[The Seven Bays Window Cleaning Company]

Today cleaning a few properties exposed to coastal salt grime deposited by the winds - and this morning was VERY windy. I noticed that by the time the windows had dried ( using cold water) that salt had already been deposited on the glass - only a little but enough the smear if wiped with a dry cloth.  The only way i could solve this was to blade each window to a dry finish 

This got me thinking though ( a rare thing indeed ) that maybe using hot water through the pole would speed up the drying/ evaporation of the window, therefore having less time for salt to get deposited on the wet window.

Just out of interest does anybody clean salt grimed windows with a hot water system? and does it make the job more efficient, and effective at ensuring a 100% streak free result first time?

I find the badly salt grimed windows the most difficult to clean efficient with WFP and othen have to pole them twice, but then I always bladed them twice when I was using a squeegee to get a 100% streak free result.

Any thoughts appreciated

Marc

[NWH]

I have a whole days work every 6 weeks right on the seafront and at certain times of the year the salt is going back on almost as your doing them it`s the way it is by the sea.I had an ionic demo on 1 of these houses and it`s not that it dried quicker it was the fact that it dissolved the salt on the glass quicker and better.

[The Seven Bays Window Cleaning Company]

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I had an ionic demo on 1 of these houses and it`s not that it dried quicker it was the fact that it dissolved the salt on the glass quicker and better.


Soooo Hot water is more effective than cold on salt grimed glass?

I'm just trying to way up the odds of building a DIY system  - I'm on the sat on the fence at the mo

[dai]

It will make no difference mate trust me, whatever you use, spindrift [atomised sea water] will start to build up again immediately, it's in the air and you can't stop it. Rain will wash off 90% of it anyway.

I turned on my windscreen washer and wipers, the glass was left perfect, two hours later the glass was minging again, and the van hadn't been moved.

[wightsurf]

I live on the isle of wight and you can't get away from it.a perfect window finish will be coverd in a hour when windy and sand. I drove past one hotel i did the day before and they where out with hose pipe washing the sand off the windows i stopped and ask what they where doing and they said it was from the beech ,the wind had blown it all over the windows .I did offer to do it again

[ned]

Cleaned a hotel on Perranporth beach with Hot water today total mess with the wind had to stop , 1st time its happened in a year ,