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Window Cleaning Tip – Watch Out For Spiders!

As if you window cleaners didn’t have enough to think about while running your window cleaning business, now I’m telling you to watch out for spiders.

But with good reason am I warning you. One of my neighbors down the street is a house painter and the other day while masking off a house to be painted was bit in the hand by a Brown Recluse Spider. However at the time of the bite he didn’t realize it was a spider and like most of us would do, he shrugged it off and kept working (gotta pay the bills right?).

Later that night it really began to hurt and discolor, and by the next morning the skin surrounding the bite was blistering. He went to the hospital and was treated and the doctors said that he should recover fine but there is a chance of partial paralysis of his hand due to the seriousness of the bite.

Out in my neck of the woods Brown Recluses and Black Widows are very common, but there are also a host of other deadly spiders popping up all over the place.

As a window cleaner you are working outside about half the time you need to be aware of your immediate surroundings. Spiders like to spin webs in thick foliage and shrubbery, and they also like to make their homes underneath loose boards, behind drain spouts, in gutters, and between the window screen and the window. Pay particular attention to houses with wood or vinyl siding as the area in between the slats and the trim around the windows are a favorite hang out of spiders. So look out for where you place your hands around the window.

If you do get bit by a spider, and it starts to hurt more than a usual bug bite or you get a look at the spider or have a funny feeling or anything, its worth taking the time to get it checked out because it could save your life.