There are various window cleaning trolleys available
from a variety of sources, including eBay.
Window cleaning trolleys
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 window cleaning trolleys 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 window cleaning trolleys, 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.
Window cleaning trolleys 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.
Window cleaning trolleys 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 window cleaning trolley , 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 window cleaning trolley, safe in
the knowledge that you already know it will meet
your needs.
Window cleaning trolleys 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.