adam mayhead
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This one is trumping us. We need to clean this balcony from builders dust and paint and scale that's built up.
We need to clean this all from the balcony, so both sides of the external glass need to be cleaned by leaning over.
We have very limited access to water, and only 110v can be plugged in on site.
At the moment we have been cleaning all the glass first with an applicator followed d by a squeegee.
Then we go over to remove paint specs, then use a limescale remover. We do this order as the glass is so thick with dust you can't see anything but dust until this is removed.
Then we go over all the seals with cream cleaner.
Then we used a brush to get in all the edges, the seals etc as these are full of dust.
Then it's wiping down the frames with a microfibre cloth a couple times as the first it to remove the thick dust, then final to remove the smearing.
Finally we go over the glass again with an applicator /mop and squeegee.
With the issue on the glass being the external side of the balcony as you are reaching over the top, you're cleaning from the bottom up with the squeegee and unable to get real pressure on the glass where it might be needed.
This takes ages. And I mean ages. 4 guys all day to just do 4 of these.
I need a solution to do this quicker. The biggest way we could save time is the first layer of thick dust but how I'm hoping for ideas.
Water access is an issue. The only working tap is not close by any means and the buckets we use need rinsing a lot due to the amount of dust.
We also can't use too much water as we are cleaning from ground floor up so if we clean day the 4th floor with too much water, it'll drop down to the already cleaned 3rd floor.
I had thought some sort of purified water system where we use a strong brush with water coming out to just fully rinse everything and then leave it to dry, and then come back again later to do this again but hopefully now with less dust this time it'll dry nice. The a final check over for paint, limescale etc. However how we'd purify the water I don't know.
Help me out. What's your ideas? Open to anything. Attached a load of photos
We need to clean this all from the balcony, so both sides of the external glass need to be cleaned by leaning over.
We have very limited access to water, and only 110v can be plugged in on site.
At the moment we have been cleaning all the glass first with an applicator followed d by a squeegee.
Then we go over to remove paint specs, then use a limescale remover. We do this order as the glass is so thick with dust you can't see anything but dust until this is removed.
Then we go over all the seals with cream cleaner.
Then we used a brush to get in all the edges, the seals etc as these are full of dust.
Then it's wiping down the frames with a microfibre cloth a couple times as the first it to remove the thick dust, then final to remove the smearing.
Finally we go over the glass again with an applicator /mop and squeegee.
With the issue on the glass being the external side of the balcony as you are reaching over the top, you're cleaning from the bottom up with the squeegee and unable to get real pressure on the glass where it might be needed.
This takes ages. And I mean ages. 4 guys all day to just do 4 of these.
I need a solution to do this quicker. The biggest way we could save time is the first layer of thick dust but how I'm hoping for ideas.
Water access is an issue. The only working tap is not close by any means and the buckets we use need rinsing a lot due to the amount of dust.
We also can't use too much water as we are cleaning from ground floor up so if we clean day the 4th floor with too much water, it'll drop down to the already cleaned 3rd floor.
I had thought some sort of purified water system where we use a strong brush with water coming out to just fully rinse everything and then leave it to dry, and then come back again later to do this again but hopefully now with less dust this time it'll dry nice. The a final check over for paint, limescale etc. However how we'd purify the water I don't know.
Help me out. What's your ideas? Open to anything. Attached a load of photos
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