Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: jonnyald on February 14, 2010, 04:46:43 pm
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a while back i bought 2 rat tail mops from www.wintecs.co.uk , but dont know how theyre sposed to be used .
today i visited my ol mum and used the biggest one to clean her windows .boy was it heavy, but it did a good job. am i meant to wring it out ? i did her whole gaff without going back to my bucket once . Anybody tell me how its meant to be used? is it instead of a squeegee?
its made of hundreds of small bits of chamois leather threaded onto a loop of string . i bought one small /one big
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that takes me back ;D ;D oh the fun ov mop
n scrim
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not many use them now, when you buy them then wash them in warm water with some vinegar added this kills the fat that is in a new mop so makes it work better, you should wring them out, to do this hold the mop in centre with one hand then with other hand grab a large section of mop ends and wring them till damp work your way round the exterior of the mop till all sections are done, some people need to wring them out in 3 sections but if you have big hands 2 sections is enough make sure you always hold the centre if you try to wring them out using two ends then you can snap the string that holds all mop ends together.
in the early 60s window cleaners would use 2 mops one for removing majority of dirt then a clean one for polishing the glass but in the late 60s most window cleaners where using a nearly dry piece of scrim for the polishing part, today mops and scrim have been replaced by squeegees and microfibre cloths.
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i used them up to 4 years ago,
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ive bought them from corwoods before in cheshire mate