[Wayne Thomas]

Some little arrows acknowledging that would have been nice.

What Wayne said is slightly different to what I said(I'm flocked and fan he's mono and jet) . But I think Wayne will agree that no matter what he did , with his system it's very hard to do a bad job. I used to get the odd complaint- even rinsing brush off, but now it comes out right no matter what i do.

I use to use the fan spray nozzles above the brush head on the Tucker poles but on windy days the water would spray everywhere causing dirt to run down the glass after it had dried.I  lost a lot of customers using overhead spray so i decided to use pencil jets with brush on glass all the time. So long as there is a decent flow of water it's fine as it will pull all/almost all of the dirt down.  The only glass I'll possibly clean with the brush off the glass is the front doors with them tiny panes of glass everywhere as it's sometimes quicker and easier. On windows though my brush never comes off until I've finished.

[NWH]

I use pencil.

[Londoner]

Its a confidence thing. I have tried to do it but find it hard.

[Village Gleam]

Thinking about it  scrub and rinse ..... Then the option of rinse on or rinse off maybe I do neither...

What I am actually doing as I am using a brush is scrub and sweep , downwards usually but not always.

[D.Salkeld_Ltd]

I suppose you don't just scrub the window a few times and walk away?

You scrub the window then rince downwards with the brush ON the glass?

I do that with my UNGER BEAST at 25 -30ft using a Bently (superlight type) brush

David

[Village Gleam]

Yes.
But what I'm suggesting is a new word- sweep- to describe this technique.

[Ian_Giles]

I always rinse with the brush on the glass, though there are occasions when I lift off, they are few and far between.
I don't even have that high a flow rate, to be honest, I think that you need a higher flow rate to rinse off the glass than on anyway.
But I think that mostly it is a waste of time and water to rinse off the glass.

You are continuously rinsing with fresh water all the time you are cleaning the glass, if the windows are dirtier than normal then I simply wash them for longer.

It doesn't slow me down, I'm still roughly 10 minutes or so on a standard 3 bed semi....not that I do that many of them though.

When you work on your technique for long enough, you know instinctively when you are cleaning the glass when you have cleaned it enough, and you also get to know those certain windows on your round where you need to vary your method a little to get them right.

Ian

[windowwashers]

Yes.
But what I'm suggesting is a new word- sweep- to describe this technique.

does swoosh sound better?, we are alrerady using a brush on a stick they will think we are road sweepers next.



Ian Giles? for you.

How do you stop the bits on the glass when rinsing on?
I have tried it a few times and I can see bits (which I guess are from the brush)
this is something I will learn just need help getting there 

[Village Gleam]

Agree with that too.
I'm saying rinse (off), rinse on, and what I do sweep, because I brush down and this descibes the final actions better.

So I scrub and then sweep. I'm not saying this is the best way, just that it describes what i do better.

Sorry if this is pedantic but I'm just trying to sneak a new word in.


Just read WW, very good, in fact brilliant, in fact even better. Nike paid someone a lot of money to come up with that word, and I mean a lot of money, it is brilliant because it's so evocative the Nike swoosh, but unfortunatley they have already bagged it.

[windowwashers]

Agree with that too.
I'm saying rinse (off), rinse on, and what I do sweep, because I brush down and this descibes the final actions better.

So I scrub and then sweep. I'm not saying this is the best way, just that it describes what i do better.

Sorry if this is pedantic but I'm just trying to sneak a new word in.


Just read WW, very good, in fact brilliant, in fact even better. Nike paid someone a lot of money to come up with that word, and I mean a lot of money, it is brilliant because it's so evocative the Nike swoosh, but unfortunatley they have already bagged it.

maybe they can sponsor it 

[Village Gleam]

Words that are truthfull are very powerfull.

Whilst still calling myself a window cleaner it does say on my van that I do window washing, because this is what I do.

But you already know that.

[windowwashers]

Words that are truthfull are very powerfull.

Whilst still calling myself a window cleaner it does say on my van that I do window washing, because this is what I do.

But you already know that.

hence why I have the name window washers