Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Steven Shoreditch on June 09, 2010, 08:47:10 am
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We got a local hand car wash place. You turn up and 5 or 6 guys hand wash the car, do the wheels and dry the car all for £6. Its a good job but how the hell do they make a good living off that. Stick with windows
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I had a friend who used to clean about 4 grand a month worth of window cleaning Mon - Fri, he also washed cars at his local golf club on Saturdays, with his waterfed pole system, and he made a fortune, he has now moved to Australia doing exactly the same thing. His websites are
http://www.aqwamagic.com.au/ and http://www.h2ongo.net.au/index.php he goes on a bit but there are some interesting bits to read on them.
He has some interesting pictures of systems we built in 2003, and of us window cleaning, I am the one cleaning the glass roof.
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i do cars for some of my window cleaning customers using wfp its a bit of extra income each month .
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Hi
I had a friend who used to clean about 4 grand a month worth of window cleaning Mon - Fri, he also washed cars at his local golf club on Saturdays, with his waterfed pole system, and he made a fortune, he has now moved to Australia doing exactly the same thing. His websites are
http://www.aqwamagic.com.au/ and http://www.h2ongo.net.au/index.php he goes on a bit but there are some interesting bits to read on them.
He has some interesting pictures of systems we built in 2003, and of us window cleaning, I am the one cleaning the glass roof.
that roof you are cleaning looks very flat, how did you rinse off???
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We got a local hand car wash place. You turn up and 5 or 6 guys hand wash the car, do the wheels and dry the car all for £6. Its a good job but how the hell do they make a good living off that. Stick with windows
I take my car here once a fortnight and the guys wash my car, alloys, and valet inside with free air freshner for a tenner. ;D
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after a lot of mucking around, i finally managed to make my wfp car washing brush, it works brilliantly, my backpack has a 40psi pump, but anyone with 60 or 100psi backpack will have even more pressure,
(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t42/joeuk_bucket/10062010002.jpg)
just use the on/off switch supplied with washing brush,
also buy the longarm brush adaptor, you need this or it wont work
(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t42/joeuk_bucket/10062010001.jpg)
if you have a big car, just leave a full 20ltr bottle on top off the backpack, saves refilling
(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t42/joeuk_bucket/10062010-1.jpg)
heres a short video, showing it working, sorry not very good quality
(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t42/joeuk_bucket/th_10062010.jpg) (http://s157.photobucket.com/albums/t42/joeuk_bucket/?action-view¤t=10062010.mp4)
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your mad it wont take long before your car is covered with scratches cleaning it like that
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my car is fine, its a flocked brush, so why would it scratch the car, thats what it is made for, ::)
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Do not use pure water, Its worse that battery acid, all the paint will come off and if you get it on any flowers they will die too :o ::)
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any flowers within a 100 meter radius
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Hi,
I have used my pure water on my car more than once and it has not damaged anything on the paint work or my wifes car, and have also used it on my customers cars as well all cars are good nothing damaged on any cars.
Many Thanks
Nigel
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Chopie flower love pure water same a rain. I cleaned car 2 years with pure and I have drank it for2 years. I think you should read up on a bit of science.
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yes i clean using pure water, and what a shine, and you would think the glass was invisible, thats how good it is, no one listen to all the storys, if it gets in to scratches, it will rust, take the paintwork off, its all rubbish, it does just as good a job as wfp comes up spottless 8)
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i clean my car with pure water. but i won't use a brush as it would produce swirl marks. i clean with soap and a sponge then use pure water to rinse off through my pressure washer. no need to dry and it gleams and the windows are spotless to. no swirly cloth marks
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Do not use pure water, Its worse that battery acid, all the paint will come off and if you get it on any flowers they will die too :o ::)
Ha ha I just spat my tea out, Thanks!!! ;D
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Hi
I had a friend who used to clean about 4 grand a month worth of window cleaning Mon - Fri, he also washed cars at his local golf club on Saturdays, with his waterfed pole system, and he made a fortune, he has now moved to Australia doing exactly the same thing. His websites are
http://www.aqwamagic.com.au/ and http://www.h2ongo.net.au/index.php he goes on a bit but there are some interesting bits to read on them.
He has some interesting pictures of systems we built in 2003, and of us window cleaning, I am the one cleaning the glass roof.
that roof you are cleaning looks very flat, how did you rinse off???
The roof peaked in the middle, but only slightly, it was a hard job, and if I remember correctly it took me about 5 hours. I had to park the van quite a long way off - feeding the hose through a fourth floor window, running through a classroom and a coridoor and out onto the flat roof. We used a 100 psi pump, and flow rate was quite good, and as it was a fairly new roof there was not too much grime to shift. We only used pure water - no detergents. The building was Bradford Boys Grammar School and as the name suggests it was in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
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my car is fine, its a flocked brush, so why would it scratch the car, thats what it is made for, ::)
your car will be covered with swirl scratches, dont know why you wanna offer a car washing service when its obvious you dont even know how to wash a car properly
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i clean my car with pure water. but i won't use a brush as it would produce swirl marks. i clean with soap and a sponge then use pure water to rinse off through my pressure washer. no need to dry and it gleams and the windows are spotless to. no swirly cloth marks
Pressure washing at high pressure causes lots of swirl marks ;)
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Do not use pure water, Its worse that battery acid, all the paint will come off and if you get it on any flowers they will die too :o ::)
Ha ha I just spat my tea out, Thanks!!! ;D
Glad someone got it....... ;D Some people take everything so seriously :P
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i clean my car with pure water. but i won't use a brush as it would produce swirl marks. i clean with soap and a sponge then use pure water to rinse off through my pressure washer. no need to dry and it gleams and the windows are spotless to. no swirly cloth marks
Pressure washing at high pressure causes lots of swirl marks ;)
i'm sure my electric karcher would do a lot of damage. i could probably pee harder! ;)
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You're mad.
