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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: jaydj on February 10, 2010, 11:58:56 pm

Title: Cleaning through barriers?
Post by: jaydj on February 10, 2010, 11:58:56 pm

How do you clean windows that have the fake balcony things on with wfp?

Title: Re: Cleaning through barriers?
Post by: Sapphire Window Cleaning on February 11, 2010, 12:09:53 am

I slide the brush in between them, however I do have a customer with wooden slats across half the window and my bristles on my brush arent long enough to get in between the slats.
Does anyone know if you can buy brush heads with extra long bristles?


Matt

Title: Re: Cleaning through barriers?
Post by: HIGH LEVEL WINDOW CLEANERS (scrimmy) on February 11, 2010, 08:07:48 am

i invented a way round that problem.

buy a 10m telescopic pole from skyblue lesuire.

buy 15m of 10mm OD hose from hydrasun.

buy a thin car wash brush from vikan or similar (wheel wash i think). the ones that will fit through the barriers.....they must have a hozelock connection on the bottom...explanation coming 8)

use a hozelock fitting (normal ones that you can get anywhere)

put the hose up through the pole........force the hose up the hole of the hozelock fitting and then clamp onto the pole using the hozelock clamp.

fit the hozelock brush into the hozelock fitting and there you have a pole with brush dedicated for barrier/juliet windows.

remember these poles are clampless, so you will need to hold the base of the pole to keep the pole up.

sounds complicated, but its very simple.

Title: Re: Cleaning through barriers?
Post by: Gav Camm lammy 283 on February 11, 2010, 09:23:43 am

off thread scrimmy owes the injury

Title: Re: Cleaning through barriers?
Post by: HIGH LEVEL WINDOW CLEANERS (scrimmy) on February 11, 2010, 09:50:57 am

still the same lammy......nhs are pants....could be a long time before i even get an xray....i have wot they call a minor injury.....i cant walk very far and when i do get on my feets its only for a couple of hours and i need a knee brace and every step is killing me.....constant agony (15 hours a day in bed with the leg raised up).......i could develop a blot clot in my leg......but its only a minor injury ???

Title: Re: Cleaning through barriers?
Post by: Gav Camm lammy 283 on February 14, 2010, 06:51:50 pm

did u get an hand injury sounds an nightmare
sounds like u need take on a youngster show him the ropes
take some of the work on for you

Title: Re: Cleaning through barriers?
Post by: ccmids on February 14, 2010, 08:26:52 pm

Quote from: jaydj on February 10, 2010, 11:58:56 pm

How do you clean windows that have the fake balcony things on with wfp?

poke the brush between the bars
i do the top first swill then through the bars and swill .

Title: Re: Cleaning through barriers?
Post by: wizard on February 14, 2010, 08:50:01 pm

The one I battle with has glass on the back of the rails.

Title: Re: Cleaning through barriers?
Post by: dai on February 15, 2010, 03:47:50 pm

Go right up to the wall and look up, many have a gap underneath that you can get your brush through. I can do all mine through th bars with a superlite brush with a swivel.
I have a couple with glass 6 inches in front of french windows, I do the tops and let the water run down when rinsing, it's all I can do.

Title: Re: Cleaning through barriers?
Post by: Mike #1 on February 15, 2010, 06:24:36 pm

gardiners gooseneck works for me