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Title: Pure water definately smears
Post by: ftp on April 08, 2009, 07:13:52 pm
if you get some grease on your brush! Did a house today and picked up some dubious substance from a top opener, don't know what it was, little balls of something in something squishy. Flicked it off and carried on working. Got to the next house and the glass had a greasy pattern all over it on every window  :o asked the custy if he'd had the walls sprayed - but no. Washed my brush in tfr and still the same, washed it again and still rubbish. Had to soap up and blade them off. Drove home and tried my own windows - smeared again. Took two more washes of the brush in Cillit Bang degreaser to shift it. God knows what it was - couldn't feel it or see it in the bristles.
Title: Re: Pure water definately smears
Post by: john tomkins on April 08, 2009, 07:29:33 pm
Wasn't really pure water that caused it then was it ???
Title: Re: Pure water definately smears
Post by: DaveG on April 08, 2009, 07:44:13 pm
Wasn't really pure water that caused it then was it ???

If you read the post again ftp said it smears if you get grease on your brush! ::)
Title: Re: Pure water definately smears
Post by: Window Washers on April 08, 2009, 07:58:59 pm
Egg is a killer for this, I learnt this by mistake  :-[
Title: Re: Pure water definately smears
Post by: ftp on April 08, 2009, 08:07:06 pm
Bit picky tonight  ???
Title: Re: Pure water definately smears
Post by: sparklebright on April 08, 2009, 08:19:03 pm
I had one of my shops spray WD40 on a stiff lock all over the glass door ::)

Nightmare to get it off

The worst thing I had was when someone threw up a kebab on the window, don't ask how well that came off, makes me feel sick to think about it
Title: Re: Pure water definately smears
Post by: Nathanael Jones on April 08, 2009, 10:17:13 pm
Egg is a killer for this, I learnt this by mistake  :-[

Go hot,.. it scrambles and falls to the floor!!

:)
Title: Re: Pure water definately smears
Post by: [GQC] Tim on April 08, 2009, 10:19:34 pm
Hmm, maybe spray some oil flo on it, that should work.

Never experienced this before, I'm quite glad about that by the sound of it!!
Title: Re: Pure water definately smears
Post by: DaveG on April 08, 2009, 10:30:52 pm
I had a customer that sprayed WD40 on her window hinges and it ran down the window below and i removed it with white spirit on an old scrim, then went over it with wfp, came up fine :)
Title: Re: Pure water definately smears
Post by: tacky on April 08, 2009, 11:00:33 pm
hi turned down a job monday .used to clean this guys windows ( bad payeer .so i dropped him )he just had new house built could i clean his windows .only problem he says .when he put new windows in the builders sprayed glass with chip oil ( honest ) to protect the glass .guess what i told him .the second word was. off
Title: Re: Pure water definately smears
Post by: GWCS on April 08, 2009, 11:04:57 pm
hi turned down a job monday .used to clean this guys windows ( bad payeer .so i dropped him )he just had new house built could i clean his windows .only problem he says .when he put new windows in the builders sprayed glass with chip oil ( honest ) to protect the glass .guess what i told him .the second word was. off

getyourkit?    ;)
Title: Re: Pure water definately smears
Post by: aztec on April 08, 2009, 11:38:33 pm
why dont you all realise wp is for high level jobs and squegee and applicator is for domestic cleaning!
Title: Re: Pure water definately smears
Post by: [GQC] Tim on April 09, 2009, 12:30:48 am
why dont you all realise wp is for high level jobs and squegee and applicator is for domestic cleaning!

If it's good enough for high level jobs it's good enough for low level jobs.  ;)
Title: Re: Pure water definately smears
Post by: matt on April 09, 2009, 01:16:38 am
i had to sling a brush out when i got hair gel ( or something for the hair ) on mine

nothing would get it off
Title: Re: Pure water definately smears
Post by: Window Washers on April 09, 2009, 07:37:46 am
why dont you all realise wp is for high level jobs and squegee and applicator is for domestic cleaning!
Now why cant everyone in my areas think the same as you  ::)
Title: Re: Pure water definately smears
Post by: Londoner on April 09, 2009, 07:42:28 am
Some kitchen windows can be really greasy, espescially the little flap window that gets left open all the time.

Had a house a couple of years back where they had a BBQ close to a big window and the grease had made the window impossible to get clean.
Title: Re: Pure water definately smears
Post by: Helen on April 09, 2009, 07:45:50 am
why dont you all realise wp is for high level jobs and squegee and applicator is for domestic cleaning!
guess you don't do 2 or 3 storey domestic houses then, working at height regs ;)
Title: Re: Pure water definately smears
Post by: lee_dewing on April 09, 2009, 08:04:42 am
i wonder if said wd40.

i've a customer who insists on putting wd40 on brown upvc frames every year,(shiney)
. so i have to trad

just to add insult to injury theres usually a heavy downpur shortly after he's done it, leaves oily runs over glass,

If they were only 1 in road woyld dump but have 6 there ranging from £20 - £15
some people
Title: Re: Pure water definately smears
Post by: ftp on April 09, 2009, 08:16:35 am
Problem is the greasy smears are hard to see without the sun catching the glass and by then it's too late, the glass is contaminated and so is the brush. Can't fit a new brush and redo them 'cos that gets greasy too.  ::)
Title: Re: Pure water definately smears
Post by: Oakley Windows on April 09, 2009, 08:20:45 am
Egg is a killer for this, I learnt this by mistake  :-[

Go hot,.. it scrambles and falls to the floor!!

:)

I bet the toast lands the wrong way up though :)