[windows_chepstow]

As Squeaks says, that porch looks quite shallow, so I'd position the top of my ladders to one side of the window, or just above it and have the feet resting on a Rojak ladder stopper.

My Rojak has holes drilled in the corners and I can use tent pegs to peg it into soft ground (a tip from this site).

If you wanted to be doubly safe, you could also tie the ladder off, using the wooden brackets that support the porch.

This advice may not be HSE acceptable, but common sense tells me I'd be safe.

[Paul Coleman]

Neil.
I'm assuming that you have no WFP or prefer not to use it as it's a builder's clean.
There are two possible ways I could do that.  Neither of them entail positioning a ladder the way that ladder is leaning against the porch.

1)  The ladder could be positioned facing the house and extended quite a way above the window thus reducing the angle.  Hopefully you would be able to reach the glass by hand.  Ladder mitts on top of the ladder would be good to avoid sideways slipping on the brickwork.  You could then clean in the normal way.

2)  You could use a non-WF pole and attach your hand tools onto the end of them cleaning the window from ground level.  There are scrapers that fit into a squeegee handle and onto the pole (I use an Unger one) which should allow you to scrape the glass while it is soaking wet.  As there is probably builder's debris, you may also want to consider getting an applicator sleeve which is abrasive on one side (can't recall the name).

[dai]

Sod the sign that says keep off the lawn, go from the front of the porch with the top of your ladder up near the pale colour bricks. I have a stabliser bar across the bottom of my ladder, and I put a spike the size of a poker in the ground behind it.

[marc]

id change over to wfp then you wont have these problems

[Johnboyfree]

id change over to wfp then you wont have these problems

[/i]Hi,You cant really use WFP on Builders Cleans,it just doesnt work......(you have to take off a plastic/cellophane type material that protects the window)

[Neil Mc Anulty]

marc
Impossible. You also have to take the stickers off around the frame and sometimes the manufacturers sticker is on the outside which requires a spray of solvent. I have access to a wfp system but it would just not be suitable for the initial cleans I do, you need to get up to the window 

[marc]

i know i was trying to start wfp v trad fight for my own amusement ive just smacked my wrist