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.

You have seen window jockeys working on the glass on many first floor or low buildings. They will clean the windows with a few tools, along with a pole. Many of them will use a self contained water supply, often with deionized water to eliminate chemicals being introduced. The occasional need for a scissor lift, for some glass, is common, especially if there is a flat surface to operate on.

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 high rise buildings have the anchors needed already located on the roof and take many forms. One of the most unpopular rigging is that which allows for the cleaners repelling down the side of the building. You may have seen these rigs with a window cleaner in them. They are composed of a set of ropes and chains which suspend a type of chair. This is usually a flexible bucket that will hold the expert securely.

The ropes are secured to an anchor, set in the roof of the building. The set up has a block and tackle that will allow the rope to be fed down and holds the rope, securely. The cleaner has another block, located at his level with a lock that can secure the chair at any height he desires.

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.

The cleaning begins with getting the glass wet, using the wet bar. The window is then scrapped, if needed, with the knife. The next step is the show a lot of people like to watch. This squeegee is used in many different ways, some them starting at the top and coming straight down and others swirling back and forth across the surface, ending at the bottom.




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