Anyone cleaned Atrium windows?
When I first cleaned them many years ago I just used water fed pole. They looked awful the next day.
Then I used a non scratch pad the next time and they looked better. Along with a squeegee for a crisp finish but took ages.
Looking at the Qleen system with a rotating brush head but looks expensive for a job every 6 months. Anyone used one?
We clean this entrance atrium (and everything else)
and the main atrium once a year. Its part of our local primary and high school.
We have to clean both atriums 3 times. The first removes the millions of spiders, webs and nests. The second to get the majority of the dirt off and the third to get the job right.
The problem we have is that the glass is secured inside a framework of aluminium box sections. Water gets into the inside of those box sections and then slowly drains out and down the glass below leaving streaks when dried.
In 10 years we haven't been able to change the way we have to work. On the second and third pass we do the top run of windows and drop down and do the second row until we have finished. We also have a three story run of windows next to this atrium which we try to do at the same time to allow plenty of time for each run of windows to dry.
When I quoted for the job I didn't take the extra time we needed to complete this section of clean. But we have found that we are able to catch the time up over the rest of the job.
I certainly would spend money on additional equipment which I doubt in our case will speed up the clean.
Cleaning both the atriums only takes around 9 1/4 hours in total.
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