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Minggu, 19 April 2015

High Rise Window Cleaners Put On A Show

By Stella Gay


You have a tall building with a lot of window glass. The biggest problem you have is getting all of the glass cleaned on a regular basis. It needs to be cleaned because the wind and rain will bring much contamination to the surface and the glass can become filthy and you and your employees ability to see out is diminished. Depending on the height of your structure, you may need to hire a company who has 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.

Scissor lifts can also be be used when cleaning on the second floor. Anything higher than that can be cleaned with a boom truck. This machine will be able to handle the rougher terrain often encountered against the side of buildings. If your building is higher than that, it is probably referred to as a high rise building, as far as window cleaning is concerned.

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.

Regardless of the lifting or lowering equipment used, the cleaners will accomplish the actual work in the same way as they do on the ground level. There are just a few tools that need to be used and a soap solution that is usually dish washing soap and water. Those tools are a wet bar, bucket, a squeegee, window knife and a clean cloth or two.

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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