The point of cleaning windows?

[Commander Kinsey]

Why are skyscraper windows cleaned? Surely the rain does that job for free? I have never cleaned my house windows, it can't be dirtier higher up.

[Brian Gaff (Sofa)]

Well there is pigeon shit all over mine, two days after the cleaner has been, but I live in a house and cannot see the mess myself. Brian

[Commander Kinsey]

I tend not to get it on vertical windows much, they'd have to have a good aim to get it from out on the eaves. But if it lands on my car or my conservatory roof, it's gone after the next rainfall. So cleaning either is pointless.

[Commander Kinsey]

Not on a soggy island.

Water tends to wash things off.

Doesn't make a difference to what glass does in rain.

For what reason?

[F Murtz]

Park your car here,bat shit does not wash off,especially with no rain and left on it dissolves paint

[Commander Kinsey]

Don't park your car in a cave.

[Commander Kinsey]

Can't they just have jets of water at the top that flush the whole thing once a week? They could even have a wash and rinse cycle with detergent in it.

I didn't think you had enough population density for smog.

Then why not use hovel glass in skyscrapers?

And higher wind speed with the rain on it to rinse.

[Commander Kinsey]

No. There's no need, since opening the window does not make the view clearer.

It may be because I don't live in a polluted area. I do know a friend who said he had a problem with dirt, living near a granary. Even his garden pond got a film of muck over it.

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[Commander Kinsey]

Must be different bats, the bats I've seen in Scotland are so small they'd easily fit in your hand, so their shit must be considerably smaller than say a seagull.

That sentence is f***ed and doesn't mean what you intended.

In Scotland you're lucky to ever see a bat.

Try brake fluid.

[Commander Kinsey]

I've seen about 5 bats in my life flying around in the open, and about 5000 bats in a cave. I can tell you they are very good at not crashing into you. I think I stood on a twig and startled them. The whole f****ng lot exited the cave very rapidly, swerving around me and not hitting me, the edges of the cave, or each other. Place an unexpected object in front of 5000 car drivers and watch that not happen.

[Commander Kinsey]

I've never understood the leaf blower. Think about your home, you use a vacuum cleaner, it sucks. The dirt is captured inside it, not blown around the room. I had a leaf blower once, it had a reverse mode and a bag attached to the back. Far more effective than moving the leaves to somewhere they'd simply return from when the wind got going again.