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Nick_Thompson

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Can you WFP this type of window?
« on: November 05, 2005, 09:19:19 pm »
Dose anyone use their WFP to clean those UPVC windows that are divided up with plastic strips that are simply stuck on with double sided sticky foam?

I have 25, 3-5 bed houses to clean each month with this type of window.

I know I could experiment, but I just wondered if anyone already knows whether the stuck on strips of plastic frame hold on to the water to run down the lower pain later on to cause problems with spotting.

Thanks

Nick
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Andrew McCann

Re: Can you WFP this type of window?
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2005, 09:54:25 pm »
Hi Nick

I haven,t come across any like these.

Are they divided horizontally and vertically like this?

If it's really just double sided sticky back foam as you say then I reckon you will certainly get problems as the water will soak in with collected dirt then drip.

Do they really do windows as nastilly as this?

Andrew
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gaza

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Re: Can you WFP this type of window?
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2005, 10:00:10 pm »
COULD BE WORSE sticky back plastic ;D
must say never came across these arnt they divided up inside the panes?or get an eye test ;D aving a lauff ::)

 gaza
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Chris Cottrell

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Re: Can you WFP this type of window?
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2005, 10:05:30 pm »
Quote from: gaza on November 05, 2005, 10:00:10 pm
COULD BE WORSE sticky back plastic ;D
must say never came across these arnt they divided up inside the panes?or get an eye test ;D aving a lauff ::)

 gaza
I have some of these they are a pain with trad method

but have noticed a few have been knock off in the past and left off easier to clean then
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Nick_Thompson

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Re: Can you WFP this type of window?
« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2005, 10:10:18 pm »
Hi Andrew

Yah, they are really nasty.

The foam invariably, doesn’t even form a seal right across the frame either.

I guess they would prove problematic.

Gasa

I've been cleaning these windows for 5 years and they are definitely stuck on.

Thanks Nick
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matt

Re: Can you WFP this type of window?
« Reply #5 on: November 05, 2005, 10:14:55 pm »
yes, i do a whole estate of them, i must do 3 days work

my simple advice is, first clean, FLOOD the window, rinse real well

them go back around them again in a few mins

this gets MOST of the dirt thats trapped behind the bars

now i just clean them as i would other windows

Ive doent hem for 12 months, and this was worked for me
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gaza

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Re: Can you WFP this type of window?
« Reply #6 on: November 05, 2005, 10:24:10 pm »
NICK:NEVER CAME ACROSS THEM SOUND A CHEAP WAY OF ACHEIVING AN EFFECT.

 GAZA
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Nick_Thompson

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Re: Can you WFP this type of window?
« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2005, 10:27:09 pm »
Matt

That sounds like it would work.

I'll give it a go.

Thanks

Nick
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Re: Can you WFP this type of window?
« Reply #8 on: November 05, 2005, 10:29:01 pm »
i do downstairs the trad way

they still bleed dirty water now and then, a pain in the bum, i just scrim them now, its easier
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Nick_Thompson

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Re: Can you WFP this type of window?
« Reply #9 on: November 05, 2005, 10:30:21 pm »
Gasa

cheap and nasty :P
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Re: Can you WFP this type of window?
« Reply #10 on: November 05, 2005, 10:32:48 pm »
Quote from: Nick_Thompson on November 05, 2005, 10:30:21 pm
Gasa

cheap and nasty :P

you will find more and more window companies are doing it this way, it gives the look without the expense

they are coming to a new estate near you
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Re: Can you WFP this type of window?
« Reply #11 on: November 05, 2005, 10:36:57 pm »
i wfp everything   ;)
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thewindowcleaner1

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Re: Can you WFP this type of window?
« Reply #12 on: November 05, 2005, 10:43:42 pm »
I've got a few windows like that the main problem is the thing come off many a time I've had to scurry up the ladder to put them back on(pain)
but the quickest way to clean them is with a WFP

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gaza

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Re: Can you WFP this type of window?
« Reply #13 on: November 05, 2005, 11:08:40 pm »
why dont they try velcro?

 gaza
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Re: Can you WFP this type of window?
« Reply #14 on: November 06, 2005, 06:17:32 pm »
I havn't come accross this type. the ones I'm not sure about are the windows with vents in the transome bar. up to now I'v done them with a blade. Can you get good results with WFP? The windows have 2 panes with the vent in between the top and bottom panes. DAI
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