Comments on: Professional Window Cleaning Tips : How to Use a Squeegee

By: ChileRay

ChileRay — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:52:36 +0000

Tanner-Man, WRONG…..The first step to cleaning is wetting and scrubbing ! All yoos Rookies hear this…Water is the universal solvent scrubbing is key…to squeegee is the second step! Got It!

By: ChileRay

ChileRay — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:30:33 +0000

Also,rookies don’t put the squeegee face down it will nick the rubber blade and yoos will get streaks left and right !

By: misterkleen01

misterkleen01 — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:28:44 +0000

if you choose unger ergotech equipment you won’t waste all that time with the stupid brass clips. the handle holds the rubber in the channel.

By: curly1r

curly1r — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:37:07 +0000

I havee been a window cleaner 4 over seven years and always got my gear from SYR the best comp in world cheap as chips and very very good i can hold my hands up and say ive never had a complaint or lost a customer through equipment. and this gut who needs all this crap any way all u need is 2 blades(squeegies) 1 smurf(pad) 1 set of pockets and a bottle of washing up liquid bucket/holster.u can pik a training set up from moxhams for £15.

By: chincanca

chincanca — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:39:54 +0000

i use water ,dish soap,in amoniac,in bleach,sal in peper ,

By: sorbosux717

sorbosux717 — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:23:32 +0000

this is true, but try fanning a window using plain water, use at least a splash of something(i like gg3) to allow a little glide.

By: sorbosux717

sorbosux717 — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:51:33 +0000

however, some of us dont like the ends of rubber loose. unger makes plastic end tabs for dirt cheap, and i simply love em!

By: ChileRay

ChileRay — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:16:42 +0000

sorbosux-man,This is true but I was commenting on him saying that the squeegee was the first step to getting the window clean,and the point I was trying to make was that it wasn’t but that scrubbing the glass is the first and primary step to cleaning windows, if you don’t scrub well you don’t get all the dirt saturated into the water which yoos push off with yoos squeegee.The squeegee does not clean the glass ! Soap does play a big role in cutting grease,dirt and lubricating the squeegee glide.

By: ChileRay

ChileRay — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 08:20:48 +0000

sorbie-man,but soap without water is inert, without water…no clean bean…soak pinto! Water is the most essential tool to the window cleaner,this is basic.Now to the gg3…That stuff is just designer soap,yes it works…just as well as joy ,dawn, Palmolive,ect,but for tons more ! Why pay all that cash for gg3? Senseless,I’m not slamming yoos but really ! Now the best soap to use is TSP it’s cheap it cuts the grease,cig smoke,you don’t have to put a slide agent in and it leaves a shiny glint !

By: sorbosux717

sorbosux717 — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:32:15 +0000

ok, i getcha. just didnt want any aspiring squeegee soldiers to get the wrong idea. about the gg3, its just my preference, primarily for the smell, believe it or not. i personally dont want to say its any better than anything else, i just like a few of its characteristics a little better than most dish soaps.(i do enjoy joy, however). god bless you for using tsp, but i always find it a little hard to work with. it is, however, irreplacable in bars and such. keep on scrubbin!