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tomo

our days are numberd
« on: October 28, 2005, 11:42:07 pm »
just saw an advert today for a cleaning liquid that washes the windows and keeps them clean for the WHOLE YEAR!! stops  birds poo, insects marks etc one treatment lasts a whole year or so they claim...it was called WINDOW MAID ...hehe i laughed at it but it was a genuine advert in a newspaper and no it wasn't the daily sport here is a link to it online www.lanceradvanced.com/Design/Mirrors/DTY/Home/WIN.html

Re: our days are numberd
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2005, 11:55:07 pm »
perhaps people who live in high rise flats can use it ???not

Chris Cottrell

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Re: our days are numberd
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2005, 06:22:50 am »
Well it made me laugh

John Walker

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Re: our days are numberd
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2005, 08:17:38 am »
Why do people in these ads always have that stupid sickly grin.  Can you imagine someone on their own, in real life ginning inanely at their windows.   ;D  Blimey - even my smilies doing it now
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Sarah Sarill

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Re: our days are numberd
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2005, 08:35:03 am »
Hi everyone,

I recently purchased a similar set from QVC.  Firstly you used their w/c cleaner (similar to spray windowlean) to clean the windows/glass/windscrens etc and then a second spray to apply the protection which lasts 6 months and also claims  to repell waster, rain, dust and impacted soilage.

Does it work - NO.  >:(

£26 wasted and messy windscreen is all I got. >:(

It was a nuisence to do and the householder would have to get up ladders to apply it - I think not !!!

Dont worry tomo - our jobs are safe from this one, HOWEVER - self cleaning glass thats another matter....................  :-\

Sarah
Sarah

Re: our days are numberd
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2005, 09:06:39 am »
its like the medicine men with their potions - or the country fair where they have the stuff that cleans 2p coins and stops your glasses steaming up :)

Ian_Giles

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Re: our days are numberd
« Reply #6 on: October 29, 2005, 10:10:31 am »
SArah,
The self cleaning glass isn't all it's cracked up to be, I think it is probably aimed at high rise buildings where access is nigh on impossible.
Although from other threads on the other forums, this glass isn't nice to clean if we come across it.
Apparently if you do it with the WFP or trad it leaves some kind of 'bloom' behind ??? which fades after a little while.
But the windows do still get dirty, I believe it is some kind of chemical/sunlight reaction that, linked with rain (or a hosepipe :-\) breaks up poo/muck/dust and it just gets washed off the glass.
Not sure if the disolved solids in ordinary tap water get left behind should you hose it down though.
So maybe the WFP'ers could dispense with using the brush on this type of glass and just rinse instead ;D
Veering slightly.....
I do a car showroom, outside WFP, inside trad (of course :P) all works tickity-boo, but where the guys on the forecourt are washing the cars, they are using a hose jet to rinse them off, this also means that when the cars are close to the showroom windows, the clean glass gets sprayed with water.

This does make cleaning a few panes a bit more like hard work, and sometimes I have to go back out and give the offending couple of panes a hard scrub with my applicator and then squeegy it off.
Now that several months have passed since they had their new showroom done, some of the windows are getting a mineral deposit build up, you can't really see it, but it's there, and you can tell it is with the feel of the brush when using the WFP, plus the way in which the water beads up in those areas.
I have tried to tell them (as politely as possible) that they should getthe guys washing the cars to just let the water flow over the car bodywork to rinse off the suds, because the water and suds splash all over the neice clean windows they are paying me£xxxx a fortnight to clean.....

Falls on deaf ears of course, but I keep reminding them, eventually they'll actually notice that there expensive plate glass windows no longer look very expensive!
They'll blame me for not cleaning them properly, and then I can point out that I've been warning them about it since the showroom was built! ;D

I got a liquid similar to what Tomo mentions for the car winscreen once, bloody nightmare! It's silicone based, it doesn't work and actually cleaning the windows afterwards is horrible!!
I have a customer who owns a video shop, he is always smoking in there, so the inside of the glass looks awful.
He got something similar to what Tomo is on about, I warned him not to use it...
He did anyway of course :-\
But as he didn't clean the inside properly he has actually sealed in the horible smeary finish he left behind!! ;D
I refuse to clean the inside because he won't pay enough!

Regards

Ian
Ian. ISM CLEANING SERVICES