Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: baldeagle on August 26, 2006, 08:03:41 pm
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My trolley mounted WFP system is undergoing construction in the garage. ["You're going to do what to the windows? What, with that collection of bits!!"]
I've got a question - I've got lot's, really, everytime I sort one thing out, something else seems to crop up!
One of my houses has modern UPVC windows, but instead of transoms that open outwards, each pane is hinged at the bottom and opens inward from the top; so the whole pane, over its whole width, leans back into the room.
I think that they can be unclipped and dropped right back, [horizontal], for cleaning from the inside.
As they are, usually, open, how should they be dealt with, using the pole?
I shall be doing them this week from the ladder, possibly for the last time, so I can check if water put onto the pane will run down and onto the outer sill.
Do any other 'polers out there have this type of window, if so, I'd like any tips.
But not, please, to drop the customer, they are friends of mine, and it was Margaret who got me into W/Cing when my Handyman business was running erratically.
Baldeagle in Staffordshire
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Get the telephone numbers of all your customers with these type of windows, and phone them the night before saying you will be cleaning tommorow and can they close the windows if they are going out.
I have cleaned many of these windows and have not had a complaint, I don't clean the frames if they open just the glass.
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Presumably inward tilting windows are designed to take rain and have a drainage channel at the bottom of the frame similar to all inward opening doors. As long as you dont flood, and only clean the glass carefully with less water, so that you dont splash water inwards , you shouldnt have a problem ?
Ideally as Williammhas said get them to close the windows especially as they are friends or just leave any opened ones till next time.