Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: windowwashers on March 17, 2008, 05:02:11 pm
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Hi all,
I have come across some glass with plastics on, removed to find glue everywhere and is a little bit hard to remove (thats an understatment and it is taking ages, what would you use to remove it ?
Ian
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oil flo 141, left to soak for a while and then maybe a scraper, Luke
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hi mate
a good soak, new scraper and hard work. sorry bud!
tony
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Did'nt you look at this first and charge for the extra amount of time taken :P
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Did'nt you look at this first and charge for the extra amount of time taken :P
yes I looked, thats not the question I was asking :P
this is a big site and the job is worth having, I understand on the IOW they are only just starting to build houses lol
do you have water wands over there yet ?
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If you looked properly you would have new what the job involved would'nt you then you would'nt need to ask this q. lol.
on the iow we still have beech huts
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cellulois thinners is good for removing the glue substance .
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hi ian
white spirit, soak, newspaper, trade (soap)
stand back whith a can of foster and think why am i doing BCs
jerry
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I've been doing builder's cleans for a local mini housing estate, outside only, and they work out fairly lucrative.
We clean them just before the new owner moves into them (personally I think it would be better if we cleaned them before they were viewed?!).
There's another cleaning company who do the insides (two ladies); and we're tasked to do the outsides and we're getting £50 for a small 3/4/5 bed detached house (I can't tell the difference between the 4 or 5 bedroomed houses); no access problems either.
It's a gift (as they say in Northern Ireland).
We don't use anything special; we do it trad; lots of Fairy and a new scraper blade does the trick.
My advice is to price new builds as if you don't want them and if you get them; bonus!
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hi ian
white spirit, soak, newspaper, trade (soap)
stand back whith a can of foster and think why am i doing BCs
jerry
Lol, sat here now doing just that but I am a man of my word ;)
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ian read windowvarnish mate,might help, ;D
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and again
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and again
Just read that cheers m8, I used white spirit on a couple of windows, then poled the windows after they dried and there was no white film, guess I will see in the morning. ::)
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Oil flow or even traffic film remover help and scraper with a new blade and hard work.
Once you have done a few it gets easier
Paul
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hope it goes ok ,soul destroying stuff thats for sure,put me off bc,s for now,at least you will know about it in future tho :)
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hope it goes ok ,soul destroying stuff thats for sure,put me off bc,s for now,at least you will know about it in future tho :)
tell me about it never came across one like this before, thank god they have changed the way they are protecting the windows now ;D just have to do these last ones ::)
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B&Q or Focus and buy a bottle of sticky off, Just eats the glue in no time.