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chris turner

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vikan easy shine
« on: March 02, 2015, 10:50:05 am »
Anyone use this and is it any good?
Picked up a restaurant that has a fair few hard to reach windows and is a pain having to move all the tables and chairs to trad the windows then move everything back.
Took me ages to do the first clean today so I'm looking for a way to speed it up in the future.

Also can't decide whether to wfp the outsides or trad it. It's a fairly new built harvester restaurant that has big glass front pains that are signwritten with this annoying bubbly type of stuff. When squeegeeing it it kept pulling lines across the glass.
I can get the van within range but the hose would have to go down a couple of stairs and across a public walkway.
What would you guys do?

Took me 2 hours to do the first clean inside and out today, it's a 2 weekly job @ £55 a go, they wouldn't budge on the price so I thought I would take it on for now and see how quick I can get it done. Windows were manky inside, food on windows and kids filthy hand prints everywhere.
Part of me saying it's not worth the hassle, on the other hand I don't like to chuck away money so thinking try different things to find the quickest and easiest way of doing it.
Thoughts??

SeanK

Re: vikan easy shine
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2015, 11:06:47 am »
Don't waste your money as it wont work on a restaurant, its o.k. for removing very small amounts of dirt/dust on glass
but even then its hard not to leave smears using it.

SeanK

Re: vikan easy shine
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2015, 11:08:35 am »
Get yourself a backpack and a couple of barrels and wfp the exteriors.

chris turner

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Re: vikan easy shine
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2015, 11:28:58 am »
Thanks Sean, I can get the van pretty close to wfp the outsides, if I do it nice and early there shouldn't be to many people about so hopefully ok.
It's the insides that are a real ball ache. Have to move a table to get to almost every filthy window. Because the tables are so close to all the windows means there's so much food etc everywhere.
Then theres these top smaller windows which are difficult to trad with a pole as there set back and have large recessed sill.

Small but perfectley formed

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Re: vikan easy shine
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2015, 06:47:35 pm »
You may be able to do them with vikan but will need loads of pads 



Spit and polish

the king

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Re: vikan easy shine
« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2015, 07:42:45 pm »
ive got the easy shine kit its not bad to b honist not good for realy dirity glass but clean ish there fine but there for indoor cleaning realy ude b beta off geting a back pack system will b mch quicker an easer to use

chris turner

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Re: vikan easy shine
« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2015, 07:57:58 pm »
I might just use the easy shine on the top recessed windows which are out of reach of kids filthy mitts.
Are the pads washable and how long do they last?

SeanK

Re: vikan easy shine
« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2015, 08:15:43 pm »
Yes just wash them the same as you would a microfiber ( no fabric softener ) and they last well.