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paul saunders

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Re: Disasterous disheartening day
« Reply #20 on: April 03, 2007, 02:08:02 pm »
Tosh, I bought that DVD and I didn't like it. Can I have my money back please.  ;D
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I can remember when waking up stiff in the morning was a good thing.

Biscute

  • Posts: 467
Re: Disasterous disheartening day
« Reply #21 on: April 03, 2007, 02:14:14 pm »
Do you use soap powder on them? How do you clean them?
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Dont argue with a retard, they will just pull you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Trevor Knight

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Re: Disasterous disheartening day
« Reply #22 on: April 03, 2007, 02:53:17 pm »
Just a thought, have you bolied your new scrim or are you using it from new as this will leave horrid results??
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scrimit2

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Re: Disasterous disheartening day
« Reply #23 on: April 03, 2007, 07:06:16 pm »
So how did today go?

Trevor made a good point scrims take a while to work well, if you have pre washed or un washed scrim, they will both benefit from being boiled.

Scrimit

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Mike 108

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Re: Disasterous disheartening day
« Reply #24 on: April 03, 2007, 08:16:17 pm »
To Scrimit and everybody else.

Today went well. Changed squeegee rubbers before setting off and had no problems until last house of the day.

Last but one house was a 'first clean' (including frames) - upstairs windows not been done for 12 months.

Moved to the house next door where I cleaned some small panes of glass with damp cloth. Removed excess moisture with microfibre and gave final polish with scrim. Noticed a white haze appearing AGAIN (same as yesterday but nowhere near as bad).

Cleaned it off using a different scrim

I think it was down to the cloth and/or scrim that I'd just used on the 'first clean'. Although they both looked clean and felt dry, I should have used new ones.

Cheers all,

Mike
 
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Tosh

Re: Disasterous disheartening day
« Reply #25 on: April 04, 2007, 08:59:12 pm »
Quote from: Mike 108 on April 03, 2007, 08:16:17 pm
Today went well. Changed squeegee rubbers before setting off and had no problems until last house of the day.

Mike
 

Mike,

Until you realise the difference between bad squeegying and a bad rubber, change your rubber every day; turning it round at midday.

It's demoralising trying to work with a bad rubber; you spend more time scrimming marks off windows; it's even worse when you've got a bad technique and a bad squeegie; but think it's purely your technique.  I know this from experience.  I think it was about two months before I changed my rubber when I first started.  You can imagine the 'hell' I went through!

I buy pulex from an e-bay seller; and they're cheap and good.

Have you bought that DVD yet?

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* mike RH

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Re: Disasterous disheartening day
« Reply #26 on: June 03, 2007, 11:16:28 pm »
I had the white powder thing on the frames. Found was best not to detail at all. Do with the squeegee and thats it. If you do a good job of mopping and blading you shouldn't have to detail anyway!

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NWH

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Re: Disasterous disheartening day
« Reply #27 on: June 03, 2007, 11:56:05 pm »
Sounds like he`s wiping the frames with the scrim,stay away from frames with scrims that`s what sill cloths are for.
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