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A hosepipe ban will prevent people from filling up kiddie pools, cleaning automobiles, watering plants and gardens, or washing windows. A £1,000 fine may be imposed for breaking the guidelines. So how does this affect window cleaners?
Fortunately, because the prohibition primarily covers domestic use, companies using water for business purposes are immune from the limitations. Even under the temporary usage ban, you are still permitted to use a hosepipe if you use it to provide consumers with services for your business.
At Vision Exterior Cleaning we are very conscious about the amount of water we use. Gone are the days where window cleaners use buckets of water and a sponge to clean your windows where most of the water dripped of the sponge.
All of the water used when we come to clean your windows comes from an internal tank located inside our van. We don’t need to use a hosepipe to clean windows, but we do need to refill and filter the water every night.
Pure Water for Window Cleaners
Currently, distilled water window washing is the method of choice for window cleaners since it provides a dependable solution without the use of harmful chemicals. But how does it actually work in use? Since it doesn’t contain the chemicals and minerals that are usually added to tap water, you’ll find that utilising this sort of water to clean your windows is considerably more effective than doing it with tap water.
To create Pure Water, which is subsequently used to clean windows, the water must first go through a particular filtering and purification process. This procedure does draw water from a hosepipe at home but as it is for business use, we are exempt for the usual domestic house pipe bans.
Hosepipe ban exemptions
- Watering a garden or any area used by a company to cultivate any produce, plants, or other things for sale or other commercial purposes
- Offering window cleaning services to clients, including washing windows, patios, walkways, and private recreational boats
- Taxis, delivery trucks, and commercial vehicles can all be washed.
- Maintaining or refuelling a water fountain that is used for officially sanctioned religious rituals
- When it’s for the welfare of the fish or other aquatic species in the pond, filling or maintaining a household pond
- Other artificial outdoor surface cleaning, if it is offered as a service to clients
