Thanks 8weekly, I know about the paint drying, not exactly a riveting watch but needs must!
I use an SLX18 and it's fully extended, that's as far as I can get from the window. Any closer and it increases the strain on my neck, plus there has been plenty of advice about getting as far from the window as possible. It doesn't feel awkward, maybe it's the camera angle.
Gentle as in slow, or weak, or both? If I speed up, my control worsens, like hitting the plastic on the brush against the brickwork, or getting the bristles on the brick, meaning brick dust... The outer bristles are splayed so the inner ones can scrub and clean too. I'm trying to hold the pole a little less rigidly and tightly, and press down on the glass a little less as I'm getting pains in my arms and hands very quickly, and I've not been doing this long at all.
>>- I rarely clean the bit above the actual window frame. That would be full of trapped dirt. If and when I do I scrub harder and longer and I would rinse more.
Yea this explains why my first cleans are all taking so long. I've taken a different (wrong?) definition of "top of the frame" and I'm scrubbing the bit above, where it's filthy on every window, then rinsing it all off, then scrubbing until the water is clear. If I just did the part of the frame above the glass pane, that faces outwards, I'd be a lot quicker. I do normally do it as I've described above, I didn't this time as I'd already done it on the clean before and could clearly see how clean the frames still were
Which is also why I didn't rinse the frames - I would do this if I could see any dirt on them.
The bottom windows are all good i.e. no spotting at the top of the pane, so it's my technique with the upstairs windows somehow.
