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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: bobby p on April 21, 2012, 11:24:12 pm

Title: rubber -the good and the bad
Post by: bobby p on April 21, 2012, 11:24:12 pm
whats your lads experience?

 i used Pulex soft for a couple of  yrs ,good stuff but then i changed to Unger soft as its cheaper. but i dont think its quite as good value ,lasts less time i think

i once bought SYR rubber,very cheap but it left lines behind and scudded on the glass .

i always buy rubber in 42" lengths myself
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Post by: Window Washers on April 22, 2012, 12:09:16 am
pulex hard
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Post by: Gav Camm lammy 283 on April 22, 2012, 12:19:23 am
good ole pulex hard for me in 36" lengths
struggle to find anyone who stocks it longer
tried unger soft lasted a day  >:(
Title: Re: rubber -the good and the bad
Post by: CLEANCARE WC on April 22, 2012, 12:24:12 am
good ole pulex hard for me in 36" lengths
struggle to find anyone who stocks it longer
tried unger soft lasted a day  >:(

soap national gav
Title: Re: rubber -the good and the bad
Post by: Gav Camm lammy 283 on April 22, 2012, 12:27:21 am
fell out wiv him as i ordered the white 14"
sleeves n e sent me sum mad blue n white
stripey things il av another look at him  ;)
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Post by: bobplum on April 22, 2012, 12:27:35 am
wagtail
Title: Re: rubber -the good and the bad
Post by: KS Cleaning on April 22, 2012, 12:37:41 am
Pulex 36" for me,get two 12" cuts and 1 14" cut for my Unger channels,I get it for £1.70 + vat from window cleaning stuff.Tried Unger soft a while back.......it got sent back the next day,rubbish!
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Post by: Ian101 on April 22, 2012, 07:10:00 am
unger soft ... may only last a day when trad but now wfp tend to get about 6 months out of mine before I need to change it  ;D

Used my spare squeegee other day an Ettoire ... nicer than unger
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Post by: andyM on April 22, 2012, 09:07:22 am
Yes I don't think Unger soft last long, not tried Pulex but Unger hard rubbers are not too bad.
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Post by: Small but perfectley formed on April 22, 2012, 09:30:26 am
SYR good rubber better than unger
Title: Re: rubber -the good and the bad
Post by: bobby p on April 22, 2012, 09:37:18 am
SYR good rubber better than unger


really? maybe i had a bad batch . 
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Post by: paul13 on April 22, 2012, 10:31:59 am
Pulex soft. :)
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Post by: Londoner on April 22, 2012, 10:32:51 am
Whatever they sell in Homebase, Ettore I think, I don't even look.
Title: Re: rubber -the good and the bad
Post by: CLEANCARE WC on April 22, 2012, 02:27:50 pm
Pulex 36" for me,get two 12" cuts and 1 14" cut  for my Unger channels,I get it for £1.70 + vat from window cleaning stuff.Tried Unger soft a while back.......it got sent back the next day,rubbish!

How did you manage that? you any good with loaves and fishes too?  ;D
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Post by: Londoner on April 22, 2012, 03:24:42 pm
This is like a trip down memory lane. I can remember this forum when choice of rubber was the burning hot issue of the day. Nobody (except one guy Justin Ruggles- hope i got his name right) was wfp. I feel like Yoda
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Post by: KS Cleaning on April 22, 2012, 05:26:08 pm
Pulex 36" for me,get two 12" cuts and 1 14" cut  for my Unger channels,I get it for £1.70 + vat from window cleaning stuff.Tried Unger soft a while back.......it got sent back the next day,rubbish!

How did you manage that? you any good with loaves and fishes too?  ;D
I managed it by cutting the rubber with a stanley blade ;D
Pulex 36" rubber is actually nearer 37" long
Although Unger channels are sold as 12" and 14" they are actually shorter than that.
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Post by: firefly123 on April 22, 2012, 06:15:40 pm
ettore the best
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Post by: G Griffin on April 22, 2012, 09:40:09 pm
ettore the best

I agree. Reassuringly expensive.
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Post by: mikeyfaerosyth on April 24, 2012, 02:02:14 am
syr,dont last long but get into edges better.
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Post by: richardlingard on April 24, 2012, 04:53:11 pm
for some reason unger rubbers are the worst ever, which is weired because most other trad stuff they make is quality gear, as everyone says pulux are around the best i think, i love what the cheap syr feal like on the glass but they dont last at all
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Post by: jim bean on April 25, 2012, 08:26:15 am
for some reason unger rubbers are the worst ever, which is weired because most other trad stuff they make is quality gear, as everyone says pulux are around the best i think, i love what the cheap syr feal like on the glass but they dont last at all

I use sirclean soft. They only last a week but I bought 20 42" strips for £20 and my squegee is only 6-7inch. Good two years worth there for me
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Post by: dazmond on April 25, 2012, 11:39:10 am
i buy unger soft in 25 pre cut 14in strips in a box.i disagree!i think unger rubber is great!!one lasts me around a month now im mainly wfp.i turn them over after a few week to get the maximum wear out of them.

i think the unger ergotech and swivelock squeegees are excellent to.had mine for a few years now.