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.
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Pane sailing
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
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.
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
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!
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Wednesday, 5 June 2013
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.
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Wednesday, 29 May 2013
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!
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
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!
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
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.
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