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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Frequently Asked Questions & Useful Resources => Topic started by: paul kitchiner on January 07, 2012, 07:50:48 pm

Title: Scrim washing
Post by: paul kitchiner on January 07, 2012, 07:50:48 pm

What's the best way to wash a scrim

Title: Re: Scrim washing
Post by: tom cronin on January 07, 2012, 10:06:05 pm

Don't tumble dry, they go bitty/fluffy :-\

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Post by: tony atkinson on January 07, 2012, 10:16:50 pm

Same as when you are out at work hot in a bucket good old hand wash the a good wring out...

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Post by: clearviewwc on January 09, 2012, 07:26:24 pm

Well if you are meaning from new then I wash in the washer at 90c a couple of times (with detergent) then use as sill cloths for a 2-3 weeks to break in ( just wash along with other scrim now) No need for detergent as if used trad then they absorb enough detergent from the cills to come clean in the machine at 60-70c. That's buying the pre-washed scrim, non pre-washed take an age to break in. There is some new more absorbent blue microfibre out that's supposed to be a lot more absorbent than normal microfibre, it was reviewed very positively in the Window cleaning mag. Better than scrim apparently.

Title: Re: Scrim washing
Post by: paul kitchiner on January 10, 2012, 06:26:47 pm

Many thanks for that. May have to look up these blue cloth's

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Post by: tom cronin on January 16, 2012, 09:56:32 pm

We bought 10of those blue ones, we soon went back to good old fashioned scrims

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Post by: Rayleigh Window Cleaning Services on January 17, 2012, 06:56:15 pm

If it is the grade A scrim, kick it round the garden a few times and machine wash a few times, should be more manageable now.

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Post by: steve rix on January 26, 2012, 06:56:44 pm

Whatever you do DONT use fabric softener