Portable 'On-Demand' Water Fed Pole Systems For Pure Window Cleaning

'Simpole Inc.' -features it's new 'Sim440' 7 stage, tankless & pumpless RO/DI (reverse osmosis/ deionisation) system in a pull along toolbox. This unit is a gallon a minute producing powerhouse - 60 gallons an hour/1440 gallons a day system. It comes with a 60 foot carbon fiber water-fed-pole for only $3,875.00. You can run two poles off the system at the same time. Phillip Alexander explains the system in the video above.

The "Reach Higher Ground" Products Company has designed the new water powered system to be the smallest multistage water purification system the window cleaning industry has ever known. The ‘EZ Pure’ as it is known, weighs in at only 45 pounds (20 kilos) and is slightly larger than a rectangular window cleaning bucket. It utilizes 4 of the RHG filters with their quick connect fitting system. The carbon, dual reverse osmosis membranes, and a DI Filter. All four filters are 4″ x 24″ long making the unit a total of 24″ long x 12″ wide x 12″ tall. The system produces purified water on tap water pressure alone. The systems design lends itself to being the easiest to use system on the market. Simply connect your tap water supply to the inlet of the system, close the bypass valve, and connect your waterfed pole to the outlet of the system. Its that simple!  Shawn Gavin explains the easy change system above. Available here.

P1000 Portable RO Unit: Just plug into the outside tap and process as you work - works off mains water pressure. This can also be used as a stand-alone RO unit with amazing simplicity and efficiency of use.It features a 'long-life' life carbon/sediment filter with an ultra low pressure RO membrane - Up to 200lph depending on input water pressure. Can produce water down to 20psi (1.3bar) with no pump needed. Size: 24" x 12" x 6." This unit is ideal for use with a seperate DI canister or on relatively low TDS water Supplies - If used on a water supply with under 100ppm this will bring the water quailty down to under 10ppm with no need for a DI unit. Price: £455.00 (£546.00 Including VAT charge at 20%).

P2000 Portable RO Unit: The Ultimate in Portable Systems: Same as above except it has a 4 Litre DI cartridge fitted to provide 100% purity whatever the input quality. Single or Twin user option (£695).

Sized slightly larger at 36" x 12" x 6." Price: £565.00 (£678.00 Including VAT charge at 20%).

Final Federation of Window Cleaner Videos

The final two videos from the Federation of Window Cleaners Show..

Pure Freedom® has quickly grown to become one of the most recognised and trusted names for quality water fed pole window cleaning equipment. Pure Freedom® are the manufacturers of the Freedom Trolley and Pure Freedom Systems and carry out all their work in-house without the need to use outside contractors, which gives them the ability to provide a very high quality of customer care. If your requirements differ from the stocked units they can alter/add equipment to suit your needs from the very start of the manufacturing process. Pure Freedom are proud to now offer their new Isothermal 1 & 2 Hot Water Fed Pole Systems for 1 and 2 operators respectively.

Bayersan Ltd. specializes in manufacturing window cleaning equipment and accessories for the sanitary supply industry. Squeegees and Telescopic Poles are their primary business, not just a sideline. The company offers floor and window squeegees (swivel and stainless steel squeegees ), scrapers, blades, telescopic (extension) poles & handles, floor pads, mop & mop holders, T-holders (plastic and aluminium) and sleeves. Bayersan Ltd. offers top quality products, service, return policy, distribution and wholesaling programs. Shown in the video - their new line of water fed poles.

Contico Manufacturing: Whatever your cleaning, janitorial, spraying or hygiene requirements, Contico has the answer. From mopping systems to dust control, trigger sprayers to pump dispensers, washroom to window cleaning, Contico supply high quality products, utilising the very latest designs, innovations and technology to ensure that when you order from Contico, you will receive the very best products that money can buy. Contico provide a wide range of products that are designed and manufactured to withstand the rigours of everyday intensive commercial cleaning and are supported by their quality management system which complies with the requirements of BS EN ISO 9001:2000. All their products are approved under BS5750.

Polished Insurance can offer quotes for all types of contract cleaning companies who need public liability insurance or public & employers liability insurance cover including;

• Loss of Customers' Keys
• Damage to property being worked upon
• Treatment Risks
• Temporary removal of customers' goods
• Misuse of customers' telephones
• Failure to secure customers' premises

Offering liability insurance quotes to all types of contract cleaners, from self employed cleaners to contract cleaners with employees or sub contractors. Allied Insurance understand the cleaning industry and can offer advice and expertise to make sure you get the insurance cover you need. They provide an online guide to the different types of liability insurance for cleaning contractors, you may not realise but most policies covering liability insurance for cleaners don't provide the covers mentioned.

