Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: rosskesava on January 03, 2014, 09:01:21 pm
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Most of my work is along the coast near Brighton and this last month has sometimes been a nightmare of constantly cleaning salt off windows.
It's not so bad wfp except it takes longer as you need scrub more especially around the top of the frame then plenty of extra rinsing but for the shops, etc, I do trad, I cannot in 12 years remember anything like it.
I did 4 shops this morning on the coast road where you could scrap the salt off with your finger nails and it was so thick you actually couldn't see through the windows. 2 hours later, and they looked like they hadn't been done. Even the shops I do about inland have still had salt on the windows although not as bad.
For anyone who hasn't cleaned salt off windows, it's a bitch. It smears very easily. Touch a cloth onto a window that's got salt on the cloth from the last bit of glass and it smears. You try and wipe the smear off and it makes it worse.
Some houses I've done wfp, the first brush along the top of the frame and the water running off down the frame is brown and a bit like watery sludge.
Has anyone else who works along the coast found this last month has been one long round of salty windows but much, much, much worse than usual?
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im in felixstowe ,east coast, yes its been worse than usual . i go inland for most of my work for this very reason /with only 1 day each week in felixstowe
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Yep I am in cornwall. I work up and down the north coast, one of my jobs is actually called Seaspray, so I can understand how you feel. On the upside, every time it blows the phone starts ringing.
(http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae116/llaaww1000/Trevaunance_Cove070318-11-1280.jpg) (http://s963.photobucket.com/user/llaaww1000/media/Trevaunance_Cove070318-11-1280.jpg.html)
this pic was taken from the garden of one of my jobs. I sold a pole to the bloke who owns the bar, as it would cost him a fortune to have a window cleaner.
Same bar tonight
(http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae116/llaaww1000/1526674_10152131555891061_1000837914_n_zps13809659.jpg) (http://s963.photobucket.com/user/llaaww1000/media/1526674_10152131555891061_1000837914_n_zps13809659.jpg.html)
(http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae116/llaaww1000/1499466_10152131553236061_1362238132_n_zps51d00d86.jpg) (http://s963.photobucket.com/user/llaaww1000/media/1499466_10152131553236061_1362238132_n_zps51d00d86.jpg.html)
P.S Have just been down to have a look, all the windows were smashed out in the night and the bar is full of seaweed... :(
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Any mermaids looking for a shag?
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Bit of a daft place to have a bar. Also, how moronic do they look just staring at waves ::)roll
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the cruel sea
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Don't no if any of you lads have tried. But warm water is mega on salt stained windows.
Friend of mine cleans windows in Peel on isle of man, he swears by warm water after stormy weather.
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Salt will be more solvable in hot water.
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Bit of a daft place to have a bar. Also, how moronic do they look just staring at waves ::)roll
It's an awesome place to have a bar IMO.
When it's sunny, calm & clear.
Have to take the rough with the smooth in the uk though.
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Bit of a daft place to have a bar. Also, how moronic do they look just staring at waves ::)roll
It's an awesome place to have a bar IMO.
When it's sunny, calm & clear.
Have to take the rough with the smooth in the uk though.
On a sunny day when the tide is out it is one of cornwalls top beaches.