What window cleaning products
Nearly everything out there on the market for window cleaners works fine.
I remember about 10 years ago having problems with Ettore rubbers, certain batches of them were inferior quality and left streaks on the glass due to the water passing from the back of the rubber onto the glass. The way I worked it caused major problems and cost me a lot of time. On the other hand one of the biggest window cleaning companies in the USA never had any problems with the same rubber, not because their rubber didn't have the same faults but because they trained their window cleaners to run a cloth along the squeegee after every window. I could have done the same thing but imagine the time it would cost over the day. It cost their workers time as well, but it didn't bother them as they didn't know any better.
What was happening is there was a wobble in their cutting tool, and some of the rubbers were slightly narrower in places. These narrow parts were allowing the water to pass from the back of the squeegee on to the glass.
I did tell Ettore about the problem, but because the big USA window cleaning company didn't notice the problem they were not interested. I ended up changing to Pulex rubbers and never used anything else since.
The moral of the above storey is there are lots of different products all doing the same thing, you just have to try out different things until you find whats best for you. Always look for better products and better ways of using them.
Peter Fogwill
http://www.window-tools.com/
I remember about 10 years ago having problems with Ettore rubbers, certain batches of them were inferior quality and left streaks on the glass due to the water passing from the back of the rubber onto the glass. The way I worked it caused major problems and cost me a lot of time. On the other hand one of the biggest window cleaning companies in the USA never had any problems with the same rubber, not because their rubber didn't have the same faults but because they trained their window cleaners to run a cloth along the squeegee after every window. I could have done the same thing but imagine the time it would cost over the day. It cost their workers time as well, but it didn't bother them as they didn't know any better.
What was happening is there was a wobble in their cutting tool, and some of the rubbers were slightly narrower in places. These narrow parts were allowing the water to pass from the back of the squeegee on to the glass.
I did tell Ettore about the problem, but because the big USA window cleaning company didn't notice the problem they were not interested. I ended up changing to Pulex rubbers and never used anything else since.
The moral of the above storey is there are lots of different products all doing the same thing, you just have to try out different things until you find whats best for you. Always look for better products and better ways of using them.
Peter Fogwill
http://www.window-tools.com/
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