CTE - a towering presence for over 25 years: Founded in 1981, CTE immediately sets up its vocation in the production and sale of material removal lifts and ladders in particular. Efficient services, innovative technical solutions, prompt after-sales service, professional consulting and training: all that sums their motto up, "Work Becomes Easy." Theirs is an approach, a business ethos that revolves around customers, their safety and quality. Meaning our customers’ quality of life. That’s why CTE, a group united by ideas, motivation and passion, strives to make work easier for companies operating in the field of lifting materials and people. CTE sells Truck-mounted articulated platforms, Truck-mounted telescopic platforms, Track mounted access platforms, Fire fighting platforms, Material removal lifts, Stair climbers, UNI-TEC scaffolds, Modular material lifts & also a range of Second-hand machines.

Ettore UK: Such a simple invention yet, the great ones invariably are. A blade of rubber, a handle perfectly angled for it's purpose, a patent followed and professional window cleaning was changed forever. The Year was 1936, the man Ettore Steccone. Often imitated, never duplicated, his original squeegee design has remained essentially unchanged since its inception. His secret was, and is, in the rubber for this is the essential heart of the system. A razor sharp square edge, supple, smooth, consistent which leaves glass perfectly clean and streak free. Indeed, every Ettore product is 100% guaranteed to deliver nothing less than flawless performance. Ettore Steccone's pioneering spirit has assured Ettore's position as the undisputed industry leader. Today the company provides every conceivable tool and convenience to make window cleaning more fun, efficient and effective.

The HSE - "Our job is to prevent death, injury and ill-health to those at work and those affected by work activities." HSE is working in close partnership with industry to ensure that anyone who needs to use a ladder , uses the right equipment for the job and uses it safely. To further promote HSE’s award winning Shattered Lives Campaign it launched the Ladder Exchange Initiative on 1st September 2009 intended to help reduce the number of deaths and injuries resulting from falls from height.
Despite a sustained long term reduction, falls from height remains the most common type of fatal injury. In 2007/08, a total of 58 workers died and over 3600 employees suffered major injury as a result of a fall from height in the workplace. Many of these incidents could be avoided by using the right equipment and taking simple precautions. The focus of this four month initiative gives people the opportunity to get rid of old, damaged and broken ladders by trading them in for a new one. Over 5’500 ladders have already been exchanged under this initiative since it first launched in 2007 and they intend to build on this success.



Window Cleaner Pro: Ian & Brad help you run Your Window Cleaning Business With Ease! If you own a window cleaning business and are tired of the day to day administration, trying to figure out what work is due, which customers have not paid or preparing your accounts then this software is for you. Designed by window cleaners for window cleaners, WCP offers you a state of the art software package that is easy to use and doesn't require a degree in computing to use. Let the software do all the admin work so you can concentrate on growing your business and spend more time doing the things you want. Once you start using it you'll wonder how you ever did without it. Keep your work up to date in real time on your Windows Mobile PDA.

Facelift Cleaning: Water Fed Poles For All Types Of Work. Whether you are a domestic window cleaner looking to reduce your round time or a commercial cleaner who needs to reach several floors above ground level, our complete range of poles covers every eventuality. Pole choice is split into 4 sections:

• Glass Fibre Poles – Low cost, reach up to 33ft, ideal for domestic cleaning.
• Fusion Poles – Retain low cost but rigid at greater heights due to majority carbon mix, up to 38ft reach, ideal for domestic cleaning or smaller commercial work.
• Carbon Fibre Poles – The mainstay of the commercial window cleaner, carbon poles are rigid and light, our poles will withstand the day to day wear and tear of commercial work. Available up to 58ft reach.
• FaceliftONE Poles – These are high modulus carbon fibre poles, 30% more rigid than standard carbon fibre, and as a result able to reach higher whilst still maintaining the same rigidity. These are designed for commercial cleaners who want to avoid the cost of cherry pickers or rope access. Available up to 72ft reach.

