Telescopic Window Cleaning Poles

A telescopic window cleaning pole — a telepole — carries a squeegee or washer up to glass you cannot reach standing. You clean exactly as you would by hand, just further away, which makes it the cheapest way to stop using a ladder and the fastest to learn.

Telescopic window cleaning poles by reach

Pole	Reach	Suits	Price
2 metre telepole	to 2m	Shopfronts, interiors	R770
4 metre telepole	to 4m	Single storey	R1,090
6 metre telepole	to 6m	Double storey	R1,500
9 metre telepole	to 9m	Triple storey	R1,720

Buy for the building, not the maximum

A 9 metre pole is heavier at full extension and slower to handle on low work, so buy for the tallest window you actually clean regularly. Most domestic rounds are covered by 4 or 6 metres.

Making a telescopic window squeegee

Fit a 35cm squeegee (R390) to the pole for the dry stroke and a washer sleeve (R150) for the wet one. That pairing is what people mean by an extendable window squeegee — the same two tools you use by hand, on a pole you can shorten for ground-floor glass.

Where a telepole stops

Past about 6 metres, controlling a squeegee blade from the ground gets difficult and the finish suffers — you cannot see the stroke clearly and you cannot reach the pane to correct it. That is the point at which cleaners move to a waterfed pole, which feeds purified water to a brush head and needs no squeegee finish at all.

Full detail: how to clean high windows and the whole window cleaning equipment range.