Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: squeaky-clean 1 on August 04, 2005, 02:13:35 pm
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hi can anyone help please
i have been useing wfp for 4 weeks and still haveing problems with water spots on a number of houses one house has beeen cleaned four times now still has white spots, any help would be apreciated.
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HI Squeaky
what is your TDS rating?
Also explain how you start and finish the job and we should be able to tell you if you are doing something wrong.
Andrew
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i have the merlin and tds after r/o is average 40 then put through 10inc di resin at start of the tank with resin renewed tds is 0 but by time i have filled the 1000 lt tank reading is about 12 i have to change the resin every 1000 lts when water is tested after storage reading is average 5-6 tds the windows i am haveing trouble with are upvc i clean all round the frame first then scrub window then rinse off.
thanks for any help.
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houses where you will have no joy with WFP and will be better and quicker usuing trad methods:
wooden windows with poor paintwork/poor putty seal will always have small gaps at top of glass which will be full of dirt and collect your water before dripping down your clean glass leaving horrendous spots/stains.
Windows with aluminium frames will, if the frame gets wet, cause your water to go a milky colour and leave the glass in a terrible condition.
PVC windows with a perished rubber seal around the glass. The rubber will be worn, cracked and have tiny gaps all around full of dirt which again will mix with your water and run down the glass.
PVC windows with filthy frames will need copious amounts of water to wash away all the dirt and rinse thoroughly. Even then, if the windows have not been cleaned where the seals on openers meet the frame, there will be dirt here which will always find its way onto the glass.
You have to account for this thorough cleaning in your price and get up the ladders with the windows open and clean the dirt off the frames under the openers. Then get down and SLUICE the whole frame (windows now closed)
Do this on all the openers and then go back and do all the main panes.
Above all, you will soon accept that there are windows which are a pleasure to clean with WFP and those where you think it has all been a big mistake.
Don`t stress about these windows, just get the trad tools out.
As your work grows, you will be able to lose the bad windows and increase the amount of new work consisting of good WFP windows. ;)
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thanks for you advice
(two worst offending houses are wifes best freinds for 10years and more will be hard to drop them lol)
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Oh, not another Squeaky Clean. :-\
Sorry, can't tell you anything about wfp though!
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First of all do the top frame thoroughly, especially where it meets the glass.
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Squeaky (not Roger!)
Could you go to your profile and change the name we view you as on the forum please.
It'll get very confusing with 2 Squeaky cleans otherwise!
Regards,
Ian