Water-fed poles get ahead by a neck

07 March 2013

With the latest Unger MultiLink
Gooseneck System,window cleaning is
like precision aerobatics

With the latest Unger MultiLink
Gooseneck System,window cleaning is
like precision aerobatics

Aerobatics may seem like an unfortunate simile when
discussing window-cleaning at height, but is it? Everybody
knows a fighter aircraft can crash, but it's the remarkable
ability of the Red Arrows pilots to place a fast aircraft precisely
where it needs to be, over and over again, month in, month out,
that we all admire. It is the precision, the reliability, and the
certainty of delivering the result that is the principal quality of
the aerobatic display team - and of the Unger
HiFloTM Pure Water MultiLink Gooseneck System.

That may be a mouthful, but it is a mouthful
that every window cleaner needs to get to
know, because this is one system that can
both make life easier, and get the job done
better.

Let's face it, the principal problem faced by a
window cleaner using a water-fed pole to clean
windows, or cladding, or anything external and high above
the ground, is simply that of bringing the brush, the squeegee or any
other tool to bear effectively on the surface to be cleaned, despite
whatever obstructions might be making that difficult. If something is
in the way, and the pressure of the brush or squeegee is oblique
rather than at right angles to the surface, it both feels wrong and
does a less than perfect job.

Neck and neck
What Unger has done is to come up with a more versatile and much
improved water-fed pole system. It starts at ground level with an
Unger HiFloTM source of pure water, which is attached to any of four
different Unger HiFloTM water-fed poles, aluminium, carbon-fibre,
modular or telescopic.The pole can be screwed into any multiple
combination of four alternative goosenecks, to which any one of a
system of five different brushes can be fitted on the end to do the
cleaning. Or you can fit a squeegee if you want a squeegee.

You can, for example, assemble a diversion of goosenecks to go
around a flue pipe that is in the way, or an assembly of goosenecks
that presents the brush accurately to the underside of a soffitt
to be able to apply pressure to clean it.The whole system is
designed to distribute forces as they need to be
distributed to get the job done really well and, above
all safely.

Using various combinations of HiFloTM Pure Water
MultiLink Gooseneck components to modify and
adjust the HiFloTM pole set-up so that the brush on
the end points at anything that needs washing at
any angle, you can safely wash just about anything
- satellite dishes, solar panels, large vehicles, aircraft
and freight containers.The system allows you to adjust and lock a
brush in any position through 360Â°. Nearly every working angle and
distance can be achieved with subtle adjustment of an Unger waterfed
pole and the MultiLink Gooseneck components that are used to
get the brush to reach the key place. Nothing is impossible.

If you would like to give it a try for yourself, call the number in the
box and we will fix a demonstration. Can't guarantee the Red Arrows
will be there, but Unger could be a
close second best.