[Pdh]

ive been invited to tender on our towns huge  new college im ok with 4 floors of cleaning 5 and 6 a little to high for wfp could do with a operator and access equipment,any contacts would be useful.

[eddie d]

where r you

[Pdh]

sorry forgot to mention south yorkshire.

[KJG]

EPL Access = £350-ish for 8 hours. Carlisle branch is probably closest - 01228 527671.

Who ever you go with, make sure you ask for an operator with plenty of window cleaning experience. Nothing worse than getting a slow - up/down, left/right, in and out a bit operator.

[Pdh]

thanks

[Majestic]

I use these

http://www.a4access.com/

If you do use them ask for the operator who is a window cleaner as well

6th floor can be reached  with a pole , why not ask for someone to to give you a price to do the high work with there pole

[steve k]

give Brodex a ring...they now supply platform with operator and even do half day rates.

http://brodexbms.co.uk/contact.htm

[Majestic]

Who ever you phone ask if they charge for delivery, with A4 they dont

[Alex Wingrove]

why not just get a cherry picker, operate it yourself, and you use you wfp to clean the windows from the cheery picker?

or is there something im missing

[Majestic]

Cherry pickers that can reach 6th floor usually come with a operator

[Alex Wingrove]

no no no

what im saying is get i dunno a 30ft one, no operator, and then clean the window from the cherry picker, much cheaper right?

[Pdh]

these windows are filthy baked on muck i think wfp the top floors would not give great results ,i thought about workin of a platform but i dont think it would look great from a viewers point.   

[Alex Wingrove]

well give them a good scrub then,

[steve k]

you don`t just get a cherry picker with no experience or training and then hoist up a wfp hose...

that`s like saying just tie a rope round yourself and abseil...it`s easy..

[Alex Wingrove]

er no its not

a cherry picket is a doodle, you press the up button to go up, the down button the go down, and the side buttons to go from side to side, they give you all the training you need, and its only £150 a day i think, don't let steve put you off, they are easy, they wouldn't let you hire them out if they wernt,

and as for taking a pole up, how does that add any more skill?

your comparing using a piece of doddle machinery to abseiling, i don't think that was the best comparison

[steve k]

get in touch with your local platform hirer and tell them you intend using a trailing hose from the ground to the cage and watch them go pale

[Pdh]

quite alot of forward backward movement when using a 30ft pole, be like being at sea  ,ive used cherry pickers be for but not at  6 levels

[Alex Wingrove]

tell them what you plan to do they wont have a problem,

just need to take necessary precautions

[Pdh]

i have a 60 ft pole which will struggle to reach the top floor i reckon around 70 to 80 ft in places.

[TERRY AB]

er no its not

a cherry picket is a doodle, you press the up button to go up, the down button the go down, and the side buttons to go from side to side, they give you all the training you need, and its only £150 a day i think, don't let steve put you off, they are easy, they wouldn't let you hire them out if they wernt,

and as for taking a pole up, how does that add any more skill?

your comparing using a piece of doddle machinery to abseiling, i don't think that was the best comparison

In THEORY  you are right, but in the practice it dont work, tried it Crap,
in a Cherry Picker the Cage (holding you sfely in!) is too high, you cant work the Pole and if you can it will only be a small Pole as you would have to hold the Pole outside of the cage, movement is too restricted, the only thing you can do is clean windows directly above yourself, very time consuming and really tough work. Ive done it!.
Also you need someone permanently on the ground watching your Hoses, the better not get entangled in the Lift!.
Terry