Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Ladders on October 31, 2006, 07:41:11 pm
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Get ready to remove plenty of eggs from windows tomorrow, from the darling little TRICK OR TREATERS brigade.
How does wfp cope with this,i have found it very hard to remove by trad methods in the past.
Will it not glue up the brush head and ruin it.?
Cheers Jeff.
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From my experience of the phantom egg thrower wfp is useless, i had a customer who kept getting targeted by these idiots and i had to keep getting my ladders off to sort out their mess as wfp wouldnt even touch it.
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I think a Thermopure will remove it, however my WFP system won't touch it.
It's ladders time, if they've hit an upstairs window.
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Its no yolk when this happens,
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I'm sticking a scrubbing brush un my pole, taking a spare bucket with me, then filling it up with very soapy water and scrubbing the offending egg goo by dipping brush into the water.
WFP will rinse it without touching the glass.
Those bloody Americans have a lot to answer for >:(
Our little scumbags copy it and use it as an excuse for anti-social behaviour >:( >:(
The sooner yo ucan get to it the better though...the longer it has to set, the harder it is to get off :-\
Ian
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Those bloody Americans have a lot to answer for >:(
Ian
I fully agree. Global warming, two nuclear bombs on Japan, genital warts and halloween trick 'n' treating!
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My back windows got eggs thrown at them Sunday night.
Buggers started early by me.
Cleaned it off yesterday evening with my wfp and just had to give it a good soaking and break it up with the edge of the brush.
I didn't take that much longer but it was a pain in the butt.
The only hard bit to get off was the egg on the frame.
Craig
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IT WAS ME , PAYBACK FOR THOSE DODGEY E MAILS ! ;D
rICH p @ f
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Use a 'Tucker' pole with plenty of detergent tablets and hot water and it comes off a 'treat' not a 'trick'!
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It's ladders time, if they've hit an upstairs window.
Tosh ime not coming round to remove your eggs ;D
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I tend to soak it a bit with TFR and that does really seem to help.
Leave it 5 minutes and WFP of usually comes off fairly easy.
I tend to use TFR for quite a few things as its brilliant stuff if you leave it to soak a while.
Paul
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With egg, I'd give the window a good soaking. Not by scrubbing with the applicator, because egg makes a mess of the sleeve, but squeeze out the water on the window above where the egg is.
Leave the water to soak into the egg a few seconds, then use a sharp 4" scraper blade.
With that it comes straight off. Then you can finish by giving the remnants a scrubb with the applicator.
Mark
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do you charge extra for removing egg? I've got me flats to do tommorrow and they always get hit :'( :'( :'(
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I tend to soak it a bit with TFR and that does really seem to help.
Leave it 5 minutes and WFP of usually comes off fairly easy.
I tend to use TFR for quite a few things as its brilliant stuff if you leave it to soak a while.
Paul
Got a load left from when we valeted cars and i must admit it has broken down pretty much everything i've used it for on glass. good little tool ;)
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Hm, interesting....still wondering what would be the best way for Traditional?
Went out today, nothing happened to my customers, let's hope the next lot won't have egged windows aswell! ;D
And btw. what is TFR? :)
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Hm, interesting....still wondering what would be the best way for Traditional?
Went out today, nothing happened to my customers, let's hope the next lot won't have egged windows aswell! ;D
And btw. what is TFR? :)
Traffic Film Remover
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My very first customer's window was covered in egg. The egging happened about six months ago and it was totally baked on over the long hot summer we had here in the Pacific Northwest here in the U.S.
I had to use my 5-inch razor blade, lots of warm soapy squeege-off water. This one window took about an hour. If the shrub wasn't in the way, I could have done it much faster, but the egg was baked on hard.
BEFORE
(http://i14.tinypic.com/2gxpo4j.jpg)
AFTER
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GlassJockey
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My very first customer's window was covered in egg. The egging happened about six months ago and it was totally baked on over the long hot summer we had here in the Pacific Northwest here in the U.S.
I had to use my 5-inch razor blade, lots of warm soapy squeege-off water. This one window took about an hour. If the shrub wasn't in the way, I could have done it much faster, but the egg was baked on hard.
GlassJockey
Whoa, talking about difficult window for traditional cleaning! :-\
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Glassjockey, if you don't mind me asking, how much did you charge to clean that one window?
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To be perfectly honest... I told her that every day I drive by her house I see how bad her window looks. I told her I was just getting started in the window cleaning business, and since she could be my first customer, I would do the window for FREE. If she was happy, then send me referrals.
That worked out well, because her mother came over later that day and was absolutely amazed at how great the window looked, and asked if I could come and do all her windows.
This is where it starts for me. One free job turns into a more (paying jobs).
Just trying to get the ball rolling here.
GlassJockey
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nice one - how often are people getting their windows cleaned over in the US of A?
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had an egged window today, lobbed some tfr onit left it while cleaned other windows on the house, came back and it was off in on swoop...no problem thank f**k!
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nice one - how often are people getting their windows cleaned over in the US of A?
From what I am learning on other US forums...
RESIDENTIAL: The people who actually care about their windows usually want them cleaned anywhere from once a year to two times a year. Three times a year if you are lucky. But residential is very lucrative.
COMMERCIAL STORE FRONTS: Anywhere from once every two weeks to once a month. But you gotta do them cheap.
I guess it stands to reason because commercial store fronts only take a few minutes, while residential can take anywhere from 1 to 4 hours or even a full day or two if you land a real big residential job.
Some window cleaners are seasonal and don't work much in the winter, while others are much more busy and work year round, even when it gets well below freezing.
Residential slows way down in the winter, so i'm learning that having a good mix of commercial and residential clients is the way to go to keep busy year round. I'm not there yet as I just got going part time, and I love learning from the pros on the forums.
I really like this forum you have here because there is SOOO MUCH more content being posted at a much more rapid pace. Lots to read and learn about.
GlassJockey
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I had some egged windows today lads, so annoying i tell ya. I virtually had to scrape the whole window; i had to change my blade twice.
How annoying!!