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Author: Peter Fogwill

3 reasons we need a new designed window cleaning pole

Window cleaning with a water fed pole has been around for a good few years now and undoubtedly is here to stay. The pole like the traditional ladders is what gets the cleaning equipment up to the glass, and because you have to carry it about all day it is a very important aspect of our window cleaning arsenal to carry out our work.

There has been many attempts in the last few years to revolutionise the first cumbersome telescopic window cleaning poles we used. And I must say now that the attempts have been admirable to say the least. We now have much stronger, and much lighter poles which make our day to day tasks much easier with less fatigue. We have also seen an introduction of modular poles, which are more costly and a bit more time consuming to use, but have the advantage of having a control valve on the pole, if and when a manufacturer caught on to the fact that this could be done.

Telescopic poles along with modular poles are time consuming to use, the telescopic need opened to the desired height, and then clamped in position, whereas the modular pole relies on carrying all the sections around, and the ends of the sections being joined together to reach the window. Both poles are usually in 6 foot lengths at least for reasons explained later, and the same pole used for cleaning above ground floor, is useless for when the ground floor is done.

Now back to the 3 reasons.

1/ The poles on the market are time consuming to use.

2/ The poles on the market are no use at going from second storey window to ground floor windows.

3/ The poles on the market because of there long closed length are harder to carry around, and transport in your vehicle.

The above 3 points are very important aspects, and are irrelevant of the materials used in the make up of the pole. Manufacturers ignore these 3 points for reasons I will give below. Manufacturers and window cleaners go on about weight and rigidity, and although they are very important factors in the water fed pole, they are not the only ones. The 3 other factors I mention are equally, if not more important.

When finding out what the window cleaner wants the manufacturer ignores the 3 points illustrated because he thinks nothing can be done about them.

Point 1/ The poles on the market are time consuming to use. Well he thinks they can't improve on that because the sections need to be clamped or joined together.

Point 2/ The poles on the market are no use at going from second storey windows to ground floor windows. To improve on that each section would need to be made in a smaller size, and lead to more sections needed to reach the higher window above, which would need more clamps, lead to extra weight, and more tooling cost for the extra clamps. And after all that the pole would be even more time consuming to use.

Point 3/ The poles on the market because of there long closed length are harder to carry around, and transport in your vehicle. They can't do anything about point 3 because of the reasons in point 2 above.

But wait a minute if they ignore the points 1, 2, and 3 and make the pole lighter and stronger then perhaps no one will give a though to points 1,2, and 3? Probably right as well, as the window cleaner probably thinks points 1, 2, and 3 is impossible to achieve as well :)

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