[paulscotney]

How often do trad cleaners get a bucket of hot water from customers,  in the winter,  and then go and clean the windows, with no cracks.

[dd]

How often do trad cleaners get a bucket of hot water from customers,  in the winter,  and then go and clean the windows, with no cracks.

Yes but they don't throw the whole bucket over a couple of windows.

[Dave Turley]

im with nathaniel 100%.

imo hot is better full stop. i've been hot for 5 months now and I hate the first 3 minutes of the day working with cold.

i've cracked 2 windows, paid for them, learnt from the experience and am still using hot.

I believe it is beneficial on maintenance cleans, most of my work is 4 weekly.

i'll probably regret posting this on a friday night, but for for the small extra cost of using hot, there is no way I will ever go back to cold!

[Clive McDonald]

We are called early adopters and have a two to three year advantage. Make the most of it.

[Dave Turley]

 lol, by the time most people get round to trying hot water we'll be on to using rocket bacpacks with steam and brushes with 100's of spinning toothbrush heads!   

[Wayne Thomas]

I went to clean a double glazed window today only to discover it was actually a single glazed window, (the outside pane had shattered).
I asked the owner how the glass shattered and he replied that he had no idea. His daughter told him the window just shattered on it's own one day. It was a window next to their front door. As they have no doorbell, people tend to knock on this window to get their attention.
Does anyone know if using hot water for several years on this window would have put thermal stress on the glass causing it to weaken over a very long period of time. This is the second property I have come across where a secondary glazed window has shattered into tiny pieces in between cleans without any tell tale signs of glass developing a crack, coincidence or what?

[Clive McDonald]

The daily cycle of mid day sun and clear skied frosty nights puts the same stress on glass the world over. If your theory were viable all the glass in the arab world would pop. (blazing days, freezing nights)

[NWH]

The thing is Discount that happens gradually over the course of the day,it`s not the instant shock of really hot on cold glass although i would think it would have to be really hot to crack thickish glass.

[dd]

im with nathaniel 100%.

imo hot is better full stop. i've been hot for 5 months now and I hate the first 3 minutes of the day working with cold.

i've cracked 2 windows, paid for them, learnt from the experience and am still using hot.

I believe it is beneficial on maintenance cleans, most of my work is 4 weekly.

i'll probably regret posting this on a friday night, but for for the small extra cost of using hot, there is no way I will ever go back to cold!

What have you learnt so you don't crack windows now?