Reinventing The Bucket - Kickstarter Campaign

Sparkling clean windows with less water wastage with the Eco Window Cleaning Unit.

Reinventing The Bucket - Kickstarter Campaign: Sparkling clean windows with less water wastage with the Eco Window Cleaning Unit. Why It’s Better Than a Bucket…  It Saves Water! Using the traditional method of cleaning windows, you ‘dip’ an Applicator into a bucket to absorb the water, and then you can either wring it out with your hand and get soaking wet hands. …Or do what most cleaners do and pull it out of the bucket with all the water on it and slop the water all over the window. Wasting about 250ml of water every time! The Eco Window Cleaning Unit uses less than a teaspoon, as the excess water is removed from the applicator before it gets anywhere near the glass.

The EcoBucket was featured on the blog before here.

It Saves Time! The Eco Window Cleaning Unit can hold 6.5 litres of water. You’ll be able to wash 64 glass panels of between 0.5 and 1 sq metre approximately. That’s enough for a window cleaner to last a whole day without a water change! The specially fitted pump and micro-jets mean that only the right amount of clean water is delivered to the squeegee when you need it. All you have to add is one teaspoonful (a quick squirt) of fairy liquid to break down the grease and that’s perfect!

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About this project

Hello, my name is Clyde Jordan. I’ve been a commercial abseiler for the last 10 years and window cleaning is a very big part of my career. I am based close to London where, like in any large city around the world, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of tall skyscrapers. This is where commercial abseilers play a very big part in keeping the cities looking their best by cleaning the windows of these buildings.

Our abseiling equipment that we use to get ourselves down, or sometimes even up, buildings has been tried and tested over many years and, in my opinion, it has also proven to be the safest way of accessing hard to reach areas, where the conventional way, i.e. ladders, scaffolding and so on, can’t get the job done. Our equipment is constantly being monitored and upgraded to make commercial abseiling safer. However, I had found that the tools we use are not as forthcoming in development as our abseiling equipment, as in using a bucket for cleaning windows while suspended in the air on ropes.

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Don’t get me wrong, a bucket is of great use as I am sure most of us have one or have used one but for commercial abseiling I found it to be really annoying and unconventional. I found that my cleaning tool lanyards always kept getting tangled and when maneuvering on the ropes to get to certain areas, I would almost always finish the day with a soaking leg and a wet sock and when having to do internal cleans where you want to use the least amount of water, it’s just not possible when using a bucket.

Simple process to speed up your window cleaning

I also found that on those not so often cleaning jobs my water constantly got dirty really quickly and I ended cleaning the glass with the dirty water so I spoke to a number of my work colleagues and asked them if they were also having the same problems. Most of them said “yes, but there is no other way of doing it”, which got me thinking “there HAS to be a better way”. I came up with a few ideas and started making homemade prototypes and handed them out to my work colleagues and their colleagues. I got loads of feedback from them and their thoughts on what would make the unit more comfortable and easier to use so I went back and made a lot of changes over a couple of years. I got a prototype that seemed to be good and liked by most abseilers that had a chance to test it. Some of the guys are still using the prototypes now years later!

It really is traditional window cleaning done the smart way.

So where are we now with the project?

During the design stages, the patent process and testing, it was found that the window cleaning unit saves water so the design team (Innovate Product Design) and myself came up with the name ECO WINDOW CLEANING UNIT. A lot of people might think “why worry about the water wasted during window cleaning?” but with millions of windows being cleaned on a daily basis, the amount of water wastage is phenomenal. The Eco Window Cleaning Unit reduces the amount of water wasted during window cleaning by keeping the dirty water separated from the clean water.

For the last two years we have been working with a large reputable manufacturing and managing company and have built up a trusting relationship to ensure that when it comes to production of the Eco Window Cleaning Unit every aspect runs as smooth as possible.    

We have been granted a UK patent and have a pending international patent, and are now happy to announce we are ready to start production of the Eco Window Cleaning Unit. To the people who do window cleaning whilst working at height and those who do indoor window cleaning, I say: Once you try an Eco Window Cleaning Unit, you will find it hard to go back to the bucket method. You’re going to save water, you’re going to save time, and you’re going to make your job a lot more comfortable!