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Dan · Veteran Member

Traditional Pole Work

mistersqueegee · Approved Window Cleaner

He is definitely one of the good ones.

Dan · Veteran Member

Word "on the street" is that Chris is getting close to having a new squeegee channel he designed hit the market. I understand it will be called "The Liquidator".
If it is equal to the hype I've read, it will help both occasional window cleaners and full-timers get the job done will even less detailing required.

AC Lockyer · Approved Exterior Cleaner

We are using a softwash method.

1. Softwash the windows. (gets frames, gaskets and screens.)
2. Bleach Wash and agitate with water fed pole brush. (minus the pure water)
3. Rinse with trigger sprayer from pure water holding tank.

Seems to be working real well from a softwashing perspective.

AC

mistersqueegee · Approved Window Cleaner

From what he's said in his videos it's not a squeegee for beginners. Not sure what he meant by that however.
He's certainly been working on it for a while now. Should be interesting to see the finished product.

Dan · Veteran Member

AC Lockyer wrote:
We are using a softwash method.

1. Softwash the windows. (gets frames, gaskets and screens.)
2. Bleach Wash and agitate with water fed pole brush. (minus the pure water)
3. Rinse with trigger sprayer from pure water holding tank.

Seems to be working real well from a softwashing perspective.

AC

Never thought of scrubbing the house wash while on glass. Not a bad idea if you choose not to use pure water.

tjteed · Approved Exterior Cleaner

My workers are spoiled they don't want to scrub anything. They think softwashing is just spraying solution and rinsing. Most of our homes don't use a professional window cleaning service, or if they do they don't clean the frames/sills well. That means when the solution gets on the frames it loosens oxidation and it it sort of drips on the glass. We are going to do a better job of scrubbing frames next year and rinsing with bleach wash. I'm probably buying a nicer water fed pole system and just including it in the house cleaning price for the high end homes. I wish I had it one now. We did 280 windows on a 4 story building a couple months ago, and we have 200 windows Saturday as part of office building cleaning. Scrubbing first is the key for customers that dont have windows cleaned on regular basis.

Fred W · Guru

Dan.......You should consider trying a 1% instead of scrubbing. We have found our mix does an awesome job on glass. We even had a few people rave about how clean their windows were.

Chris Mozick · Approved Exteior Cleaner

What is a good mix for window softwashing

Dan · Veteran Member

Baton Rouge Roof Cleaner wrote:
Dan.......You should consider trying a 1% instead of scrubbing. We have found our mix does an awesome job on glass. We even had a few people rave about how clean their windows were.

Doug, I think my house mix is in the vicinity of 1%. I have had an occasion or two when Elemonator in my mix has helped make the windows look good enough that I didn't have to do them the window cleaner's way.

But I'm fully equipped to do windows as well as they can be done with my window equipment. So I rely on that in general for guaranteed superior results.