You'll leave brush scratches on the paintwork, and the pure water will strip off the polish and it will fade in the sun.
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You're mad.
You'll leave brush scratches on the paintwork, and the pure water will strip off the polish and it will fade in the sun.
think you mean it will strip the wax off not the polish,
it doesnt strip the wax off i wash my van every week and it is rinsed with pure water you can see the water beading because its waxed and it lasts months
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when my mate got made redundant he brought old pick up stuck a ibc on the back pump controller etc with a ro system in his shed had a few leaflets knocked up a few chemicals etc and set himself up as a hand car wash on a bit of waste land on a industrial estate
he done really well until a dirty little weasel from some two bob goverment dept busted him something about discharging water into the ground
so he moved on and went mobile valeting still does ok but not as profitable
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I washed mine in pure and it looks ok to me! :-\
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my car is fine, its a flocked brush, so why would it scratch the car, thats what it is made for, ::)
your car will be covered with swirl scratches, dont know why you wanna offer a car washing service when its obvious you dont even know how to wash a car properly
not a very nice remark allstar, especialy, when you dont know me, i know more about car valeting than many folk, i use to own one.
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Hi
I had a friend who used to clean about 4 grand a month worth of window cleaning Mon - Fri, he also washed cars at his local golf club on Saturdays, with his waterfed pole system, and he made a fortune, he has now moved to Australia doing exactly the same thing. His websites are
http://www.aqwamagic.com.au/ and http://www.h2ongo.net.au/index.php he goes on a bit but there are some interesting bits to read on them.
He has some interesting pictures of systems we built in 2003, and of us window cleaning, I am the one cleaning the glass roof.
tidy a small fourtune u say ??? u getting any jobs cheshire ways north wales darran u cant cover ????
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You're mad.
You'll leave brush scratches on the paintwork, and the pure water will strip off the polish and it will fade in the sun.
think you mean it will strip the wax off not the polish,
it doesnt strip the wax off i wash my van every week and it is rinsed with pure water you can see the water beading because its waxed and it lasts months
Ah yeah, pouring pure water over it won't, but he's talking about scrubbing it with his brush.
If it didn't take a thin layer of polish off it would be pretty crap at getting grease off windows wouldn't it?!
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well no one is complaining at my side, am talking about basic exterior cleaning here,
if the wax wears of, they will need to rewax wont they simples,
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yes you can offer this service,pure water is fine, it has been using purefied water for many years in america,number one for car wash market,but if you do with brush,would you take hours to finish a 4x4 with 3 kids and 2 dogs, and charge only 25 pounds,plus a big van, and marks everywhere, you know what, if you have a round of window cleaning,stick it,because cars are not like houses, they move,they have accidents,crash,people going on holiday,etc
I do car valeting,but I hope to leave asap.for window cleaning. because long hours,short money...
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i dont see the point!i stick to windows/conny roofs/fascias/soffits and im full with work most of the time!!!
i like to keep it simple and not diversify too much from window cleaning!after all im a window cleaner!! ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Strangely enough I saw a van today that I had never seen before with "Car and Window Cleaning Service" signwritten on it. Some enterprising soul trying to carve a niche for himself. Good luck to him.
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Hi
I had a friend who used to clean about 4 grand a month worth of window cleaning Mon - Fri, he also washed cars at his local golf club on Saturdays, with his waterfed pole system, and he made a fortune, he has now moved to Australia doing exactly the same thing. His websites are
http://www.aqwamagic.com.au/ and http://www.h2ongo.net.au/index.php he goes on a bit but there are some interesting bits to read on them.
He has some interesting pictures of systems we built in 2003, and of us window cleaning, I am the one cleaning the glass roof.
tidy a small fourtune u say ??? u getting any jobs cheshire ways north wales darran u cant cover ????
Hi, I will let you know if I do ;D
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Dirt magnets? Virgin cleans? Lab grade water? whatever next?
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We have a car wash in Varna, Bulgaria, and we use the Ionic Pro 6 Static to produce our water
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Another Pic ABVTOMIVKA = CAR WASH ;D
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I thought pure water was damaging to pressure washers?
The only problem we have is the pressure hoses - because we take out all impurities, they rust a bit on the insides and end up splitting sooner than they should!
Ordinary water would coat them over time with lime etc so they would last a lot longer.
We have six Kranzle pressure washers, and in over 1 year, we have had no problems or downtime with any of them. The carwash (6 pressure washers) cleans over 100 cars per day, and the buy time self service machine cleans about 60 per day. The buytime machine was made and sigwritten in Bedford, and was shipped over to Bulgaria - what a job that was :P
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Darran, can I ask...Your profile says Sussex, so how come you have a business in Bulgaria? ;D
How does that work? ???
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Darran, can I ask...Your profile says Sussex, so how come you have a business in Bulgaria? ;D
How does that work? ???
Hi, I lived out there for six years and still have properties and businesses over there.
I became home sick and came back to the UK to setup a business and ended up moving to West Sussex.......... ;D