[Squeegee Clean blackpool]

Can anybody please tell me what scrims are made of, is it muslin??

[Dean Aspects]

The ones i have are grade 1 Irish linen

Dean

[simon knight]

The ones i have are grade 1 Irish linen

Dean

Ditto

[windowwashers]

The ones i have are grade 1 Irish linen

Dean

Ditto

Are they the thick heavy ones

I had some years ago now but they were great, the ones I have now I poor.

where do you get them from link to site if poss. 

Ian

[elite mike]

hi ian

https://www.windowcleancentre.co.uk/default.aspx

mike

[simon knight]

The ones i have are grade 1 Irish linen

Dean

Ditto

Are they the thick heavy ones

I had some years ago now but they were great, the ones I have now I poor.

where do you get them from link to site if poss. 

Ian

I get mine from the pro shop in Kingston...they're not cheap mind (£7ish) and they take forever to break in...but once they do they're fantastic and I get very upset if I lose one.

[Squeegee Clean blackpool]

The ma in law has got a curtain liner made of muslin its just like scrim it could save me a fortune i maight just try it and see.

[chrismroberts]

The ma in law has got a curtain liner made of muslin its just like scrim it could save me a fortune i maight just try it and see.

LOL... will she mind you cutting up her curtains? 

[ZampaWall]

Scrims are made of Lignin.
They are graded as someone has mentioned, grade 1 are the better ones.

For those who have trouble breaking them in, try boiling them or as I used to do put them in the washing machine, on a hot wash (no soap/chemicals) when new, then use them to wipe down frames / ledges, use them to mop up spills etc, wash them out on a rinse cycle in your washing machine, they soon break in.
You can buy pre bleached scrim, which are ready to use but are not as good and dont last as long

[Chris Cottrell]

I thought it was calico

[Londoner]

It is calico if you want to be technical. The word scrim is the old naval term for unbleached calico. But today the word just means a bit of cloth.

You can buy calico very cheaply from any fabric shop. In the old days the window cleaners would buy calico and boil it before they used it. Even today its no good till its been through the washing machine a half a dozen times.

The thing you have to understand though is that the old window cleaners did not use scrim as a drying cloth. They would dry the window with the shammy and only use the scrim afterwards to polish the glass because the shammy had a tendancy to leave water marks on the glass.

When the squeegie came into common use the scrim became a detailing cloth but modern microfibre cloths have left everything else far behind for that purpose.

The routine for me is to buy some calico and use it as a sill cloth until it has had a few washes to break it in but I don't have that much use for scrim these days.

The only time I use it now is as a "first" cloth to save the microfibres so it has taken over the job that the shammy used to do.

[windowwashers]

It is calico if you want to be technical. The word scrim is the old naval term for unbleached calico. But today the word just means a bit of cloth.

You can buy calico very cheaply from any fabric shop. In the old days the window cleaners would buy calico and boil it before they used it. Even today its no good till its been through the washing machine a half a dozen times.

The thing you have to understand though is that the old window cleaners did not use scrim as a drying cloth. They would dry the window with the shammy and only use the scrim afterwards to polish the glass because the shammy had a tendancy to leave water marks on the glass.

When the squeegie came into common use the scrim became a detailing cloth but modern microfibre cloths have left everything else far behind for that purpose.

The routine for me is to buy some calico and use it as a sill cloth until it has had a few washes to break it in but I don't have that much use for scrim these days.

The only time I use it now is as a "first" cloth to save the microfibres so it has taken over the job that the shammy used to do.

Take has got best thing I have learnt on the cloth side this month, 

Cheers
Vince

[NWH]

They don`t make scrim like they used to,i have some in the van that i`ve had for over 10 years.