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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: g4reth on August 05, 2009, 09:20:53 pm

Title: curtain and bead
Post by: g4reth on August 05, 2009, 09:20:53 pm
why do some windows curtain and some bead when using wfp and is there a way to make them all curtain?  thanx
Title: Re: curtain and bead
Post by: g4reth on August 05, 2009, 09:23:13 pm
Tell me then coz if not I will kill meself lol
Title: Re: curtain and bead
Post by: GWCS on August 05, 2009, 09:26:24 pm
hydroscopic

and

hydrophobic

please search the site :D

Title: Re: curtain and bead
Post by: stephen s on August 05, 2009, 09:39:34 pm
Quote from: GWCS on August 05, 2009, 09:26:24 pm
hydroscopic

and

hydrophobic

please search the site :D












thats what John Travolta said just before he said   why this car is greece lightening  ;D ;D
Title: Re: curtain and bead
Post by: michael papworth on August 05, 2009, 09:50:45 pm
There are two types of glass:

hydrophobic (=water hating; water will not wet the glass so it forms beads.)

hydrophilic (= water loving; water wets and completely covers the glass surface so it sheets down.)

It is a surface property of the glass. There is nothing you can do about it!