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Title: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: trevor perry on August 22, 2009, 06:07:43 pm
this is a job we did today the highest part was 72ft high but most the high ones where about 67ft i needed two extra sections of sl2 to complete the job, luckily it was a calm day i wouldnt of tried it if it was windy.
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: trevor perry on August 22, 2009, 06:08:59 pm
and some more
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: trevor perry on August 22, 2009, 06:11:16 pm
and finally
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: ronnie paton on August 22, 2009, 06:19:11 pm
what brush is on that? how did they finish without being able to put has much pressure on? and finally did you say that in a day how many men and how much water
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: Nathanael Jones on August 22, 2009, 06:20:10 pm
Impressive pics!
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Post by: tomy jackson on August 22, 2009, 06:20:32 pm
nice ezy job then ,sl all the way
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: trevor perry on August 22, 2009, 06:22:21 pm
it is a gardner supa lite brush the flocked version, they dried perfect i would rather not say how many men or how much water for obvious reasons.
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: trevor perry on August 22, 2009, 06:23:30 pm
Impressive pics!

Thanks
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: Alex Gardiner on August 23, 2009, 08:08:51 am
Great photos Trevor. Would you mind if I used one or two of them at some point?
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: trevor perry on August 23, 2009, 09:09:17 am
Great photos Trevor. Would you mind if I used one or two of them at some point?
of course you can.
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: R W C on August 23, 2009, 09:12:24 am
Excellent pics mate, nice one

Chris
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: ftp on August 23, 2009, 09:16:48 am
On the last pictures - how did you get on with moving the brush from one window to the next - did you manage to lift off and move around the screens or drop down and start again?
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: trevor perry on August 23, 2009, 09:24:09 am
On the last pictures - how did you get on with moving the brush from one window to the next - did you manage to lift off and move around the screens or drop down and start again?
  as long as you move in close to the building and get the pole vertical then it is quite easy to lift the brush off and manouvre around the screens, at that height it does wobble about alot so be careful, for someone who hasnt used a large pole before then i wouldnt advice it but for regular users it shouldnt be a problem so long as it is a calm day and no wind blowing.
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: trevor perry on August 23, 2009, 09:43:03 am
Excellent pics mate, nice one

Chris
Thanks Chris, glad to see you used that other picture i sent you.
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: ftp on August 23, 2009, 09:44:47 am
You must have had a very calm day. Mine goes kiting at fifty feet.  ;D
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: trevor perry on August 23, 2009, 10:01:28 am
You must have had a very calm day. Mine goes kiting at fifty feet.  ;D
the front of the building there was a bit of a breeze and it was difficult to direct the brush accurately, if the wind had picked up any i did have a solution to the problem but luckily it wasnt needed.
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: R W C on August 23, 2009, 10:09:13 am
Excellent pics mate, nice one

Chris
Thanks Chris, glad to see you used that other picture i sent you.

Cheers Trevor, you have mail.

Chris
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: trevor perry on August 23, 2009, 10:20:03 am
Excellent pics mate, nice one

Chris
Thanks Chris, glad to see you used that other picture i sent you.

Cheers Trevor, you have mail.

Chris
i think you may have sent the email to my office so wont see it till next week my home email address is trevor90@talktalk.net
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: karlosdaze on August 27, 2009, 01:11:25 am
It just doesn't look like 72' more like 50'?
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: trevor perry on August 27, 2009, 03:01:53 pm
It just doesn't look like 72' more like 50'?
count the base sections these show up on photo with a white part on this is the gardner name , the pictures have 5 base sections on making it 62feet plus reach height so thats 66 or 67 feet, on the other side of building not photograhed i needed 6 base sections making it between 72 and 74 feet high, admittedly the picture doesnt look as high as it did in reality.
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: rise@shine on August 27, 2009, 04:13:18 pm
looks very similar to a job i do and you can reach that without any extra sections on. But sometimes like you say pictures are deceiving
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Post by: RK Cleaning Services on August 27, 2009, 11:20:30 pm
Thats high go on how much water did you use?
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: Rob.Hall on August 27, 2009, 11:33:19 pm
That pole is impresive as the bend is minimal to some I have seen.

How do you clean the top of the windows at that hight. Can you go from side to side ok?



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Post by: richywilts on August 27, 2009, 11:58:15 pm
how do you rinse at these heights i presume on the window does this effect the finished result????
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: karlosdaze on August 28, 2009, 12:04:55 am
It just doesn't look like 72' more like 50'?
count the base sections these show up on photo with a white part on this is the gardner name , the pictures have 5 base sections on making it 62feet plus reach height so thats 66 or 67 feet, on the other side of building not photograhed i needed 6 base sections making it between 72 and 74 feet high, admittedly the picture doesnt look as high as it did in reality.

Gardiners quote each section at 1.7 meters under 56' at 10 sections.
Pity you didn't get the photo's on the other side!
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: trevor perry on August 28, 2009, 03:31:38 pm
It just doesn't look like 72' more like 50'?
count the base sections these show up on photo with a white part on this is the gardner name , the pictures have 5 base sections on making it 62feet plus reach height so thats 66 or 67 feet, on the other side of building not photograhed i needed 6 base sections making it between 72 and 74 feet high, admittedly the picture doesnt look as high as it did in reality.

Gardiners quote each section at 1.7 meters under 56' at 10 sections.
Pity you didn't get the photo's on the other side!
there are 5 base sections and 6 smaller sections so thats 11 sections and as stated thats 62ft plus reach height so thats 66 to 67 ft and as said on other side i had another additional section making it 12 sections which with reach height is 72 ft. if you dont believe me come and measure it.
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: trevor perry on August 28, 2009, 03:37:26 pm
That pole is impresive as the bend is minimal to some I have seen.

How do you clean the top of the windows at that hight. Can you go from side to side ok?




i was stood pretty vertical so the bend isnt so bad the pole does bend at this height if stood further back but out of all big poles i have tried the gardner supalite is definately the most rigid.
 as for cleaning top of windows i do go side to side but does get a bit of getting used due to whip in pole.
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: trevor perry on August 28, 2009, 03:44:50 pm
how do you rinse at these heights i presume on the window does this effect the finished result????
  i do rinse with the brush on and it did used to be a problem but with the supalite dual trim flocked brush which i have used for about a year they have always dried as good as if rinsed with the brush off the glass. so i even rinse brush on at low levels now.

i have just read my posts it wont be long before someone accuses me of being a gardner salesman, Alex you will need my address so you can send me some commision ;D ;D
Title: Re: working at 72 foot with a sl2
Post by: karlosdaze on August 29, 2009, 12:52:06 am
It just doesn't look like 72' more like 50'?
count the base sections these show up on photo with a white part on this is the gardner name , the pictures have 5 base sections on making it 62feet plus reach height so thats 66 or 67 feet, on the other side of building not photograhed i needed 6 base sections making it between 72 and 74 feet high, admittedly the picture doesnt look as high as it did in reality.
Gardiners quote each section at 1.7 meters under 56' at 10 sections.
Pity you didn't get the photo's on the other side!
there are 5 base sections and 6 smaller sections so thats 11 sections and as stated thats 62ft plus reach height so thats 66 to 67 ft and as said on other side i had another additional section making it 12 sections which with reach height is 72 ft. if you dont believe me come and measure it.

Sorry,
I was a little thrown when the caption of the thread said "working at 72 foot with the SL" and yet you don't show the pictures. I do believe that the SL2 or any other pole can go to that height - but as I pointed out, wasn't 72 foot in the photo's you've shown. That aroused my curiosity in the first place - I thought either Gardiners poles were much shorter than they claim or the height given, wasn't right.