Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: sherco on April 27, 2008, 03:24:25 pm
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I have a guy who has started cleaning my windows for about three months now, anyway two of my double glazed windows have now got condensation in as i looks like the seals have gone. These are two separate windows it seems very odd this has happened since he started cleaning them with wfp. Im not blaming him just want to know what you guys think?
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I have a guy who has started cleaning my windows for about three months now, anyway two of my double glazed windows have now got condensation in as i looks like the seals have gone. These are two separate windows it seems very odd this has happened since he started cleaning them with wfp. Im not blaming him just want to know what you guys think?
I would say go to your window supplier and complain,
it rains on your windows just like wfp, so dont use him as the scape goat ;)
it is clearly a fault on your window
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lol...dear me, how do people think wfp is different to rain!!
we're on a window cleaning it for about a minute, and then gone. rain can go on for days... ::)
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WFP would not be the cause of your seals going and condensation. Sorry but your barking up the wrong tree.
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Contact the supplier and get them to replace the windows.
I had an old dear who blamed the drips from her windowledge for lifting her slabs under the window...
I said it might be the 75 years of rain that has done that love, not 3 minutes of dripping water...
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Hi Sherco, excuse the defensiveness here.
A double glazed unit is usually pressed in place by being clipped between an outer and inner bead. (Chamfered shape on the outside and inside of the window)
On more modern windows there is a black rubber/neoprene seal between the glass unit and the pvc. If hardwood it might just be a bead of sealant.
The point is that water from wfp is pretty low pressure (no more than the jet you might make after a a pint or two! ( ;D)
So even if the rubber seal is perished or gone, all that will happen is that water will run down inside the plastic frame (not the glazed unit) and out the little drainage holes at the bottom onto the cill.
Now if the glazed unit has broken down then condensation will eventually get between the panes due to moisture in the air getting past the unit seals. Nothing to do with rain, wfp, pressure washing (not recommended!) at all.
If you are in warranty, d/g co's sometimes try to fob you off and not take the blame if they are not reputable.
Typically these units breakdown on opening panes and large panes where there is more expansion, contraction and jarring (closing hard) movement.
I think there is a site called window-man which explains it better.
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Window cleaners fault as usual,
If your dog died, it would be windoiw cleaners fault .
WE dont half take some stick. ::)