| High rise window cleaning is becoming quite the | | | | companies, especially Savannah cleaning |
| profession nowadays. With more and companies | | | | companies, is the method of "rappelling" up and |
| starting to provide window cleaning services, | | | | down high rise buildings, much the same way as |
| competition to become the best has vociferously | | | | mountaineers "rappel" up and down high rise |
| increased and that is always a good sign for the | | | | mountains. The main motivation for mountaineers |
| consumer market. Let's start with a high rise | | | | is the adventurous nature of their "jobs". For |
| building first. With the growing increase of | | | | window cleaning professionals, the motivation |
| skyscraper-like buildings, it is becoming jarringly | | | | includes adventure and a passion for seeing |
| hard for the regular amateur cleaners to scrub | | | | ridiculously large man-made structures spotless. |
| their windows clean. This is where professional | | | | Rappelling is basically the controlled descent down |
| high rise window cleaners come in. | | | | a rope. The equipment used to carry out this |
| A high rise building is defined as one that is 35 | | | | activity includes ropes, of course, anchors, |
| meters or greater in height. It is divided into | | | | descender devices (friction devices that allow a |
| regular, occupiable levels. Based on solid | | | | rope to pay out in a controlled manner), climbing |
| structures, high rise buildings are usually divided | | | | harnesses (which are tied around the waist to |
| into levels at least two meter high. Therefore, | | | | secure the defender), carbiners (metal loops used |
| because of their nature, specialized equipment is | | | | for climbing) and personal equipment such as |
| required to get all the windows clean. Many tools | | | | gloves, helmets, boots and kneepads. The |
| have been developed by professionals that | | | | process of abseiling is risky; therefore special care |
| facilitate the providence of window washing | | | | is needed to ensure that the windows as well as |
| services. For example, a modern tool used in | | | | the working personnel are made safe from any |
| window cleaning is the Water Fed Pole (WFP) | | | | potential harm. Therefore, several safe techniques |
| system which is almost twice as fast as the | | | | for rappelling such as Tandem Rappelling or |
| regular squeegee methods. The WFP System | | | | Counter Balance Rappelling are employed. For the |
| involves scrubbing the windows with wet brushes | | | | general reader, these are techniques that facilitate |
| to loosen dirt and then washing them with | | | | the safe traversal of window cleaners and |
| purified, deionized water contained in large tanks. | | | | window washers up and down high rise buildings. |
| That's as far as cleaning the windows themselves | | | | Savannah cleaning employs various cleaning |
| counts. | | | | methods and techniques which include the WFP |
| But how to get access to gigantic buildings which | | | | System mentioned earlier as well as other |
| are loaded with windows everywhere up to 35 to | | | | advanced Squeegee methods. High rise window |
| 50 meters? That is where high rise access comes | | | | cleaning has become quite the profession |
| in. Several alternatives are available for | | | | nowadays and more and more building owners |
| professional window cleaners. These include the | | | | are relying on professional window cleaners to do |
| cherry pickers which consist of a trailer-mounted | | | | the relevant jobs for them. |
| hydraulic platform with a moving bucket or | | | | Because of the risks involved, it is better for |
| platform at the end of a hydraulic system. | | | | everybody to lay back and allow the professional |
| Another device is the Suspended Scaffolding | | | | window cleaners to do the jobs. That is basically |
| which consists of a horizontal platform that | | | | the purpose of this piece - to educate readers |
| traverses up and down a building, facilitating the | | | | about professional high rise window cleaning and |
| window cleaners in their respective endeavors. | | | | discuss the role of mountaineering equipment in |
| Of course, the most commonly employed | | | | carrying out the job. |
| method by most professional window washing | | | | |