[KS Cleaning]

When I was trad,on a similair house I would put ladder against the ground floor gutter then go three quarters the way up ladder and use a trad pole from there.

[macca]

Take someone with you alot safer

[Griffus]

hi my question is this how or what is the best way to clean these window, this is a sample photo, the house i gotta do has a slopped porch roof along the front of the whole house with 3 large windows above it and as i need to quote the house i 1st need to no how to get to them
        thanks in advance
                                 simon

Steep angle ladder footed by a person that you trust. Looks like you may have to work from both sides, at least for the window over door.

[G Griffin]

Take someone with you alot safer

Yes. Send them up the ladder  .

[rosskesava]

Reduce the angle by putting the ladder over the top of the window and reach down or if it's still too steep an angle, simply...... you cannot do that window and that's it.

No further discussion needed. Either you can do the job or you can't. Forget 'take someone with you', 'use a pole', 'use this' or 'do that', if you cannot do the job trad safely on your own then you cannot do the job and that's all there is to it.

[richard jagger]

Put your ladder above the windows against the wall,park you van/car against the foot of the ladder so it cannot slip and if you can tie it with some rope on the car`s bumper.Check that its stable be fore you climb on it.or  2/ Tie the ladder to the front door handle. Three use glazers suction pads and secure  to the corner a pane of glass and tie the ladder to this.so it cannot  slide as the angle will be steep. 4/ Use an extension pole on a squeegee you can use a fibre glass Harris pole from B and Q.Use ladder spikes on your ladder.I would try to use two of these methods at the same time and always check to see if its safe.

[keyser soze]

trad pole its the safest option apart from wfp which you haven't got yet

[pure tech]

Looks to be reasonably straightforward using a trad pole while standing on the ground.
An angle adapter such as the wagtail one would give your squeegee a much better angle on the window above the garage.

[Gordon_Taylor]

Why not arrange to do the windows when the owner are there and do them windows from inside, I have found this can to more customers havig all the insides done

Gordon

[johnny bravo]

get a harris pole from b+q   around £15-£20,    wash with applicator      change  add blade ,   after blading add scrim to detail the top and edge  to prevent drips, the wagtail does this job but ive never got that far ,    go onto you tube     you will be suprised as to what you find,    just type in window cleaning   and you will be there all day.,  its surprising how much time you waste once you get online..  I BETTER GO.

[hilland]

i dont have WFP yet working my way towards that but in the mean time i have to ladder it

Do you work on your own?

yea work on my own


Hi Simon, sorry about that WFP reply but to be honest mate I thought about WFP for two years and now I have finally done it I feel those two years have been wasted , the best thing I ever done ... and I heard lots of other WFP cleaners telling me that over and over but i hesitated and I was wrong. That seems a kind of good work you got mate get stuck in.

[simon sturmey]

Thanks for all the replies i will be quoting this on the 17th so will have a play wit the ladders and see what happens
                             thanks again
                                                 simon

[Richy essex]

Hi m8 I have had exactly the same dilema in the past. I would trad pole them from the ground or half way up a ladder( not the best)  and can get them to a reasonable standard  with straight pulls down of a mop and squeegee . You can clip a cloth on pole to detail you can also attach damp cloth to wipe frame / sills etc.  However this is  time consuming all well and good in the cold days but you try and do this on a hot day not so clever. I still have em on my round but only the odd window now I turn them down.  I would pass up the job and get some houses where you can access the windows properly IMO you will get annoyed doing this house as it will hold u up in future

[dazmond]

i used to use a trad pole for windows like that.a vice versa to soap up then turn it round to blade.then take pole down and put a cloth in a fixi clamp to do the detailing.

WFP is fantastically good and fast on windows like that but a trad pole used to do the job for me without risking my neck on them roofs!!

[Richy essex]

Daz I find that if you do straight pulls down you need to dry the blade Between  each pull to avoid lines how did you get round this or did it nt occur for you m8?

[dazmond]

tap the blade on a window you ve not soaped up mate or on the sill richy.it does take time to get a reasonable finish.i used a trad pole for years on dodgy windows before i went wfp.no complaints.although im a lot faster with wfp and the frames get cleaned at the same time.

[David Kent @ KentKleen]

i have a local tradder near to me who cleans alot of houses on an estate exactly like that, : he just walks on the tiles, makes me cringe in winter time seeing him!!