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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: colin purewater on August 22, 2013, 08:35:51 pm

Title: Spent a fortune on brushes ...
Post by: colin purewater on August 22, 2013, 08:35:51 pm
And keep going back to the same one...

Medium mixed super lite

I've got every brush except 2 red stiff one
And new blue one and just can't get on with
Any of them except the above  ???

New extreme medium mixed arrived yesterday
And only had it on about 3 hours today and its gone
On the pile with the rest of them,

Extreme's are amazingly light but I find them
Not as easy to control as the super lights
And I think it slows me down. Cill bush I don't
Like the feel On the glass, and the standard ones
Have no splay!

It's cost me a fortune to find the right brush for me
But atleast I've no now  :)
Title: Re: Spent a fortune on brushes ...
Post by: Smudger on August 22, 2013, 08:47:26 pm
Re cycle the others you'll get most of your money back
Title: Re: Spent a fortune on brushes ...
Post by: colin purewater on August 22, 2013, 08:50:12 pm
I no got 7 collecting dust should chuck em
On flea bay

The mrs says I have a brush fetish  :P
Title: Re: Spent a fortune on brushes ...
Post by: Ste M on August 22, 2013, 09:05:07 pm
I love the cills brushes for conny cleans and facias
Title: Re: Spent a fortune on brushes ...
Post by: colin purewater on August 22, 2013, 09:08:18 pm
Sorry  yes that what I use the white  sill brush for

Rubbish for windows but perfect for that

Black one is rubbish
Title: Re: Spent a fortune on brushes ...
Post by: Avo on August 22, 2013, 09:35:31 pm
Sorry  yes that what I use the white  sill brush for

Rubbish for windows but perfect for that

Black one is rubbish
ok you tried an Aerial Colin  ;D
Title: Re: Spent a fortune on brushes ...
Post by: Michael Peterson on August 22, 2013, 11:05:51 pm
i have a sill brush the black and white one it great for windows but im now gunna try the one you mention above
Title: Re: Spent a fortune on brushes ...
Post by: windowswashed on August 23, 2013, 05:53:52 am
sill brush allows you to work at height and drop down without the need to change brush angle unlike brick shaped brushes. Brush lays flat to glass so more bristle area covering glass and water isn't lost dropping to floor so a better clean all round once you've perservered with it. Failure cannot live with persistency. Tried probably as many brushes as you and sill brush is my favourite, much quicker than all the rest on the market  :)
Title: Re: Spent a fortune on brushes ...
Post by: dazmond on August 23, 2013, 08:47:02 am
i think most of us have a fair few brushes! ;D

extreme medium mixed is what i use on regular cleans as they are so light.i have 3 of em.

medium sill brush is great for UPVC and conny roof cleans.

the vikan for cleaning the van

standard supalite medium mixed for dirty first cleans and solar panels.

black soft sill brush doesnt get used.i dont rate it.

i also have a vikan stiff sill brush.doesnt get used as its so heavy.it might be handy for a dirty cladding clean job though.

so 8 brushes!only 6 get used on a regular basis.
Title: Re: Spent a fortune on brushes ...
Post by: dd on August 23, 2013, 10:15:19 am
The flocked sl is my brush of choice.
Title: Re: Spent a fortune on brushes ...
Post by: formb on August 23, 2013, 10:38:13 am
I have only used Vikan and Brodex brush heads in the past. I now have 1 Super-Lite® Radius-Sill Brush Dual-Trim Medium-Mixed Bristles (I think) and 1 HiFlo nLite Rectangular Brush 27cm / 10.63in. Both very nice.
Title: Re: Spent a fortune on brushes ...
Post by: ♠Winp®oClean♠ on August 23, 2013, 04:46:28 pm
I've also tried many, many brushes & my favourite & what I've been using for the last couple of years is a short-bristled medium mixed Xtreme!! Fantastic brush & great scrubbing power with the shorter bristles!

You do have to trim the bristle length yourself though. Anyone wanting to try it, if you have a medium mixed Xtreme, trim the white outer rows so that they are "just" longer than the inner black bristles. You'll never go back!! ;)
Title: Re: Spent a fortune on brushes ...
Post by: DG Cleaning on August 23, 2013, 05:00:02 pm
sill brush allows you to work at height and drop down without the need to change brush angle unlike brick shaped brushes. Brush lays flat to glass so more bristle area covering glass and water isn't lost dropping to floor so a better clean all round once you've perservered with it. Failure cannot live with persistency. Tried probably as many brushes as you and sill brush is my favourite, much quicker than all the rest on the market  :)

Use a Gooseneck and never need to alter the angle ;D