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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Feen on November 25, 2014, 07:29:39 pm

Title: Peculiar problem
Post by: Feen on November 25, 2014, 07:29:39 pm

I have a very difficult set on windows and welcome advice. This is part of a lucrative job so please dont say "ditch it " ! Its an old tower and the top windows are out of reach of my pole and have to been cleaned from inside. They are sash and case, with the lower half opening inwards. No problem there. The top half however have to be cleaned on the outside by leaning out with a mop on a pole and then squeegeed the same way. The results are less than satisfactory as I cant scrim in any way thats much good. These windows are 8 over 8 and 8 feet from top to bottom so there is no way I can reach out and up.
I wondered about one of those Karcher thingies but I cant see how to attach it to a pole and work the trigger. Bear in mind that I'm 60 or 70 feet up.

Title: Re: Peculiar problem
Post by: Clever Forum Name on November 25, 2014, 07:30:55 pm

Couldnt you use/borrow a 70ft pole?

Title: Re: Peculiar problem
Post by: Don Kee on November 25, 2014, 07:31:57 pm

Ask smudger, he put a karcher on a extention pole


Then look towards buying a longer pole...?

Title: Re: Peculiar problem
Post by: Smudger on November 25, 2014, 07:46:47 pm

Don't you lot go putting up for someone falling out of an 80 ft window!


Option one -    buy the right pole for the job and WFP it
Option two -    get eye bolts fitted to the building and the correct harness setup so you         
                      can clean from outside
Option three    As standard you can get a 3 ft extending karcher vac pole you will have                                                     .                     to turn it on before extending it, no other option available.

I wholeheartedly DO NOT reccomend leaning out of any window to clean it esp. 80 ft up!!

Darran

Title: Re: Peculiar problem
Post by: Walter Mitty on November 25, 2014, 07:50:44 pm

Quote from: Feen on November 25, 2014, 07:29:39 pm

I have a very difficult set on windows and welcome advice. This is part of a lucrative job so please dont say "ditch it " ! Its an old tower and the top windows are out of reach of my pole and have to been cleaned from inside. They are sash and case, with the lower half opening inwards. No problem there. The top half however have to be cleaned on the outside by leaning out with a mop on a pole and then squeegeed the same way. The results are less than satisfactory as I cant scrim in any way thats much good. These windows are 8 over 8 and 8 feet from top to bottom so there is no way I can reach out and up.
I wondered about one of those Karcher thingies but I cant see how to attach it to a pole and work the trigger. Bear in mind that I'm 60 or 70 feet up.

As it's a lucrative job, is there a way you can clean from the inside with WFP - possibly using a backpack, a light pole and a specially made gooseneck to suit the job.  Of course it may be that the risk of water inside rules that out but without knowing the exact layout it's hard to say.

Title: Re: Peculiar problem
Post by: tonycarr on November 25, 2014, 08:06:06 pm

hi feen.....

what about one of those magnetic window cleaning tools?

you can buy them for single and double glazed glass

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=window+magnetic+cleaner&tag=googhydr-21&index=aps&hvadid=24520658454&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9262009930162422529&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_5jscid4ucd_b

tony

Title: Re: Peculiar problem
Post by: Feen on November 25, 2014, 08:29:03 pm

Thanks all, Firstly there's no way Im buying a 70 ft pole for one job. Its lucrative but not that lucrative. Will look into the extending karcher. I have been wfp ing it with a backpack and its not ideal shall we say.

Title: Re: Peculiar problem
Post by: Col on November 25, 2014, 09:06:34 pm

Man up and get out on the sill. ;D