Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: davetherave on June 28, 2006, 05:54:28 pm
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im not on about wfp, i've never used one of those. i'm on about poles that attach traditional tools to them, i find they make the windows look worse afterwards than if i hadn't bothered cleaning them!
what do you other window cleaners out there i think.
it annoys me because when i started window cleaning just recently i spent 100 quid on a unger pole thinking i would hardly need ladders. but i soon found out it wouldn't work out that way and i feel i have wasted 100 quid on a 30 foot pole i'll never need.
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im not on about wfp, i've never used one of those. i'm on about poles that attach traditional tools to them, i find they make the windows look worse afterwards than if i hadn't bothered cleaning them!
what do you other window cleaners out there i think.
it annoys me because when i started window cleaning just recently i spent 100 quid on a unger pole thinking i would hardly need ladders. but i soon found out it wouldn't work out that way and i feel i have wasted 100 quid on a 30 foot pole i'll never need.
I used such a pole for years until I started with WFP. However, I only used such a pole on the occasional window that couldn't be safely accessed by ladder. The thinking behind this was that some sort of clean was better than no clean. I found the best way to use it was to soap up with minimal detergent, not go all the way to the top, then squeegee it off with a sideways cutting motion then down at one edge. Then pull the liquid off with downward strokes going across the glass and cutting in from the top with each stroke - ensuring that the liquid is tapped off the rubber between strokes. Keeping a newish rubber on the squeegee also was a big help. Of course there isn't always the room to work this way. It's not perfect but the above is probably one of the better ways of doing it. I wouldn't fancy working this way as the norm - just on the odd, hard to access window.
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i'll have to look into one of those swivel head squeegees, i just use a normal unger ergotec