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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Aqua-Wash on January 28, 2009, 04:37:16 pm

Title: Fire / sooty windows
Post by: Aqua-Wash on January 28, 2009, 04:37:16 pm
Anybody got any experience of cleaning sooty / ashy windows. Theres been a large fire near where i clean. Saw one of my customers and she said the whole area is covered in soot / ash and she lives 3 streets away. Problem being I have 105 customers within these 3 streets alone. By the sounds of it its going to take me quite a bit longer to clean and no doubt many will want extra done. Would you charge extra and by how much.
Title: Re: Fire / sooty windows
Post by: NWH on January 28, 2009, 05:00:27 pm
I has a custie that had soot come back down the chimney and cover the whole living room with the stuff and the windows where black,they were gergions and i had to blade them about 3 times each to get them good.
Title: Re: Fire / sooty windows
Post by: trevor povey on January 28, 2009, 07:01:27 pm
Anybody got any experience of cleaning sooty / ashy windows. Theres been a large fire near where i clean. Saw one of my customers and she said the whole area is covered in soot / ash and she lives 3 streets away. Problem being I have 105 customers within these 3 streets alone. By the sounds of it its going to take me quite a bit longer to clean and no doubt many will want extra done. Would you charge extra and by how much.

If it warrants it yes....time is money :)
Title: Re: Fire / sooty windows
Post by: GTR Windows on January 28, 2009, 10:57:07 pm
i have fire and flood experience, really depends on what was burning in the fire, the distance from it etc, as things like plastics can usually cause soot to be greasy/oily, so it will smear and smudge and take a bit of effort/chemical to remove, or you can get a dry soot which will remove without much effort
Title: Re: Fire / sooty windows
Post by: Aqua-Wash on January 29, 2009, 12:14:54 am
i have fire and flood experience, really depends on what was burning in the fire, the distance from it etc, as things like plastics can usually cause soot to be greasy/oily, so it will smear and smudge and take a bit of effort/chemical to remove, or you can get a dry soot which will remove without much effort

Block of 5 story new build flats (30 flats) completly gone - now single story. Surrounded by your typical terrace houses - so very close. Lucky no one hurt. All due to be cleaned on monday  :(  Good start to the week.