgot to do it.
16:58Only here.
16:59The rest is perfect.
17:02Well, the girls, like, they did good,
17:05but it wasn't five stars.
17:07Let's say, like, four and a half.
17:09By, like, five.
17:10And then the little spots that we have to check,
17:14that's what, like, makes us five stars.
17:18Now we go home.
17:19Yes.
17:21Now make a dinner.
17:23What food?
17:25Lasanha.
17:26Lasanha?
17:26Brazilian lasanha.
17:28Yes.
17:29It's the best one.
17:31If I look after them,
17:32they definitely going to look after me.
17:34And this is why I think we're growing so much,
17:37because we have respect for each other.
17:39And, you know, I'm proud of these cleaners, you know,
17:41because they are not just cleaners.
17:44They are my friends.
17:45That's what it is.
17:46As the Made in Ireland team are dreaming of dinner,
17:49back in the city, Megan is still hard at work.
17:55I'm on my second day in a shift,
17:57so I've got another five days to go.
18:01Like, work doesn't feel like work to me.
18:03Like, I do get up every day and be like,
18:04I can't wait to go into work.
18:06I'd be going home to my ma, and if we're driving through town,
18:08I'd be like, I done that bin.
18:09Oh, I do this.
18:10Like, I do this through.
18:11That's clean, because I was probably here this morning.
18:14Like...
18:15There is an awful lot of people that put us down,
18:18where it's, like, Dublin City's disgusting, Dublin City's a kip.
18:22You know, the state of this place.
18:24And then you get the odd people that would be like,
18:26oh, fair play to you for doing this job,
18:28and compliment the work.
18:31Like, we're constantly on the go, cleaning.
18:33It is a bit like, oh, like,
18:35we're trying our best to keep it clean,
18:36yet actually not seeing how bad it can get
18:38for us to keep it to the standard that we have it at.
18:41You know what I mean?
18:42She's not afraid to get kind of stuck in.
18:44You know what I mean?
18:44The new generation of council workers,
18:47that's the attitude we want.
18:50And I see it in her.
18:51You know what I mean?
18:52She's enthusiastic.
18:53She's enjoying the job.
18:53She's learning every single day.
18:56So, that's the day done now.
18:58I'm going to upload and wash out the machine,
19:00and that'll be my finish for the day.
19:03This is the PPE that we have to wear
19:05when we're washing out machines.
19:07Why do you have to look like sap for a few minutes?
19:11I just don't like the aftermath.
19:13My hair just being bit afterwards.
19:15I just don't see that side of it
19:18where it's just dirty work.
19:20You know, a job is a job at the end of it,
19:21and if you like it, you like it.
19:24So, this is why we wear the white suits,
19:26and we have to look, like, silly for a few minutes,
19:28cos we didn't just be all on our clothes.
19:31Yeah, it's nasty.
19:33Everyday accordance.
19:34Well, she's getting better.
19:35She's not getting splashed as much now.
19:36And she's flying now.
19:38She's doing fairly well in our work.
19:39Fairly proud.
19:40I learned from the best, didn't I?
19:42Yeah.
19:43O'Connell Street was a bit bad.
19:44It wasn't as bad as what normally is.
19:46I was, like, there in headlights walking into the depot.
19:48Bad.
19:49Chinatown was bad.
19:50Cos I was the only girl.
19:51That was a very scary day,
19:53but compared to now from last year,
19:56I'm, like, a whole different person.
19:58I think it was just known that I was in, like,
20:01a male-dominant place,
20:03but now it's like I fit in great with all the lads.
20:07Like, I get along with them all,
20:08and, yeah, it doesn't feel like I'm the only girl in there anymore.
20:11It doesn't feel like that kind of stereotype.
20:14What?
20:15We all get along great.
20:16We're all, like, family.
20:18Relieved cos that was a long morning,
20:19an early start.
20:21I can't wait to go home to bed.
20:25As Megan heads for home,
20:28back in Athboi,
20:30it's the moment of truth.
20:35Liam, put that camera back, will you?
20:38All right, go on.
20:39Push a little bit more.
20:40There's a patch blue out there on the pipes out there.
20:42You can see it unfolding there.
20:44Get a couple of T-bys there,
20:46and we'll shut out for all your oil.
20:49Technology has advanced so well now.
20:51We open the shores,
20:52we bring in the robotics,
20:53and we do everything from outside.
20:55So you have a brand-new pipe in a pipe
20:56without digging that floor.
20:57So the patch is fully cured now,
20:59so we're going to deflate the pack up,
21:01and we're going to see, hopefully,
21:03the patch stuck to the pipe.
21:05We're looking good so far.
21:06Looks good, Val.
21:07It certainly looks sexy there now.
21:09She's blown up.
21:10I thank God for that now.
21:12Yeah, so that's your stint there,
21:13covering the defect,
21:14covering the hole here.
21:16I'll sleep good tonight, Sol.
21:18I'm ready to resolve that line now,
21:19to report back on the repairs done to the line.
21:22Good job, Val.
21:23Move on to the next one.
21:25Yeah, bye.
21:26She's blowing up, son.
21:28She's blowing up.
21:29She looks sexy.
21:31That's it, hey.
21:33Happy out.
21:34Hey, wrap her up.
21:35Wrap her up.
21:36That's a cut, hey.
21:38That's a wrap.
21:44Next time.
21:45Take pride, Arish.
21:46You're living,
21:47see yourself parted,
21:48you know,
21:48that's why,
21:49no problem cleaning her up,
21:50you know.
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