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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Shaun_Ashmore on August 09, 2009, 09:35:48 pm

Title: Upvc cleaning
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on August 09, 2009, 09:35:48 pm

What do you use to get the white plastic upvc frames white or whiter?

Shaun

Title: Re: Upvc cleaning
Post by: barry80 on August 09, 2009, 09:54:55 pm

use cif mate its good stuff with a old cloth, wipe off with micro cloth. barry

Title: Re: Upvc cleaning
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on August 09, 2009, 10:47:25 pm

Ladder

Shaun

PS reasonably old upvc and with scratches and black in the scratches and black marks that have run down and won't come off with washing up liquid albeit I just washed and scrubbed lightly but nothing specialised.

Title: Re: Upvc cleaning
Post by: jonnyald on August 09, 2009, 10:57:21 pm

i too use CIF cleaner on a wet rag .   but i always tell my customers it takes usually 3 cleans and then the frames will be shiny again . just spend a couple of minutes max each visit and this  ;)seems to do the trick

Title: Re: Upvc cleaning
Post by: Blue Frog Systems on August 10, 2009, 12:43:50 am

I use doKtor power (JML product) to do white upvc, works a treat. Rub on with a damp cloth and wipe off

Title: Re: Upvc cleaning
Post by: john tomkins on August 10, 2009, 08:32:41 am

Get some upvc solvent cleaner, purpose made for the job only a few quid for a bottle from any plastics company.
Cif will leave scratches in the surface and take the sheen off

Title: Re: Upvc cleaning
Post by: dazmond on August 10, 2009, 11:38:02 am

i use cif cream cleaner on one off jobs and bad frames and stardrops with ammonia in for green conny roofs with a dash of fairy in,scrub with T mop on pole then hosepipe off ;Djobs a good un.windowlene on soffits and gutters if there not too filthy.this is fine if just TRAD.

Title: Re: Upvc cleaning
Post by: Milltown Cleaning on August 10, 2009, 01:29:29 pm

how could you be bothered goin round every square inch of pvc with a cloth, up and down a ladder a hundred times??

Title: Re: Upvc cleaning
Post by: dazmond on August 10, 2009, 02:15:06 pm

milltown i always clean sills when TRAD window cleaning but normally only clean frames as a extra job and charge double my hourly rate if they r bad.so still worth it.ive been climbing ladders 100 times a day for years soft lad ;)but i am saving up for WFP .I bet its easier.im 37 now and would like to cut down the ladder work down a bit to save the knees :o

Title: Re: Upvc cleaning
Post by: Mike #1 on August 10, 2009, 02:25:58 pm

tfr diluted in spray bottle spray pvc comes up a treat

Title: Re: Upvc cleaning
Post by: Milltown Cleaning on August 10, 2009, 02:28:31 pm

oh u mean the pvc that is around the windows and not fascia and soffit and all that lark?!

Title: Re: Upvc cleaning
Post by: dazmond on August 10, 2009, 02:54:06 pm

milltown i have cleaned fascias and soffits by hand b4 now.hard work.but i always price double my hourly rate.but i bet they will be a doddle when i get WFP.i want WFP specifically for conny roofs,gutters,soffits,fascias and leaded/georgian big detached and stay TRAD on compact 3 bed semis.do u agree? ;D

Title: Re: Upvc cleaning
Post by: Mike #1 on August 10, 2009, 03:31:06 pm

i find cleaning gutters and fascias easier to clean by hand with tfr other than that wfp everytime