Dave I have a 24ft pole against advice from kirsty at gardiners, you really do only want as bigger pole as you need, I thought I'd go for 24 ft so I could clean my own windows but I cant see me useing it for to long for 2 floor houses, nothing wrong with the gardiner pole but fibreglass can be a little heavy and at 17st I'm no wimp. I have posted picks on how I have set mine up on the current topic (wfp in my area)