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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.
You have probably seen window jockeys who clean the glass on the first floors of many buildings. Many of them will also address the second and third floors. This is usually accomplished by the use of long poles, often with containerized water and cleansing solution. Getting to the second or third floors may require the use of scissor lifts, if on a fairly flat ground level or sidewalk.
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 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, 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.
A gondola system is popular and run by a similar system, on the roof, however, it is aided by an electric motor that does the lifting and lowering. This platform is manned by more than one person, usually, and can be lowered to the appropriate position and locked into place. The cleaning can be done and then the whole platform will be lowered to the next floor down.
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.
The glass is made wet with the wet bar and scraped, if needed, with the knife. After this, it will probably be scrubbed, again, with the wet bar. The show, that many people stop and watch is the use of the squeegee. This is usually a very graceful swoop of the squeegee from the upper left, down the glass, through a swooping motion and finishing on the bottom and wiped with the cloth.
You have probably seen window jockeys who clean the glass on the first floors of many buildings. Many of them will also address the second and third floors. This is usually accomplished by the use of long poles, often with containerized water and cleansing solution. Getting to the second or third floors may require the use of scissor lifts, if on a fairly flat ground level or sidewalk.
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 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, 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.
A gondola system is popular and run by a similar system, on the roof, however, it is aided by an electric motor that does the lifting and lowering. This platform is manned by more than one person, usually, and can be lowered to the appropriate position and locked into place. The cleaning can be done and then the whole platform will be lowered to the next floor down.
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.
The glass is made wet with the wet bar and scraped, if needed, with the knife. After this, it will probably be scrubbed, again, with the wet bar. The show, that many people stop and watch is the use of the squeegee. This is usually a very graceful swoop of the squeegee from the upper left, down the glass, through a swooping motion and finishing on the bottom and wiped with the cloth.
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