Not too old to YOLO

Teenagers love having their own jargon to distinguish them from the fuddy duddies.  If you’ve got one (a teenager, not a fuddy duddy) you may be familiar with the phrase YOLO – You Only Live Once.  Teenagers use it to signal that they are about to do something unbelievably stupid - but,  hey, YOLO!

Sadly, I said goodbye to my teenage years some time back, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t empathise with YOLO.  But the implications of YOLO change with age.  Rather than “Hey, look how imbecilic I am!” it’s more likely to resonate with a need for quality of life, while we still have it coursing through us.  For example: YOLO – so mend bridges before it’s too late.  YOLO – so get cracking on your bucket list.  YOLO – so don’t put up with a job you hate. 

I’ve always loved providing a great service cleaning windows across Kent and Sussex.  But I hate climbing ladders.  Every time I had to climb one, I was quaking inside.  So in true YOLO spirit, I stopped climbing them. 

Waterfed Pole Window Cleaning gave me my YOLO breakthrough.  I can now clean windows up to six storeys high while keeping my feet firmly on terra firma.  What’s more, the windows are cleaner and stay cleaner for longer than they ever did when I was hauling buckets up and down ladders.

YOLO – so make sure you enjoy what you do.  I do! 

Giving you back your privacy

The twenty-first century isn’t a very private place. 

Every time you buy something, your bank builds a sharper profile of you, your family, your likes and dislikes.  Cookies follow your every click on the internet to customise your cyber experience (or, more cynically, to optimise which ads you are bombarded with).  And you only have to slip over to discover you are the latest YouTube sensation.  

Wouldn’t it be nice to get back some good old-fashioned privacy?  We think so.  At Waterfed Pole Window Cleaning, we are committed to rekindling that twentieth-century concept of privacy.  And we are among a handful of window cleaners spearheading the campaign.

Unlike traditional window cleaners, who peer in through your upper windows as they perch on their ladders, we keep our feet firmly on the ground, using our very, very long waterfed poles to clean windows up to six storeys high.  With Waterfed Pole Window Cleaning, what goes on in your upper storeys, is your business.

So, we can’t help you if you sign Bohemian Rhapsody at top volume in your car.  When you pull up at the traffic lights, we can do nothing if the teenager standing at the crossing decides your rendition needs sharing with the world.   But we can promise that if we’re round cleaning your windows, you can step out of your shower and we’ll be none the wiser!  

Living the high life

The High Life is something to aspire to.  The Pent House suite.  Dreaming spires.  On top of the world.  Phrases around high living make it clear it’s where the elite hang out and the lowly dream of.

But high rise can be different from high living.  While you can have the reassurance of living in a close community and no time-consuming garden to maintain, there can be down sides: broken lifts, dirty stair wells and grimy windows, because window cleaners can’t reach beyond the first couple of floors.

Wrong!  Whatever the pros and cons of living in a flat, grubby windows don’t have to be one of them.  Not with Waterfed Pole Window Cleaning to save the day.

True, most window cleaners won’t venture beyond the first or second storey – their rickety ladders won’t let them.  But with Waterfed Pole Window Cleaning we can safely reach as far as the sixth floor.  Because we have no ladders.  Our feet stay firmly planted on the ground and we use our very, very long waterfed poles to make your windows as sparkling as those of your ground-floor neighbours.

So don’t endure grubby windows.  Let the light back into your life!  With Waterfed Pole Window Cleaning, everyone can have sparkling windows, whether you’re living the high life or high rise. 

Neighbourhood Watch

At Waterfed Pole Window Cleaning we pride ourselves on being environmentally friendly.  You may have noticed we even blog under the name Eco Window Cleaner.

We’re eco-friendly because we don’t use any detergents - just pure, clean water.  We’re eco-friendly because we let the daylight flood in through our sparkling clean windows, meaning you don’t have to turn on your lights so often.  And we’re eco-friendly because we try and keep our carbon footprint as low as possible, even running our Waterfed PoleWindow Cleaning van on LPG.  But we want to make our emissions even lower.

That’s why we promote community spirit by encouraging our customers to recommend our excellent services to their neighbours.  The more windows we can clean in one neighbourhood, the less fuel we use driving between customers.  That’s good for our costs.  It’s great for the environment.  But it can also be fantastic for you.

We’re so committed to keeping our carbon footprint down, that we want to reward you for recommending us to your neighbours.  For each of your neighbours who make the switch to Waterfed Pole Window Cleaning on your recommendation, we’ll take 20%off your bill.  So if just five of your neighbours join the Waterfed Pole Window Cleaning revolution, we’ll clean your windows for free!

That’s two bonuses for the environment: our carbon footprint is reduced and there’s even less detergent polluting the water system.  And great news for you – free window cleaning as long as you keep the neighbourhood spirit alive! 

The trouble with ladders

Ladders are scary things.  Even if you don’t have a phobia of them like me, the statistics speak for themselves.

According to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, ladder and stepladder accidents send 41,000 people to hospital annually - often resulting in some of the most serious injuries and even death when people fall from high up.  In fact, ladders account for nearly ten in every thousand accidents (although knitting and sewing equipment account for 2 in every thousand).  And a third of all falls from ladders occur when people are carrying out DIY or household maintenance. 

So what do these statistics tell us?  Firstly, as I long suspected, DIY is a very silly idea.  Secondly, watch those knitting needles.  And thirdly, avoid ladders! 

But not only should you avoid ladders, you should avoid, as far as possible, asking people to go up them on your behalf.  If you get someone round to carry out work on your roof, scaffolding is a much safer option.  And when you take on a window cleaner, make sure it’s someone who can keep their feet on the ground while they make your windows sparkle.  Someone like Waterfed Pole WindowCleaning.  We can reach up to six storeys high standing on ground level, getting the same results as we do on the ground floor.

So don’t ask your window cleaner to risk his neck.  Join the Waterfed Pole Window Cleaning revolution and make sure your window cleaner is safe while he works.