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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: vivaro 013 on December 14, 2006, 10:02:40 pm

Title: Windows Staying Cleaner
Post by: vivaro 013 on December 14, 2006, 10:02:40 pm
Customer today said her windows are staying cleaner longing, ive been cleaning her window now for 3 months using my WFP systems , if this is so , has any body got any ideas why
Title: Re: Windows Staying Cleaner
Post by: JM123 on December 14, 2006, 10:11:55 pm
pure water doesn't leave a residue like squeegeeing does.  Squeegeeing leaves a microfilm of detergent/gg4/gg3/whatever on the glass, this acts like a magnet to dust particles, causing them to cling to the glass.
Title: Re: Windows Staying Cleaner
Post by: petetaylor56 on December 14, 2006, 10:13:54 pm
 :)i think it is because with the pure water dirt has nothing to stick to unlike the soap and water with trad methord were a film of soapy water remains someone  else may have a different idea :)
you beat me to it
Title: Re: Windows Staying Cleaner
Post by: craig jwc on December 14, 2006, 10:42:07 pm
Been WFP about 18 months now.

I've turned upto jobs & had to double check i should be there ;D

Frames will be dusty and if you look at the glass at an angle you will see the glass has a slight dusting over it. But straight on they shine like new.

Never had a problem with customers turning me away though even when they have mentioned it.

Craig
Title: Re: Windows Staying Cleaner
Post by: stephen d on December 14, 2006, 11:43:53 pm
soap attracts dirt-its the same principle as when you mark a carpet and you use a cloth with fairy or similar to clean the mark-that area will get dirtier alot quicker because of the soap residue attracting the dirt particles.
Title: Re: Windows Staying Cleaner
Post by: Alex Gardiner on December 15, 2006, 08:34:23 am
The main reason I have noticed, is that generally the frames are cleaner, usually rain will pull dirt across the frames onto the glass, cleaner frames mean less dirt draining onto the glass.


Alex
Title: Re: Windows Staying Cleaner
Post by: Londoner on December 17, 2006, 08:44:46 am
Its a bit worrying just how long the windows do stay clean. I have been to many houses that frankly don't need another clean even after 8 weeks.

Thats why its so easy to do them after the initial clean is out of the way. A quick tickle and you are gone.