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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: tompoole on June 27, 2008, 08:52:44 pm
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Hi
Please can someone tell me the difference between Flagged and mono brushes , is it just that the mono brushes are stiffer or is there more to it
Cheers
tom
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The easiest way to describe it is to imagine a healthy human hair, this is monofilament-non flagged, now imagine the same hair but with split ends - this is monofilament but flagged. Each fibre is split at the ends over the whole brush. (flagged and flocked are the same thing)
Some people say that flagged brushes hold the dirt more than non flagged brushes, but I have never used a flagged brush so I cant comment.
I hope this helps ;)
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This might help..
www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=38563.0#msg305305
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I think you might find it's called flocked not flagged
But yes think split ends on hair. Mono is stiffer whilst flocked is softer.
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I just edited my post ;)
some call it flocked and some call it flagged, just the way its said tis all ;)
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The easiest way to describe it is to imagine a healthy human hair, this is monofilament-non flagged, now imagine the same hair but with split ends - this is monofilament but flagged. Each fibre is split at the ends over the whole brush. (flagged and flocked are the same thing)
Some people say that flagged brushes hold the dirt more than non flagged brushes, but I have never used a flagged brush so I cant comment.
I hope this helps ;)
Kev is right and flagged as you say (flocked as I do) they do hold the dirt in more as there is more for it to stick to.
I use mono brushes, I have just got an auto brush which is crinkled will see how that pans out, but at the mo vikan mono does ther job and does it well.
Time to go bed I think loads of work to do in the morning and had enough of design now.
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I switch around as the mood takes me, I have both but at the moment I favour a flocked brush. The idea of the flocking is that it traps more water at the surface of the glass.l
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i've been using a vikan monobut am going back to vikan flagged (i spoke to a lady at vikan once who said "flagged")
I believe a flagged brush makes for less scrubbing as there are effectively more bristle ends on the glass.
if you get a mono and a flagged brush and rub them about on a window, the flagged brush seems to be harder to move about. (more friction, better cleaning per brushing action)
flagged brushes do hold more dirt/bits than a mono brush but if you rinse OFF the glass, this isn't really a problem.
if you rinse ON the glass, I think you are better off with a mono brush
that's my take on it anyway :)
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I have both flocked and mono vikan sill brushes well and other brushes but i mostly use sill brushes.
I like them both the mono still get dirt caught in them cobwebs etc.
I think the mono does a faster job at removing birds poo apart from that i don't really find them much differant in use.