IPAF: The International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) promotes the safe and effective use of powered access worldwide. Set up in 1983, IPAF is a not-for-profit members’ organisation that represents the interests of manufacturers, distributors, users, rental and training companies. It serves as a forum for all active in the world of powered access. IPAF has played a key role in promoting many of the design, safety and testing procedures that are now established in the powered access industry.
The IPAF training programme for platform operators is certified by TÜV as conforming to ISO 18878. More than 70,000 operators are trained each year through a worldwide network of over 300 training centres. Training in the US is managed by IPAF’s North American subsidiary, AWPT Inc. Training generally lasts one to two days and is a mixture of theory and practice.
Those who successfully complete IPAF training are awarded the PAL Card (Powered Access Licence), the most widely held and recognised proof of training for platform operators. The PAL Card is valid for five years and shows the machine categories that the operator has been trained in. It also features the holder’s photo and signature, and can be verified by calling IPAF.

SYR (Scot Young Research Ltd): Provide manual equipment for the cleaning industry. Always looking for improvement & innovation, SYR have won several awards for their equipment including the queens award for innovation. Whatever your cleaning, janitorial, spraying or hygiene requirements, Scot Young Research are the answer.

Although Simpole weren't on show at the federation of window cleaners event - Jeff Brimble decided to bring one along for the main purpose of running over it in the car park with his van. Thanks Jeff. Simpole claim the strongest water fed carbon fiber pole on the market! Don't try this at home!

The FWC was formed in 1947 to establish an authoritative organization specifically concerned with the Window Cleaning Industry and its subsidiary services. In almost any business or industry, a collective body of professionals will virtually always be more powerful than an individual person or company. This is especially true when the body is recognised by the government as an authority on the industry. Such organisations can do many things such as influencing regulations, advancing the interests of members, creating new operating methods to enhance profit and safety and other activities. An industry body provides credibility, expertise, influence and access. The window cleaning industry is no exception. FWC has been the professional Employers Trade Association for window cleaners for over 60 years! The Federation of Window Cleaners supports these aspects:

• To Provide information on all aspects of the Trade.
• Increase public awareness of the need for high standards of safety.
• Represent the Industry with government and municipal bodies.
• To support Members with FREE 24 hour legal advice
• To encourage members in attaining Health & Safety Training & Education
• To Promote the protection of the customer against Fraud & Misrepresentation.

Window Cleaning News & Videos

New Zealand - Fake cleaners fooled restaurant owners: Beware of dodgy window washers. This is the warning issued by Palmerston North restaurant owner Barbara Taniyama, who was duped out of $120 by a pair of phoney window cleaners. Mrs Taniyama, who owns Japanese restaurant Yatai with husband Atsushi, was called by a man offering to clean the Featherston St restaurant's windows on Monday. After coming to see the building, he quoted her $120 for the interior and exterior ground floor windows. "I thought that was quite a reasonable fee because it's quite a big job," Mrs Taniyama said. "They said `we are on the dole and we are trying to do some work to get off the dole'." Mrs Taniyama hired them and was told they would return to do the job yesterday afternoon. But the men, who claimed to be from a business called "Smith's Window Cleaning" turned up at 10am yesterday, just as Mrs Taniyama was leaving. "One had a small brush and a scraper and a small triangular trough of what looked like dirty water." When she returned about 40 minutes later they were gone and the windows were not clean. The men collected the money from Mr Taniyama, after about 30 minutes of substandard work.
"One hundred and twenty dollars is not a huge amount but you feel pissed off," she said. "My husband is furious with me for hiring them and I'm furious with him for paying them." There is no Smith's Window Cleaning business in the Yellow Pages and a phone number left by the men did not work. Detective Sergeant Tim Moffatt said a similar scam involving dodgy tree trimmers cropped up in Palmerston North last year. "The warning is don't do business with people who don't appear bona fide, simple as that," he said.

Twyford man sentenced for blackmail: Terence ‘Terry’ Burton was jailed at Reading Crown Court on Monday after admitting attempting to extract £20,000 from Berkshire-based ‘Dr X’, who cannot be named for legal reasons. Sentencing Burton, Recorder John Darling said blackmail was “the attempted murder of the soul”. He slammed 51-year-old Burton for threatening to pass on sexually explicit footage of the doctor and “his missus” to the General Medical Council. Ex-window cleaner Burton also attempted to sell the footage – filmed secretly during a doctor’s appointment by his wife Marion who hid a camera in her clutch handbag – to a Sunday tabloid newspaper. Burton, of Wargrave Road, admitted a count of blackmail in January this year. However, legal restrictions meant the plea could not be reported until his wife’s trial earlier this month at which she admitted being a dominatrix.

