[bobplum]

Can someone on here please tell me who actually invented the WFP system for window cleaning??
Were did it originate?
Was it this country or some where else

I ask this because every time i have to explain to customers or potential customers , about WFP, i just wish i had the full facts

It beats watching Football

[Barryy]

POLEand

[bobplum]

POLEand

aha very good

[herbiefatboy]

americans

[colley614]

I've seen pictures of American window cleaners from the 1950's on here with big poles cleaning windows.

The first water fed pole system I came across was back in 2001 and was an ionics reach and wash. I was told they were the first systems on the market.

[Paul Coleman]

I first heard about it in the mid/late 90s but was told by a window cleaner that it needed £30k-£35k to set up - so presumably Ionics.  He said something about it cleaning well because the water was purified.  I just thought it sounded like a load of rubbish and didn't hear of it again till about '04.
I can't verify this but I heard that Tucker poles were using it in the USA in the 80's.

[Window Lickers]

The aborigines. They were using it for decades when western civilisation appeared on the scene.

[deeege]

Pretty sure the Aztecs were WFP'ing as early as the 13th century.

Before that Solar Steve was claiming to be be the first pure water solar panel cleaner.

[J.D]

It actually originated here in Ireland. Irish whisky distillers first started washing glass with it and after tasting it they thought it would be perfect for making their potato wine taste better! A local stout brewer called Arthur Guinness got to hear about it and bought the water device from the two brothers for £100.00 (Quite a tidy some back in the day). The rest as they say is history...

[Tadgh O Shea]

Can someone on here please tell me who actually invented the WFP system for window cleaning??
Were did it originate?
Was it this country or some where else

I ask this because every time i have to explain to customers or potential customers , about WFP, i just wish i had the full facts

It beats watching Football

   

Hi Bob, I think Ionic Systems were the first company to produce carbon fiber pole systems in 1999, before that they were using the tucker aluminum pole systems until they went there own way.
now i think they are changing to little waffle cloths as they see them to be the future

[PoleKing]

Can someone on here please tell me who actually invented the WFP system for window cleaning??
Were did it originate?
Was it this country or some where else

I ask this because every time i have to explain to customers or potential customers , about WFP, i just wish i had the full facts

It beats watching Football

   

Hi Bob, I think Ionic Systems were the first company to produce carbon fiber pole systems in 1999, before that they were using the tucker aluminum pole systems until they went there own way.
now i think they are changing to little waffle cloths as they see them to be the future

A man who can laugh at himself will go far.

[Tadgh O Shea]

And this man knows how far he is going to go.

[Tom White]

And this man knows how far he is going to go.

The further the better, and once you go far, keep going and go a bit futher.

[Tadgh O Shea]

Chalk it down Tosh.

[G Griffin]

The aborigines. They were using it for decades when western civilisation appeared on the scene.

  but true.
They filtered the water with a DI-dgeridoo.
It's a myth about the RO-mans doing it first.

[paul ette]

Thought it was tucker pole usa

[mark m]

https://www.facebook.com/download/160485767459347/oldwfp.pdf

[bobplum]

https://www.facebook.com/download/160485767459347/oldwfp.pdf

NOT available Mark

[tlwcs]

Can someone on here please tell me who actually invented the WFP system for window cleaning??
Were did it originate?
Was it this country or some where else

I ask this because every time i have to explain to customers or potential customers , about WFP, i just wish i had the full facts

It beats watching Football

   

Hi Bob, I think Ionic Systems were the first company to produce carbon fiber pole systems in 1999, before that they were using the tucker aluminum pole systems until they went there own way.
now i think they are changing to little waffle cloths as they see them to be the future

A man who can laugh at himself will go far.

+1

[bobplum]

The process of osmosis through semipermeable membranes was first observed in 1748 by Jean-Antoine Nollet. For the following 200 years, osmosis was only a phenomenon observed in the laboratory. In 1949, the University of California at Los Angeles first investigated desalination of seawater using semipermeable membranes. Researchers from both University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Florida successfully produced fresh water from seawater in the mid-1950s, but the flux was too low to be commercially viable[2] until the discovery at University of California at Los Angeles by Sidney Loeb[3] and Srinivasa Sourirajan at the National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, of techniques for making asymmetric membranes characterized by an effectively thin "skin" layer supported atop a highly porous and much thicker substrate region of the membrane. By the end of 2001, about 15,200 desalination plants were in operation or in the planning stages worldwide.[1]

Looks like these guys made it commercially viable