mardi 21 avril 2015

High Rise Window Cleaners Put On A Show

By Stella Gay


Your commercial building probably has a lot of glass. This makes it pretty and gives your employees the ability to see out and admire nature. They also get dirty. This is because of the wind, blowing and the rain depositing debris and soils on them. You will need to have them cleaned by someone and, if you have a taller than normal building, will need to hire high rise window cleaners.

Dealing with cleaners who do the washing on the first floors is one thing. They take care of the glass with the few tools they need and, maybe a short pole. Occasionally they will need to use a scissor lift if a flat surface is next to the structure. Sometimes these cleaners will use a pole that has self contained cleaning solution piped to the head.

The second floor glass can be cleaned with use of a scissor lift. Any floor higher than that, from second to third and, occasionally, a fourth floor, can be cleaned using a boom truck. This machine has large tires and an extended boom, as long as 65 feet and can hold one or two cleaners for those hard to reach windows.

Most of these high rise buildings already have the systems they need, installed on the roof. The various anchors that cleaners use are set up for whoever will be doing the cleaning. One of those systems is the fairly unpopular, yet fairly simple, system of repelling down the building, cleaning as they go.

The ropes, on top of the roof, are secured to a block and tackle system that allows the rope to be pulled up and down. This is matched by the same system, attached to that flexible chair the cleaner sits in. There is also a lock that clamps down on the rope keeping the technician at one level so he can clean.

Another system will be the type that lowers a gondola in a similar manner. The anchor, on the roof, is more complicated, however, it still consists of a set of pulleys that cause the moving of the ropes through a wench system. The gondola can be as small as a one person platform or as big as one holding two or three personnel. This system will also have a lock, for the ropes, so it can be positioned to clean one floor before being moved to the next lower floor.

It does not matter what is used to get the cleaners up to the right level or down to the appropriate height. What does matter is that all of the cleaning is done in about the same way. The number of tools is the same and the process is the same. The tools consist of a wet bar, a bucket, a cloth or two and a squeegee. Many cleaners will also include a window knife for sticky substances.

Getting the glass wet by using the wet bar, with a scrubbing motion starts the process. The knife is used if needed and the wet bar might have to be utilized to get the glass wet again. The squeegee is what a lot of people enjoy watching as this is the show that the cleaners puts on. The squeegeeing of the glass starts in the upper part of the glass and, with side to side motions, cover the entire window and ends on the bottom.




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