There are various window cleaning trolleys available
from a variety of sources, including eBay.
are used to access
interior courtyards, shopping precincts and other
areas where dragging hoses may be a disadvantage,
such as the backs of terraced houses.
They are ideal in built up areas where
access with a water fed pole van system is often
difficult or in some cases, impossible.
Terraced house areas are best suited to
and backpack sprayers because
you don't have to drag your hose up the street through
all the dog dirt and also lay yourself open to a
compensation claim from anyone who claims to have
tripped on your hose.
Have you ever tried walking up one side of a
terraced street from your van system and then had to
clean more houses on the other side of the street? You
can't just drag your hose across the road and carry on.
How will you pull it down the other side, when it gets
trapped under the tyres of the car parked at the end of
the first side.
You have to wind everything back to your van, and
then start from scratch on the other side.
With a pure water trolley system, it's up one side
and straight down the other with no trailing hoses.
These days, in most terraced areas, it's sometimes
impossible with a van system to get parked anywhere
near enough for your system to reach the houses
you're supposed to be cleaning. I pulled up in an area
that earns me a generous hourly rate for window
cleaning and couldn't even park my van..... No
Cash Earned!
Most , at first, appear to
be comparatively expensive for what you get for your
money, but when you take into account their
versatility, they soon pay you back.
An increasing number of window cleaners who use a
pure water trolley have added a backpack sprayer which allows
them to walk through a customers terraced house to
clean the windows at the back, for very little loss
of production time. This increases the amount of
work available to them in the areas where they
already work. They don't have to find new customers,
they just do more work for the ones they already
have.
Loads of window cleaners (at least where I live) who
clean terraced houses, have refused for years to clean
the backs of them because of the time it takes to get
round there and back again. Walking through the house
with a backpack sprayer opens up a whole new market to
terraced house window
cleaners.
are frequently used
as starter systems because it's the cheapest and
most versatile way to test a water fed pole system,
until you get used to it, and to check out if it
actually does a good enough job on the windows you
clean, before you swap over to a pure water system and
move away from your traditional window cleaning
methods.
can comfortably fit into the
back of any van and will also fit into most estate cars
and even the boots of some cars. There's no need to go
to the expense of buying another vehicle, before you
can try a water fed pole cleaning system for
yourself.
If you know anyone in your locality who already uses
a , then why not ask them if
you can borrow or rent it from them for a day or two,
when they're not using it ! If everything works out to
your satisfaction, then you can commit to buying your
own , safe in the knowledge
that you already know it will meet your needs.
are also useful
as emergency supplies of pure water when used
with a DI bottle. You can fill your trolley system
tank up from any standpipe or suitable tap and work all
day, without having to return to base for a new supply
of prepared, pure water.
Using a DI bottle used to be an expensive way to run
a pure water window cleaning system because of the cost
per litre of producing pure water through the mixed bed
resin. By following this tip you will
drastically reduce the cost per litre of producing
pure water through a DI bottle.
