Personally i havent worked with ladders much yet but do you more often use ladders or poles for your work?
I personally have 3 work colleagues which are still schooled from the old stuff and they would walk up a 6 part chicago ladder with bracing…
But really often they get out the ladders from the car roof when theres a window thats too high to get to it with a 4 steps stepladder rather than just using a pole instead…
The people i work with right now usually have customers where you can pole the windows.
But really when you can pole a window you dont have to get a ladder out from your car.
Storefront/commercial I pretty much only trad pole, unless it’s above about 12’-15’ then it’s the WFP. Never ladder if I can help it.
Residential, it depends.
Anything above what I can reach with a 24’ ladder is automatically relegated to the WFP. Less than that height and I need to weigh safety, quality and speed in the balance before choosing one method or the other.
Well those 3 colleagues of mine just dont seem to like poles overall, theyre from the old school where poles werent a thing yet…But doesnt mean poles are bad.
I feel like Pole Work on houses is taboo. I would almost always prefer a ladder at residential jobs. Commerical jobs that are not residential windows, give me that pole!
To Squeegee … 4 Piece 24’ Garlick.
Reaches everything I have. I bought the 5 Piece 30’ for one job that we did once , An that was it. It was higher than the 24’ would reach.
With the Garlick poles the 2 Piece sticks come in 12’ lengths, Reducing down to 6’.
The 3 Piece 8’ size is good for most of the work we do,whitest reducing down to 3-4’
At 4’-5’ makes it easier to keep somewhere. The 3 Piece 8’ works for me
Where I keep them , so do the 3 Piece 12’ Sticks