Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Richard Shepherd on January 27, 2012, 04:47:06 pm
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I have recently started cleaning a house that has brand new leaded windows.
The owner doesn't work, (seriously cashed up) and he spends all the time I am there telling me how much he has paid to restore his house.
I was cleaning today and he was moaning about the brush banging on the lead, I told him I would look into brushes and which is good on lead.
I currently use a Gardiners super lite dual trimmed.
Has anybody used a Tecbuk natural bristle, if so what are they like..
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Flocked extreme wouldnt bounce as much
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Yep agree black xtreme,super-lite flocked standard or o degree.All would be ideal for leaded.
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It is all about the way you clean mate i dont use a soft brush . I clean upstairs windows from the side like you would over an awkward conny roof. And for the downstairs i turn the brush so the pole is on its side so to speak so the pole is horizontal rather than vertical and it barely catches the lead . MIKE
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As above ;D + you can also watch video on Gardiner web-site under brush section, am I sad or what ;D
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I've got a Tecbuk boars hair which I like a lot, it certainly doesn't bang the frames as much as my other brushes. Richard does several bristle lengths for the boars hair, talk to him about which one would be best.
I have the long hair one.
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It's also good to follow the diagonal strips of lead with the brush, brush in the direction the lead is laid, not across it but with it
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Tecbuc dual trim goes over the lead with ease - no bounce ( this is the red one ) but the stock is much harder and
until you are used to using the brush there is a real danger of whacking the framework ( this will be worse than bouncing on the lead )
however the new DT brush heads from gardiners are far better than the older all white ones with little to no bounce
Darran
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I currently use a Gardiners super lite dual trimmed.
Sounds to me like you are using the monofilament version (white one) , you could do with the flocked version (black one).