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 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.
When the high rise buildings need window cleaning, most of them already have the particular anchors needed installed on their roofs. One of these systems, probably one of the most unpopular one, allows for the repelling of the cleaner down the side of the building. This is a block and tackle system, with pulleys on the roof and another pulley on the flexible chair.
The rope that is used to allow for this repelling system to work is anchored to the roof. There are a set of block and tackle, which consists of a couple of pulleys that allow those ropes to be pulled up and down. There is a duplicate set attached to a flexible chair that the cleaner sits in. This chair is fabricated from ropes and hold the technician very securely. The pulleys that are at this level will allow the cleaner to move from one floor to the next and lock him in place when desired.
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 height of the glass and what is used to get up there or down there, the process for cleaning is the same. The few tools that need to be used are simple. They include a bucket or belt holster, a wet bar and a couple of cloths. Some will also include a window knife for hard to remove substances.
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 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.
When the high rise buildings need window cleaning, most of them already have the particular anchors needed installed on their roofs. One of these systems, probably one of the most unpopular one, allows for the repelling of the cleaner down the side of the building. This is a block and tackle system, with pulleys on the roof and another pulley on the flexible chair.
The rope that is used to allow for this repelling system to work is anchored to the roof. There are a set of block and tackle, which consists of a couple of pulleys that allow those ropes to be pulled up and down. There is a duplicate set attached to a flexible chair that the cleaner sits in. This chair is fabricated from ropes and hold the technician very securely. The pulleys that are at this level will allow the cleaner to move from one floor to the next and lock him in place when desired.
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 height of the glass and what is used to get up there or down there, the process for cleaning is the same. The few tools that need to be used are simple. They include a bucket or belt holster, a wet bar and a couple of cloths. Some will also include a window knife for hard to remove substances.
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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