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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: ftp on October 13, 2008, 07:26:15 pm

Title: Vinegar?
Post by: ftp on October 13, 2008, 07:26:15 pm
One of my customers cleaned his own conservatory roof with vinegar added to water to kill the algae. Apart from doing a poor job on the finials it looked reasonable. Anyone else heard of using vinegar?
Title: Re: Vinegar?
Post by: simon knight on October 13, 2008, 07:36:39 pm

Vinegar works great...but don't use it to do the insides unless the custy doesn't mind their house smelling like a chippie ;D
Title: Re: Vinegar?
Post by: Jack Avery on October 13, 2008, 07:53:56 pm
I always have a bottle in the van in a spray container. Its disolves limescale - but I`m sure you all knew that.
Title: Re: Vinegar?
Post by: simon knight on October 13, 2008, 08:13:07 pm
I always have a bottle in the van in a spray container. Its disolves limescale - but I`m sure you all knew that.

I didn't know that Jack...cheers (I've been spending bundles on Viakal and Limelight)

Is it just ordinary malt vinegar?...neat or diluted?
Title: Re: Vinegar?
Post by: Jack Avery on October 13, 2008, 09:22:27 pm
Just neat Malt vinegar try it.
Title: Re: Vinegar?
Post by: jeff1 on October 13, 2008, 10:12:00 pm
Ah but did you guy's know? That by using vinigar on upvs frames it will eventually rot the rubber seals.
Title: Re: Vinegar?
Post by: mistersqueegee on October 14, 2008, 02:59:24 am
Some of the "self cleaning"  ::) glass has instructions from the manufacturers to use a 50% dilution of vinegar and water for the first clean to "activate" the glass.
Title: Re: Vinegar?
Post by: jeff1 on October 14, 2008, 09:29:02 am
Some of the "self cleaning"  ::) glass has instructions from the manufacturers to use a 50% dilution of vinegar and water for the first clean to "activate" the glass.
Correct but it must be white vinegar, not the stuff we put on our chips.
Title: Re: Vinegar?
Post by: WCE on October 14, 2008, 11:34:57 am
Some of the "self cleaning"  ::) glass has instructions from the manufacturers to use a 50% dilution of vinegar and water for the first clean to "activate" the glass.
How Ironic!!! You've just paid over the odds for the self cleaning glass and there are instructions on how to clean it ::) 
Title: Re: Vinegar?
Post by: Glyn H on October 14, 2008, 11:44:14 am
This is like a time warp
To clean windows you need Vinegar and news paper or brown paper  ;D
Title: Re: Vinegar?
Post by: WCE on October 14, 2008, 11:59:35 am
This is like a time warp
To clean windows you need Vinegar and news paper or brown paper  ;D
At this rate you'll go out of business Glyn ;D ;D ;D Good job you started doing guttervacs ;)
Title: Re: Vinegar?
Post by: AuRavelling79 on October 14, 2008, 01:43:51 pm
This is like a time warp
To clean windows you need Vinegar and news paper or brown paper  ;D

Sounds like a line from "Jack and Jill"  ;D
Title: Re: Vinegar?
Post by: Stephen Dwyer on October 14, 2008, 03:45:10 pm
I have used it in the past after a customer who used to be a window cleaner recommended it.  I didn't think it was all that good though as it seemed to take the soap out of the water and leave it a bit flat if that makes sense. 
Title: Re: Vinegar?
Post by: darragh windows on October 14, 2008, 05:30:00 pm
One cup of white vinegar to four cups of water (for a stronger solution, one cup of white vinegar to one cup of water works) makes a fine window-washing fluid, substituting for Windex. If windows appear streaky after washing with vinegar, add a half-teaspoon of liquid soap to the mix. This removes the waxy, streak-causing residue left over by commercial window cleaners.

Malt vinegar sprinkled onto crumpled newspaper is a traditional, and still-popular, method of cleaning grease-smeared windows and mirrors in the UK.

from wikipedia
Title: Re: Vinegar?
Post by: mistersqueegee on October 14, 2008, 05:44:13 pm
Some of the "self cleaning"  ::) glass has instructions from the manufacturers to use a 50% dilution of vinegar and water for the first clean to "activate" the glass.
Correct but it must be white vinegar, not the stuff we put on our chips.

MMMM malt vinegar! I love it on my fish and chips. If I ever get across the pond you can take me for some real fish and chips as I doubt the stuff here is as good.
Title: Re: Vinegar?
Post by: EVER CLEAN on October 14, 2008, 06:34:09 pm




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