Hello
I live in the Birmingham area and am considering starting up my own window cleaning business with a friend in the next couple of months. I have already looked at a great number of threads on this forum and have found them to be most useful. As I am so inexperienced however there are still a few points that I am unsure about with which I could use some advice.
1) In the event of a lengthy spell of bad weather such as heavy rain is it still possible to work as normal? If not then how does one go about completing the work? I imagine it would be ok not to work for a day or two but what do you do if it rains steadily for a week?
2) Would I be correct in thinking that if there is a window that is hard to reach, or one situated directly above a slanted extension that some sort of extendable cleaning pole should be used? If the answer to this is "yes" then is such a pole hard to use for someone inexperienced and do you use it whilst standing on the geound or from half way up a ladder?
3) Is it mandatory to buy a car roof rack for ladders or can you get by with using a ladder which folds down so that it is small enough to fit inside a car? I don't even know if such a ladder exsists so what generally would be the smallest ladder that a window cleaner can get away with using?
4) Is it possible just to use fairy liquid as a cleaning fluid or is it best to buy a more powerful cleaning agent designed more specifically for window cleaners?
Please help me with these problems, any assistance will be greatly appreciated.