You can rinse on the glass quite easily just by having a healthy flow rate and tilting the brush slightly while zig zagging down the window.
If net curtains are up at the window then even better.
I mostly rinse off the glass on downstairs windows though. Especially the kitchen and any other window without net curtains or the like.
I always run my fingers through the brush after each job to clear any debris or flakey paint.
net curtains....? they pull back you know.... thats like leaving muck on a black car...
if you doing the job it has to be done right..
this is a typical example of why you should rinse off the glass.... hiding your dirt behind net curtains is certainly not my way of promoting my business.... so this guy is so unsure of rinsing on the glass , he feels comfortable with net curtains......
net curtains or not... the windows should be immaculate..
why have doubts.
rinse off.
There's so many assumptions in that reply gazza.
I don't hide dirt behind net curtains. Who said that? Apart from you! :
Just because you don't do something does that make your way right? I don't think so because you can't / don't rinse off the glass. But you will be able to one day with more experience of the jobs you are working on.
There are jobs that i rinse on and jobs that i rinse off. Making an assumption that rinsing on the glass means a dirty window is naive.
The only reason i mentioned net curtains is cos when they aren't up at a window its because (with the majority of my customers anyway) the owners spend more time looking out of that particular window than windows with net curtains.
I'm very quick too. Too quick to do a good job for some people on here. I'm not naive enough to know that i do a perfect job with wfp every time, but i do a good one. i also spend that little bit longer on kitchen and lounge windows, but that doesn't mean i don't do a good job on the others because i do them quicker.
All i do is enough to do a good job. No more than that. I guarantee my work and until the speed at which i've done a job is too quick for a good result, then i will strive to go faster and be more efficient.
When i hit problems due to this i will slow down and work out where i've gone wrong and react accordingly. Until then, i will try various techniques that will allow me to be done as quick as i can go without compromising on a clean window.
It can be done gaz. But it won't be possible until you try.
I have explained a technique that works for me on most windows at the start of my previous post. Try it. It has cut my time down on some work by 1/3 and i now do it whenever the job will allow me to get away with it. Many jobs or windows don't.
Though i'd recommend if or when you try to rinse on the glass to do it on a downstairs window where you can view the result and not the kitchen window until you know it will be good. Choose a window with net curtains.
Oh and don't forget a clean brush. Takes seconds to clean and can save minutes per job.
Fortunately our job isn't rocket science. It is very easy to know if a window is clean or not. Assuming a window you've never seen is not clean because you work a different way is stupid. But it's your business to run as you see fit. Good luck with that.
