Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Seymour Sunshine on November 06, 2017, 09:44:45 am
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How did the old shiners use a scrim and chamois to clean a window? There must be a few old-timers still around who use this method from time to time.
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I started out in 76 using a leather and a scrim. It was so slow compared to using a blade. But then there didn't seem to be the rush to get things done like there is today. 45pence per 2/3 bed terraced house. I used to earn about £6 a day
Now the blade seems slow compared to wfp.
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Wow! 41 years as a window cleaner. Good man!
So what was the technique?
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we used to buy chamois off cuts and make our own rat tail mops use wet with a damp scrim that you used to have to boil for about 3 days then leave in the bucket as a sill cloth for about a month then it was good to use on the glass, also used to use a broom head as an adaptor always remember 5 am and as you cleaned the shop front the water would run right up your arm nice especially in the colder months
Martin
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Yes chamois rat tail mops and scrim those were the days. :) Then them new fangled squeegees came, ah they will never take off ;D
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Wow! 41 years as a window cleaner. Good man!
So what was the technique?
Wow! Seems like an eterninty away now but as I recall I cleaned with the chamios and polished/buffed with a scrim
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in my office i still have my dads account book for 1969-70, on a good week he would earn about £15 to £20 a week, my mum said as their rent was £5 a week they were on quite good money
Martin
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in my office i still have my dads account book for 1969-70, on a good week he would earn about £15 to £20 a week, my mum said as their rent was £5 a week they were on quite good money
Martin
Amazing how times change hey. Pretty neat thing to have.