It was the day the sky disappeared. One might have assumed the end was nigh as the most severe dust storm in 70 years blew across southeast Queensland, bringing chaos to airports, cutting power, fanning bushfires and causing thousands of asthmatics to retreat indoors. Amateur photographers emerged from office blocks to point their cameras skyward. The tallest city towers vanished in the haze; giant cranes were blanketed in an ominous orange hue and window cleaners across the state were salivating. The weather bureau said the suffocating storm pushed out of western NSW, propelled by a change from northerly to southerly winds.

Kids have fun thinking inside the box: It was reassuring to see that kids' imaginations are surviving despite the best efforts of toy designers and busy parents to make creativity obsolete. Who needs an imagination when video games create the adventure for you, when organized sports leave no time for just goofing around? Even Legos, once the stem cells of building blocks that left everything to the imagination, now come in specialized kits. The last time I visited the Children's Discovery Museum was four years ago, for the opening of its special area for toddlers and preschoolers, called the Wonder Cabinet. That creation took months to build and cost $1 million. Ah, those were the days. So, rather than see 1,200 square feet of prime exhibit space sit empty for a month, Bogle grabbed the big boxes that the museum's new recycling bins had been shipped in and put them out to see what the young visitors would do. In no time, kids were climbing around and having a ball. Before long, new creations began to take shape. Creatures, skyscrapers with lots of windows, a fort with a "no girls allowed" sign. "The kids really love our high-tech exhibits," she said. "But then the window washer comes along, and they are just as excited by that."

The Valley of the Sun’s tourism industry came out in force Tuesday morning to celebrate the findings of two studies on travel and emphasize the importance of tourism dollars to the state’s economy. Elected officials and others spoke of the negative media attention over high-profile corporate meetings during the past year, called the “AIG effect” in reference to the fallout from a meeting of insurance executives from that firm here in the Valley. Phoenix leaders said that negative portrayal has translated into lost business and lost opportunities.A restaurant owner and a hotel worker also spoke of the importance of tourism to their livelihoods. Vincent Guerithault, owner of Vincent’s on Camelback, talked about the recession’s impact on his business. From the elimination of valet service and window washing, to the reduction in phone lines at his business and an overall reduction in staff, he has tried to cut costs in response to the recession.

Reach Higher Ground waterfed poles have a brand new blog - go here to see it. Shawn Gavin shows us the merits of the backpack below. Next demo' date in Arizona in November.The second video shows Shawn fitting an Xtel pole tip.

The next 3 videos from Simpole. A little shaky the second one, but its the only video where the new clamps can be seen pulled out & worked closed.

Window Cleaning Video Mish-Mash

Tony Evans aka Mr. Squeegee of New View window cleaning in Iowa shows us what you can do with an Ettore super channel..

PWC Access has many years experience providing access solutions to both the commercial and construction sectors. Specialising in providing safe access solutions to high rise buildings and any premises that present an access problem for window cleaning or building maintenance.

John Lee from Simpole demos the 32' Simpole at the IWCA trade show in Atlanta.

Wayne Shockey of Awning Cleaning Services in Fort Worth, Dallas shows us before & after photos in his video. The blooper video is second!

Just a speed up clean in a hotel in Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain

Reach and Wash ladderless cleaning are based in the UK south east, and are part of laddersfree. They are mainly commercial ladderless window cleaners, but have a couple of add- on's like carpet cleaning and hard floor cleaning. Great music guys..

and finally...

Simpole Product Close Up

Phil Alexander of "We Dew Windows" & maker of the water fed pole: the Simpole has made a few more videos for our enjoyment. The first video shows you the system in action & the second gives you a view of the parts that the pole is made up of. You can also view Alex & Chris - the guys at window cleaning resource opening the Simpole packet as it arrives. The Simpole features in their WCR Nation broadcast which you can download here. Be warned, its a big file. You will be able to purchase the Simpole soon from the WCR shop here. Phil also featured in a previous blog here. I've also added the third video of Alex showing more detail.

The Sim Pole

Phillip Alexander (pictured) of "We dew windows" is a veteran window cleaner with nearly 40 years in the window cleaning field. The American window cleaning magazine (AWC) has also written about him & he is well known in the USA within the trade & among MWCoA members.

Phil recently made & patented his carbon fiber SimPole: the S.I.M. stands for Simple, Innovative & Multilevel. It is sold in heights from 2 foot to 32 feet. You also have a choice of nylon brush & hogs hair brush. The hogs hair brush also fits the Gardiner poles & can be bought seperately. Phil can also help you with all your water fed pole needs & can help set you up with a DI or RO unit. The product is available from his website & possibly Racensteins in the future.