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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: bumper on April 12, 2005, 02:56:13 pm

Title: how do you clean microfiber
Post by: bumper on April 12, 2005, 02:56:13 pm: Got unger green microfiber, can you use both sides of the microfiber, as you can with scrim,plus i washed it out for the first time today as you as you do with scrim ??? and it was still dirty with loads of marks and dirt in it,how do others wash it out, and get it clean.
thanxs Bumper
Title: Re: how do you clean microfiber
Post by: gaza on April 12, 2005, 04:19:01 pm: Whats this I washed ? has your washing machine loader gone on strike? ::)
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Post by: bumper on April 12, 2005, 05:24:07 pm: i dornt know how to use one, the wife said she not washing it coz, she not got a full load she said somthing like go and yourself :o :o
Title: Re: how do you clean microfiber
Post by: Davindo Cleana on April 12, 2005, 05:30:06 pm: Hi - I bought the giant microwipe and it has a wash tag on it for the hottest temp 90 - so maybe if you put it on the whites cycle -
found it to be a great cloth for a newbie like me who probably resorts too much to post squeegie repairs :)
Never paid much attention to the different sides just used it like a normal scrim
Title: Re: how do you clean microfiber
Post by: bumper on April 12, 2005, 06:00:32 pm: thanxs, looks like i will have to buy a few then,and get the wife to wash em all at weekend.
Title: Re: how do you clean microfiber
Post by: rosskesava on April 12, 2005, 06:23:09 pm: Don't stick them in with ordinary clothes like I did.

They come out smelling of whatever cleaning stuff you use.

My missus went nuts when she put her undies on. :(
Title: Re: how do you clean microfiber
Post by: Ian Rochester on April 12, 2005, 08:33:38 pm: There's a chap on ebay selling the large ones for £5.00, just got 4 delivered today, spot on.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11702&item=4372097019&rd=1

(Hope that link works, if it doesn't just do a search on "Unger"

We've been using them since I bought the first two at the NEC show in March, love them.

Just wash as normal, don't use any conditioner. I can't get all the black rubber marks out either.
Title: Re: how do you clean microfiber
Post by: mark f on April 12, 2005, 08:45:49 pm: yep important as lionheart says DONT USE CONDITIONER!! your microfibres will get clogged and become naff!
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Post by: Fox on April 13, 2005, 07:29:55 am: Microsoft cloth 60cm x 50cm Macro £2.99 + vat
Title: Re: how do you clean microfiber
Post by: s.hughes on April 13, 2005, 10:26:23 am: Ye but what side do you use? 1 side is smoother then the other.
Title: Re: how do you clean microfiber
Post by: Ian_Giles on April 13, 2005, 10:44:16 am: Use both sides, they aren't 'side specific'.
Odd things too aren't they, when you are using them they feel like a new chamois leather. ;)

Don't wrry about the few marks that may still be on them when they come out tof the washing machine, you aren't wearing them for Sunday best, you're cleaning windows with them! ;)

Beware conditioner though 8) Actually, I've never liked using conditioner with scrims either, better off without it ;)

Ian
Title: Re: how do you clean microfiber
Post by: rosskesava on April 13, 2005, 08:04:59 pm: My missus always adds conditioner to the scrims and microfibres.

It send me nuts because it does seem to affect detailing.

Not when they're completely dry but when they get a little bit damp.
Title: Re: how do you clean microfiber
Post by: Duke on April 13, 2005, 08:10:25 pm: mmm...definately affects the absorbancy....and I reckon leaves greasy bits and smears.....hard to remember now...
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Post by: rosskesava on April 13, 2005, 08:16:08 pm: Quote
hard to remember now...

I think you're making a point there but the thing is, I can't quiet work out what.......

Either that or you're getting old...... ;D
Title: Re: how do you clean microfiber
Post by: Duke on April 13, 2005, 08:20:55 pm: nor me..lost to bedtime...
Title: Re: how do you clean microfiber
Post by: bumper on April 13, 2005, 08:38:16 pm: hi just got 2 more microfiber,s the wife said if she can get the marks out my undies, microfiber no problem ???
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Post by: petetaylor56 on April 13, 2005, 08:59:07 pm: :)i wash mine at 90 degrees with a tesco cheapy soap tablet then put them in tumble dryer no prob ;D
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Post by: The Bear on April 13, 2005, 10:50:53 pm: Tumble drying???????????

This would fluff scim, is it ok for micro fibre???
Title: Re: how do you clean microfiber
Post by: karlosdaze on April 13, 2005, 11:50:03 pm: how do you clean microfiber

With another microfibre?
Title: Re: how do you clean microfiber
Post by: Ian_Giles on April 14, 2005, 06:11:17 am: I have always tumble dried my scrims, even in the summer, usually 30 minutes before I go out of the door, well actually it tends to end out that I am walking out of the door, bang on time and then realise all scrims are still in the washing machine :o
So it's a case of slapping 3 scrim in the drier and slapping myself around the head for 20 minutes in frustration as I wait for them to dry. :'(

I've found the microfibres take longer to dry than scrim though, the result of the much denser weave no doubt ;)

Ian