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In the UK and other Countries around the globe more and more window cleaning companies are turning to reach and wash methods to wash windows at heights considered too dangerous to be cleaned by tradditional ladder access.

Contrary to what some window cleaners believe, it is not against the law in the UK to use ladders for short periods of time.

It would be wrong to believe that ladder use is illegal but many window cleaners still misunderstand the law in the UK.

But how, may you ask does the water fed pole system work and will it give me the same results as a traditional clean?

H2O, Aqua or Water is constructed from one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms existing as two ions charged in water.

The water purification process removes all mineral and particle impurities from the water enabling it evaporate naturally without leaving behind any trace mineral deposits on the surface the water was on, but there are other benefits of using pure water to clean windows that are not as straight forward as one might imagine.

A little known fact about pure water is that it actually possesses a remarkably solvent capability, resulting in the capacity of these charged ions to bond with other ions in the same way.

Simply put, when purified water flows over a surface, it actually dissolves and absorbs all potential substances and because the final rinse is also pure water when left to dry naturally it leaves a streak-free surface behind.

Light brushing with a monofilament brush attached to a carbon composite pole that feeds pure water up to heights of up to 70 foot will ensure streak free clean windows with out the high risk and high cost methods of past.

A leading window cleaning company in London use a rain repellent product called Hydrostorm that is added to the pure water supply leaving a thin layer of marine polymer on the glass after the water has evaporated and dried. This rain repellent surface or hydrophobic treatment keeps glass surfaces clean for up to four times as long.