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Title: black lines on window sills
Post by: matty72 on September 15, 2009, 09:01:57 pm
Hi there, how do you all deal with black faint scrathes left by brush on sills, loads of my jobs have  them on as took me  awhile to catch on to it, t cut is a favourate im told.
Title: Re: black lines on window sills
Post by: mark dew on September 15, 2009, 11:15:52 pm
I've never used tcut. But upvc cleaner takes it off. And those little lines that look like scratches.
Title: Re: black lines on window sills
Post by: AuRavelling79 on September 16, 2009, 09:22:55 am
Yep I had this and as you probably know it comes from turning your pole sideways and the brush stock sliding along the cill; also if the rubber seal has perished on some older UPVC windows this can leach out and remain in the scratches.

T- cut and UPVC cleaner look and smell the same to me - I've used UPVC cleaner on my daughters car when she lightly scratched it against the gate and I've used T-cut on cills when I did a "first clean" and had run out of UPVC cleaner.
Title: Re: black lines on window sills
Post by: traps7 on September 16, 2009, 07:24:59 pm
This has just been brought to my attention by a few customers. Like Gold says above I had been turning a new style vikan oval brush sideways to get under the downstairs openers. I thought it was non-marking but obviously not. I don't think the grit I had picked up helped either.

I've changed to a supalite brush now and try not to tilt the brush.

upvc solvent cleaner does remove it as said. The stuff I had stinks of pear drops though and nearly knocks your head off. My van stinks.
 
Do the supalites mark does anyone know?
Title: Re: black lines on window sills
Post by: matty72 on September 17, 2009, 04:17:17 pm
they should design brushes with bits of rubber on corners, make are lifes eaiser i would say.
Title: Re: black lines on window sills
Post by: Londoner on September 17, 2009, 09:59:00 pm
The older vikan brushes had a red rubber rim all round them that left terrible red smears everywhere. We used to cut it off
Title: Re: black lines on window sills
Post by: concept on September 26, 2009, 01:26:11 pm
This has just been brought to my attention by a few customers. Like Gold says above I had been turning a new style vikan oval brush sideways to get under the downstairs openers. I thought it was non-marking but obviously not. I don't think the grit I had picked up helped either.

I've changed to a supalite brush now and try not to tilt the brush.

upvc solvent cleaner does remove it as said. The stuff I had stinks of pear drops though and nearly knocks your head off. My van stinks.
 
Do the supalites mark does anyone know?

did it on a couple of mine when i started, still there and wanna remove em, tried some upvc cleaner, but it didnt do a thing, will have a look for alternatives, if not, use some cutting polish like t-cut.
Title: Re: black lines on window sills
Post by: Mike #1 on September 26, 2009, 01:40:10 pm
i've used  gardiners for nearly a year inow no probs
Title: Re: black lines on window sills
Post by: mileslake on September 26, 2009, 08:21:17 pm
jif
Title: Re: black lines on window sills
Post by: windowswashed on September 26, 2009, 09:53:12 pm
The older vikan brushes had a red rubber rim all round them that left terrible red smears everywhere. We used to cut it off

me too ;D Use to stick to the sills when trying to slide the brush over the sills. ;D
Title: Re: black lines on window sills
Post by: traps7 on September 26, 2009, 11:22:25 pm
yes but the new ones are leaving black lines from the stock. So still no good.

Get a Gardiners Supalite.
Title: Re: black lines on window sills
Post by: wizard on September 26, 2009, 11:28:03 pm
try Doctor Power from JML very good
Title: Re: black lines on window sills
Post by: lee_dewing on September 26, 2009, 11:36:27 pm
i use a vikan hi-lo brush can give sills upstairs a good scrub to my knowledge i don't mark ledges, best brush i've used not the lightest granted.

lee.