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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?

[simon knight]

Vinegar works great...but don't use it to do the insides unless the custy doesn't mind their house smelling like a chippie

[Jack Avery]

I always have a bottle in the van in a spray container. Its disolves limescale - but I`m sure you all knew that.

[simon knight]

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?

[Jack Avery]

Just neat Malt vinegar try it.

[jeff1]

Ah but did you guy's know? That by using vinigar on upvs frames it will eventually rot the rubber seals.

[mistersqueegee]

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.

[jeff1]

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.

[WCE]

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 : 

[Glyn H]

This is like a time warp
To clean windows you need Vinegar and news paper or brown paper 

[WCE]

This is like a time warp
To clean windows you need Vinegar and news paper or brown paper 

At this rate you'll go out of business Glyn Good job you started doing guttervacs

[AuRavelling79]

This is like a time warp
To clean windows you need Vinegar and news paper or brown paper 

Sounds like a line from "Jack and Jill" 

[Stephen Dwyer]

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. 

[darragh windows]

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

[mistersqueegee]

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.

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