Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: DREAM CLEAN on November 21, 2005, 09:02:10 pm
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Hi all,
Sounds really dim I know but I've been asked to clean all the windows of all the houses I clean I've been doning it for a few weeks and am getting really zipped off with the fact I get smears big time and spend half my time wiping the window with a dry cloth. I have a blade and a wooly " thing" to apply the soapy water .
So my question is what do I put with my soap and water or is there a special way to blade the glass.
I would get a proper window cleaner only I would only have about two - four houses a day over a 30mile radius
Nick
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Fill a bucket half full with warm water.
Add a few squirts of fairy
put your wooly thing(applicator) in the solution untill completley sodden.
Give the window a good scrub covering all of the window.
starting from the top left hand corner with blade vertical
remove the suds slightly overlapping after each pass to avoid lines.
When all the suds are removed clean sill and the cl;ean around edge of window with a dry cloth.
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Craigs right mate. WFP now but i used nothing but fairy for 10 years. Tried other things over the years, but ya can't beat good ol fairy liquid. Change your blade(rubber) about every 2 weeks and change the water between 30-45 mins tops. Think about investing in an RO unit. The difference between tap and RO'd water is amazing. You'll soon get the swing of it. Finally,if you've got new scrims.......boil wash them, then boil wash them again. You'll be glad ya did. Nothing worse than a scrim that doesn't do what it's supposed to do. Good luck :)
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I'm new to w/cleaning, and use Ettore streak free soap, mop, squeegy and good quality scrims as far as I know.
With the sun now low in the sky and on the window, after cleaning I am sometimes seeing a sort of haze. Even with clean water, fresh scrims etc, the glass is squeeky clean, but there is something still there you can see. Thought it was condensation at first.
Generally I just use the squeegy then scrim around the edges, but I notice that if I try to polish out the haze, the scrim is rough on the glass, not smooth, there is friction moving the scrim. Polishing it does improve, but not totally, and this is on a cleaned window.
What am I missing?
Cheers, Andy
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If the windows are exposed or are where they would get the wind blowing towards them then they're probably etched by dust in the air - but do yourself a favour and buy a wfp a lot quicker.
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Use fairy, its cheap and it works. Clean the glass and scrim the edges, thats it you've done the job. If its new glass then you do tend to get factory film on it and this can leave a glaze but after a few cleans it's gone. After a while you get to know each bit of glass you clean, and you know the good from the bad.
Steve
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Thanks for the help, I had wondered if it was factory film residue, but a number of cleans hasn't really helped. My windows at home suffer from the effect to an extent, and they're 30 years old. It's when the sun catches them from a certain angle that you notice it.
I have used something called Bosun Mr Jeeves Miracle Polish. I got given a nearly empty bottle of it, and it did seem to help a lot, but it's expensive. The windows are then very smooth to wipe over, not making the scrim catch like the untreated affected windows do.
I then bought a bottle of Ungers Gel which they say to use neat, and this may be effective to an extent, but I'm not sure as yet.
It's a bit of a pain whatever it is
Not sure what a wfp is? You reckon this would help?