Protecting your plants

With the truly awful summer that we’ve had this year, many of the gardens that I work in in Kent, Sussex and Surrey are enjoying colour much later in the year than usual.  If your plants are only just coming to their best, you’ll want to enjoy their blooms for as long as you can. Unfortunately, window cleaning and plants don’t always go well together. 

Picture the scene: Wisteria wandering along the walls.  An Albertine rose rambling over the porch.  Colourful wallflowers brightening the bed under the windowsill.  And then along comes your window cleaner, trampling on the wallflowers, clipping the wisteria as he positions his ladder and knocking the Albertine buds off with his bucket as he climbs. 

If the image is enough to make you consider living in gloom until the autumn, fret not!  There is a way to enjoy both clean windows and your garden.  The solution is Waterfed PoleWindow Cleaning.  Our ladder-less system means we can reach up to six storeys high from ground level, so there’s no risk of trampling on flower beds or knocking down climbers.  We deliver sparkling windows while respecting your garden. 

So you can enjoy your blooms, even if the rain returns and you have to admire from behind the comfort of your clean panes.

Pane sailing

Picture a chocolate-box cottage.  Perhaps with a thatched roof, ivy climbing up the wall and those romantic, leaded windows.  It's traditional England at its best, right? 

Yes - until the bills start coming in.  Then you discover that the thatch needs replacing every ten years, the ivy is pulling the walls down and your window cleaner charges you more than twice as much your neighbours because all the those tiny lead-panes are so fiddly.

If you're lucky enough to live in the kind of home that most of us only get to dream about, I have some good news for you.  Whether it's an idyllic cottage, a traditional farmhouse or a Georgian town house, I can help with one of your bills.  I can't do anything about the rising damp, wood worm or sagging walls.  But I can bring down the cost of your window cleaning.

And that's not just because I am a nice guy (although I am a very nice guy!).  But with Waterfed Pole Window Cleaning, it doesn't matter how many panes your window has.  All that matters is the size and number of windows. You see, traditional window cleaners have to charge more because it's more fiddly getting their squeegees into all the corners of small panes; with really tiny panes they even have to resort to wiping each one individually with a cloth.  But the bristles of the Waterfed Pole Window Cleaning brushes can gently reach into all the nooks and crannies without taking any longer.  What's more, the bristles are so soft, they're safe for all windows, no matter how delicate the materials.

So if you live in my dream home, I'd be delighted to visit and save you some pennies  - and I'll give you some amazingly clean windows as well. 

Proud to be an animal lover

As a nation we have a reputation for being animal lovers. Dotty about dogs. Crazy about cats. Soppy about  small furry things. Which is why I'm proud to be an animal-friendly window cleaner.

Maybe you didn't know there was any other kind. Maybe your window cleaner always tickles your pooch behind the ears. But being a friend to animals is different from being animal friendly.

It's the pure water of the Waterfed Pole Window Cleaning system that makes me animal friendly. Traditional window cleaners with their buckets and squeegees rely on detergent to get the windows clean. And detergent is bad for animals: it pollutes the water system, which in turn harms animals.  Our pure water keeps the water system - as well as your windows - clean.  And clean water is the starting point for healthy, happy animals.  

So if you're an animal lover, you need to make sure your window cleaner is animal friendly. At Waterfed PoleWindow Cleaning we are proud to say we do our bit to keep animals healthy and happy.

Preserving your tiles with style

As a window cleaner, my hatred of ladders is both private and professional. 

Privately, I hate heights.  Professionally, I hate the heaving and hauling on and off the van, the positioning and repositioning as you move from window to window.  I hate water slopping against my leg as I climb up and down.  I hate the juggling of passing the bucket and squeegee from one hand to the other.  But more than anything, I hate the balancing.

It’s bad enough when you’ve got a straight wall, with a window directly above you. But when you have a tricky window, ladders are a nightmare.  By tricky, I mean a window above a porch, over a conservatory, or over a sloping roof.  To clean tricky windows, you not only have to perch on the ladder, you also have to perch on the obstacle in the way.  If balancing on a ladder seemed precarious, balancing half on a ladder and half on a porch seems an invitation to the Grim Reaper. 

It’s not good news for the window cleaner.  But it’s also not good news for your house.  When window cleaners balance on sloping roofs and conservatories, tiles get knocked and panes of glass get cracked. 

Which is why Waterfed Pole Window Cleaning is good news for windowcleaners and good news for you.  With my waterfed pole window cleaning equipment I can reach even the trickiest of windows up to 6 storeys high without my feet leaving the ground.  

No more balancing for me.  And no more broken tiles and cracked conservatory roofs for you.  Win-win! 

Conserving your conservatory

The sun is finally doing its best to top up our Vitamin D levels, but there’s still a swift breeze to stop it from feeling truly balmy.  If you’ve got a conservatory, this is perfect weather to be enjoying it: all the feel good of the sunshine, with none of the nip of the wind.  But to really enjoy your conservatory, you need the glass to be sparkling.

Sitting in a conservatory with a confetti of dead leaves, bird droppings and moss stuck to the glass may make you feel at one with nature, but probably not in the way you had intended.  It’s definitely time to give your conservatory some tender loving care. 

And tender is the word.  Prop a ladder up against a conservatory and the chances are it will go straight through the glass.  Stretch across the roof to try and knock off the winter debris and you’re likely to create debris of a new kind.  Ladders, buckets and squeegees are definitely not the right tools for the job.

Cleaning conservatories is a special skill that needs specialist tools.  Waterfed Pole Window Cleaning provides these tools.  The super long waterfed poles mean we can reach to the middle of your conservatory roof from the ground, removing the inherent risks.  Our pure water applied with soft brushes creates sparkling windows all round.  Plus we clean the frames first - so your conservatory stays cleaner for longer. 

Waterfed Pole Window Cleaning 

– we make your conservatory show-room fabulous once more.

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!