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GB Window Cleaning

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cleaing frames and sills with trad pole
« on: October 01, 2009, 02:18:59 pm »
hello fellow window cleaners.
                                               I am just starting out and i am using trad methods and was wondering if anyone can clean frames and sills with a trad pole? i was thinking of maybe using a fixiclamp with a sponge/scrim or using a w.f.p sill brush on a trad pole!
                                                             
Aslo can you remove paint and other nasty hard to remove stuff from glass, frames and sills with a trad pole?
                                         
                                                Many thanks in advance.

Murdie window cleaning

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Re: cleaing frames and sills with trad pole
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2009, 02:37:11 pm »
Hi and welcome(although maybe not my place to welcome you as I just through the door myself  ;D)

I'm sure you could clean most things with a trad pole, it just takes practice to get good at doing so. As for getting paint and such like off you can fit an Unger scraper onto a pole and scrape. 

tomy jackson

Re: cleaing frames and sills with trad pole
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2009, 03:41:01 pm »
wet the window furst

Re: cleaing frames and sills with trad pole
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2009, 03:57:27 pm »
Dont listen to Tomy, he thinks he's a comedian.

Re: cleaing frames and sills with trad pole
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2009, 03:57:44 pm »
Make sure you pull up at the right house  ;D

AuRavelling79

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Re: cleaing frames and sills with trad pole
« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2009, 05:38:47 pm »
If I was doing frames there is no way I would use a trad pole upstairs - it'll take ages. Think about what you'd actually have to do.
It's a game of three halves!

elite mike

Re: cleaing frames and sills with trad pole
« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2009, 05:43:47 pm »
wet the window furst

tomy is right ,if you use a scraper

make sure you wet the window, other wise it will be very expensive :'(

GB Window Cleaning

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Re: cleaing frames and sills with trad pole
« Reply #7 on: October 01, 2009, 06:57:25 pm »
so what do yall recon to my ideas? :)

AuRavelling79

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Re: cleaing frames and sills with trad pole
« Reply #8 on: October 01, 2009, 07:03:51 pm »
so what do yall recon to my ideas? :)

Not good TBH - if you use a wfp brush that is wet but not flowing with water it will literally mix the water with the dirt and re-arrange it. It will look pants.

Why not go wfp trolley/backpack out of your car if cost is an issue?
It's a game of three halves!

GB Window Cleaning

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Re: cleaing frames and sills with trad pole
« Reply #9 on: October 01, 2009, 08:31:55 pm »
i dont see the difference between being on ladders wiping frames with wet cloth to doing it with wet w.f.p brush on trad pole, as long as you wash the brush periodically!?!? :-\

GB Window Cleaning

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Re: cleaing frames and sills with trad pole
« Reply #10 on: October 01, 2009, 09:47:48 pm »
i'd really like to hear from permanent trad pole users! what do you recon?

paul saunders

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Re: cleaing frames and sills with trad pole
« Reply #11 on: October 01, 2009, 09:48:33 pm »
boy, have you got a lot to learn!! ;D
I can remember when waking up stiff in the morning was a good thing.

GB Window Cleaning

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Re: cleaing frames and sills with trad pole
« Reply #12 on: October 01, 2009, 09:56:06 pm »
im a 31 year old man mate so please dont talk to me like that old man! second i use trad and ladders like my dad did for 25 years! so if you havnt got any good input then dont answer my questions please!  >:(

GB Window Cleaning

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Re: cleaing frames and sills with trad pole
« Reply #13 on: October 01, 2009, 09:58:35 pm »
oh and third your a pr!ck!

GB Window Cleaning

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Re: cleaing frames and sills with trad pole
« Reply #14 on: October 01, 2009, 10:05:56 pm »
any permanent trad pole users got anything constructive to say?
unlike bbdl who thinks he's efing ace cos he knows everything!

p.s if you think there is no such thing as perm trad pole users google wagga and his modded trad pole wagtail!

paul saunders

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Re: cleaing frames and sills with trad pole
« Reply #15 on: October 01, 2009, 10:06:32 pm »
oh and third your a pr!ck!

Thats not nice is it.
If you're ladders and trad, why are you wanting to clean upper floor windows with a trad pole?
I can remember when waking up stiff in the morning was a good thing.

wizard

Re: cleaing frames and sills with trad pole
« Reply #16 on: October 01, 2009, 10:07:31 pm »
I have tried a pole but you cannot see if its clean so I get up the ladder and clean with a dry brush first then a wet cloth.I even brush glass and frames with a handled floor brush and then clean with a squeege if they are very durty, save my microfibre clothes.

paul saunders

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Re: cleaing frames and sills with trad pole
« Reply #17 on: October 01, 2009, 10:08:49 pm »
oh, and grow up, you're 31 for crying out loud. ::)
I can remember when waking up stiff in the morning was a good thing.

GB Window Cleaning

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Re: cleaing frames and sills with trad pole
« Reply #18 on: October 01, 2009, 10:09:40 pm »
im not nice when people are not nice to me pal! i dont suffer fools lightly mate!

and one word should answer your question...safety!

Murdie window cleaning

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Re: cleaing frames and sills with trad pole
« Reply #19 on: October 01, 2009, 10:09:55 pm »
Easy GB, the guys are only trying to offer advice